Very similar thing just happened two games in a row. Had a great camp going (except I guess my firepit was too close to the grasslands; I guess beefalo wonder just a little bit beyond that). Night fall comes and there are literally 7+ beefalo sleeping around my firepit so that I can't even see the damn thing. Totally shoulda just let them be and hoped the fire lasted through the night, but instead I wanted to get things down (my alchemy machine was right behind them), and pixel hunted wrong again and got my shit tore up.

Siiiiiiiiiigh. But maybe this means I'm getting much better at getting a good camp going because these were the best and second best setups I've ever had in the first week.