by kirion » Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:10 pm
It's incredibly difficult indeed at world start. Here's a few honest tips, learned through experience myself:
- Don't pave or terraform until you got a "dry" claim. Better yet, don't pave or terraform until you got a dry palisade.
- Put stuff in a leanto, it's moderately protected. You can put two containers or moveable things.
- don't sleep in a spruce bed, it's useless early on. Some custom client may get a ping when it detect a sleeping sprucecap.
- When building a palisade, always use visitor gates facing outward, leave your hearthfire inside your claim and never leave with your master key.
- Better yet, make an alt account then give the master key to your alt, keep a slave key on you.
- Not quite a protection but more of an early world deterrent : build a stick fence and lock the gates. They'll need vandalism to get into your claim, which deter at least a few petty thieves.
- Preferably don't settle too close to water sources. Too many boaters. They'll spot your place fast.
- If nothing seems to work and you keep on getting frustrated... wait a few months. The try-hards will be bored and mostly gone. Then the game is left to the hermits to enjoy.