I love this game. Unlike many of the folks here I'm not looking for a "knife in my teeth" Rambo style adventure. I have zero interest in seeing how hard I can make the game. I just want enough challenge to make things interesting as I explore my world and build my haven. And the dev's gave me exactly what I wanted. There's so many custom options now that most people can tailor their experience right in the game plus fully developed modding tools and a truly superior modding community. Things were great, and then, there were bears.
I get it, bears are big and dangerous but come on. I live in a rural area in the mountains. We have brown bears, cougars, wolves, and coyotes all over the place here. I've encountered a few bears and unless you're dumb enough to provoke one of them, they generally leave humans alone. They might raid your garbage or go after your pets if they're really hungry. And, yes, they can climb pretty well but they're not scaling 12 foot fences, they're not up on the roof(although I did have a cougar on my roof once), not stamping around in farms, or camping anyone's front door.
So, I'm fed up with the bears. I looked for a mod. There's a mod for everything, for every block, creature, and mechanic there's a mod. For bears there's 2. One that unbelievably makes the bears harder (???serious adrenaline addiction there) and one, just one, that removes the bears from the game and it doesn't work. Okay, I'll just bite the bullet and set the animals to non-aggressive, fine, not what I wanted but okay. Just loaded into that new game and wham five minutes into the play-through dead by bear in the middle of a plain, at least 50 blocks from the nearest forest. I'm done with these demonic bears. So, where does that leave me. Map settings don't work and there are no mods. I'd have to go explorer and that's a little too casual even for me.
So, I need some help. I know nothing about coding but I so hate these obnoxious creatures that I'm willing to learn how to code just so I can deal with them. Seriously, can someone tell me how to alter the code to divest me of these hell-spawn disguised as bears. And to the kind folks who are going to explain how to avoid, trap, or kill the bears, I'm aware but I'm way past that now. No, now it's genocide.