You already can make spiked pits.

Defending your home is missing from this game especially with the events.....what? The invasion events are specifically centered around your home as the enemies come forth to attack it/you. So defending against an invasion is not missing, what you really want is different toys for those 2 minute events. Some you can come up with on your own (making ooze bombs for instance, pretty close to those oil pots you want) and you have a bow already. As noted, you can dig a pit and put stakes in it, that's already there. Are you sure you're not really asking for a siege game or something? Because this ain't really that though you can be creative and work out some options to emulate one--when an event occurs, anyway.

I stopped building moats. Between them and a wall defending was easy. Now I just use the wall and archery towers. The mobs have a decent chance to breach the wall, sometimes I have to decide what part of the base I want to defend. They seem to love the hives and boats.

The only way to defend, if you don't want to constantly repair/rebuild is moats.

I don't mind defending, but got tired after some of my bases got holes in due to random things attacking while I was foraging. Though they are not supposed to be active out of a certain range from the player.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608866862

Ohhh nooo the Greyling has a star, we are Doomed !!!!!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2608869978

why all people got problems with defense? just kill the attackers? it takes 1 minute to kill them... and they provide resources etc...

so its actualy super cool

Originally posted by zangori:

why all people got problems with defense? just kill the attackers? it takes 1 minute to kill them... and they provide resources etc...

so its actualy super cool

Not the point and not everyone is prepared to handle an invasion via direct combat without defenses/walls. But hey, next time Fulings storm your outpost just run on out there and face-check the berserkers and shamans without being fully geared. Good times. Though it's true, you just need to die inside the red zone to end the event so perhaps your strategy has some merit.