Too Many Bats?

[S19TealPenguin]

It seems that the number of Vampire Bats spawned is quite excessive, especially considering the warning period is a minute at most

[Machine Reaper]

you can lower them from World Gen.

and they are easier then hounds so not that difficult.

[S19TealPenguin]

Hounds are much easier IMO, especially because tooth traps work on them.

[-Variant]

Lowering bats in the settings gives them a cap, and so does increasing them. Which means once they hit a certain amount, they won't go over the amount, like Hounds.

However, unlike Hounds, leaving bats on normal will make them capless, so in theory, they can reach up to 10000's of bats per wave one day. Rather odd.

[Machine Reaper]

1 hour ago, Angel_Octoling said:

Lowering bats in the settings gives them a cap, and so does increasing them. Which means once they hit a certain amount, they won't go over the amount, like Hounds.

However, unlike Hounds, leaving bats on normal will make them capless, so in theory, they can reach up to 10000's of bats per wave one day. Rather odd.

someone must test this out, like on day 500 how many bats will there be?

(I'm guessing 30 bats aa the least)

2 hours ago, S19TealPenguin said:

Hounds are much easier IMO, especially because tooth traps work on them.

yeah but not in great numbers, they also have fire and frost versions which do give you gems but can cause some bad stuff.

specially fire hounds.

[axxel]

Considering bats loose aggro fairly often after running away (no circles!) they become manageable in small groups. I think DST worms are the worst, period.

[Machine Reaper]

6 hours ago, axxel said:

Considering bats loose aggro fairly often after running away (no circles!) they become manageable in small groups. I think DST worms are the worst, period.

Worms are pretty hard but you can easily avoid them and they don't exceed more then 3 numbers (4 is rare).

[S19TealPenguin]

Worms are tedious, but they make up for it with their drops. 3 worms will give you 12 monster meat, which (assuming you have 36 filler) will give you enough meatballs to last 10 days. The glow berries are nice if you want to lower your sanity, at -10 per berry. 10 sanity isn't a lot for most characters, but if you're playing characters with low max sanity (Webber, Wilba, WX no gears), it can be quite good.

[Beardy Wilson]

What I do with bats is either run off away from them until they lose agro or run around in the pig village and let the guards pick them off.

[Machine Reaper]

2 hours ago, Beardy Wilson said:

What I do with bats is either run off away from them until they lose agro or run around in the pig village and let the guards pick them off.

don't run around the pig city in evening or night while being chased by bats, the guards arm themselves with torches, set fire to the bats, bats fly around and set fire to other stuff, everything burns to the ground.

[Beardy Wilson]

2 hours ago, MWY said:

don't run around the pig city in evening or night while being chased by bats, the guards arm themselves with torches, set fire to the bats, bats fly around and set fire to other stuff, everything burns to the ground.

I don't think they ever attack at night. But even if they do and houses set aflame they gonna rebuild those houses, even your home can burn down but they gonna rebuild it and everything will be there like it was before it burned down.

[Tumalu]

Yeah, I build 9+ guard towers to deal with the bats. They get annoying in big waves.

I'll see a streamer fight and only get attacked by one at a time so it's fine, but then I try to fight in the exact same way and I get absolutely trashed.