Ah, there’s something you didn’t mention in your original post! If indeed you’ve been giving tribute to the goblins and they’re still attacking your Hearthings, that’s a bug (which, incidentally, has already been reported here: [R293 (x64)] Goblins Attack Regardless Of Choice).
Second, the goblin camp spawns after your town reaches a net worth of 1500, so the theory goes that if you have that many resources, you should be able to defend yourself from invasion. Thus, you don’t actually have to prepare in 3-4 days–I spent 14 days building, crafting, and preparing, before reaching a net worth of 1500. If you do that, it’s actually rather easy to defeat the goblins with heavily armored and buffed Hearthlings.
In addition, I may have detected a bit of sarcasm in your tone (if this assumption was made in error, I apologize, it is often difficult to accurately assess sarcasm in text). If this is the case, the following information may not be helpful, but I’ll include it in case you were entirely serious.
First, by clicking on a username, you can tell how long a certain user has been a part of the Stonehearth community. This might be helpful to check before calling somone a “newb”.
Second, it’s Stonehearth, not Hearthstone. We’re a bit particular about that 