Talk:Hound/@comment-76.166.30.32-20131006195205

Honestly the panic room - or any fortification strategy - is unnecessary, complicated, time consuming, material consuming, and ultimately not even the safest.

Honestly I've never died to hounds and all I do is this: build a bunch of tooth traps. I'm talking like 30+  Build them on a road. Always carry the following with you: walking cane and miner hat. As soon as they're coming, start heading onto roads, equip your walking cane - and helmet if you want, until it's completely dark (miner hat then). Boom lead them into the fat line of traps and it's done. Nothing is burned, nothing is lost, etc. Set them up again and you're good for about 9 more attacks.

You should be able to easily outproduce the materials you're using from all the hound tooth drops and considering you will  only need to build new traps after 8-10 attacks. In fact you can EASILY build 50+ for a hilariously fast kill.

On roads with a walking cane it's impossible to get bitten by them. Even without a walking cane you should be reasonably OK on roads, but it's riskier with packs of 10 on your tail. Walking cane isn't THAt hard to make guys... plant spider egg near walrus camp, go there in winter, wait for death as the spiders and hunting party duke it out. If you wanna save time just snipe daddy walrus with a dart or something. Miner hat may only last 8 mins but you'll only be using it about 1min so it's good for at least 8 hound attacks.. and it isn't even that expensive to build. Even in winter this is a sound strategy if you even just have one good insulation equip.

I don't mind sharing this tip with people I hope you will do well and enjoy spending less time worrying about hounds now.