Originally posted by jjrobinson2:

I'm in the early iron age. I built a medium stone villa in Black Forest. When I began trying out roads and paths, a one-star troll appeared and partially destroyed the villa. It's permanent. It's parked outside the house, and never leaves except to chase me when I go outside. I lured it into a nearby swamp, a got it engaged with an Abomination. Left them fighting. Next morning, troll and abomination were back on their regular stations. Troll needs flint arrows or better to make nicks in it. When I quit tonight, it had wrecked the house again when it caught me trying to repair previous damage.

About the Swamp. I started basing my exploration for Sunken Crypts out of one that I cleared. Now there's a broken stone tower right outside that I don't remember being there, with a Body Pile in it. Respawn rate is so high, I can't get anywhere near the pile to try to destroy it, especially since I can't get anywhere near my lost armor and weapons because of the clouds of Dragr of all levels, the Abomination, etc.

There's a difference between play balance, even in a survival game, and brutalizing your customers for sport.

For important bases, always either build high earthen walls around them or dig trenches mobs.

Trolls are best shot with a bow. They are weak to pierce damage. Fire arrows work well with them too but even just wooden arrows are fine. Since you're in the iron age I assume you have a fully upgraded huntsman bow at least. Shoot them, run, shoot them, run. That's how you best deal with them.

The body piles, stock up on arrows, get in good distance bow range, build an earth plateau, and then shoot it. Shoot the draugr then after its been destroyed to clean it up. Again fire arrows are nice for that. but wooden do just as well.

Abominations are pretty easy. Just stand on crypts and shoot em. Fire arrows again make it easy. Aboms will path away after a bit, drop down, then range them to grab their attention back to you and then get back at it.

Most of the mobs(sans blobs and flyers/archers) are vertically challenged and killing them with these methods makes it really easy.