I wish the drakes would've killed my wolves ;) remember when we first had wolves & they said they were hungry, I'd feed them & go out hunting to find more food for them just for me to get back to find out there is another mouth to feed. After many hours, ended up with a million wolves and was like screw these things they are too much work & breeding like flies, i'll just let them starve to death, after a while worked out they don't & they stopped popping out babies without all the food, a big eureka moment lol

...but anyway
-breed them till your ears bleed (devs have fixed this now) & you'll welcome their death
-you could build them a kennel or a palace if ya want
-use the console to turn the events off
-the events are only meant to happen where you are so you could kill the drakes
-store the wolves in a different location than your house & workshop to stop the ability of the event starting around them
-Don't defeat Bonemass for Drake event
-Defeat Moder to stop event happening

Originally posted by Witch ~:

Huh, do you guys not put up walls? Never had enemies spawn on top like that. THey always come from the forest to our main gate

Thats Good luck my mate
because in my first plains full walled farm ( 2-stories with workbenches in the top of walls ) and i got deathskitos flying from outside to instakill unaware wolves inside ..., lot of times

I'm pretty sure that Witch has yet to encounter flying attackers... ;)

Ever since I got suprized by a troll attack where half of my house was destroyed after two hits of them that I couldn´t prevent I stopped doing bosses on the map where I have my base.

Most events are cool but having two trolls at the same time is too devestating and forces you to make defensive earth walls or a moat which I don´t want to make at every base location. Also raid mobs focusing on your tamed animals is such a mean gamedesign. No thanks.

You don't need anything to defend against trolls. Just kite them away from your base.

Trolls are actually the least of my problems from raids.

What @Polonius Ulf wrote.

I actually think it is best to let animals roam wild, so they get a chance to survive. I also like the tree planting method. I think that has true potential.

Huh, do you guys not put up walls? Never had enemies spawn on top like that. THey always come from the forest to our main gate

Originally posted by slofish_00:

console; stopevent

Unfortunately doesnt work on a dedicated server.

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Bummer. I lost my first pair of two star boars to a skeleton raid.

Wolves and boars can defend themselves in large enough numbers, but not if they are too closely confined to help one-another, as in a mass-feeding operation. (I've seen set-ups where boars would be helpless. In that case, their confinement must be everything-proof.)

You can put tamed wolves and boars together in the same open enclosure and they will defend one another. That enclosure can be the dry moat that surrounds your base, made a little wider than normal. (Remember to orient the quadrangle NSEW to get smooth sides, like I didn't. I'm claiming it's a style.) Level the floor and seed grass. Grow feed vegetables in the enclosure and just pull them up and leave them when they are ready.

Two star wolves and boars are worth the extra time and trouble.

I appreciate the advice, i had 1* wolves, sadly haven't managed to contain a 2* yet.

The issue i had was because they were flying the wolves could not fight back so were just being slaughtered

I was killing the drakes but because they continually spawn for the 2min duration my efforts were futile and i just had to watch hours of work be destroyed.

I would build them a hut they can hide in, but i have yet to tame any animals to be fair. Idk exactly how they behave. Might behave like MC and teleport onto you if you are close enough when you take damage far as i know.

There are solutions that don't require mods, console commands, or even barns but no one wants to hear them and I'm tired of repeating myself so I'll just say read the wiki entries concerning events and how they are triggered.

Just have a pen that has a roof. Personally build mine with the cage pieces.....walls and roof, then a thatch roof over that for extra protection. Haven't had any issues.

Originally posted by Tonk Stonkintons:

…The issue i had was because they were flying the wolves could not fight back so were just being slaughtered

I was killing the drakes but because they continually spawn for the 2min duration my efforts were futile and i just had to watch hours of work be destroyed.

I had drake attacks on my open base. The wolves are not confined and are everywhere. In that situation, the drakes frequently got close enough to the ground for the wolves to get them. Four wolves died, and many more were injured, but in the end there were 17 freeze-glands, of which I accounted for two.

The wolves seemed to have the best of it under the trees. When I noticed that, I planted a lot more trees. Maybe anything that obstructs clear shooting for the drakes would bring them closer to the ground.

Haven't gad that happen, although I have had many killed trying to get them down a mountain after training. Watch out for bats also!

console; stopevent

Bummer. I lost my first pair of two star boars to a skeleton raid.

Wolves and boars can defend themselves in large enough numbers, but not if they are too closely confined to help one-another, as in a mass-feeding operation. (I've seen set-ups where boars would be helpless. In that case, their confinement must be everything-proof.)

You can put tamed wolves and boars together in the same open enclosure and they will defend one another. That enclosure can be the dry moat that surrounds your base, made a little wider than normal. (Remember to orient the quadrangle NSEW to get smooth sides, like I didn't. I'm claiming it's a style.) Level the floor and seed grass. Grow feed vegetables in the enclosure and just pull them up and leave them when they are ready.

Two star wolves and boars are worth the extra time and trouble.