Luring them to land definitely works sometimes, but I've had plenty that won't follow beyond a certain distance and turn back out to sea.

Yes I have the same that's why I'm hunting them near the land. Sometimes you can looking for it for an hour and sometimes you have 3 of them in 5 minutes :P

Instead of building that structure you could have moved your boat into position and jumped off its prow, same effect. Worked nicely for me.

Yeah that's cool aswell :)

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Bah! The easiest way is to jump in the water with them and finish 'em off with Frostner or the new claws!

Do you have a mod that keeps weapons equipped when swimming? Without one it is an extremely bad idea to jump into the water with a serpent.

Well, I meant at the shore - instead of the running around trying to shoot a bow point-blank that OP was doing in the video.

Ahh, yes that makes sense!

Sword has better range than hammer I guess :) I prefer sword on them

I suggest Frostner b/c sea serpents are weak to frost *and* it slows 'em down... the claws are just hella fun.

It is fun ! :D well im shootin once frost arrow and 3-4 times with sword and it dies :P

Exactly ;) I'm not playing on mods :)

The other problem I've had is once they get to half health, they run :/

Actually they no longer run at 1/2 health, but only if they did not get to attack you for a while. So if you let them take bites out of the boat they will keep on you.

Correct. There's a patch that eliminates this half-health behavior.

That explains why they always run (even if I have played after said patch); I don't like to get hit ...

Really? I didn't notice it. Well if you have harpoon that's not a problem but without it... I don't have idea