[2021] they really need to reduce the amount of land the trader owns

The default size of the LCB is 41x41. If it would overlap the trader protection, you cannot place it.

So you just need to move your placement farther out. You can find the edge of the trader area and count 21 blocks from there and then place your LCB in that spot.

Originally posted by ProxyJames: Still the traders should not occupy more room than there encampment, makes me want to kill them and be done with it, not like doing there missions really nets me anything, I earn more exp messing around exploring and I have yet to buy a single blueprint from them, I think all I really brought is some weapon parts.

A couple points. First, I’ll be the first to say the trader protection zone should go, but the reason it extends outside the grounds is, I think, to mitigate the potential for exploits. For instance, it makes it hard to build a platform out from the trader’s wall, which would then be supported by an unbreakable block. Second, the protection zone is based on the POI, not the trader. So killing them wouldn’t change the protection anyway.