I've been looking around a bit to find such a guide and didn't find one. I'll try and give it a shot and update with your ideas.

This guide will not cover dirt walls and trenches as it has been talked about a lot already. No talking about making an elevated base out of reach either.


It is generally a good idea go go out as soon as possible to have ennemies focus on you instead of your structures.

Have an emergency raid equipment chest with armor, weapons, foods and mead.

It is better to do a 1x1 stone wall around your base than using 4x2 walls. This is because both have the same HP and doing it with smaller parts will help distribute the damage over a larger area.

You can use 1x1 stone blocks to help force mobs into a path, trolls could not step over it during my tests.

You could place beehouses along that path, they will help damage ennemies along the way.
If you're making multiple layers of wall around your base, they should be spaced out because some ennemies attacks reach trough objects, destroying both at the same time.

Using decoy workbenches to gain some time to prepare to go out

you can have strategically placed holes in your wall to shoot arrows from ground level.

Having watchtowers inside your defence perimeter is always a good idea.

Tamed wolves inside your defences can sometimes attack your walls to get to the ennemies

Things to test out:

Using fire to divert greylings to spiked areas, does it works during raids?