At my third attempt at Haven I decided to settle at the end of a river, where I promptly built a timber house and everything else necessary to get a base going. At the end of the second day (RL) I was very tired but I also still wanted to keep playing. So instead of going to bed (as I should have) I figured out all kinds of small chores that I could still finish this day to prolong the experience. The last thing I wanted to do was to take off some skins from the drying rack. But when I went outside of the timber house I found - much to my surprise - a bear right next to the tanning rack.
Well... you can probably already figure out the rest now. I was hellbent on getting those rabbit skins, so I turned my brain off and mustered up my courage after a short moment of contemplation. It didn't end well, he mauled me a few pixels away from the door to my house. Virtually everything went as wrong as it could and I went to bed angry over my own stupidity (after securing my items).
Redkat wrote::D My first death too.
A very common death. I can't remember how many fellow villagers I've lost to aurochsen. I never managed to die this way myself though. (first one was a boar I think and I was too stupid to spawn at the old hearthfire - had to start all over)