Originally posted by pingdrew:

What if there were buildable mounted weapons like a mangonel, trebuchet, crossbow, etc? It would help defend hours worth of art from getting ransacked.

Secondly, what if there were some sort of friendly AI vikings or goblins or whatever you could get to live in whatever base you assign them to and defend it?

It would be pretty cool

Most mobs in the game are vertically challenged. High walls, trenches or both prevent most mobs from doing anything to a base.

Originally posted by Danson:

Your base isn't art. This isn't a NFT, it's a survival game. It's not a building game, it's a game about fighting and dying. There are already boars, wolves, and lox that can defend your base, or you can take the 120 seconds required to defend it yourself since the events only happen when you're home.

One of the draws to this game is that it flexibly is what a player wishes it to be. You can make the survival aspect super challenging(passive run, vegan run, etc etc) or use other means to make the survival part a non issue and focus on building, exploring or what have you.

As for bases not being art, since devs have had events to have people show off their artistic creations, I think the evidence is rather compelling that you are quite mistaken in your assumptions.