Check my games won out of games played for the last 50 games. I've been winning 90%, and half I get targeted. But you know how I get rid of them?
I go for corn, get as much as I can, and if I get stone sword, then boom, they're all dead.
But if I don't get a stone sword, I usually go on my chest route, and try to get all the tier 1s (since there's a bigger possibility that there's a weapon in tier 1s), and I quickly loot only the sword, and I kill them all. No more people targetting me? Then I go on my route.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.