I have bonded a beefalo with the bell. Whenever it's in mood and I have the bell on me, it will always immediately attack me when I connect to the server. If I keep the bell in a chest in my camp, this happens only occasionally when the beefalo happened to be too close to me when I connected. It seems to be particularly likely to happen if I rollback the server to the start of a day when I happened to be riding the beefalo or I just had the bell on me at the time of the save.
Once the beefalo gets in this state, there doesn't seem to be any way to escape its wrath, at all. Leaving the bell very far away causes it to act like it has forgotten that it's attacking me, but when I return after going away for a while, it resumes its attack as soon as I am within the bell area. If I'm quick, I can feed it some food/grass/twigs, but this doesn't calm it down. If I break the bond with the bell, the beefalo keeps chasing me indefinitely as far as I can be bothered to run from it.
Related to this, a fresh completely wild beefalo seems to get stuck in this state if you bond it with the bell and then try to saddle it without feeding it at all.
Bond to a beefalo using a bell, make sure to domesticate it a bit so that you can ride it. Make sure to ride it as the server saves (it is also possible to just have the bell in the inventory, and it might be enough to disconnect once mounted/carrying the bell, but the automatic save at the start of the day is how I noticed it). When connecting again, the beefalo will be permanently hostile to you and/or chester. Wearing the beefalo hat seems to stop it from attacking you, but then the infinite wrath gets directed at chester, and it will resume its permanent hostility to you if you return not wearing the hat.
It is possible to avoid this behaviour by feeding a stick and mounting the beefalo within a couple seconds of logging in. It may also matter whether the bell is in the backpack or in the inventory, but it definitely happens if it's in a chest nearby (in which case you can't ride the beefalo).
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