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.