so shacks only last 12 hours does the count reset everytime you open the door or does it tick form the time you place it, and are houses the same way? if so how are we suppose to keep houses in place
Shelters, wooden buildings, and metal buildings all decay as well. Anything that is attached/on top of foundations all counts as one building and it will all decay at roughly the same rate.
Wood shelters begin decaying after 12 hrs.
Wood buildings begin decaying after 24 hrs.
Metal buildings begin decaying after 4 days.
You can reset the decay timer by opening/closing a door or lighting a campfire. As long as the door/campfire is a part of the building it will reset the timer for everything attached, including things like spike walls as long as they are on top of a foundation/ceiling that is attached to the rest of the building.
When the decay timer hits zero, things will begin taking damage until they are destroyed. Things will decay from the top down.
So i can have a wood shelter for a week if i keep reseting the timer right?
[QUOTE=Sievers808;43359094]Shelters, wooden buildings, and metal buildings all decay as well. Anything that is attached/on top of foundations all counts as one building and it will all decay at roughly the same rate.
Wood shelters begin decaying after 12 hrs.
Wood buildings begin decaying after 24 hrs.
Metal buildings begin decaying after 4 days.
You can reset the decay timer by opening/closing a door or lighting a campfire. As long as the door/campfire is a part of the building it will reset the timer for everything attached, including things like spike walls as long as they are on top of a foundation/ceiling that is attached to the rest of the building.
When the decay timer hits zero, things will begin taking damage until they are destroyed. Things will decay from the top down.[/QUOTE]
So in my 4 story home, if I open the bottom door once a day, my whole house is safe?
When you say they begin decaying after x hrs/days, does that mean when I open/close the door it will reset the timer or will it reset the building health(for lack of a better word atm) aswell? How long after the decaying starts will the building be destroyed?
[QUOTE=pooppants;43359119]So i can have a wood shelter for a week if i keep reseting the timer right?[/QUOTE]
Yes, as long as no one breaks it down... I wouldn't rely on a shelter.
[QUOTE=Ehngage]So in my 4 story home, if I open the bottom door once a day, my whole house is safe?[/QUOTE]
Same story, it is [I]presumably[/I] safe, at least from decay. If it's wooden, as long as you log in once every day and open/close a door, it should never take any damage from decay.
Remember tho, anything that is NOT attached will need repairs, such as spike walls around the outside or wood gates and things.
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[QUOTE=Faol;43359139]When you say they begin decaying after x hrs/days, does that mean when I open/close the door it will reset the timer or will it reset the building health(for lack of a better word atm) aswell? How long after the decaying starts will the building be destroyed?[/QUOTE]
It will reset the TIMER. If something has already begun decaying and you reset the timer, the HP does NOT reset and it will need repairs. Hard to say how long the actual decaying process would take, it will differ, depending on how your home is built. It will definitely decay faster at the top and work its way down.
Is there any visual signs of decay? Or does it simply disappear right now?
[QUOTE=scottd564;43359179]Is there any visual signs of decay? Or does it simply disappear right now?[/QUOTE]
Things will get darker and darker the closer the get to being destroyed.
The decay timer should be doubled at least
[QUOTE=Daniel Munoz;43359203]The decay timer should be doubled at least[/QUOTE]
What makes you say that? A simple wooden house has 24 hrs before it even STARTS decaying... logging in once a day is too much to ask? It is a survival game after all, I wouldn't expect myself to be able to survive if I just stayed in bed in the wilderness for 48 hours lol.
Very cool. Thanks for the information. How do you repair a building? Don't mean to bombard you with questions but I didn't see any repair tools in the tool list on the wiki.
[QUOTE=Faol;43359224]Very cool. Thanks for the information. How do you repair a building? Don't mean to bombard you with questions but I didn't see any repair tools in the tool list on the wiki.[/QUOTE]
Not a problem, you just put the basic material in your hotkeys and press the button while facing what needs to be repaired. For wood things use plain ole wood, for metal use metal fragments.
[QUOTE=Sievers808;43359223]What makes you say that? A simple wooden house has 24 hrs before it even STARTS decaying... logging in once a day is too much to ask? It is a survival game after all, I wouldn't expect myself to be able to survive if I just stayed in bed in the wilderness for 48 hours lol.[/QUOTE]
There is a thin line between making a game realistic and making a game fun. If it were up to me i would increase it to 4 times the amount. I shouldn't feel so committed to play every single day. I like sleepers and decay but it adds nothing to the experience except annoyance. That's just my opinion, but there are many better alternatives. Maybe storms that will damage your structure at a much slower rate. I don't know, it just doesn't work well in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Daniel Munoz;43359259]There is a thin line between making a game realistic and making a game fun. If it were up to me i would increase it to 4 times the amount. I shouldn't feel so committed to play every single day. I like sleepers and decay but it adds nothing to the experience except annoyance. That's just my opinion, but there are many better alternatives. Maybe storms that will damage your structure at a much slower rate. I don't know, it just doesn't work well in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I get it, but I can almost guarantee that if you don't log in for 4 days your house will be empty from raiders anyways. xD
[QUOTE=Sievers808;43359266]I get it, but I can almost guarantee that if you don't log in for 4 days your house will be empty from raiders anyways. xD[/QUOTE]
That is punishment enough haha, but they will probably make it work better down the line.
