The texture thing is weird, haven't seen that one before.
Are you playing on official servers? I used to play on officials, but honestly I highly recommend unofficials. Official server rates are painfully slow, the servers are often laggy (at least last time I played on them), and of course they are usually full of offline raiders, which can be quite a pain to deal with as there is often nothing you can do unless you can be out the gate with metal fortifications. There's a family of four servers that can all transfer to each other that are unofficial that I play on: Island, Center, Scorched, and Ragnarok. These servers also have, and enforce, a "no offline raiding" rule. However they don't turn offline raid protection on because it's very easy to abuse, such as just logging out when you're being raided and then your stuff is invulnerable.
If you're going to stick to officials anyway, I would suggest just finding somewhere somewhat hidden, upgrading to at least wood as fast as you can, getting a wall around your place, upgrade to stone, and then metal. Also be sure to invest in Plant Species X. They are plants that fire spores at enemies blinding and dealing damage. Getting a lot of them is fairly cheap, you just need large crop plots, Plant Species X seeds (find them in the swamp, and you'll get a ton by the handful), fertilizer, and some way to keep them watered. You can use compost bins for fertilizer, but the better way is to tame a dung beetle. Get autoturrets later on. Plant Species X goes a long way in defending your base though, especially lots of them.
