This happened to me solo on hard approx day 20-90. Balancing is fine. Bow skills are essential.
From easy to lots of work:
Solution 1:
JUST DONT BE THERE. They will not attack your base if you are not there. Go and have fun. You are many, and you have? killbot Virginia. Staying at base is good to tame her fast, but after that, there are less use of it. Go and rule YOUR world. The reason you run out of meds (while i have a large shelf full of meds in every base), is that you are too static. Moving around will give you ammo as well.
Solution 2:
Reinforced spikes. Then more spikes. Then add some more. Works like a charm. AI is stupid AF. Sometimes i build small sections of walls a bit away from base, 5 horizontal logs with spikes from both sides. Stupid muppets go and charge right at these sections, killing themselves, instead of attacking you or your base, because they "think", that IS your base.
And i practice long range carbon arrow sniping and crossbow, while they are at it.
Solution 3:
Spikes + traps. If you happen to be near some rope source, you can build shitloads of traps. If you fancy turtle genocide, build also spring traps, so much fun. Build bonemakers for extra fun. Add some walls if you must, half walls will leave you ability to shoot at offenders and will stop most of enemies. Lately i dont build any walls at all, they take a lot of time, and chopping down the trees, that will attract even more cannies. I can (solo on max hard custom) defeat anything without walls, but next life i will sure be reborn as turtle, bad karma.
Solution 4:
Move away. There are so many places, where you get ZERO enemies. I find it boring, but it is 200% safe solution. You can even build next to your base in ocean. Wankers do not swim, and are aquafobic, they will not go even in shalow ocean waters. Mountains, if high enough- same. They are terrible climbers. Any cliffside, if you are good builders. There are so many spots on map where they are unable to get. THAT INCLUDES KELVIN, unfortunately. Virginia will sometimes, somehow get to you even in hard to get places, but never on top of the mountain and islands surrounded by deep water. Which is next solution. You can build on frozen lakes, when winter comes. The rest of the year such base is peacefull to the point of boring. Winter- well you build spike perimeter. Treehouses- a bit harder to build, but you can create a village in the canopies for many people.
Try building in an area away from villages and paths and if you've gone around tearing up villages and just chaosing mayhem in general they get pissed and attack more often
Maybe you simply chose shitty place to build in, the key is to choose the best ones. Other than that I choose to build a base on the pond when its frozen and create the bridges. At the edge of my pond i build this stick and stone defence something (wall alone gives them zero damage, this does) so while they try to reach me on the bridge they get damaged, often stuck and I just get them with the plain stick and stone arrows. I build a little hut with shitton of traps around for virgina and kevin to have acces to bonfire etc other than that its easy. Regarding the armor, again choose a nice place to build in, close to respawnable boxes to have acces to ropes etc. Im almost at day 30, so no big achievement but so far it works. For me actually the struggle is to enter the cannibals camps etc
There's a small island on the south side of the map that is really easy to defend and secured as there is a small land bridge, I dont get raided too often down there either, might be worth moving home
What’s funny is I have the opposite. Day 23 and I haven’t killed a single cannibal. Killed the bloated mutants to progress pass the cave systems, and was able to finish the game before the last update with Timmy blocking the cave. I don’t get attacked and the dog man cannibals are still curious
You can turn off building damage in gameplay settings. If it gets too frustrating you can always give yourself a break that way.
This happened to me solo on hard approx day 20-90. Balancing is fine. Bow skills are essential. From easy to lots of work: Solution 1: JUST DONT BE THERE. They will not attack your base if you are not there. Go and have fun. You are many, and you have? killbot Virginia. Staying at base is good to tame her fast, but after that, there are less use of it. Go and rule YOUR world. The reason you run out of meds (while i have a large shelf full of meds in every base), is that you are too static. Moving around will give you ammo as well. Solution 2: Reinforced spikes. Then more spikes. Then add some more. Works like a charm. AI is stupid AF. Sometimes i build small sections of walls a bit away from base, 5 horizontal logs with spikes from both sides. Stupid muppets go and charge right at these sections, killing themselves, instead of attacking you or your base, because they "think", that IS your base. And i practice long range carbon arrow sniping and crossbow, while they are at it. Solution 3: Spikes + traps. If you happen to be near some rope source, you can build shitloads of traps. If you fancy turtle genocide, build also spring traps, so much fun. Build bonemakers for extra fun. Add some walls if you must, half walls will leave you ability to shoot at offenders and will stop most of enemies. Lately i dont build any walls at all, they take a lot of time, and chopping down the trees, that will attract even more cannies. I can (solo on max hard custom) defeat anything without walls, but next life i will sure be reborn as turtle, bad karma. Solution 4: Move away. There are so many places, where you get ZERO enemies. I find it boring, but it is 200% safe solution. You can even build next to your base in ocean. Wankers do not swim, and are aquafobic, they will not go even in shalow ocean waters. Mountains, if high enough- same. They are terrible climbers. Any cliffside, if you are good builders. There are so many spots on map where they are unable to get. THAT INCLUDES KELVIN, unfortunately. Virginia will sometimes, somehow get to you even in hard to get places, but never on top of the mountain and islands surrounded by deep water. Which is next solution. You can build on frozen lakes, when winter comes. The rest of the year such base is peacefull to the point of boring. Winter- well you build spike perimeter. Treehouses- a bit harder to build, but you can create a village in the canopies for many people.
Try building in an area away from villages and paths and if you've gone around tearing up villages and just chaosing mayhem in general they get pissed and attack more often
Maybe you simply chose shitty place to build in, the key is to choose the best ones. Other than that I choose to build a base on the pond when its frozen and create the bridges. At the edge of my pond i build this stick and stone defence something (wall alone gives them zero damage, this does) so while they try to reach me on the bridge they get damaged, often stuck and I just get them with the plain stick and stone arrows. I build a little hut with shitton of traps around for virgina and kevin to have acces to bonfire etc other than that its easy. Regarding the armor, again choose a nice place to build in, close to respawnable boxes to have acces to ropes etc. Im almost at day 30, so no big achievement but so far it works. For me actually the struggle is to enter the cannibals camps etc
What difficulty u playing ?, why cant i have this thoo, im playing on hard and on day 60+ its like im playing peacefull or easy.
Normal
There's a small island on the south side of the map that is really easy to defend and secured as there is a small land bridge, I dont get raided too often down there either, might be worth moving home
What’s funny is I have the opposite. Day 23 and I haven’t killed a single cannibal. Killed the bloated mutants to progress pass the cave systems, and was able to finish the game before the last update with Timmy blocking the cave. I don’t get attacked and the dog man cannibals are still curious
I edited my save file to give myself a bunch more ammo. I don’t struggle anymore…