I'm not sure about that, but the next patch/current test patch removes agro on wisp torches.

From my experience the wisp torches do not prevent mob spawns, mine also always get destroyed, but the mats are still there so they can be replaced easily, but its kind of annoying.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

I'm not sure about that, but the next patch/current test patch removes agro on wisp torches.

Oh thank god, that'll be so much help.

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

From my experience the wisp torches do not prevent mob spawns, mine also always get destroyed, but the mats are still there so they can be replaced easily, but its kind of annoying.

Yeah this must be the case, just 5 minutes ago a seeker soldier SPAWNED RIGHT BEHIND ME in my base while i was building a wall, torches and workbenches everywhere, vertical crags everywhere that it wouldn't willingly drop from. So the little gaps that i figured the torches would cover between benches, is not working.

I'm sick of benches everywhere. We need spawn preventing something-nice-and-small, and I don't care how many mats it costs.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

I'm sick of benches everywhere. We need spawn preventing something-nice-and-small, and I don't care how many mats it costs.

If you're really bored you could somewhat mitigate this by killing moder a bunch of times so you can get tears to put down artisan tables, which for some reason have a giant radius, but obviously this isnt optimal. Yeah, I feel like there should be a way to upgrade radius for benches, either by just upgrading the workbench or an option on it that you can pour materials into to increase its radius, which would be convienant for something larger than house building.