Stakes upgrade ?

[plush hatch]

Can I have your opinion on the stakes/spikes: are they worth upgrading? TA!

[golden glacier]

After upgrade they looks better and deal more damage, nothing more to say about that

[plush hatch]

Deal more damage... OK but are the raiders destroying them in a quarter of a second like they are in cotton candy? Does it buy us a bit of time or nothing relevant?

[golden glacier]

Raiders destroy this like cotton candy no matter what lvl IT is, but If raiders are weak they destroying with some time

[pale yarrow]

The best method for ranch defense IMO is to reduce their strength. With that they won't be able to destroy a T2 wall..

And you keep getting bandits stash maps the easy way (although you might have to lose some maps). Overall it's the best method

[golden glacier]

how so ?

Bandits focus to destroy objects near them so what u exsacly mean to reduce they'r strenght ?

[pale yarrow]

By killing some of them and allowing at least one of them to escape (hopefully some of those you killed will have the map). The next raid will have weaker bandits.
Keep doing this till you get the weakest group of bandits.

I'm level 113+ and bandits raiding my ranch have a maximum of 235 hp (I can kill them with a shovel)

[golden glacier]

interesting

I always knock them out, with cold blood.

[pale yarrow]

That makes them come back stronger..

[golden glacier]

and recently I started getting t6 skins while being level 106 without unlocked Teklanika.

[pale yarrow]

Yeah, that's the only perk to having strong enemies, they drop higher tier loots.

We all get our current tier of maps whether we fought strong or weak enemies. I'm T6 and I keep getting T6 stash map.

[plush hatch]

OK. I didn't know that... I always kill them all. So imaging I kill 5 out of 6 and the last one is just standing in front of a wall doing nothing... Should I just leave the ranch? And job done?

[hidden furnace]

Remember that the bandit you let get away might have the map?!

[soft stump]

You have to be sure that you have killed the one on the map and that none of you have stolen it.

The way to know is to pass over having the quick loot button activated.

[frigid geyser]

Build a row of walls outside your base and have random stuff inside the walls

It will make then focus on destroying walls and protect your loot

[pale yarrow]

Nope, bait him into chasing you, then hide behind a wall/building, if he's not the one with the map... Else, kill him and hope to do better next time..

[pale yarrow]

Something like this.. I just lay on the bed and let him tire himself.. 😂

[topaz goblet]

only have a few traps at my ranch, strong walls have always been enough to clear nearly 100% of bandit raiders without losing items

[plush hatch]

Thanks... Well for the 1st time ever bandits managed to run away twice with a lot of items 😅
But thanks to advice I learn that I should let one bandit run away so they become weaker... Hopefully they will stop destroying my ranch soon. 🙂

[frigid geyser]

You can get all of it back

but yeah i suggest an outer layer of rings

with stakes inside

they get hung up on destroying the walls instead of your base

[dim glade]

You don't lose any map if you activate 'quick loot' because you can see if the bandit you kill has the map.

[pale yarrow]

You will lose maps if all the bandits you kill don't have the map and you need to reduce their (bandits) strength... I know I lost a few maps trying to bring bandits hp down from 1700+

[soft stump]

That's why you have to use the option: Quick loot

[dim glade]

Thank you, maybe one day Hercules will understand what we tried to explain to him.

That's why I sent you the screenshots.

[pale yarrow]

Quick loot makes you check and pick items dropped by DEAD bandits faster, it DOES NOT PREVENT you FROM LOSING MAPS...

That's my point..