Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24041796-20131019050115/@comment-7628100-20131020140307

I tried something with the pirate if you don't want him to die. This makes sense and it's clever:

Set the Pirates home to a pirate ship, and the pirate ship should be in the middle of the lake. Make sure the lake is big, though.

When u do this frankens & swamp things are barely able to board the ship. Flying enemies can try and enter, but very unlikely because the best way to make the interior of the ship's entrance only 2 wood platforms wide. Then the pirate will be very hard to kill by monsters.

Oh, and make sure you have cannons!

With other NPCs just put them in a floating town and implant traps most everywhere, and dont let the NPCs be able to get hurt by a trap.