Originally posted by avatar.zero:

Player base[valheim.fandom.com]

Anything on that page provides a 20 meter (spherical) anti-spawn radius (the 32 meter radius attributed to Wards are for preventing player modifications, anti-spawn is still only 20 meters). Only Wards will produce noise and light when anything in its protection is attacked, so use something else if you'd like to get rid of that effect.

Be warned, however, that those same items are also what are used to determine whether or not you qualify for most raid events to be triggered.

Which is what I meant. I already have all these things around the place, yet mobs continue to spawn "far away" regardless, then waltz over anyway to start attacking my base.

I've had a large house for a very long time so I'm not *too* concerned about raids... I've gone probably 200 [ingame] days without a raid, only to have seekers, bats, and blobs come at me almost back to back in a single week.

I still want to have something in place to properly prevent things from spawning at any distance where they'd walk up and start making a nuisance of themselves.

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

You are in the Mistlands and don't know how to structurally defend your base? That seems wrong on so many levels... I am phlumoxed that it has just occurred to you now, in the 6th biome that bases need physical defenses. There are 8000 videos on this subject and probably at least three in the last week as threads here. Wiki it.
I get it if you have played a week, are in the Black Forest and have realized all the neighbors are annoying but like how do you have a barley farm in the plains, how do you grow food anywhere in the game? All the events with trolls and wolves running through your base? Am confounded. Tell us more, you must have some fun stories.

I do have a farm for barley and for jotun puffs, I had a stakewall put up around those farms. The plains farm works decently enough, since I set it up on a patch of plains too small to spawn anything on it. The mushroom farm is not as easy because of seekers and gjalls, and I can't build a roof or even a simple covering above the farm.

The events are not too difficult to deal with, I just run out of the house and fight the enemies in a clearing. The aforementioned seeker raid was different though, I was in the middle of cooking and see the prompt- I barely made it out the front door by the time they had already blown a huge hole in my wall. I was trapped in my house while those bugs were running amok until the event decided to end on it's own.