Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Why are you farming him? You only need to kill him if you want the antler for the first pick axe. Additional antlers serve no purpose since once you have the antler pick you can repair it.

I don't know. He's a decent place to level up your bow skill early. You can get him to fell trees while you fight him too. So he pays back the arrows he uses and then some. I admit the skill isn't necessary, but I'm doing an iron man run, so the bonus too draw speed early on helps with some tricky encounters. Like trolls in caves.