Conveyor belts and robot arms

[☢ARMac☢]

Since conveyor belts carry monsters, the usually end up wrecking my robots, furnaces and everything in between. Any suggestion how to deal with this? I can't put traps under the belts, there are no turrets, the wall trick doesn't work.

[dragonzerox13x]

remove spawn tiles near your operation...
build a room... walls/flooring/door (in areas with more dangerous mobs to your machines and chest...) you might also want to dig a pit around said building so they cant get in

hive mobs will go out their way to destroy torches/chest and dig out walls so this needs a pit
cavelings at least in starter area also dig out walls so a pit is needed
mushroom mobs also need a pit as big ones can destroy walls...

note-able areas were you really need to secure area and build a room
ocean area
desert area
crystal area

only one i have not figured out how to secure is the passage dont think its really possible lol
also for more security use traps outside the direct area

for example i surrounded my wood farm/plank farm in traps namely areas were mobs are appearing and getting on to the conveyor belts (as im to lazy to make a room for it)

and lastly make sure you till the ground that also helps a little vs mob spawning

[☢ARMac☢]

Originally posted by dragonzerox13x:

remove spawn tiles near your operation...
build a room... walls/flooring/door (in areas with more dangerous mobs to your machines and chest...) you might also want to dig a pit around said building so they cant get in

hive mobs will go out their way to destroy torches/chest and dig out walls so this needs a pit
cavelings at least in starter area also dig out walls so a pit is needed
mushroom mobs also need a pit as big ones can destroy walls...

note-able areas were you really need to secure area and build a room
ocean area
desert area
crystal area

only one i have not figured out how to secure is the passage dont think its really possible lol
also for more security use traps outside the direct area

for example i surrounded my wood farm/plank farm in traps namely areas were mobs are appearing and getting on to the conveyor belts (as im to lazy to make a room for it)

and lastly make sure you till the ground that also helps a little vs mob spawning

Ouch, I was completely unaware of the existence of spawn tiles. Oh man, now I get it.

[Tenebris]

Originally posted by dragonzerox13x:

only one i have not figured out how to secure is the passage dont think its really possible lol
also for more security use traps outside the direct area

The only way to safely build in the Passage is that you don't.

Just build (for this instance, a drill setup) really fast before any of the sulfur worms spawn and then build a long belt to a chest, so when you go back later to retrieve the ore, they won't be right on your setup and destroying it.