# Can someone else's purge damage me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Players Helping Players\ **Tags:** pve\ **Created:** [June 21, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787 "2020-06-21T17:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![akead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@akead](https://forums.funcom.com/u/akead)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787/1 "2020-06-21T17:32:50Z")
I’m playing pve server, someone built a building right next to my house. When I just accessed, my house is a little broken, but I think this man’s purge is breaking my house. so someone else’s purge can do damage to me? ---
**Author:** ![Pugilist](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/pugilist/32/28784_2.png) [@Pugilist](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Pugilist)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787/3 "2020-06-26T14:20:30Z")
“Pugilist, why do you have a buffer area around your base?” Other players will build as close as possible for a variety of reasons. Even if the intent is not harmful, the effect can be. always put a buffer area around your base to let non-direct purges chew on unimportant structures. On the public server where I am most active, a player had crowded in a Greater Wheel of Pain between two already to close bases. I was helping defend from a Purge and we saw creatures falling from the sky onto the wheel and decimating it. ---
**Author:** ![TimeLord75](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/timelord75/32/10465_2.png) [@TimeLord75](https://forums.funcom.com/u/TimeLord75)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787/4 "2020-06-26T19:08:41Z")
Maybe I’m just an idiot (_Narrator: He is._), but I don’t understand what you mean by a “buffer area”. I mean, I get the basic concept, but how do you actually build such a thing? Occasional random foundations? Fencing? ---
**Author:** ![Kanza1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/kanza1/32/69193_2.png) [@Kanza1](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Kanza1)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787/5 "2020-06-26T19:25:33Z")
well it’s for you to decide , but I built a buffer wall for purge / other people purge if they built next to me , but you can shape it the way you desire with or without spikes , with or without crenelations , pretty or ugly , attatched to the principal building or not , using fences fundations or regular fundations , insanly tall or very short , it’s your creation ( but for you who already have a neighbour close you will maybe have also to improvise on the go , if he built so close that you can’t build on this side anymore (maybe spikes at that moment will still fit ) ---
**Author:** ![Tharl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Tharl](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Tharl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787/6 "2020-06-26T20:28:58Z")
I had a neighbor’s purge spawn a wave INSIDE of my base once. Be mindful that you will not receive any kind of warning about the Berserkers ripping through yer treasure room! ---
**Author:** ![Pugilist](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/pugilist/32/28784_2.png) [@Pugilist](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Pugilist)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787/7 "2020-06-26T23:58:51Z")
> [@TimeLord75](#): > > Maybe I’m just an idiot ( _Narrator: He is._ ), but I don’t understand what you mean by a “buffer area”. I mean, I get the basic concept, but how do you actually build such a thing? Occasional random foundations? Fencing? Basically it is a foundation pad 5- 8 blocks on a side where I put animal pens, compost heaps, stables, all the things that are needed, but not critical to replace. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/original/1X/8d85ca8a66fb78fa7574e255b50aa722d634177b.png) [@system](https://forums.funcom.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/can-someone-elses-purge-damage-me/126787/8 "2020-07-04T00:09:12Z")
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