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Houndwarning

Based on game build 714014 | Last updated: 2026-03-05

Overview​

houndwarning is a lightweight prefab factory used to spawn temporary visual/audio warning entities in the world. These entities are positioned at a fixed distance from the player or focal point and play a distant hound sound (dontstarve/creatures/hound/distant) before immediately self-destructing. The prefabs are created in four levels, each corresponding to different warning radii (SPAWN_DIST + 30, +20, +10, and SPAWN_DIST), intended to give advance notice of incoming hounds.

Usage example​

-- Spawning a level 2 warning effect (distance = SPAWN_DIST + 20)
local warning_prefab = Prefab("houndwarning_lvl2")
local inst = SpawnPrefab("houndwarning_lvl2")
-- The entity plays the sound and removes itself automatically after 0 game ticks

Dependencies & tags​

Components used: transform, soundemitter Tags: Adds FX

Properties​

No public properties.

Main functions​

PlayWarningSound(inst, radius)​

  • Description: Positions the entity at the specified radius around the focal point, plays the hound warning sound, and removes the entity.
  • Parameters: inst (entity) – the warning entity; radius (number) – distance from the focal point.
  • Returns: Nothing.

makewarning(distance)​

  • Description: Returns a factory function that creates a new warning entity configured for the given distance.
  • Parameters: distance (number) – radius at which the warning sound will be played.
  • Returns: A function that, when called, returns an entity with transform and soundemitter components, ready to play the warning.

Events & listeners​

  • Pushes: None.
  • Listens to: None.