Don't Starve: Weird Treeguards???

[Eilish]

So I've played a lot of don't starve, and I've learned how to deal with treeguards. I know how to kill them fairly easily, though I prefer to pacify a little ways away from my base in case of the deerclops. In the game I'm currently playing as Willow, I made it through the winter with no deerclops, thankfully, but also no treeguards near my base. This was surprising due to the amount of woodcutting I'd been doing- yet the only treeguard that I'd encountered was while I was busy decimating a forest with some Pigmen. It had been tiny and they easily killed it. I'm currently halfway through the second winter, and I cut down a couple trees around my base and spawned a fairly large treeguard. I pacified it and that was that. However, the very next day, I found something really weird and despite searching, I haven't seen any other accounts of this. I was traveling to an area of the map which I have never been to before- there were a couple pig houses, but mostly just trees. And out of nowhere, a little off screen, I hear a pig fighting with something. So I go over, in hopes of picking up whatever's left from the fight, and I see a treeguard. Not the one that I had just pacified. And then I see another. A bunch more. Nearly a dozen treeguards wandering around in this tiny forest area that I have never been to before attacking things. They didn't attack me, thank goodness, because it would have taken at least 50 pine cones to pacify them all, which I did not have on hand. Still, I've never heard of a treeguard spawning without the player cutting down a tree in the area, let alone this many. If anybody has had a similar experience or knows anything about this, please let me know. I've attached a link to a video of the treeguards when I went back the next day.

https://youtu.be/gzEaNTqcVvA

As you can see, there are at least 10 of them. Also, right after I recorded the video, the deerclops spawned. So that's just great! If you have any tips for that I could use all the help I can get. There's only three days left this winter and I was really hoping to avoid this.

[emerphish]

This is a set piece that is very rare. In all of my time playing this game I think I have seen this once. It is similar to the ring of tier 3 spiders dens that sometimes happen.

[DragonMage156]

A similar thing happened to me. I went through a wormhole and ended up in an unexplored desert. South of the wormhole was about five, or so, Treeguards and a skeleton.

[Mobbstar]

9 hours ago, DragonMage156 said:

A similar thing happened to me. I went through a wormhole and ended up in an unexplored desert. South of the wormhole was about five, or so, Treeguards and a skeleton.

You are talking about something different. In RoG, there's a common setpiece of a usual miner boon, surrounded by leifs. EDIT: It always spawns in the desert, not elsewhere.

What the Topic is talking about is the extremely rare leif forest, available in the base game.