Rendered hair looks like chaos

Hello, I’m sorry if I miss smething obvious but I’m new with the particle system and can’t fifure out why my render looks so different from the viewport.

this is expected

this is the render

and my settings


Thank you for any suggestions.

Hello

Are you using cycles?

Couple of places to check:

Render display vs the Render settings in particle tab - make them the same amount of steps:
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Curves section in Render tab - make them the same subdivisions (not like here):
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Hope that helps.

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Hello, it was indeed the number of strand steps that was causing this havoc. Particle settings can be hard to get used to. Thanks!