Originally posted by ictoos:

SO I was at my main base, big ole fence around it, inside my house when I got pulled away suddenly. (The joys of parenting) I was away for about 40 minutes, come back and apparently some skeletons, who I had never seen in this area before, BROKE DOWN the gate, which i hadn't seen before, killed me, trashed the forge and workbench, all the upgrades and went into the house and kept killing me on every Resurrection. When i got back I had 3 hit points and the skeleton was standing bedside delivering the coup de grace

Must have been killed 5 or 6 times.

This is a very strange game.

This game has Raids where your Base gets raided by enemies. Raids happen when three certain items are build close enough together, I remember something like a campfire, a workbench and a bed counts for that, but there are more.
Once those three are close together... there is a chance that a raid event happens. If you play solo... hit ESC to get into the menu with options and stuff, that pauses the game... no raids then.

Another thing you can do, Campfires as well as Bonfires as well as allot other items have a "Player Base" range. Inside that range no enemy can spawn. Campfires have the added benefit... enemies do not attack them.
So what you could do, is pull up a Workbench... check its building radius... it is 20 meters. Workbenches(and other objects) have a 20 meter radius in which they prevent enemy spawn as I just said, so you just use the Workbench as a measure... and put down Campfires every 20 meter.
If you do a big enough area... that prevents any and all enemies from spawning... even Raids. Plaster a wide area around your house with them, let them burn out so they not slow down your system with their smoke(they still prevent enemy spawn even when they don't burn)... and enjoy peace.