Charlie

These creatures only appear at night, and only attack you when you are in total darkness for too long.

A warning is issued if you are in darkness too long, with your character saying "What was that?", indicating that you must get to a light source immediately.

Acceptable light sources include; Torches (while held), fire (camp or environmental), Equipped mining hat and pumpkin lanterns. Fireflies are also acceptable, but disappear as soon as you get into their vicinity. It is also possible to use the light emitted by a cooking Crock Pot by standing close to it as the game enters night or simply by running up to it in complete darkness and equipping & de-equipping a torch. This can be done in succession gathered that you have enough materials to make the Crock Pot start cooking and that you have a torch to re-start the "effect".