Originally posted by TheRestartPrince:

Originally posted by Luminous Herald:

I'll just be very, very specific. Wards, workbenches and structures prevent spawning. Thus wards will prevent enemies from spawning in their area. In theory if you got as many wards as you could and placed them around you could stop spawns indefinitely but it hasn't been tested.

Raids are designated to happen at chance once every 45(35?) minutes. The reason I posted this whole article is because wards have an extremely large radius that stops spawns up down left and right. Buildings have a very, very small spawn stopper simply so they don't clip. Workbenches are the largest you can get without wards which stop spawning in their area but don't go as high as wards which is what I found out thus making wards superior and could potentially be the key to stopping raids or at least minimizing the damage and spawning.

I dont discount your info, but whenever i place a work bench no spawns are stopped, In fact it seems more spawns are created and i am not referring to raids. This is very hard to believe that workbenches do that much for protection, never have i ever experienced this phenomenon.

Well that's just it, they dont, it's bs. The area they provide isn't very big, GunsForBucks mentioned it but it's just not very effective which is what I'm trying to say. Wards on the other hand have the bigger radius hence why they are much better. It would take you probably 60-70 workbenches, elaborately placed to stop spawning in a raid area, whereas wards will create a much wider area.

For example when you place a workbench, an invisible area around it will stop spawns, anywhere outside of that general circle, they'll spawn and they have a threat meter. Monsters are programmed to attack workbenches because it's where your base is and where they cant spawn. Hence why you may not have noticed. I found this out in the mountains because wolves attacked my workbenches, but damn if my castle exists - unless there was a workbench behind it. So it probably 'feels' like it does nothing but in reality they just come out from a distance to destroy it. Note how greydwarfs dont attack their own structures and when you are outside of your building that they attack you instead. So what I'm getting at here is that they are focusing the workbench down and can find it just like they find the player.

You ever wanna test that theory, build a square box with an open space and place a workbench in the middle or die in it with a workbench.