This article is about an older version of DF.
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A Bogeyman is a night creature who attacks unwary adventurers who travel or sleep outside at night alone. They can be avoided by being accompanied by companions, by sleeping the night away inside of a building, or by traveling in the more desolate biomes, such as mountains or deserts.
When you are ambushed, you will get the message:
You are surrounded by incessant cackling
And will receive the message:
You are still surrounded by cackling
if you try to travel or sleep/rest while you're still being attacked.
If you've added high agility during character creation, you may be able to run away from them. However, no matter where you run, they may spawn near you endlessly and attack you. The only way to stop their attacks is by going "inside" - entering an intact building or a lair - or waiting until dawn, or killing them all. Bogeymen also seem to not ambush players on beaches; sleeping on the beach is a safe way to avoid them in the night.
After they're gone or all dead, you'll get the message:
The cackling fades away
And then you can get back to adventuring.
Bogeymen are created procedurally at the start of world gen, much like Titans and Forgotten Beasts but to a lesser extent. Some Bogeymen have semi-useless abilities like wings and can thus fly, but this doesn't usually affect the adventurer unless they can fly. Others of these bogeymen can be considerably harder to kill because of their horns. It is advised that if you encounter one you engage it more cautiously than other bogeymen. Overall, they are fast and can kill an inexperienced adventurer easily. During an ambush, you will face mixed types of bogeymen.
Bogeymen dissolve into smoke shortly after being killed, but will not light objects on fire. Bogeymen body parts can be picked up but they too vanish shortly. You may be able to keep some, though, if you dispatch them fast enough, pick up, and fast-travel away before they start smoking.
During a bogeyman attack, the "give up" option in the Esc screen will become Give in to the night. Selecting this will end the game immediately. If you end the game in this way, or are otherwise killed by bogeymen, you will be described in Legends mode as having died in the the dark.
One of the best ways to kill or get away from them is throwing objects if you have high thrower skill. This helps in two ways, lightening your load so you can run away faster if need be, and it has the chance of lopping off a limb and possibly the head. If you do manage to kill them you cannot butcher them, as it gives a "you are not that hungry" display.
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| Races |
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| Birds |
Albatross ( man, giant) • Barn owl ( man, giant) • Bushtit ( man, giant) • Cassowary ( man, giant) • Cockatiel ( man, giant) • Crow ( man, giant) • Eagle ( man, giant) • Emu ( man, giant) • Great horned owl ( man, giant) • Grey parrot ( man, giant) • Hornbill ( man, giant) • Kakapo ( man, giant) • Kea ( man, giant) • Kestrel ( man, giant) • Kiwi ( man, giant) • Loon ( man, giant) • Lorikeet ( man, giant) • Magpie ( man, giant) • Masked lovebird ( man, giant) • Osprey ( man, giant) • Ostrich ( man, giant) • Parakeet ( man, giant) • Peach-faced lovebird ( man, giant) • Penguin ( little, emperor, man, giant) • Peregrine falcon ( man, giant) • Puffin ( man, giant) • Raven ( man, giant) • Snowy owl ( man, giant) • Sparrow ( man, giant) • Swan ( man, giant) • White stork ( man, giant) • Wren ( man, giant) |
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| Bugs |
Bark scorpion ( man, giant) • Brown recluse spider ( man, giant) • Damselfly ( man, giant) • Grasshopper ( man, giant) • Jumping spider ( man, giant) • Louse ( man, giant) • Mantis ( man, giant) • Moon snail ( man, giant) • Mosquito ( man, giant) • Moth ( man, giant) • Slug ( man, giant) • Snail ( man, giant) • Thrips ( man, giant) • Tick ( man, giant) |
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| Desert | |
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| Domestic | |
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| Mountain | |
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| Ocean |
Angelshark • Basking shark • Blacktip reef shark • Blue shark • Bluefin tuna • Bluefish • Bull shark • Cod • Coelacanth • Common skate • Conger eel • Crab ( man, giant) • Cuttlefish ( man, giant) • Elephant seal ( man, giant) • Frill shark • Giant grouper • Great barracuda • Great white shark • Halibut • Hammerhead shark • Harp seal ( man, giant) • Horseshoe crab ( man, giant) • Leopard seal ( man, giant) • Longfin mako shark • Manta ray • Marlin • Milkfish • Narwhal ( man, giant) • Nautilus ( man, giant) • Nurse shark • Ocean sunfish • Octopus ( man, giant) • Opah • Orca ( man, giant) • Sea lamprey • Shortfin mako shark • Sperm whale ( man, giant) • Spiny dogfish • Sponge ( man, giant) • Spotted wobbegong • Squid ( man, giant) • Stingray • Sturgeon • Swordfish • Tiger shark • Walrus • Whale shark • Whitetip reef shark |
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| River/Lake |
Axolotl ( man, giant) • Beaver ( man, giant) • Carp • Hippo • Leech ( man, giant) • Longnose gar • Mink ( man, giant) • Otter ( river, sea, man, giant) • Pike • Platypus ( man, giant) • Pond turtle ( man, giant) • Snapping turtle ( common, alligator, man, giant) • Tigerfish |
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| Temperate |
Adder ( man, giant) • Alligator • Badger ( man, giant) • Black bear • Bobcat ( man, giant) • Buzzard • Capybara ( man, giant) • Coati ( man, giant) • Copperhead snake ( man, giant) • Cougar • Coyote ( man, giant) • Deer • Dingo ( man, giant) • Echidna ( man, giant) • Fox • Gray langur ( man, giant) • Green tree frog ( man, giant) • Grizzly bear • Groundhog • Hare ( man, giant) • Ibex ( man, giant) • Kangaroo ( man, giant) • Kingsnake ( man, giant) • Koala ( man, giant) • Moose ( man, giant) • Opossum ( man, giant) • Panda ( man, giant) • Porcupine ( man, giant) • Raccoon • Rattlesnake ( man, giant) • Red panda ( man, giant) • Rhesus macaque • Skunk ( man, giant) • Weasel ( man, giant) • Wild boar ( man, giant) • Wolf • Wombat ( man, giant) |
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| Tropical |
Aardvark ( man, giant) • Anaconda ( man, giant) • Armadillo ( man, giant) • Aye-aye ( man, giant) • Bilou • Black mamba ( man, giant) • Black-crested gibbon • Black-handed gibbon • Bonobo • Bushmaster ( man, giant) • Capuchin ( man, giant) • Cheetah ( giant) • Chimpanzee • Elephant • Gazelle • Giant desert scorpion • Giant tortoise ( man, giant) • Giraffe • Gorilla • Gray gibbon • Honey badger • Hyena ( man, giant) • Impala ( man, giant) • Jackal ( man, giant) • Jaguar ( giant) • King cobra ( man, giant) • Leopard ( giant) • Lion ( giant) • Lion tamarin ( man, giant) • Mandrill • Mongoose ( man, giant) • Monitor lizard ( man, giant) • Ocelot ( man, giant) • One-humped camel • Orangutan • Pangolin ( man, giant) • Pileated gibbon • Python ( man, giant) • Rhinoceros • Saltwater crocodile • Siamang • Silvery gibbon • Sloth ( man, giant) • Sloth bear ( man, giant) • Spider monkey ( man, giant) • Tapir ( man, giant) • Tiger ( giant, man) • Two-humped camel • Vulture • Warthog • White-browed gibbon • White-handed gibbon |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| Semi-Megabeasts | |
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| Megabeasts | |
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| Nonexistent | |
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