Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

You can protect your base from ground based creatures by building an earthen berm (using stone and the hoe to raise ground) all the way around your base, barn, and gardens and then digging a steep pit in front of the gate(s) to keep them from reaching the gate (you can span the pit(s) with a single core wood beam that you can walk across and the enemies can't. You can build flooring on either side of the beam when you need to move a cart across and then pick the flooring up when you have the cart back inside.)

yes to all this... im a bit lazier and use the 20* roof and with two side by side can get a cart up if you need... Also by using 3 in on an incline just destroy the middle one and jump when u dont need a cart they never degrade to 50% bcos they are roofing :-)