take care of flying enemies with windmills

oh i just made a wall around my base with the hoe by raising the ground around my base

Thanks, everybody for your stories and ideas. Always nice to see how people do things differently than I would do them.

I especially love that picture with the fuling tower. :D

Originally posted by electricdawn:

I don't need moats, I don't need earthen walls, I don't even need stake walls and sharp stakes!

All I need is four lox roaming around my house. Two of them (the other two didn't even engage) managed to kill 21(!) wolves in a "You are being hunted" event happening at my plains home.

I'm set with meat and wolf pelts for the rest of this game. :D

And the best part? They still had about half of their health. Rode them to the house, dropped a cloud berry, and presto, they were healed again.

Of course, they had some... stuff going on after that. :P

"Lox" like I will get a new little babylox to take care off pretty soon... ;)

HAHHA yeah - they are Pretty CLutch - i mean what do you expect - they cant make the game challenging nobody will play it lol

Yup. works damn well for defence. I have my Lox roaming around ouside my farm, however.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2835090464

i have a smallish lox farm and even earth walls will deteriorate near lox AOE ground slams so be aware ..but otherwise yes they are TANKs and i have them wandering into frozen mountains causing havoc both wanted and unwanted :-)

I also built under The Elder's alter (and above it), but mine looks more like a dance hall, since I never built anything in it except the walls and floor. You can make quite a large space under there!

I've never had any issues in my top of the Mistlands tree house either. :-)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2616761985

If you have an old Mistlands with trees, you can also build quite a cozy little house in the trunk of a tree. Inside Moder's alter also has quite a bit of space.

My best base was on top of a Yagluth Altar where I managed to get two Lox up for a drop lox breeding farm. Ended up having like 20 lox wandering around for the subsequent Yagluth fights where the base ended up getting absolutely pummeled and all lox dying (team did a few single fights then a few doubles for the challenge).

Most interesting base would be one that I made in a plains area surrounded by mountains with just a bit of that biome jutting into the plains area. Made a neat tunnel system underneath some of the plains boulders which led to the upper parapet and eventually a small fort on the hilly mountain biome spot.

Safest base was one just off shore an island that I had to swim to. Two floor sea hovel that didn't see any raids - perhaps drakes could've spawned in but I didn't get that raid. I found a small spit of lands that I terraformed a little to make it.

Current project involves an Elder Altar that I found on top of a hill next to some water. Hollowed out underneath the altar and built a large room on top with some nice stairs leading up to the 2nd floor (the altar itself) and then a tunnel system that leads to the bay below where I'll eventually set up a dock.

Originally posted by electricdawn:

Oh, I know they will. They did trash part of my house when they were smashing Deathsquitos. Unfortunately it was the part with all the chests, so all my goodies were spilt all over the floor. :(

Oh, well. Needed to fix up that part anyway. *shrug*

And yes, I'm in firm opposition to moats. They're butt ugly. :D

Agreed that moats are butt ugly. next build I do I want to try and make an integrated earth wall that appears more natural to the build. BUT, of course it has to be far-ish away for walls get bashed.

At one of my Plains base there's a stone tower I had cleared of Fulings. Now, there's 2 or 3 wild Lox close by. Many events later, thanks to the Lox stomp it's close to falling. I've taken to calling it Tower Jenga.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2716154344

The "BEST base defense ever" is a base that requires no moat... requires no earthen wall... is completely indestructible, safe against both land and sky mobs, and where the mobs cannot get inside your base or destroy any of your items...

UNDER the Elder Altar:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2643985164

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2657677906

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2643986592

Just sayin'

Careful. They can and will destroy your base too.

best defense is to dig around your house. only flying enemies can come there.

Oh, I know they will. They did trash part of my house when they were smashing Deathsquitos. Unfortunately it was the part with all the chests, so all my goodies were spilt all over the floor. :(

Oh, well. Needed to fix up that part anyway. *shrug*

And yes, I'm in firm opposition to moats. They're butt ugly. :D

take care of flying enemies with windmills