is it the event horde attacks that are annoying you? like "the forest grows restless" - or is it just that greydwarves have way too high of a spawn rate?

if its the first one...thats weird. those raids don't (shouldn't...) happen that often, and the only time you should be facing large amounts of greydwarves are the raids, or if you go exploring at night (seriously, the spawnrate is even MORE nuts at night....use a bed).

If its the second one....well....thats just how it is. The spawnrate of greydwarves is pretty absurd, and they will regularly harrass you over and over and over....and over....and over.

Solutions:

Build a pit or wall that they can't cross. If its a pit or cliff, they'll see you and throw rocks if you're close enough. If its a wall, they can attack it if they see you, but they won't see you as easily....and you can at least ignore them for a few minutes and finish what you were doing before disposing of their rude, interrupting selves.

Also, you could ring your base (or mining sites) with campfires. It will keep the greydwarves far enough away that they likely won't even attempt to hurl rocks...but you have to maintain the fires if you want to keep them, and it only works on greydwarves....not skeletons or trolls.

Originally posted by Sol:

If you take out their base camps do they still keep spawning in? are they just randomly generated? i hope to have a land of peace and quiet in the future lol no more war!
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Things have specific spawn points. You can get spawn points to stop spawning creatures by building a work bench so that the spawn point is inside the workbench radius. If you find a group of raspberry bushes in a clump put a marker on your map in that spot. Those raspberry bushes will always be there (unless you destroy them) and will produce fruit after a certain amount of time passes. The same is true for mushrooms, thistles, blueberries, and cloud berries.

When you find boar stones and abandoned farms make sure you mark those on your map too. Those locations are most likely to produce 1 and 2 star boars to tame.

do they bother you less if you dont work at night? maybe try sleeping when sun goes down?

great as soon as I setup my base to have full protection with barriers "the forest is moving" event happen .... why cant we live in peace lmao

Mobs can't jump, nor can they climb steep walls. Either dig a moat 3 meters deep or use the hoe to raise the ground to build a wall (this will consume a lot of stone). The forest can move all it likes.

Yeah i learned to use the hoe to raise the floor using leveling instead of the raise floor option to save on stone. I will do this too.. then just pick them off one by one from afar.

thanks for all the help guys! much appreciated ... trying to decide if i wanna "cheat" or just man up and secure my shack... prob need to make some good Valheim friends and hire some help.

If you take out their base camps do they still keep spawning in? are they just randomly generated? i hope to have a land of peace and quiet in the future lol no more war!
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There is also that you can more or less time some of the raids by a physical clock, as they tend to use similar times from one day to the next.

Then again, I have experienced that when a friend and I were both playing the game, each on their own world and computer while talking on handsfree, we had raids at the same time.

So, if you do not wish to use console, all you need to do is time when they happen so that you can be away from your base on the following physical days. This do not cover one specific raid that triggers after killing the third boss, however.

if you type "debugmode" after devcommands, you can press K and it kills all enemies around you. Pressing Z also lets you fly so thats cool.

getting attacked by greydwarves every five ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ seconds while mining gets old so i have no qualms doing this

Build a spike wall around your base and set up some of the stakes that stab the baddies when they attack. You can use the hoe to raise a berm around your base and/or the pick to dig a moat. You can build archer towers inside the walls and climb then to use your bow.

You can also spend less time in your base and more time exploring. The raids are checked for every so often. If you aren't inside your base at the time it checks no raid happens. (At least for the low level raids).

Originally posted by sarteck:

Your best bet is to build defensively. Set up "fences," dig trenches, plop down a few spikewalls,

If you are not opposed to using cheats, you can use the console and enter "devcommands" then either "killall" to kill all nearby enemies or "stopevent" to make the raid stop.

[EDIT] But there is no setting to lower the frequency of raids.

doesnt "killall" also kill OP's Tames?

Originally posted by Cap'n Bells:

doesnt "killall" also kill OP's Tames?

To be honest, I'm not quite sure. I've only ever used the command once when one of my players was stuck in a death loop.

So, Sol, do be careful if you do go that route. I hadn't thought of that, so there might be a possibility of you making your pigs explode.

Mmmm. Bacon.

There's a mod called RRRBetterRaids. You can configure to increase time between raids and reduce chance of them occur. Or disable them completly. Your choice.

Your best bet is to build defensively. Set up "fences," dig trenches, plop down a few spikewalls,

If you are not opposed to using cheats, you can use the console and enter "devcommands" then either "killall" to kill all nearby enemies or "stopevent" to make the raid stop.

[EDIT] But there is no setting to lower the frequency of raids.