Originally posted by jonnin:

Is it cheesy? We can certainly make underground bunkers IRL, which is more or less the same idea. A giant pile of rocks, which is what raised terrain represents, seems like a fine way to keep out the rabble (our enemy have mostly animal level intellect if that): its cheap, its easy to repair, and it works.

I suspect that troll picks will actually happen (at release, the enemy may have a way to get through them). Or not. The game is 80% about building beautiful/cool/funny/etc things. If all that stuff gets broken every hour or so, its like trying to have a snowman around a bunch of kids -- its gonna get trashed when you turn your back. There really must be some way to protect the builds, or the game becomes totally useless to a lot of players.

Im okay with the terraforming and it’s quite fun to make mountain strips around my base.

The cheesy part for me though is that it totally bugs out the raids, it literally lasts like 10 seconds of them standing still before they run off.

While raids can be destructive and annoying, I still love them, but I love extreme terraforming as well.

so I hope they find some kind of middle, like someone suggested, high jumping mobs, more flying mobs, trolls and other mobs with pickaxes like you mention. There a lot that can be done.

As it stands though it feels more like an exploit than utilising the terraforming feature. ( for me at least ).