Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by MF:

Trolls will swing thru that like butter. If you hear them and run outside to immediately engage, then all good. Otherwise, moats or an earthen wall are your best bet. And have everything breakable 8m away from the edge. That's the limit of their reach.

Why are you hiding in your base when you see a troll? Go outside the walls and lure it away.

Any damage a troll inflicts on your base is entirely your fault.

Kind of getting off topic ... but to answer you both before the thread deteriorates:

I'm not hiding in the base. Sometimes trolls appear at inopportune times [like when I'm making lox pie ... troll or no, I'm not abandoning the pies and letting them burn] or sometimes while you're fighting one troll the other develops pathing disease and decides to attack the base anyway.

Which is why I place my stakewall where I do. My house walls are 8m from the stakewall ... I know the troll swing will clip right through the stakewall and smash the house so I place the house far enough away so if I'm delayed in getting to the troll for whatever reason there's no real damage he can do. This 8m "gap" between the house and the wall is a great place for bee hives, gardens, even chicken pens. These items are easy to fix/replace. On the other hand trashing my workbench/forge/upgrades or taking out something that affects the house stability and makes the second floor crumble can be a real pain!

Later when I have the stone table, I simply run around the perimeter and let the stone blocks snap to the stakewall. Once done, I usually remove the stakewall because I think the plain stone wall looks nicer, but one could leave it for extra defenses.

The topic was about placing bee hives. Two birds, one stone (or two trolls, one club) ... the stakewall buffer around my house provides a great safety margin and proved to be a great place for bee hives, smelters, etc.