Originally posted by Eightball:

If you mean bats have ruined or at least made it more difficult to have simply fenced breeding operations I would say they have not ruined the option, just made a bit riskier.

So it is possible to keep most of your animals in simply fenced pens (off-site for example) while keeping your breeding animals a bit more protected.

The issue really seems to be there are no player made defenses available to help deter 'flying' raids from things like bats and drakes and who knows what in the future like we currently have for land raids (like spike walls).

Maybe we need something to slow flyers down so players have a bit more time to draw them off?

I don't see why I would want to store animals off-site. If I want to build a "normal" looking compound with farm animals, having them off-site defeats the purpose, as does housing them in a closed building.

I could keep some protected that I can use to re-populate the "show" animals if they get slaughtered, but that seems silly, just to protect against a mob that really is just a pest.

I've never had a drake event, so I don't know how that compares, but that's disabled by defeating Moder, so it's only relevant for a short time, in which I'm probably mostly going to be in the mountains preparing to defeat Moder, but the bats don't appear to have a way to disable them, so they will just keep coming once activated.