Best Way To Deal With Hounds (In-Depth (Kinda) )

[WebbersSpider]

Do you ever end up just taking a stroll not too far from your base and hear that barking? First time players usually freak out and run around usually ending up getting themselves killed. Well lucky for you newbies or pros here is the Discussion on how to deal with those butt biting dogs!

Starter Strategy : Easy kiting | Kiting is in short running up the to threat then running away to trigger the attack. If you do this correctly you'll trigger their attack but not get hit. 

Starter Strategy : Using other mobs/animals | Say you're near a pig village and you hear that tear inducing bark. (I say that because I usually freeze when I hear it) It's not yet Dusk and the Piggies are still out. (Pig Men/People will go to their houses at Dusk and stay till morning.) When the Hounds come the Pigs will immediately target them. Pigs are hostile to monsters or hostile creatures. (Webber, Spiders, Hounds, Bosses etc.) They'll attack until they are killed or the threat is. (With Webber just run away until they stop chasing you) You can also use Beefalo. Go near them and if they target on the Beefalo and attack one they'll attack all of the Hounds.

Semi-Pro/Pro Strategy : Tooth Trap Ring | After collecting enough Hound's Teeth to make a good bit of Tooth Traps Place a fire pit away from your base (So Fire hounds don't set it on fire) (Also put Endothermic Fire pit for Summer) and place Tooth Traps around in a ring. Over time this ring will be a giant ring/circle of Tooth Traps. Make sure you stand in the middle at first them move around so Hounds don't bite you. Make sure to also reset the Traps.

 

If you have any other ways to kill these butt-biting dogs put them down below! 

 

 

 

(You can use bait but they'd probably target you first)

[Altehaus]

Houndius Shootius.

I mean,

look at that name

(By the way you can also make a small stone walled off area with both fire pits and one chest containing battle gear for if it's needed, then surround it with Tooth Traps. Once you have enough traps, they probably won't even be able to reach the walls.)

[Rellimarual]

For a good part of the year, you don't want to risk luring the hounds to a pig village because they could be fire hounds and burn it down. In a pinch, running them around a swamp (as long as there are still plenty of tentacles) works. The most important thing is to always have a miner's helmet and log suit on you. Beefalo are the best, though.

You don't need an elaborate tooth trap setup either if you have a miner's helmet and are reasonably good at getting them to chase you over the unsprung traps. A modest-sized patch of traps will do it, especially if you are up for a bit of kiting to pick off the stragglers.

[shimy]

this is how i deal with hounds. just make a 5-6 pig houses , wear a bush hat , and wait till morning. then the clash starts

[CaptainChaotica]

Early game/when I'm not at my base?  Lead them into the nearest dangerous thing.  I prefer beefalo over pigs as they will still attack at dusk (and can be goaded into attacking at night if a hound bites them) but in a pinch I've used spiders, tentacles, tallbirds...

Later game/at my base:  Pile o'traps!  I used to make cool fortress mazes with narrow tunnels that they'd have to walk through, hitting every trap along the way, until they were funneled through the tiny opening into the room where I was, where they'd be forced to attack me just one at a time, bwahaha!...until I realised they'd much rather eat my walls all night long than actually attempt to bite _me_.  They make a hole in the tunnel  that skips almost ALL the traps rather than use the _already existing entrance_ and...argh!

So, now, pile o' traps.  It's not elegant, but it works.  Sigh. And yes, with both types of firepit nearby.

...Notorious

 

[TwigsAndSticks]

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