How do you defend your bases?

Traps mainly. TnT traps with sand blocks and pressure plates on top. Also anywhere were other players can enter easily but not get out, like half slabs and stuff like that. Also claiming the land in some specific spots always helps.

 

I usually like to build walls and secret entrances. I'm a big fan of hiding bases in cool obscured places like underwater, or inside a mountain, and making it difficult to enter. I usually don't have problems with players, and mobs I just use a good old handy dandy sword and mouse spamming.

 

TNT cannons and my bases are always super well hidden inside a mountain or underwater..

 

I just trap my place up, and my base is generally underground which makes it far more difficult to find.

 

Doesn't matter much to me, a base is just a base; It just serves a reminder that I was there, not something that I protect. It usually stays well this way, oddly enough.

 

Well, I usually only play on servers with world protection, but if I can't get any, I'll just try to hide the base underground somewhere, or just hide everything valuable and leave something out that I don't really need (so it looks like they found something when they haven't)

 

I usually like to build a deep trench around my house, but small enough for me to jump over. If I don't have enough hunger to jump over, I build a small dirt bridge then quickly break it once I am over the trench.

 

Yeah, that's actually a pretty good idea, especially with the new mob API where they won't just walk straight into the hole

 

My bases are usually castles, so I fortify them, making a 5 block wide wall all around my base. I know this doesn't help at all, since people can just use a pickaxe to go through, but I don't mind, iI like PVP so I am more than happy to fight the intruders with my enchanted diamond sword!

 

I like setting up my bases inside mountains. Then it's all traps really. Gotta love TnT traps. I never have problems with players and like the user above, I just spam sword for mobs. lol

 

My walls are usually made out of stone bricks. Having obsidian walls would be perfect, but obsidian takes a long time to mine, and I would need hundreds if not thousands of blocks to protect my base! It would take hours upon hours of mining, aren't there better ways of tackling the problem?

 

One time I played on a server that had a claim land feature in it. I had a friend who I claimed an underground area with, and built a base on. We literally filled in the outer layer of the base with obsidian and fortified it with water so that no one could use TNT cannons on the base.

It was completely impossible to get through it unless someone somehow figured a way to hack into our accounts, which was highly unlikely. It's a really effective strategy to cover your base with water (if it's underground, so that it doesn't look ugly) because TNT cannons won't work if you do so.

 

I like to make my bases too complicated often times, confusing most of anybody that were to come into it.

If I really go all out, i'll have failsafes and traps throughout the actual base itself, having things I can trigger running past that will kill or massively injure somebody behind me such as a big piston trap in a narrow hallway with nowhere to go straight into lava. It's more effective than you might think and people tend to just panic when they realize the floor is gone!

 

Yes, TNT can be really tricky. But I guess it boils down to proper positioning. So far, I haven't had any issues with TNT damaging a huge part of my mountain.

 

In singleplayer charging mobs yelling at them and swinging a sword, in multiplayer I try to find a nice place to hide a small base.

 

Traps mainly. I built a nice maze that took forever to complete once. Had traps throughout and it worked rather well for a bit til i was swarmed and my poor walls came tumbling down.