Originally posted by ThirdGen:

With friends to play with, it's not so bad when you have multiple players with bows shooting at the sea creature. You can fight it off that way by yourself also but it's much more difficult, obviously, but it can be done. I'd honestly rather take on a sea monster than a pack of wolves lol. But anyway, try to stay out of open seas if you don't want to cross paths with it, and stick to the shorelines and shortest routes to the other islands (still doesn't guarantee a sea monster won't show up) to at least diminish the chances of an attack.

one mechanic i really do quite love about the serpents is they spawn quite a ways away from you. So you could sail back and forward during storms/night and spawn a few and never see them. Only to run into them later.

Not sure how i feel about them no longer running when severely damaged though tbh, i really enjoyed the chase. Especially if some poor soul solo rafts a serpent and gets to that point and gets charged instead of reprieve lol

I do like that adv though, sticking to the shallows is probably a good idea.
Especially as ocean solo is pretty much suicide on one.
Gonna have to jump on today with my mates and see if we can 5 man raft and hunt one lol