okay i gotta vent so forgive me if this isnt constructive.
krampus is SO fucking annoying in his current iteration. im only on day 9 and he simply will not go away. i know you're supposed to sleep before midnight to make it so he doesnt spawn, but its literally been a 100% spawn rate - every single night past day 7 he has spawned (on concurrent saves, given that he breaks my game for reasons ill discuss). His spawn rate should be much much MUCH lower - if there's a chance he will spawn every night it needs to be way lower or else it's just going to be infuriating. A decent likelihood should not mean 'guaranteed'. And like, yeah, fine, I could simply go to sleep before 12am but this is early game, keeping time is harder than whenever you get the watch or whatever.
Every single time he's spawned, he's been bugged. he will not leave at 12pm the next day like he's supposed to. apparently this has been an issue for some time and it's not just me. even beyond that, assuming it were not bugged, he should not be sticking around for half of the entire day after the sun rises. It's a legitimately frightening event at night but quickly just gets frustrating and not fun during the day. Every time he's spawned, it becomes game breaking because I either run around til I die or have to alt f4 to quit the game because the meta paranoia won't go away and he won't despawn. Events in VOTV usually feel balanced in the sense that they are going to end eventually and you can rely on that to get you through. Not Krampus, though!!! He won't fucking leave!!!!!!
The item requirement to make him leave is cute in theory, but the recipe is too complex for how early in the game he can show up. I shouldn't have to plan ahead and build my entire early game experience around being able to craft the shit to make him leave when I'm more focused on, y'know, trying to build momentum in the early game. Plus, even assuming I did have all the crafting materials, how am I expected to be able to craft this if Krampus is running & attacking through walls (happened several times, not really sure how) trying to kill me?! Something about this event has to be better balanced or fixed. Knowing that Krampus is this fucked up in this state of the game turns me off of wanting to play at all this season (given that this is a holiday limited event) if it means I'm going to have to deal with Krampus for an actual real life hour or reset my save.