Daniel, maybe you're misinterpreting what Sievers is saying? Decaying starts after a day but doesn't suddenly disappear. I'd assume the decay rate is somewhat random and could takes 4 days or so? Logging in ever couple of days for 5 mins to repair anything that might have decayed is good enough for me.
I may be wrong. Wild guess.
EDIT: And yes, my buildings get raided every other day. I decided to move my valuables into small boxes in the woods. >:)
[QUOTE=scottd564;43359288]Daniel, maybe you're misinterpreting what Sievers is saying? Decaying starts after a day but doesn't suddenly disappear. I'd assume the decay rate is somewhat random and could takes 4 days or so? Logging in ever couple of days for 5 mins to repair anything that might have decayed is good enough for me.
I may be wrong. Wild guess.
EDIT: And yes, my buildings get raided every other day. I decided to move my valuables into small boxes in the woods. >:)[/QUOTE]
This is what I was about to post as well. The structures do not disappear once the decay timer starts. There is a wooden shelter near my own base that I hacked the door off of a little over two days ago and it's still there along with two empty crates on the ground inside. So if that small wooden shelter is still around, I would imagine that a wooden walled structure on a foundation would last quite awhile, perhaps a week or more, if left untouched/unopened.
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;43359333]This is what I was about to post as well. The structures do not disappear once the decay timer starts. There is a wooden shelter near my own base that I hacked the door off of a little over two days ago and it's still there along with two empty crates on the ground inside. So if that small wooden shelter is still around, I would imagine that a wooden walled structure on a foundation would last quite awhile, perhaps a week or more, if left untouched/unopened.[/QUOTE]
Mmmm I dunno about a WEEK, but definitely a couple days... probably.
I've been so obsessed with the game that I'm online every day for the last month or so, I haven't actually seen any of my buildings decay xD
How does decaying work with wooden spikes and objects of that sort that do not have doors to open and close?
[QUOTE=Ravin;43359393]How does decaying work with wooden spikes and objects of that sort that do not have doors to open and close?[/QUOTE]
Afaik, wood spikes also have a 24 hr decay timer, after which they will begin decaying. I would assume that once you repair them the decay timer would reset, but I'm not 100% on that.
However, if you place foundations around your base and then put the spikes on top of them then it becomes a part of the building and the timer will be reset with doors and such.
[QUOTE=Ravin;43359393]How does decaying work with wooden spikes and objects of that sort that do not have doors to open and close?[/QUOTE]
I don't have specific numbers but I know spiked walls decay faster than any other structure, but you can repair them with wood in your action bar. Also, Sievers808 said in the second post that so long as all structures are on foundations attached to the one with a door, opening the door will reset the timer for all structures attached by foundations.
Thank you for that. I don't use wooden spikes, but I plan on using wooden barricades and the like when I expand my base.
[QUOTE=outlawpickle;43359416]I don't have specific numbers but I know spiked walls decay faster than any other structure[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure if this is true... in my experience the spike walls tend to last longer than 24hrs, which leads me to believe that they have the same decay speed as wood buildings.
I could be wrong, this is just what I've noticed. I don't usually use spike walls unless on top of my building.
You can stop the decay by putting wood and metal fragments into the structure. (face the structurce and press your quick slot key for wood/fragment)
[QUOTE=Sievers808;43359438]I'm not sure if this is true... in my experience the spike walls tend to last longer than 24hrs, which leads me to believe that they have the same decay speed as wood buildings.
I could be wrong, this is just what I've noticed. I don't usually use spike walls unless on top of my building.[/QUOTE]
Good stuff, sir. Glad you've been testing these things out.
[QUOTE=stioverpowere;43359447]You can stop the decay by putting wood and metal fragments while facing the structure.[/QUOTE]
Not entirely true, you can REPAIR by doing this, but if the decay timer hasn't hit zero then there's nothing to repair aka the timer does not get reset.
[QUOTE=scottd564;43359288]Daniel, maybe you're misinterpreting what Sievers is saying? Decaying starts after a day but doesn't suddenly disappear. I'd assume the decay rate is somewhat random and could takes 4 days or so? Logging in ever couple of days for 5 mins to repair anything that might have decayed is good enough for me.
I may be wrong. Wild guess.
EDIT: And yes, my buildings get raided every other day. I decided to move my valuables into small boxes in the woods. >:)[/QUOTE]
I understood fine, my opinion still stands
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