You can stop the drake attacks by defeating Moder, but the bat attacks are permanent once you enter a cave. I've just been avoiding caves, which solves that issue.

If you use BepinEX mods you can try

https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/MystroDev/NoRaid/

My solution is to have one world for adventure and one world for peaceful and pretty building endeavors.

(i.e. Not hang up the heads of the bosses in my peaceful world)

Drakes don't do much damage and bats even less. They don't do much damage to buildings which is usually easily repaired.

They do kill your lifestock, that is true. I guess that's why some people put them away from their farms, so they don't get attacked when a raid comes. Or you cover them up completely.

If either of them attack, just move somewhere within the red circle where they will only attack you and nothing else. Dragons can be easily blocked, Bats easily killed until the two minutes are over. Then you kill the dragons.

Mobs from raids only care about you, and vent their frustration on something else, when you're not reachable.

raids are centered on a particular part of the base, and from there you can take a rough estimate and place a bunch of workbenches all over. If you have even coverage over around a 100 meter radius, you can prevent ANY enemies from spawning. I make basic sheds, personally, to protect the workbenches.

Originally posted by electricdawn:

Drakes don't do much damage and bats even less. They don't do much damage to buildings which is usually easily repaired.

They do kill your lifestock, that is true. I guess that's why some people put them away from their farms, so they don't get attacked when a raid comes. Or you cover them up completely.

If either of them attack, just move somewhere within the red circle where they will only attack you and nothing else. Dragons can be easily blocked, Bats easily killed until the two minutes are over. Then you kill the dragons.

Mobs from raids only care about you, and vent their frustration on something else, when you're not reachable.

Not entirely true about mobs only caring about you. They have two priorities: the players within a base, and visible crafting stations. If you get some distance but there is a forge nearby, they might just start breaking the forge instead. Then they target tames.

Well, they care primarily about you. So get their attention.

And yes, they will kill your lifestock if you don't get their attention quick enough. That's why I suggested to either cover them up or move them somewhere else.

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Player_base

Only have 2 of these structures close to eachother. If you have any 3 of these structures within 40meters of each other (workbench building zone is 20metres radius) than events can spawn

So, there's nothing that is going to come and destroy my buildings from the air as I progress? All my outdoor wood decking is already at half health from rain so it wouldn't take much to do a lot of destruction. it's bad enough I can't have my livestock in the open because of bats and dragons now, I haven't seen Mistlands yet so I don't want something from there wrecking everything I've built if I keep playing past when I kill the last boss.

I build barns (completely covered) for my live stock. If the event creatures can't see the livestock they won't attack them (unless they make a hole in the barn but I'm usually there defending by the time they can take out a bit of wall.)

What the actual Vikings did was build Trelleborgs. The Trelleborg was an earthen fortress. They were circular and had an earthen berm built up all the way around it and out side of that a dry moat. There was a gate through the berm at each cardinal direction point with a draw bridge to cross the moat. Roads made a cross in the exact center and each section inside the Trelleborg had a group of 4 wooden lodges in it with an open square in the center of each group of 4 lodges for outside work.

The berm with the moat works to keep ground creatures out but since the game lacks drawbridges you have to defend your gates (the tolls can destroy them by throwing rocks) and you have to build a bridge and then dismantle it when you are done any time you want to take a cart in or out.

Originally posted by Fzanco:

https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Player_base

Only have 2 of these structures close to each other. If you have any 3 of these structures within 40 meters of each other (workbench building zone is 20 metres radius) than events can spawn

Thank you, even if that is too many items spread out for me to actually do, it's still legit...crappy that I couldn't have anything close together, but its doable if someone really wanted the raids to stop.

I still think the raids need further tweaking further but I appreciate the answers.

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

I build barns (completely covered) for my live stock. If the event creatures can't see the livestock they won't attack them (unless they make a hole in the barn but I'm usually there defending by the time they can take out a bit of wall.)

What the actual Vikings did was build Trelleborgs. The Trelleborg was an earthen fortress. They were circular and had an earthen berm built up all the way around it and out side of that a dry moat. There was a gate through the berm at each cardinal direction point with a draw bridge to cross the moat. Roads made a cross in the exact center and each section inside the Trelleborg had a group of 4 wooden lodges in it with an open square in the center of each group of 4 lodges for outside work.

The berm with the moat works to keep ground creatures out but since the game lacks drawbridges you have to defend your gates (the tolls can destroy them by throwing rocks) and you have to build a bridge and then dismantle it when you are done any time you want to take a cart in or out.

I already use the berm and moat, you're right, it works great against anything that doesn't fly, I was content with the raids until flying stuff started coming. As far as the draw bridge goes, if you leave a little gap using roof thatch panels over the moat the mobs can't path over it but you can still run back and forth, like having a ladder just off the ground, works pretty well.

Edit - By the way, I don't mind fighting off whatever is in the zone, it just seems kind of cheap to have dragons coming all the way to the Meadows to ruin my tranquil life, farming was really fun until now, i had them cavorting in natural reed pools and such, putting them in stone boxes is much too sterile compared to the rest of the game, I think it's immersion breaking but maybe its just me.

Originally posted by SLOWpoke:

I already use the berm and moat, you're right, it works great against anything that doesn't fly, I was content with the raids until flying stuff started coming. As far as the draw bridge goes, if you leave a little gap using roof thatch panels over the moat the mobs can't path over it but you can still run back and forth, like having a ladder just off the ground, works pretty well.

I just use a single 4m core wood beam. I can walk over it but the mobs can't. I build floors attached to the single beam to take a cart over and remove them when I'm done.

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Originally posted by SLOWpoke:

I already use the berm and moat, you're right, it works great against anything that doesn't fly, I was content with the raids until flying stuff started coming. As far as the draw bridge goes, if you leave a little gap using roof thatch panels over the moat the mobs can't path over it but you can still run back and forth, like having a ladder just off the ground, works pretty well.

I just use a single 4m core wood beam. I can walk over it but the mobs can't. I build floors attached to the single beam to take a cart over and remove them when I'm done.

I'd be worried about falling off the beam, into the moat with no stamina and getting eaten by the pit monsters, I've died or almost died so many times if I'd had just a liiiitle more stamina and I couldn't quite hop over my berm wall.

I hear you, @Slowpoke. It is one of the reasons I've given up on taming.

Well, I do have four lox "protecting" my home in the plains. That is, if they don't wreck it hunting deathsquitos. ;)

I also have my old main base with four swine. I'm not there too often anymore, so I just let them be. I had a raid here and there, but they were all land-based, so I'm happy to report that my boars are still alive and well.

Lucky me and lucky them. Not going to eat them anyway as wild boar is so ubiquitous.