Base Defense + Protection and your setup?

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I have sixteen turtles that are sentient prowling around my base. When they sense a mob near it they swarm and destroy it with their ray guns of death...


...is what I want. Currently I live in a base with no walls and no ceiling... and no torches.
 
Quarries.

How can quarries be an efficient base defense, you ask? Well, you only have to use enough of them. And then have your small, well-lit base floating above the hole. At the moment, the closest edge of the hole is more than a hundred metres away from the base. The farthest edges are so far away they unload from memory.

Should a mob spawn in the base anyway, such as Pigmen appearing near Nether Portals, my trusty Snow Golem will deal with them. Since the base is located at Y=80, and the hole goes down to Bedrock, the gentle push of a snowball will prove very lethal to any invaders.