Originally posted by electricdawn:

Hm, I'm pretty sure they're just spawned in as soon as I hit something, and I've been in areas where I couldn't see one single greydwarf in the vicinity. I start hitting something, boom, they come out of the... ahem... woodworks.

They can spawn outside the range at which you can see entities and since their hearing range is larger than that it makes it appear that they are spawning due to you hitting things, when in reality they were always there

Originally posted by sarteck:

Second, Greydwarves rather easily drop aggro

I outran 3 greys with Eikthyr power on. I know they were the same ones because one was hit. The only dwarves I've seen dropping aggro are brutes and shamans. Greylings and greydwarves only drop aggro (in my experience) when reaggroing another mob (because they tend to die to them, mostly). They've even chased me by sea throwing rocks at my raft.
Not to say the incredible distances they cover to stick their noses where they don't belong. I've coexisted with a troll not too far from base and he never came after my things even if I was building and making noise. Dwarves are always pestering my bees or throwing rocks at my ship.

There can be astonishing numbers of spawners in nearby forest. If you cleared those out (I prefer to keep them so I can stock up on drops) it will help a ton, but nothing ever really reduces them to the 'infrequent' level of every other mob.
Once you can one-shot the brutes, you can ignore them or dispatch them as you see fit, and the problem is sort of a non issue at that point.

Originally posted by Ɣɪ¢♰ɪɱƧ:

Originally posted by sarteck:

Second, Greydwarves rather easily drop aggro

I outran 3 greys with Eikthyr power on. I know they were the same ones because one was hit. The only dwarves I've seen dropping aggro are brutes and shamans. Greylings and greydwarves only drop aggro (in my experience) when reaggroing another mob (because they tend to die to them, mostly). They've even chased me by sea throwing rocks at my raft.
Not to say the incredible distances they cover to stick their noses where they don't belong. I've coexisted with a troll not too far from base and he never came after my things even if I was building and making noise. Dwarves are always pestering my bees or throwing rocks at my ship.

Try what I mentioned in the post above; lure a Greyling into your base, and just sit down. Watch him casually walk around. (Make sure it's inside.)
Do the same thing with a Dwarf, if you can. Heck, a friend and I just the other night got a HUGE Brute all penned up and docile. :D

EDIT: Building pens right around mobs in the right way will make them docile. Well, with some mobs. I've tried Fulings and Greydwarves/lings. Can't confirm others, know it won't work for bats, doubt it would work for drakes or Golems. Probably not Abominations, either.

I've had some success using campfires and holding a torch while cutting, but you cant ever fully stop them spawning. so far as iv'e seen anyway

I had a sorta-docile Greyling inside the log outline of my house I was building. When I removed one of the logs, the Greyling wandered outside and started to get hostile. It really is a weird behaviour.

You'll have more use of them in the mid-late game, as it's far easier to lure packs of them to farm Wood/Resin instead of chopping tree's. All that wood is necessary for the absurd amounts of Coal you need for Smelting, and Resin for the numerous torches that light the night.

The only trees I chop at this stage are Fine Wood and Core Wood trees

Never.

Seriously.

You will be happy if you ONLY have to deal with Greydwarves. Seriously.

Tip: If you have your home built close to a Greydwarf nest, I would recommend either taking it out thus lessening the spawning of them, or use the nest as an endless resin resource.

Try clearing the area before you mine or chop wood.

Not sure if that is going to help, as they are indeed spawned by you just doing loud noises. At least to my best knowledge.

Works for me all the time.

Hm, I'm pretty sure they're just spawned in as soon as I hit something, and I've been in areas where I couldn't see one single greydwarf in the vicinity. I start hitting something, boom, they come out of the... ahem... woodworks.

Originally posted by electricdawn:

Hm, I'm pretty sure they're just spawned in as soon as I hit something, and I've been in areas where I couldn't see one single greydwarf in the vicinity. I start hitting something, boom, they come out of the... ahem... woodworks.

They can spawn outside the range at which you can see entities and since their hearing range is larger than that it makes it appear that they are spawning due to you hitting things, when in reality they were always there

Well, they drop wood actually, so they shouldn't depress you.

They are the most relentless mob in the game. They never drop aggro and they'll hound you from very far away. I settled in some meadows and they come down from a forest everyday in pairs on in full patrols of 6 dwarves + shaman + brute. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I see 2 of them bashing my ship and when I get out they run away into the sea (those two, who are recurrent, are the only ones that run startled for some reason. I think they're the devs who want to mess with me. I have no proof but no doubts either).

I tried littering the map with fires and workbenches but they still come one way or another. So I just moded their audio files and changed them to some funny noises and at least now they make me chuckle everytime they chase me.

A bit of bogus info in this thread so far.

First, Greydwarves do NOT spawn by you making sounds. Those that have spawned are attracted to the sounds you are making.

Second, Greydwarves rather easily drop aggro, and even line of sight if they get within range of fires/torches. In fact, if you lure one inside your house, it's extremely likely that it will remain un-aggro'd the entire time. You can even build structures around them and make them your base secretary or something. :P

There's several ways of dealing with them. Make a wall (Roundpole fencing, Core Wood Beams, Stakewall, earth wall, stone wall, trenches, whatever) around your entire base. Then plop down some crafting benches so that every area inside the fencing is covered. You can later replace some of these benches with campfires if you want. That will stop them from spawning INSIDE your base.

Now, as long as you are not near the walls, you really won't have to worry about anything except occasionally going around repairing your walls and fighting stuff when you WANT to, instead of having to deal with it every 2 minutes.

Another way is to make huge pits and drag some GDwarves into it. I'm not SURE on this fact, as I've never tested it myself, but there's supposedly a max number of normally-spawnable creatures, and if you surpass that limit by having them already spawned in a pit, then you won't get more.