Use a trophy on a ward stone to summon a guardian (of the seleted trophy type) to patrol and defend your base.
The summoned guardian will patrol within the ward's area of protection and attack all enemies.
If you configure restrictions by biome and want to add custom creatures, please read Custom Biome Restriction first.
Limit by biome: If enabled, restricts summoned creatures to those that can spawn in the selected ward's biome, or 'higher' biomes, e.g. a Troll can be summoned to a ward in the Plains, but a Seeker cannot.
Minimum Base Pieces: The minium number of build pieces that must be in proximity to the ward to be considered a 'base' (based on the Piece Check Radius)
Base Check Radius: The radius from the ward to check for a 'base' that allows the ward to be used for summoning a guard.
Minimum Base Crafting Stations: The minium number of crafting stations that must be in proximity to the ward to be considered a 'base' (based on the Piece Check Radius)
Minimum Base Beds: The minium number of beds that must be in proximity to the ward to be considered a 'base' (based on the Piece Check Radius)
You can use Configuration Manager (or similar) mod to change the configuration or modify the config file direclty without exiting the game.
Beginning with version 0.1.2, you can configure DefendYourBase to restrict the summoned guardians to those that can spawn in the selected ward's biome, or 'higher' biomes, e.g. a Troll can be summoned to a ward in the Plains, but a Seeker cannot.
To support trophies that may drop from custom creatures, you can add these trophies and the minimum biome level in which they can be summoned by adding their trophy name and biome level to the CreatureBiomeMap.txt file found in the mod's root folder.
Each custom trophy should appear on it's own line with the trophy piece name and minimum biome 'value' (an integer) separated by a comma, e.g.:
$item_trophy_mycustomtrophy,4
This would allow the creature that dropped this trophy to be summoned in the Mountains (or above), but not the Swamp, Black Forest, or Meadows.
You can also remove trophies from CreatureBiomeMap.txt to limit the available guardians to summon or their minimum levels.
You may need to get the trophy name information from the custom mod's author.
The biome values are as follows:
If you add custom trophies, remember to save a copy of your file, or mark it "read-only" before updating DefendYourBase.
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