Originally posted by warrenchmobile:

Twenty dead tamed boar in a pen, one dead tamed boar, Frank, killed while roaming your base. Twenty-one undamaged domestic bee hives, two damaged domestic bee hives, and one destroyed domestic bee hive. No other damage discovered. That could be a civil war between domestic creatures.
Questions I would ask:

1) Are any of the bee hives close enough to the pen that the boar inside could aggro the bees?

2) Presumably, the twenty dead tamed boar inside the pen dropped all their boar meat and leather scraps inside the pen. How close to the boar pen were Frank's drops?

What I am thinking here is that a civil war between domestic creatures would require one of the boar to aggro the bees. If the boar in the pen were not close enough to the hives to aggro the bees, why did the bees attack them? If Frank stirred up the bees, he could have led them to the pen. If he died some distance from the pen, that might indicate that he did not. Perhaps an unknown third party is responsible for all the deaths.

If I were you, I would ensure that all my domestic bee hives were located where no domestic boar could aggro the bees. If you allowed another Frank, your apiary would have to be some height off the ground. That would require a system of ladders or stairs which I viking could only accessed by jumping. Frank would be able to run under the hives, but the vertical distance would still put him out of aggro range.

With this precaution in place, should you lose more boar and hives, a third party is almost certainly at work.

>>>>>>>>> The compound is basically a rectangle. Upper left is where 24 beehives sit on a raised stone foundation, on perpendicular short logs. Frank (tamed boar) was dead up near the beehives, up near the dead queen actually. Meat and leather were left. Now the pen with 24+, most were all down the one end (upper top), meat and leather left.It would be located half way down the triangle to the right. The area is contained by doors, some double doors. The hives are not that close to the pen. The two new ones being tamed died up near the bees too. No bees died this time. I have one boar tamed now in the pen and is still alive last time I looked earlier today.

The compound is mostly open except the house, boathouse, portal room, a tower, and all the catwalks around the outer walls to fight off Trolls, which now just stand there and let me shoot them! I've a moat around the complex too. Enclosed covered bridges that cross the moat which allow one to stand on top to kill invaders outside. They can't get in for this design. I have not killed the Boss that would bring the drakes.

Still this all happened while I was offline for a month or so.. which is what makes it very strange. Frank has been roaming a long time as well the other boars in the pen hanging out and no problems.

I will add that the realm is just of my making, no one else there.