Talk:Bearger/@comment-138.229.223.11-20160609061734

I'm really struggling to understand DST Bearger's behavior. With two players, we have gotten and killed a bearger on autumns 2, 3 and 4. First one we were able to follow for days on end, gathering tufts without aggroing him. If he wandered in the direction of our camp we just lured him away with mushrooms/berries, whatever food was available. We ultimately took him out at the end of autumn with pan flute + gunpowder + 100 hp of melee after he got too close to our camp. Nearly died when he woke up and yawned, but fortunately a morsel distracted him.

The second and third both aggroed on us almost immediately. Neither one went to sleep after eating honey (30+), and whenever he did deaggro, we could follow him (arbitrarily closely) for about a minute before he inexplicably turned aggressive again. No food we could place got his attention when aggressive. I just don't know what causes him to aggro (without warning) or deaggro. We got far fewer tufts because the sanity drain of leading him around was hard to manage, and getting hit was devastating to armor/health.

We have since learned to always have 3+ neutral treeguards at our camp to lead to giants if we need to take them out. It takes about 3 for Deerclops, 4 for Bearger (thanks, DST health buffs).

But yeah, anyone who has good info on what makes DST bearger aggressive towards a player, I would like to know better. I'm still stumped.