Originally posted by Luminous Dark:

I started a new game after mistlands came out, brought in a bunch of resources from other worlds and built a grand stone tower right next to the spawn point. There are no black forests anywhere around, and yet I'm constantly having to go outside to beat up greydwarves, including brutes and shamans, who are vandalizing my property. The purpose of building in the meadows rather than somewhere with useful resources around like surtling pyres or plains was to be able to just sit around in my base peacefully without having to worry about anything tougher than a boar or greyling.

Or you know, be like me, create wide area trench around your base that will fit anything you need.. In my new mistlands world, I have a large house, outdoors multiple furnaces, kilns etc, large farm and still so much room left. Just trench, pallisade walls and workbenches that cover the whole area with their radius.