TeckXKnight wrote:Chances are that they bashed in and repaired the walls afterwards. Locating scents inside of houses or immediately outside of houses is the easiest because you have a chance to spot them every time you reload the map. My guess is that other scents exist, you just don't have the perception * exploration necessary to see them consistently enough to notice them.
TeckXKnight wrote:It can be valuable intel gathering. If you hit a player who has bluebells, pearls, gold, silver, or other valuables then you've paid off any trouble you've gone through by sneaking around the neighborhood. Better yet, if you do it all without getting caught then you made out like a bandit. =)
This summarizes it, pretty much. I actually caught someone inside one of my palisades a few worlds back, but he hearthed out immediately. When I checked around, it looks like he bashed his way in and repaired the walls, since I saw some logs missing. I did find the scents to back up the theory, though.