Is there a way to prevent monsters from spawning in the base town?

[hahahadumpling]

In the tutorial it says you can stop the crystal from growing, hence stop the monster level from scaling up. But is there a way to completely stop monsters from spawning in my camp? My residents are getting killed left and right.

[internetgrout]

Border watch policy from a scholar, but the real answer is to buff up your residents and even livestock so they kill everything. Dump a bunch of food in storage, throw the gallows on them once in a while

[unripe mango]

build a wall around your camp, monsters have a hard time finding the front door

you could probably level up border watch enough that it reduces your danger to 0, but i've had border watch going for three years now and it's still only -12

[internetgrout]

Also you get item protection which is pretty important at level 3, so I would keep growing the stone. The tutorial doesn't really mention this

[Cocytus]

another method would be to whip your residents (whip of love) into jobs like praying that offer public safety +2 for each resident having that job, so having enough of those would also get the danger level down to 0.

[Shiramizu]

According to Discord mobs can't spawn in illuminated areas or inside buildings so you could fence off a corner with no lights and place light sources everywhere else.

[Cocytus]

Originally posted by Cocytus:

another method would be to whip your residents (whip of love) into jobs like praying that offer public safety +2 for each resident having that job, so having enough of those would also get the danger level down to 0.

gotta correct myself on this one, just wasn't really focusing much on my base in my previous run so i didn't notice, but there seems to be always a minimum danger level that neither border patrol nor praying citizen can't get further down...
seems to be tied to the level of your hearthstone, since at lvl 3 i couldn't get below 3/11 danger even with more praying citizen than the max danger level shown, now that my hearth stone went to lvl 4 it seems to be stuck at a minimum of 7/15 danger (honestly kind of a bummer)
so i'd guess -8 danger is the max you can do over all.

[Astasia]

Public Safety doesn't lower the danger level, it works differently and instead reduces the frequency of monsters spawning in the first place. In theory at some level it might basically stop attacks from happening, but it's not clear what effect each point has or how much would be needed for that.

As for ideas like making a wall to keep monsters out, this will not keep residents in, they frequently run off to some corner of the map they have no reason to go to and find enemies to die to.

The best bet is to keep Border Watch high, stack Public Safety, and equip your residents with some basic gear by tossing it in a shared chest. An occasional putit spawning shouldn't be a danger to them.