Farm defense tips?

[RetroACE135]

Does anybody have any tips for a good farm defense? Are the saws still bugged whenever you use it against the small green bots? Do the drills do any damage to bots? What about water canons?

[Reddawg99]

Have a flat chunk of concrete that slams down onto them. Crushing kills even the big ones quickly.

[NiceGuy]

I put my farm on a small island. Hay bots don't swim and the small bots can be killed while swmming to my farm. Hay bots can be shot from the island.

[UndyingXian]

Originally posted by Reddawg99:

Have a flat chunk of concrete that slams down onto them. Crushing kills even the big ones quickly.

This seems to be the rage right now when it comes to base defense.

[Black91]

Originally posted by NiceGuy:

I put my farm on a small island. Hay bots don't swim and the small bots can be killed while swmming to my farm. Hay bots can be shot from the island.

It is possible for a Hay bot to glitch onto an island. It is rare. Prioritize the Hay bots that are in water over the ones that are still on the shore.

[Paul]

Drills definitely work on the Haybots but not the little green ones. I've used my miner car to eat several Haybots but the green bros just get snagged in a ragdoll under it and after they get free they become immune to damage. As with the saw blades, all bots try to avoid the drills but I built my miner to sort of close two drill arms around the rocks (a spiky hug, of sorts) and this works really well to trap the haybots in an embrace of drilly death.

[Captain Sweaty Balls]

Just use T3 metal, it's unbreakable to all bots, well the big boss bot has a verrry low chance to break but everything else can't.

[Iridius]

Friend and I have a setup thats been unbeatable thus far. Used the mechanic shop and put two sensor smashers with two saws in middle on back gate for unattended defense. outer wall is 7 durability and inner wall is just wood.

used the area right outside the front gate for the farm, 10x10, and built fortress walls around it. saw blades on sides powered by controllers and a massive masher on the front gate with piston doors to get vehicles in and out.

During a raid, I stand over the front masher with a small fort to duck into for tapebots. they see me, and run right into the masher. saws on sides just keep them funneled to the front masher.

I have never lost a single block.

[THE_STIG]

i just turned the raid setting off.

[Zrim]

Find the maze like in this photo:

https://i.imgur.com/mrK4BNu.png

plant as many Blueberries, Broccoli, Banana etc you want in there. And you're done.
Robots may spawn one or two inside the maze, but they aren't smart to find the way to the crops area, they will not fight back too except for Haybots (though it lose interest pretty quick).

Here's our another base Farm :

https://i.imgur.com/jdvifyz.jpg

The metals surround are items we steal at the Warehouse, it has high durability. The platform is not that high, you can jump over, but the robots couldn't. You can simply kill them using melee weapon while standing on the platform without taking any damage.

[Craykin]

Old Version (which did well):
We have a runway overhanging a concrete wall on which are sawblades just hanging. When bots income they go for the wall and back off because of the saws. The Runway has a gap in the floor which isn't big enough for us to fall down neither can we crouch under the railing. So we cann hit the bots from above without being hit by them. But your wall needs to be 8-9 blocks high.

Now:
Metal Block 3 and spuds for Haybots, melee carnage for totebots.

[najlitarvan]

well placing on a mountain works too

[Fruitsallad]

Built my base on a small hill, bots spawn at the base and cant get up, no defence needed!

[najlitarvan]

i found a good one near the farmers 3 connected islands each with a lot of space producing about 450 crops currenly at max fill , fps hate me

[Crow]

Originally posted by RetroACE135:

Does anybody have any tips for a good farm defense? Are the saws still bugged whenever you use it against the small green bots? Do the drills do any damage to bots? What about water canons?

At the mechanic station you see 3 rooms stacked in kind of a triangle right ?
planting within the space between them seals your sides which will focus the enemy on the front and back, as long as you setup some crowd control later on when you start planting more and more it will be a very solid foundation spot :)

[najlitarvan]

Originally posted by Crow:

Originally posted by RetroACE135:

Does anybody have any tips for a good farm defense? Are the saws still bugged whenever you use it against the small green bots? Do the drills do any damage to bots? What about water canons?

At the mechanic station you see 3 rooms stacked in kind of a triangle right ?
planting within the space between them seals your sides which will focus the enemy on the front and back, as long as you setup some crowd control later on when you start planting more and more it will be a very solid foundation spot :)

well its rather limited in capacity