Originally posted by grapplehoeker:

Your base needs no protection... you do. They're after you, not your base.
Get away from your base, lead the mobs to you and kill them.... your base is now safe from harm ;p
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Close, but no cigar.

Yes, enemies will chase a viking at least the ones that believe they have a reasonable chance to catch said viking.

I had a "The ground is shaking" event where three tolls were spawned. Two spawned outside the part of the base where I was located. The third forty or fifty meters on the other side of the base.

I went north away from the base drawing away the two closest trolls. The troll on the south side apparently decided he wouldn't get in on smashing me, so he contented himself with smashing my base. I had encircled the base with earthen walls so he couldn't reach very much.

I did circle around and draw his attention also. Once the third troll started after me, one of the trolls originally chasing me (the farthest away) gave upo the pursuit and tried his hand at wrecking my base.

In real life, no passive defense is effective in the absence of an active defender. By that I mean a defender who is actively engaging the enemy not merely quaking in his or her boots. This holds true for Valheim also. That does not mean one need not construct passive defenses.