Talk:Gnome/@comment-74.74.140.232-20130516214821/@comment-72.190.125.81-20130531081459

The entire first week I started playing this game I was carrying gnomes around with me in my inventory because I never got far enough to craft a backpack and I figured it was a super important item that I would eventually figure out how to use at some point, but I definitely continued to be attacked and died... a lot.

It's possible in your case they were focused on fighting Chester instead.. He tends to catch monsters' attention a lot when he follows me around. Once hounds were able to kill Chester (temporarily..  after at least a day the eye on the bone thing opened again and he came back) while he was following me and it dropped all my things on the ground.

In retrospect, for that reason it is probably a good idea not to carry meat/food items around in Chester if possible because the hounds quickly ate all the meat before I could grab it back up.