Originally posted by Ghost:

My friends are getting the game soon but I attempted 15 hours solo. Everything was going great, set up a house on the coast, made spike walls and a big ditch / mote around the house... 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. I couldn't even fight a single enemy, I died like 5 times in one raid... This game is impossible solo, especially with events like that, don't even get me started on how depressing it was to fight the elder solo for the first time... There needs to be Borderlands esque difficulty setting where the less players = the easier the game is, or the enemies have less health. Any advice for this prediciment? I really liked the first 14 hours soloing but after that raid I'm super demotivated to keep going if the enemies are going to go to great lengths just to get into my base...

To expand: I lifted ground at the coast, literally way out of my base, I made a deep mote and put up spike walls. They still walk all the way out and then all the way into the sea just to get in through my boat port... That just feels a little unfair.

It may not feel fair, but mobs aren't restricted by such things as drowning or stamina... Usually, if there is a way in, they will probably find it and use it, such as going out in the water to go around a wall.... To stop trolls from gaining access you need to either have an earth wall all the way around or dig a trench all the way around or combination of both as long as you leave no feasible pathway for them to get in.

The game is very "doable" solo... I have played through all the current content more than once, solo, so i know it's possible... and oh by the way, when you say the game should be "easier" when playing solo, well... guess what... it already has that dynamic in the game already, but it's not the news you want to hear... the solo play is the base difficulty for fighting bosses... the difficulty ramps up harder if there are multiple players fighting the boss... it get's "harder" the more people are fighting them.

Just like I said in your other thread... If you want to have a base out in the open, you will need to set up defenses, and that means placing work benches around to block spawning inside your compound, and building earth walls or digging moats all around etc OR find other creative ways to set up "safer" bases.

By the way, using earth walls and / or trenches is only going to protect you from "ground" mobs... they will do nothing to protect your base against flying mobs... just FYI