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[Hylas]

I find hiding under the covers works pretty well, or have your mom check under the bed.

[Ubiq]

Having one follower will prevent bogeymen, and if you do not use the fast travel system at night then they won't spawn either (IIRC).

Confirming that no fast travel = no boogeymen. Just lost all my companions to a goblin ambush, and spent the whole night walking the hard way back to town.

I've had them attack me while walking at night though and even without fast travel; it seems more related to the environment in question. Savage biomes seem to less likely to spawn them than calm ones as well; of course, even when they do spawn there you can always lead them towards a herd of the local wildlife and slip away in the confusion. A few versions ago, I created an adventurer with the explicit purpose of getting a full set of adamantine armor and wreaking vengeance on boogeymen, who wouldn't show up in the local savage swamp region no matter how many nights I spent walking around.

I went out into a calm savannah and had waves of them come at me.

[Loud Whispers]

I've had them attack me while walking at night though and even without fast travel; it seems more related to the environment in question.

Indeed. It's the very reason I went on my first mountain pilgrimage in the first place, to avoid becoming night creature gobble. That said, I underestimated the size of the mountain range, and after many dozens of giant eagles when my adventurer finally reached the other side, he was hunting bogeymen.

[Hanslanda]

Yes, eventually bogeymen lose their fear factor.  Then they become what they truly are...  Delicious delicious walking experience that appears rather reliably.

On a side note, when you have multiple legendary skills, peasants start saying, 'Only a legend like you can travel at night, I'd get torn apart by the bogeymen.' Oh.  Well, I'm going to go hunting bogeymen.  I don't even need a quest now...

[Neonivek]

Yes, eventually bogeymen lose their fear factor.  Then they become what they truly are...  Delicious delicious walking experience that appears rather reliably

You should just start calling them what I do

Magic Kung-fu Babies

[rtg593]

Certain biomes may prevent bogeymen, but you can still get creatures of the night. Just got slaughtered in the mountains by a Woman something... that was male:p

[Hammerstar]

Certain biomes may prevent bogeymen, but you can still get creatures of the night. Just got slaughtered in the mountains by a Woman something... that was male:p

So, then the reason I met no boogeymen that night was because I was running through a haunted desert?

[Hanslanda]

  That would be an interesting turn of events.

Merchant: Well, there's no bogeymen around here beca-
Adventurer: Sweet, I'm setting up camp in the woods tonight.
*Adventurer leaves*
Merchant: Because of the Giant Badger and Giant Dingo Husks...

[azrael300]

How can I be sure I'm safe from bogeymen when I'm not in towns?  From reading around on the wiki, I know that being in a lair works, but can you sleep in the lair, or do you need to wait until dawn? 

I'm trying to do some longer distance traveling with a character who is starting to be decent, and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to make the trips which are more than one day between hamlets, or where I don't know what I'm looking for, i.e. just roughing it in the wilderness. Waiting in lairs is fine, but obviously you get drowsy pretty easily.

Any tips or guides that I may have overlooked?

get a gun and a sign saying (boogeymen beware of crazy man with a gun)and bring doctor who with you and another sign saying(and a crazy man with a blue box)the doctor who part should make them get heart attacks.