Solens do not like pets, regardless if you are a friend of the hive or not. I forget that sometimes when I am taming a blue beetle for someone.
Stayin Alive,
BG
Hahahahaha...
My friend and I wanted to farm ant lions for ore, gold, and the rogue skeletons and t-maps therein.
So, we figured that we would take our giant beetles, each grab a pair of pack horses, and go down into the hive and farm till every horse and beetle was full and make a big haul. I'm sure you can see how this ends
First, we couldn't get ourselves and our horses to get through the cursed moongate I had opened to the hive entrance. I got through first, and took my horses into the hive, where the Solens promptly killed them! (I am a friend of the hive, so I wasn't expecting this). My friend then followed, and unlike me he tried to just sprint to the ant lions with his horses in tow. Unfortunately, since pack horses move slower than dirt, he arrived at the ant lion horse-less. I wasn't present at the time, and he relied on my blade spirits to take hits, so the lion proceeded to eat him. I arrived shortly after, and disposed of the ant lion, and then we simply left, somewhat dismayed that two thousand gold lay on the floor of the ant hive in the form of our poor horses.
We initially had this idea when we did the same thing - but only used our beetles, which we could ride! Neither of us realized that un-mounted pets would be attacked even if we were friends of the hive, which we both were.