Raiders breaking your walls?

Quick guide on raiders and their path-finding, no more wall breaking raiders for you.

The Raiders breaking walls

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After 2 hours of researching and using the dev tools to figure out how to defend against raiders I found that they path-find to the settlement flag first. If a settler is withing proximity to the raider they will try to path-find to it instead. They will first search for a way through doors and gates then they will try to go through walls. To stop them from going through walls you need to build walls or fences away from where your settler houses are. This will force the raiders to find their way through doors and gates to the settlement flag (through your trap maze).
Couldn't find out if the raiders care about doors and gates being open/closed.

Take away:

• Place your settlement flag close to your entrance to your base
  [*Enclose your base in a wall
  
• Leave a sizeable gap between the outer wall and the settler houses (about one screen zoomed out)
  
• Guard houses can be close to base entrance (path-finding bugs may cause raiders to break walls)

Sources:

• My own research on my base using the games given dev tools in vanilla
  
• http://store.steampowered.com
  
• http://store.steampowered.com
  
• http://store.steampowered.com
  
• http://store.steampowered.com

P.S Those sources might help with getting an idea of how close the settler houses can be to the entrance.

Raiders path-finding through walls

[Rainfury]

The official wiki has a page on Raider defense [necessewiki.com] for those looking through here.

[Sretaninja]

I also realise that the sources don't work anymore

[Sretaninja]

Sorry but I wont be updating this guide. I can try to help you through discord for your specific problem tho.

[Yourname942]

any chance of making several images to show examples of the design? Thank you.

[Sretaninja]

Yep and make sure that the raiders don't have a path that is close to one of your town npc's houses.

[casaluppe]

could you elaborate to this methods? so I should place the settlement flag right beside the maze?