when you've never seen a serpent, and never seen a troll, and you're doing 2 player co-op with one person gathering resources, having the ground shake whilst I'm mining and then getting knocked to 2hp is terrifying

That being said I have not seen a serpent yet.

bruh IDK about you but I got scared shitless when I saw a troll for the first time

I'm naturally terrified of the ocean, so I always avoided the ocean biome. After discovering about serpents in the internet, I was glad.

I remember when me and my brothers saw something moving in the waters, that was when we felt the fear of a monster destroying our raft.