Talk:Hound/@comment-68.229.159.70-20130622184555/@comment-122.49.135.59-20130706235330

I typically use a tunnel of traps at the entrance to my base, and this happened to me too! I'm still not sure whether it's not a fluke though.

It appears they go for what they perceive to be the "path of least resistance", although not sure how they determine that as it's somewhat random, and somewhat dependent on where your character is. I had them enter via the back way a few times, but since then I've upgraded the stone walls to the next level up when replacing them - so now they try to go in via the (non-upgraded) side walls instead. If I now move my character (or sometimes just rotate the screen) it can make the hounds stop attacking the wall and go for the (trapped) entrance instead.