So how do monster spawn work? i have a free standing wall around my settlement with a double door, but is kind of useless because monsters are spawning inside the wall but before i had it everything spawned in the forest so i dont get how this works can some one help me? do i have to use fences instead of a free standing wall?
Hi @hiram2! Welcome to the Discourse. 
Please check out this Desktop Tuesday. Does this help answer your question?
http://stonehearth.net/dt-enemy-placement/
Please let me know if anything is still confusing after checking that out.
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So do free standing walls dont count towars this or i just have the wall to far from my buildings?
@Albert – I believe free-standing walls do count toward your monster spawning algorithm, correct?
This is just from experience, not from looking into the code, but if you have a perimeter well-established, then sometimes things will spawn in the center of your perimeter. For example, a few games I’ve played have been villages built around a lake; with stockpiles and walls up creating an impenetrable barrier to entry, sometimes townsfolk would spawn outside the village, but sometimes they would spawn right in the middle of the lake. I didn’t have monsters spawn in the lake, but that’s probably just luck of the draw.
Make a small breach in your walls so there’s a way to enter your town, and things should stop spawning inside your perimeter, and go back to spawning outside.
Can we get a screenshot of your town? They should not be spawning in a lake or inside walls unless your walls enclose a huge empty territory.
@megashub - Yes, walls count.
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