Originally posted by Honorable_D:

I thought that you had to kill Elder and at least 1 troll to get the troll raid.

How id you kill Elder without even using bronze stuff? If you're that good you should be able to handle 2 trolls ez pz.

I died a bunch of times against the Elder (probably like 20 times, most of the deaths was me trying to recover my loot to fight again but getting 1 shot by the ranged attack), but i ended up adapting to him and killing him using his ritual site (there were some rocks and pillars, i ran around the area and used pillars for cover against ranged attacks, forced the boss to stomp and i would dash in and out do 2-3 hits per attempt, when he spawned roots, i ran around the area to the side that had no roots and avoided his ranged hits and lured him to melee range again, repeat this for like 5 or so minutes and he is dead). I also set up small pit stop stations everywhere i go, basically a workbench, a bed, a campfire and a chest, some walls and bit of roof, so if i die, i respawn nearby, this mixed with a portal for quick travelling between where i am and my main base, these pit stops is where i usually leave the common resource stacks i come across my exploration, because they are abundant.

My main weapons have been: flint spear + flint axe, wood round shield and crude bow. I dished out around 40 fire arrows on the boss and then slowly killed him using my spear and then axe. I got to nearly lvl 50 with the flint spear, i would have likely gone over 50 if i never died.

I do more damage with the spear but it ended up becoming damaged during the fight.

The reason i did not use bronze gear earlier was because i only made tin bars and ignored copper ore. Then i decided to make copper bars today and like half a hour later, i get mauled to death by 2 trolls nonstop.

I couldn't handle both trolls because my base has walls all around the area, trolls spawned right next to the walls, i was outside of my house making bars to then make bronze stuff, the moment i saw the message, i ran inside my house to eat 3 pieces of meat, and as soon as i step outside, i get mauled to death, all of this happened in 10 seconds, from seeing the pop up message on the event, to my death. Following deaths were essentially spawn kills, since my house is small, trolls were mauling the house and hitting me as soon as i revived, basically 2-3 seconds and i'm dead again.

And by wood walls i mean the spiky ones that cost 4 wood, i know they aren't much, but it is the stuff i have available for me (hence the reason why stone building should be earlier, not after unlocking the event), stone resists troll hits, wood gets destroyed too easily. A troll raid this early makes no sense, it will punish the player hard without giving them a fair chance at fighting back. Troll raids should come after the 3rd boss, the swamp gives you resources to build stone buildings, which is what one would require to "survive" against a troll raid, without having to dig trenches around the base, as people are saying here

This was my 4th base and the only one that i decided to use stairs to get in and out of the base. All the other bases used doors. So basically i had to go up to a corner to get out of my base, but i never got that far since i got killed every single time after leaving my small house in the center.

I've killed trolls before, but i did so using arrows, i tried melee against them but it felt too risky this early to do that, 2-3 hits in melee range with food buffs and proper gear and i'm dead, using bow and luring the troll around tight spots is the way i dealt with them from a very early stage in the game. I lured trolls to black forest ruins (the stone towers) and have used them as cover before, i noticed that trolls struggle to destroy these with their melee, so i assumed stone buildings are the go-to for survival against these enemies.

I would even dare say killing a single troll with melee is much harder than dealing with the elder boss. Despite the stat differences. Trolls are faster and hit faster and have more range with their melees, the elder is easy to figure out the pattern, he has the same stomp animation for each of his legs, a ranged attack animation, a roar and a kneel that spawns roots, pretty simple...