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A Sea Hound is a hostile Mob found in the Shipwrecked DLC. They may be encountered alone at sea, or attack the player in large packs while they are sailing.

Meats dropped into any part of the Ocean have a chance to spawn either one Crocodog or 2-4 Sea Hounds (60% chance of a Crocodog and 40% chance of Sea Hounds). The meat does not have to be dropped by the player themselves. The probability of an attack is based on the hunger value of the item dropped into the sea, and can be calculated by dividing the hunger value of a single item in the stack by 200. This means that the size of the stack does not increase the odds of an attack, but a large number of separate stacks of meat (such as those dropped by puncturing a bloated Whale carcass) can trigger a massive feeding frenzy. Monster Food, Roe, and Shark Fins will not trigger an attack.

Because they lose interest in the player easily, Sea Hounds may get distributed in the ocean and later be re-encountered.

Spear Fighting Strategy[]

Below is the number of hits it takes with each weapon to kill a Sea Hound when playing with characters with a default damage modifier. The Weather Pain is not included due to the random nature of its projectile.

Number of Hits
Item Sea Hound
Old Bell Reign of Giants icon 1 0 0
Obsidian Coconade Shipwrecked icon 1 0 0
Coconade Shipwrecked icon Hamlet icon 1 0 0
Spear Gun Obsidian Shipwrecked icon 1 - 1 Charged 0 - 0 Charged 0 - 0 Charged
Gunpowder
Harpoon Shipwrecked icon
Blunderbuss Hamlet icon
1 0 0
Bee Mine ≥1 ≥0 ≥0
Spear Gun Battle Shipwrecked icon 1 as Wigfrid Portrait 0 as Wigfrid Portrait 0 as Wigfrid Portrait
Spear Gun Spear Spear Gun Poison Shipwrecked icon 2 0 0
Obsidian Spear Shipwrecked icon 2 - 3 0 - 0 0 - 0
Blow Dart 2 0 0
Electric Dart Don't Starve Together icon 2 (1 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage)
Dark Sword
Glass Cutter Don't Starve Together icon
3 0 0
Cutlass Supreme Shipwrecked iconHamlet icon 3 0 0
Tooth Trap 3 0 0
Pew-matic Horn Hamlet icon 5, 4 or 3 0, 0 or 0 0, 0 or 0
Thulecite Club 3 0 0
Ham Bat 3 - 6 0 - 0 0 - 0
Obsidian Axe Shipwrecked icon 3 - 6 - Charged 0 - 0 - Charged 0 - 0 - Charged
Tentacle Spike

Cork Bat Hamlet icon
Cursed Rounds MarblesDon't Starve Together icon

3 0 0
Slurtle Slime 3 0 0
Halberd Hamlet icon 4 0 0
Morning Star Reign of Giants icon 4 (3 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage) 0 (0 Wettargetdamage)
Bat Bat
Battle Spear Reign of Giants icon
4 0 0
Bramble Trap Hamlet icon Don't Starve Together icon 4 0 0
Spear

Poison Spear Peg LegShipwrecked icon
Moon Glass Axe Gold Rounds Don't Starve Together icon

5 0 0
Trident Shipwrecked icon 5 (2 Toy Boat) 0 (0 Toy Boat) 0 (0 Toy Boat)
PickSlashAxe 5 0 0
Machete Shipwrecked icon Hamlet icon 6 0 0
Boomerang Axe Pickaxe Brush

Tail o' Three Cats Malbatross Bill Bull Kelp Stalk Don't Starve Together icon
Gold Pan Hamlet icon

6 0 0
Stalking Stick Hamlet icon 8 0 0
Eyeshot Shipwrecked icon 8 0 0
Saddlehorn Hammer Pitchfork Shovel Walking Cane Willow's Lighter Torch

Telebrella Don't Starve icon
Shears Executive HammerHamlet icon
Cactus Spike Shipwrecked icon Whirly Fan Driftwood Oar Oar Slow-Down Rounds Pebbles Don't Starve Together icon

9 0 0
Lucy the Axe 12 0 0
Bug Net Fishing Rod

Magnifying Glass Hamlet icon

36 0 0

It takes 2 blasts to freeze a Sea Hound with an Ice Staff. It takes 3 Sleep Darts to put Sea Hound to sleep.

Prototype Tips[]

  • Unlike Crocodogs, Sea Hounds cannot be stun-locked or set on fire. Their fast attack speed and spawning in groups also makes kiting and avoiding damage very difficult. Their only weaknesses are their relatively low health and inability to move onto land.
  • The Quackering Ram and the Harpoon are perfect to use against them as Sea Hounds will die in one hit to these weapons and the player is able to easily avoid damage. A Trident is also very effective if the player can dodge the Sea Hound’s first attack since this weapon will kill it before it can make a second attack.
  • Using poisoned, ranged weapons like the Poison Spear + Speargun or Poison Dart against Sea Hounds can make kiting significantly easier as it slows their movement and attacks to more manageable speeds.

Placeholder Trivia[]

  • Sea Hounds don't attack Sea Walls.
  • Sea Hounds were once used to replace Hounds in their periodic attacks, if the player was at sea. This feature was removed in the Home Sea Home update, adding Crocodogs which can traverse both land and water. While Hounds can no longer be encountered in the DLC at all (except via the Slot Machine), Sea Hounds were accidentally removed from the game, but were later added back in their current functionality.
  • A Cargo Boat may randomly be found at sea containing some loot, but jumping on the boat will trigger a Sea Hound attack.
  • When Sea Hounds are approaching, Wilson may comment with "I'm going to need a bigger boat!". This is a reference to the movie Jaws, in which a lead character says "We're gonna need a bigger boat!", while being stalked by a shark.
  • According to Wickerbottom, the scientific name for Sea Hound is Houndus Selachii. "Houndus" is a play on the word "Hound", while Selachii is the order of sharks. Interestingly enough, sharks in real life were historically called "sea dogs" by sailors.

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