Long had I been working on my beautiful estate, and now the cabin was nerely complete. Whats more, I had *finally* found a cooking pot, something I had desperately searched for for many months. I was quite pleased to see a wandering adventurer had come to visit my property, thinking perhaps I could impress him with my cooking skills. We conversed and traded and indeed he was quite happy to accept a tasty meal from me! Then off I went to go about my daily business.
Imagine how shocked I was on returning to find that he had taken some of my precious things I had left lying about in my half-finished hoose - including my lovely new Pot!
Well, I had already killed a few villains who had appeared on my property and rather than invoke the wrath of a local elder, I decided it would be more sensible to find an... alternative punishment.
So I waited until the loitering adventurer had once again fallen asleep - fat from his dishonest thievery. Then I snuck out and constructed a prison around him from stout wooden stakes. What a surprise he got when he found himself trapped!
He's been their some months now and, well, I found I liked the company. So I trapped 3 more men that strayed onto my lands. Now their cages line the path to my home, warning away any other ne'er-do-wells that would steal my precious things!!!

Dig pits with sharp poles around them becouse when they are angry they climb over them. Also good way is to set some traps. They dont die, but cant move. I had an plan that i set traps and trap everyone in the village and shoot them to death :D.

An even better way to not kill them, and take revenge: Ask him to trade, and get that pot back in trade. Or kill him, nobody wil get angry.

What happened to morals here?! :blink:

Having a couple of cages with some withered travellers begging for scraps SHOULD keep anyone well away from your cottage...

But yeah, finding a kettle is always a joyous occasion. ^^ For me, atleast. Nothign worse than some stupid traveller just picking up your hard-earned goodies.

Try this: a moat.
Dig trap-pits around your house, or atleast in front of the house. NO-ONE gets to your house, unless they know the one, single spot or realize to move through the gate. :P
You also get an effective food-catcher. You can either cover them so your enemies don't suspect a thing, or leave em open to create a bottleneck.
If you want to totally stop intruders, make the moat a real trap pit. Lots of stakes.

I had to abandon one of my cottages because of a bear! Even after living in the woods for a month or so, the bear was still in the yard... It was home, but not worth my vegetarian life.


Build a cottage on an island, use a raft and pray, that nothing bad swims ashore. Of course, farming and living on your own paradise island would be nice.

In cold finland strongest live.

Better to set big leaver trap on that "secret" way to leave from your house. You can kick it so it doesnt hurt you.

Set some big leaver traps there.

Nice idea.

I once walked into a big lever trap accidently, and let me tell you, my leg was in atleast 5 pieces. All over the wilderness map... Not fun.

Also walked into a trap-pit once. After I had set it up. Slipped on some moss and uuugh... I couldn't even bandage two wounds before the trap-pit was a red swimming pool...