Talk:Hound/@comment-65.78.87.203-20171009023411

What I do is create a ring of tooth traps (and like a huge amount of them, because I'm on day 159 and have more hound's teeth than I know what to do with) and build a firepit in the center for a light source. Whenever a hound attack starts to alert the character I run over there, quickly stoke the fire in case it's about to be night (for a light source) and conceal myself with the bush hat. Of course you have to hide again after the character says their second warning, but that's really easy because you still have a few more seconds before the hounds show up. Then the hounds swarm the screen (they don't leave when the player is hidden in the bush hat unless they aggro on something) and periodically run through the traps until one of them dies. Then they follow the meat further into the traps and they kill themselves off quickly.

Tooth traps don't burn, so this is an awesome strategy for red hounds especially. Just be sure to build the ring of tooth traps enough distance (about 2-3berrybushes) from where you'll hide in the center by the firepit so that their burning/freezing death effects don't hit you.

Seriously, hounds aren't even a concern anymore for me.