Originally posted by Grandaddypurple:

Thanks all for your pieces of advice.
Moats and trenches are out of question, I've seen proud screenshots of them and I find them horrendous. .....

I'm afraid right now it's one way or the other;

Either use moats or an elevated build (like platforms / high rissen islands) and deal with those looks or have mobs harrass you over and over again.

The only other solution; create two worlds, use your knowledge of world A - in which you hunt and kill all bosses - in World B.

That way the worst enemies attacking you in World B will be boars and greylings; giving you the opportunity to do all the building, farming, taming and whatever you want to do in peace.
But even then, if you gather resources in World B, you may be attacked by the monsters of that biome.

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

I took someones advice and released 6 Loxes outside my base.. they have destroyed every tree as far as I can see.. and the mobs are just continuous.. it's annoying.. I'll be looking out and just watch Deer, Boar, Geks spawn over and over and over and over and over and over and over.. and my loxes just kill them or chase them into the ocean.. which is dumb.. the land around me looks like a junk yard.. meat, resin, eyes, leather, wood, stone etc.. just all over the ground.. The spawns are way too close and frequent.. I hate them.

I think it was me who gave you that advice.

if the Lox' are giving you too many problems, try to use Wolves instead.

Still got a lot of resources, but at least things you build / plant won't be destroyed by them.

Easiest way to gather those resources, start using a cart, run over the area to collect the items and drop them in the cart.
You can then transfer them to a ship and drop them somewhere in the ocean, or use the cart as perma-storage.

Thorin :)