While I agree that they are pointless as-is, something is off with your setup. They never spawn inside my real bases. I have one with a moat, and often have them fall in the moat and get stuck there until I have time to deal with them. I have another with tall terrain-walls that they just stand there staring at until the timer runs out then they run off. But nothing shows inside -- when it does, I try to figure out where they appeared and add a bench or something there to stop it. The radius of the bench may be slightly overstated; I had that problem on a lofted farm (raised terrain for planting wheat) where they spawned up on the cultivated dirt and wrecked my crop. A second bench put a stop to that even though the original indicated it was fully covered, there was a microscopic spot or something out of the ring or computed to allow a spawn point.

Originally posted by jonnin:

While I agree that they are pointless as-is, something is off with your setup. They never spawn inside my real bases. I have one with a moat, and often have them fall in the moat and get stuck there until I have time to deal with them. I have another with tall terrain-walls that they just stand there staring at until the timer runs out then they run off. But nothing shows inside -- when it does, I try to figure out where they appeared and add a bench or something there to stop it. The radius of the bench may be slightly overstated; I had that problem on a lofted farm (raised terrain for planting wheat) where they spawned up on the cultivated dirt and wrecked my crop. A second bench put a stop to that even though the original indicated it was fully covered, there was a microscopic spot or something out of the ring or computed to allow a spawn point.

Spawning also just seems broken for me. I've had greylings spawn in front of me on top of workbenches in the middle of the day. Which I know is definitely not supposed to happen.

Ive had some trouble with 'only benches' out in the wild as well. I think there may be a bug there, since H&H even. Try putting a fire down too? That seems to be a key factor now?

Originally posted by jonnin:

Ive had some trouble with 'only benches' out in the wild as well. I think there may be a bug there, since H&H even. Try putting a fire down too? That seems to be a key factor now?

It seems like the standing torches have the best effect from what I've noticed.

build some walls.. that way when a raid kicks off, you celebrate because easy materials farming

I agree the risk/reward ratio for events is alot heavier on the risk and you can either just run away or lead the enemies around until event ends. The only benefit is farming mats from those enemies but even then your only going to be able to farm them if your overgeared.

Possible rewards (these are just random ideas to get the imagination going)
Survivng an event and actually clearing enemies gives longer respite from recurring events? In the same token, the ability to force an event?

Maybe clearing atleast a wave of enemies gives some reward that increases for every additional wave completed. Could be money, just to keep it simple, or depending which event could be some slightly helpful craftable item like some arrows? A metal bar? A crafted food item? A boss summon item? Nails? Fine wood? Complete like 10 waves maybe it just drops the mats for a random boat lol

Anyway keep the ideas coming a little reward I think is a good addition to events

I have full benchs inside my bases : 0 respawns inside