These things pack a lot of damage and can easily shred most armor. Whatever you do, don’t fight them in water as they are quite fast.

Outstanding wood collectors. Mine has 770 weight and can carry 3K wood plus rider. Holds wood at 1/5 weight and can be used as mobile smithy. This teamed with a doed can construct a base in minutes. Must have.

To empty a Beaver dam(always completely empty to allow more to spawn), open Iventory of dam, then immediately close it and jump on a semi quick tame(preferably a bird). The beavers will now follow u anywhere. Lead them far away, or over a ledge then return and empty tha dam. *this has to be done for each individual dam.

These creatures are very touchy about their stuff. Just take a naughty peek into their dams sometime, you'll see.

Digging into their dams is worth supplies, until you have to tell your friends you were killed by an angry beaver.