A Wall around your Base to keep creatures out

[Somas Pentaline]

Does anyone know if you build a wall around your base that this will keep unwanted (predatory) creatures out? Or will they randomly spawn within the walled area anyway?

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

Originally posted by Somas Pentaline:

...? Or will they randomly spawn within the walled area anyway?

Yes *g*
a wall will not help - just look for another planet *g* some creatures are ofc a pain in the (3

[Bored Peon]

Mobs will spawn everywhere, even in closed off spaces "under the floor."

[chipmonk]

Short of killing them all, the best way I have found to deal with predators around a base is to build a feeder and harvester filled with the predators prefer. This will keep them from attacking you.

[Harry]

CHIPMONK

"Short of killing them all, the best way I have found to deal with predators around a base is to build a feeder and harvester filled with the predators prefer. This will keep them from attacking you."

Spoken by a real animal (chipmonk) about animals habits. and he is spot on!!!

When I am hunting storm crystals and the animals seem to be be on a specific mission to eat me annnnd the storm is always about to end, I chuck 'em a pellet of two and I am left free to steal the next crystal. Mwhahaha

Spot on

But when you are building stuff and they are HUGE animals and they go stumping about in circles I find at times after going crazy, as the image keeps moving with their vibrations, you just have to slot 'em :(

[japp_02]

Animals spawn wherever there is free space, so a wall does nothing. At best it would work to catch and keep animals, but I guess they will walk through barriers or despawn at some point.

[MyProfile]

I haven't tried this yet but I wonder if placing a floor in the surface of the terrain and then resetting the terrain over the flooring, hiding it, would stop spawns on it. I've never seen a walking or crawling NPC on top of a placed floor. Flying yes, crawling , walking no.

[sunburstsports]

About setting up floors off the ground. I had flooring I story up off the ground and crabs were able to get me from below. So, I tried putting up walls from the platform to the ground to see if that would work. And YES it did. It did stop the crabs from going under the flooring, Took me awhile the figure out their plan, but I did. Now off to other challenges. Good luck

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I have never had issues with predators attacking my bases. I guess if you build right on a spawn point it could be a problem. I do have a couple of bases where a whip plant apparently re-spawned after I built and I get a small whack every once in awhile when I cross that area in my base...can't see it, but it must be there.

[MyProfile]

Originally posted by sunburstsports:

About setting up floors off the ground. I had flooring I story up off the ground and crabs were able to get me from below. So, I tried putting up walls from the platform to the ground to see if that would work. And YES it did. It did stop the crabs from going under the flooring, Took me awhile the figure out their plan, but I did. Now off to other challenges. Good luck

So that tells me that building a floor under the terrain and raising walls above it as a sort of fences then resetting the terrain, would probably stop spawns and keep walking mobs out.
I may try this sometime.

Another thing, almost anything with a physical attack can hit you through a floating floor for sure. I have only ever been followed inside a building by the flying sentinels. I was getting hit through the floor by quads yesterday in a base with a suspended floor. The walkers were wading through the floor like water. Walls (extending down from the platform) not reaching the ground stopped the walkers but the quads went under where they could.