User:Ayoubtree215

Defense Guide
1.Walls

2.Moats

3.Ditches

4.Golems

5.Fire

6.Landmines

7.Iron Doors

8.Dogs & Cats

9.Emergency Bunker

10.Internal Security

11.Indoor Farms

12.Emergency Situations

Walls
Walls are perimeters around your home or protected area to keep mobs out.Dirt and sand walls do fine for week 1,but eventually you might want some sturdier walls.I would not reccomend bricks or obsidian,due to their lack of abundance.I would not even reccomend stone,because you have to smelt it.However,cobblestone is perfect.It's not hard to get,and you only need a wooden pick.You also don't have to smelt it.Remember to put lighting inside your protected area,what's the point of making a wall if mobs spawn inside of them?

Moats
Moats are deep ditches with an edge:water or lava at the bottom.

Water-Pushes mobs around,trapping them forever

Advantages:

-Could eventually drown mobs

-Drops not lost

Disadvantages:

-Takes long time to kill mobs

Lava:Kills mobs by setting them on fire

Advantages:

-Kills mobs quickly and efficiently

Disadvantages:

-Drops lost

Ditches
Ditches are holes that vary in size and depth.Ditches are designed to trap mobs in them.A ditch should at least be 4 blocks deep so the mobs cannot climb out.There are 2 types of ditches.

Trap Ditches-This type of ditch is a ditch that mobs fall in and cannot climb out

Advantages:

-Mobs trapped

Disadvantages:

-Mobs don't die;must be killed manually

Death ditches-Ditches so deep that monsters are killed when they fall in

Advantages:

-Mobs die

-Drops aren't lost

Disadvantages:

-Harder to make than trap ditches

Golems
Golems are utility mobs that are made to protect the player.They will not follow you as strictly as dogs or cats,but can be used to protect the player.

Snow Golems-Throws snowballs at mobs to push them back

Advantages:

-Keeps mobs away from you

-Easy to create(a pumpkin on top of two snow blocks)

-Ranged attacks

Disadvantages:

-Does no damage

-Has low health(3 hearts)

-Dies in desert biomes and rain

Iron Golems-Hits mobs and does anything between 3 and 10 hearts per hit,50 hearts of health

Advantages:

-Strong attack

-High health

Disadvantages:

-Expensive(36 iron ingots)

-Won't attack creepers

Fire
Fire can be used to set mobs on fire when walked through.Fire can be made with flint and steel and lasts even in rain when on netherak.Make sure to never use fire near flammable blocks such as wooden planks and wool.Fire is ideal when burning around moats and ditches to set mobs on fire before they fall in.This will deal extra damage,but if the fire is burning around a moat filled with water then the mob on fire will be put out.

Landmines
Landmines can be made by digging two block down and placing tnt.Once the tnt is placed,put any block except obsidian or bedrock on top of the tnt.Then put a pressure plate on the block placed on top of the tnt.When a mob steps on the pressure plate,tnt make big boom-boom on mob :)

Advantages:

-Kills most mobs instantly

Disadvantages:

-Items sometimes disappear

-Ruins landscape around protected area

Iron Doors
There is not much to say about why iron doors are a good defense.Zombies can't break them down,and aren't broken as easily as normal doors.

Dogs & Cats
Dogs-Have a strong attack

Advantages:

-Strong attack

Disadvantages:

-Won't attack creepers

Cats-Scare away creepers

Advantages:

-Just as good as a dog

-Scares away creepers

Disadvantages:

-Steals your bed :P

Emergency Bunkers
Bunkers are rooms or underground areas that you can hideout in on short notice.These should have:

-2 pickaxes of any type

-A stone sword

Internal Security
Internal security are mobs inside your protected area ready to back you up in an emergency.Includes:

-Ocelots

-Dogs

-Snow Golems

-Iron Golems

Indoor Farms
Having farms indoors protects your food source.To have an indoor farm,the crops just need water and a light source like torches or glowstone. Advantages:

-Crops can't be trampled or destroyed

Disadvantages:

-Much less planting space

Emergency Situations
1.A creeper has exploded and mobs are leaking into your walls Solution:Kill all the monsters you run into.Look for some of your internal security be it a group of snow golems or an iron golem or a dog or cat.From there,help your security fight off the mobs.If you have enough internal security,you might not even have to fight.

More to be added soon!