Do you use the Houndius Shootius?

[Charlie Dark]

Yeah I believe 1 by itself isn't that useful.. especially in a 3 player server, plus to get one.. you have to go through heck and back, and I also believe to get more than 1 you must kill the ancient fuelweaver for the ruins to reset, and then you have to go through the maze and kill the ancient guardian...again.. So do you just use a field of tooth traps? have you even bothered to get a houndius shootius? 

[ShadowDuelist]

Yes.

In the long term you will keep getting them most likely as a passive gift, because there will be no further use for the guardian's horn or the eyeball, once everyone has the eyebrella already.

So I don't see it as something you rush to get a bunch and replace your toothtraps, you can replace your toothtraps in many other ways anyway. I see it as a passive reward for just sticking with the same map and continue playing.

[ArubaroBeefalo]

its something i craft on the way but i dont go to the ruins to only craft it

its usefull

[Well-met]

hound waves sometimes can be the only exciting thing happening around, so no definitely not.

[Warlockadamm]

This set up was made after winter feast when i farmed fuel weaver 8 times cause im a weirdo.... anyway with the flingos theres no hound attack that i fear now. I also use that set up for spider farming and during winter mactusk farming (the set up is litteraly next to 2 walrus camp)

In my opinion yes houndius shootiuses are great! They dont need to be turned on like Winona catapult, are not flammable and i think its less of a hassle to have those then having to replace tooth trap all the time

[BellumOmnes]

In my currently longest solo survival, I planted a couple of turrets in my trap garden. And I thought about replacing the Bunny Guard of my Cave entrance with a shootius. Other than that I don't really use them that much. I'd rather just plant traps for the hounds or simply fight.

I thought about putting two or tree around my Antlion spawn to speed up his demise, but I haven't played lately..

[Charlie Dark]

3 minutes ago, Warlockadamm said:

This set up was made after winter feast when i farmed fuel weaver 8 times cause im a weirdo.... anyway with the flingos theres no hound attack that i fear now. I also use that set up for spider farming and during winter mactusk farming (the set up is litteraly next to 2 walrus camp)

In my opinion yes houndius shootiuses are great!

you did all this as wes...? Well congratulations!!! but wait how did you get the blueprint for these small ornate chests?

[Pumking7]

3 minutes ago, ShadowDuelist said:

eyeball

In my opinion I see this as the hardest challenge of getting a houndius, for when every boss was added they had either a way to get more loot (multiple moose/goose/ burger dropping fur tufts) or a twenty day reset timer such as beequeen, or AG after killing FW. The only boss who didn't get this was deerclops who spawns every year and gives one eyeball which means only usually one houndius per year, (20% from klaus but that is low) and everyone needs a eyebrella so...

Kinda sucks that this is the only use of the Ancient Guardians horn, as it only has this one kinda mediocre use for the houndius that most people don't care if they lose it when cheesing guardian. I hope sometime in the DST future they add another craftable to the horn to make it more useful.

[Warlockadamm]

4 minutes ago, Charlie Dark said:

you did all this as wes...? Well congratulations!!! but wait how did you get the blueprint for these small ornate chests?

Metheus puzzle, its a normal chest skin if you want ill PM you a link on how to unlock them. 

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[Charlie Dark]

2 minutes ago, Warlockadamm said:

Metheus puzzle, its a normal chest skin if you want ill PM you a link on how to unlock them. 

oh it's ok but thanks! I searched how to do it, I'll get a buddy I guess 

[Charlie Dark]

2 hours ago, Warlockadamm said:

Metheus puzzle, its a normal chest skin if you want ill PM you a link on how to unlock them. 

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step 2 is impossible! 

[Maxil20]

Houndious are a thing that practically are gated by what server you play, how old the world is, and how frequently you do the ruins.

The fact that this item is restricted by Deerclops alone makes it incredibly difficult to stockpile. Not only is it one of the few bosses whose boss drop cannot be duplicated and can’t be respawned every 20 days, it also is already used in an exceedingly valuable recipe: the eyebrella. The only exception to this is Klaus, which has a 20% chance to drop an additional eyeball, which still doesn’t really speed up the process much.

Ruins regen also makes this difficult to get. You only get one horn per regen, and gating the regen is the fuelweaver itself. Unless the ruins are frequently cleared stockpiling the horns is going to be exceedingly difficult to do without a solid fuelweaver killing chamber (and a guardian one too). 

These 2 issues combined make hoarding houndious extremely difficult. To top that off, most of their uses were topped by the catapult, which while it is time consuming is entirely possible to efficiently use without much struggle, and also supports AOE (which is good or bad depending on the setup). This isn’t a bad thing, as I always considered an early game defense structure to be nice and does require fuel to maintain unlike the houndious, but what really tops it off is the houndious doesn’t drop anything when it dies. This means that if you place it in a not ideal spot, the eye and horn you used are essentially voided off. All of that combined makes it virtually impossible to see it on servers under 500-1000 days, especially if it’s a public one.

Now, as for actually using the structure, it does have some nice uses. Aside from the obvious hound one, I really like hoarding a bunch for some boss killing. The turrets have incredibly good health regen, to the point where I’m entirely fine with it getting hit a few times by bosses since I know the HP that was lost will be long gone by the time the boss attacks it again, not to mention how it practically doesn’t if a player is attacking a raid boss.

Heres a few images of some houndious setups I currently have on my solo 5000+ day world. They are completely unnecessary, but why not have them around?

Spoiler

Fuelweaver: the combined damage of me and the turrets usually kill it in 2 cycles of its shield and minions. The catapults are there to take out the minions. It’s an old screenshot from day 2298 before I picked up everything, but it’s still pretty much the same.

Dragon(e)fly: the DPS easily nets me scales. It does enough damage to almost block dragonfly from enraging every single time. I still have the original flute at 20% durability from this at day 4500.

 

[Queron81]

4 hours ago, Pumkingthegreat said:

In my opinion I see this as the hardest challenge of getting a houndius, for when every boss was added they had either a way to get more loot (multiple moose/goose/ burger dropping fur tufts) or a twenty day reset timer such as beequeen, or AG after killing FW. The only boss who didn't get this was deerclops who spawns every year and gives one eyeball which means only usually one houndius per year, (20% from klaus but that is low) and everyone needs a eyebrella so...

It would be nice, if they would add an ice island, where a Deerclops is spawning every 20 days.

[Charlie Dark]

7 hours ago, Warlockadamm said:

This set up was made after winter feast when i farmed fuel weaver 8 times cause im a weirdo.... anyway with the flingos theres no hound attack that i fear now. I also use that set up for spider farming and during winter mactusk farming (the set up is litteraly next to 2 walrus camp)

In my opinion yes houndius shootiuses are great! They dont need to be turned on like Winona catapult, are not flammable and i think its less of a hassle to have those then having to replace tooth trap all the time

okay I actually got the stuff! thanks again for sharing that awesome screenshot :)!