Any good idea on how to farm water beefalo's horns besides seahound attacks?

[FreyaMaluk]

Using other methods (melee, gunpowder, etc) can be a bit of a pain, so I was wondering if there are good ideas to farm the horns.

I use seahound attacks to decimate them, but is there a way of farming them?

I don't want to kill them all, just a good trick if someone knows how to. 

[spiderdian]

The same way beefalo hunting works, I guess

Just hit one of them

Then run away from them

All beefalos but the one you hit will stop chasing you

Then you kill it(far from the others, or you'll aggro them again)

[FreyaMaluk]

9 hours ago, spiderdian said:

The same way beefalo hunting works, I guess

Just hit one of them

Then run away from them

All beefalos but the one you hit will stop chasing you

Then you kill it(far from the others, or you'll aggro them again)

You suppose wrongly... they don't have the same attack pattern like in RoG, the water beefalos' first attack is unavoidable. That's why I ask for any EXTRA ideas... The normal stuff I've tried already

 

[WanderingPalm]

I've been using the Boat Cannon, but I haven't actually seen any of the horns drop yet-- the wiki doesn't show the horn to be flammable, but I'm starting to question that, given the vast quantities of beefalos I've slaughtered. The only time I was able to get a horn from one was by finishing a wounded beefalo off with a spear gun.

I may just adopt your method of dragging the sea hounds through the herds, though using the boat cannon will summon a bunch of those, anyway, due to the ridiculous quantities of meat dropping into the water.

[LtShinySides]

Have you tried Poison darts? I'm fairly certain it slows movement speed. You could slow it and then use something like a coconade or just kite it. Sounds expensive though.