gorgofdoom

Thanks for the welcoming. I haven't really cranked the difficulty. It's on standard, with the standard character, in a game that portrays itself to be hardcore. At the end of the day i'm expecting to be eaten by a bear; it wouldn't be fun to me if it lacked adversity. That said i'm now on my second in game week and if i'm not running around in the forest i'm hiding in my hovel from the ever present "guard bear" that's set up shop in my berry fields. It eats me more often than not when i'm trying to set a pit kiln. I don't know a early game way to fight the bears so it's just an endless game of avoidance. Should i just wall it in with dirt? i'm pretty sure these suckers can climb since i've dug tons of pits that catch wolves and whatnot without issue (but not a single bear). For my sanity i'll say bears should be afraid of or repelled by fire. At least something so this bear can stop camping on top of my 5x6 dirt hut.

I've played about 7 hours so far, so take that in mind. I'm not quite measuring time in days, marking my experience mostly by how often i'm eaten by sneaky bears while gathering wood for my first charcoal burn... Mostly i wanted to bring up one specific unfortunate instance. I was indeed exploring in the forest, got snuck up on by a bear or wolf-- instadeath of course. I expect this with the hardcore settings i've chosen. The issue lies in what happened when respawning. There was another bear at the spawn, eating a bunny, which again instantly killed me. While dying isn't really a big deal, the problem is i've now lost 30 of the 40 copper nuggets i was collecting due to the map deleting my original death location upon getting spawncamped by this bear. I've moved on, i'm back to 30/40 at this point. I was just wondering if this is a scenario worthy of a change. It seems unintentionally harsh.