Originally posted by Ghost:

Day 35 "The ground is shaking" they went ALL THE WAY OUT TO SEA (Even after I lifted ground at the coast to stop them doing that) to get into my base and I basically lost everything.

Sounds like an opportunity to troll the trolls :) If they are willing to do that to get to you from outside to inside, perhaps they would be willing to do that in reverse to get to you from inside to outside? Wait for the trolls to make it most of the way around to the inside, then jump to the outside of the moat and let them make that long walk in reverse. Then jump back to the inside, let them walk around around the long way again, etc. When the raid times out, just lead them away.

Echoing rengoku, a creature will not attack your base if it can attack you. So make sure it can get to you (e.g. can path to you), and your base will never be attacked. Make sure it can see you. Trolls (and some other creatures) have big AoE attacks, so are very dangerous to have near your base. Even if they attack you and not your base, your base can incidentally take splash damage. So get them away from it.

During raids, creatures continue to spawn until it times out. So if you don't want to deal with more creatures, don't kill any until after it times out. Just run them around in circles. (On the other hand, if killing them is easy, it's an endless loot stream until timeout!)

I have only played solo. You will likely get yourself into some pickles from time to time, but it's not impossible.