by
Flannery
» 06 May 2014, 10:37
There have been several threads about this, and also the FAQ explains it:
There will be wild animals you can hunt and tame to use for breeding. You can also trade in tame/domesticated animals.
These wild animals will have lives of their own, and will eat, sleep breed and hunt/gather food for themselves. They will react to settlements with moving out of their domain area if people settle down in it.
Animals like cows/aurochs and horses (and similar) can be taken to the farm and bred for domesticating them. This will also be the only source of Horses and other domesticated animals in the game, from what I understand.
No such thing will be sold from a NPC vendor.
There will however not be any animals following you into combat and such. Neither any pets in the normal use of the word in a game world.