Talk:Guides/Character guide-Willow/@comment-189.58.162.174-20161108171636

I don't think Willow's immunity to fire is as negligible as stated.

Because of how many pine cones you end up with when you chop down grown trees you can easily have enough pine cones to make a stack of trees to serve as traps: say you have 80 pine cones, you plant 40 of them for cutting, as usual (which will give you 80 more pinecones if you cut the trees only when they are fully grown), and the other 40 you use to make a trap, placing these trees as closely as possible.

When you're attacked by hounds or a boss you can burn this stack and run in the middle of the trees, you keep running inside to avoid damage and you kill the enemy without problems. It is a great way to deal with the increasing number of hounds if you still don't have a whole lot of tooth traps. Employing this method made it so no hound attacks were problematic all the times I started a new game, didn't need to heal after the fight, never took a big risk, completely safe. It even solves the sanity problems you might have from facing the enemies, as you gain sanity because of how many trees are burning around you.

In my experience a stack of 16 trees (placed as a 4x4 square) is enough to survive the hound attacks if you keep moving inside. It obviously has the consequence of burning the items that drop, but as the only flammable drops from the hounds are the monster meat, there isn't really a drawback. Of course, you burn down trees you could cut, but only cutting the grown trees from your other stack (the one for normal use) makes this method self sustainable.