Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

The pick axe is your friend here. Mostly troll proof except for log AOE and thrown boulders, but at most you'll have a few minor repairs. Don't put your garden on the edge. Stone walls won't save you but a trench will.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2906804708

Added: Don't forget to make sure there is workbench coverage over the whole thing to avoid inside spawns. You can replace the workbench with something else, like a campfire if you don't want workbenches everywhere, but it will show you where the boundaries are.

See, this is the kind of stuff that annoys me with this game. How is a new player meant to learn/understand that trenches break npc pathing and making them braindead during invasions? I literally had to get my ass destroyed by 2 trolls without having any fighting chance from the moment i get the warning and from what i was leaving my house, 10 seconds was the amount of time that separated the start of the event and my death. How is someone meant to be ready for battle if things happen all of a sudden? If i had like 20 seconds instead of 10, i could have jumped out of my base and lured the trolls somewhere else, instead of being mauled to death nonstop.

This is no different than me figuring out that i should travel with portal materials in my inventory, to quickly travel home, bank and return to where i was, this gets annoying because i end up spending too much time moving around and managing inventory, chests and what things to leave behind or not. Inventory slots are a major issue in this game, majority of items you come across are worth keeping for later use, to create mead or whatnot.

I have to constantly rely on the wiki to know what each item is used for specifically, to figure out if i should bring it with me or leave it be, i figured out recently i don't need more flint, so i stopped collecting that stuff and simply dropped if i came across it somehow. Samething with common resources like wood and stone. There is nothing ingame telling me what each item is used for unless i have the recipes unlocked at a workbench or something along those lines. Which adds further issues with inventory management because i have no clue what i can do with specific items, here i am collecting piles of bones, thinking i could make bone gear but i can only make a shield, great. When i say bones, it happens with many other items, from trophies, to monster-only drops, etc.