Better Than Wolves Forum

Starting out, I feel like i'm truly bottom-bitch to the world now. The biome I started in; fucking packed with wolves, pun intended. From what I'd read, this may not have been the best place to spawn. I fucking scramble for wood. In the back of my mind I keep thinking, "Oh boy, look at all these wolves, they'll sure come in handy later." It'd be much sooner than later that I'd found out how "handy" they could be.

So now that my first dusk is approaching, I felt I should find shelter, however temporary. I fashion a shovel from a couple twigs and a plank I'd punched from a tree out of pure terror earlier. I dig partway into a cliff-side, and wall myself in with the dirt I'd just dug. It was then that I realized how much wood I actually had, and that I should really make an effort to retrieve that crafting table I'd set just outside my cliff-side hovel before walling myself in. It was at this point in the twilight that the howling started.

I've never, NEVER, had to gird my loins in this game more than when I retrieved that crafting table, four-fucking-blocks-away.

Fuck...

No sooner had I retrieved that CT and walled up my "doorway" with dirt slabs, Mr. Rabies decided to let himself be known. I didn't understand it. "Wh-, WHY are you mad at me?!" I attempted to ignore him until dawn, somewhat successfully, until dawn actually broke and and nothing changed with Sir Rabies McFuckyou... I soon dispatched him with a stone axe from betwixt the spaces between my dirt slab door.

Two more wolves attacked me unprovoked that day while out foraging. Something was the fuck up.
It was later that dusk I heard the other growl... Just, nope.

Anticlimactically, I went out the next day to get wood, only to receive a very intimate blow from a creeper... [insert-explicit-string-here]

GG FC, GG. :P

In closing, I leave you what I find to be a very descriptive tune for this release, and from what i've read and experienced, recent others:

When I started anew out in the wilderness, I managed to kill a skeleton in a cave that I holed up in with my single stone axe (and almost died in the process). Naturally, this was after beating a number trees down with my bare hands to get the necessary nineteen wood to rev up the tech tree. I mined for the night, and, being quite close to a taiga biome (I was in a forest next door), I kept hearing howling. Dropping all my pretenses of researching wolf socks and other novelties, I decided to devote this new-game mission to discovering the darker secrets of wolves. Easier said then done, unfortunately. For no apparent reason, a pig glitched through the dirt wall protecting my home, so I had a nice little meal that way.

The next morning, I journeyed out with a few stone axes to cut more wood and hunt. Outside, I saw (I think) an angry wolf in the distance eat a pig and went the other way, of course. After hunting pigs and cows for the day, I came back to my cave/hole to find a wolf that had apparently been sated of its hunger. At that point I made the assumption that wolves now became angry from being hungry, which was reinforced when I found some dung on the ground out in part of the taiga. From the skeleton I had killed the other day, I tamed the wolf for experimentation, whenever i got to it. I also killed a couple spiders near my door.

That night, I struck four iron, and after slaying some zombies that gathered by the door, I decided to make a fishing rod. I had shoved the wolf in a corner by this point, and did not hear quite as many howls. The next morning, I went out and killed a creeper. As there were spiders about, I brought my wolf with me. I first cut some trees and searched out some new caves for more coal and iron. Then, i was suddenly attacked by a raging wolf, and I killed it. I went fishing, but made the stupid choice of shift-clicking all my rotten flesh into the crafting grid with the fishing rod, and thus dropping the extra in front of my wolf when i left my inventory. That night, just closing in on dawn, I was suddenly met with a very horrifying growl and was attacked from behind by something dark and large. The kill message said something about a "dire wolf" and thus I named that beast my other post.

Respawning, I was immediately attacked by angry wolves (three or four I think). An at that point, I saved and quit, having my fill of terror for the day.

Wolves will eat any players, sheep, pigs, and chickens (not cows for some reason) if they are hungry and become angry not just from being attacked but also from hunger

Upon eating rotten flesh, wolves will slowly become the Beast.

To tame a wolf with bones it must not be hungry.

Tamed wolves will not get angry due to hunger.

Tamed wolves will only become angry due to the wolf chop thing (as far as I can tell).

Untamed wolves will also become angry during the night during the full moon.

Wolves howl frequently to the full moon, and these howls do not seem to betray any sort of pattern; in fact tamed wolves don't seem to do this at all.

Wolves will also howl at random points in time during the night, and this howl will be answered by others, even tamed wolves.

I am now becoming more interested in this sock thing, especially since I heard something about wolf "happiness levels."

Tamed wolves will howl in response to hearing another wolf howl.

Slain "beasts" will drop zombie flesh, indicating that they may be undead wolves.

Dire wolves seem to be undead wolves because they act just like zombies in the fact that they will attack you, drop rotten meat when they die, and they burn in the sunlight