Wood[]
Ceiling[]
A Wood Ceiling was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. They could only be placed on top of 4 Wood Pillars. They could also act as a floor for a second story. Players could not place a pillar in the middle of a ceiling.
Note: Wooden Ceilings were not destructable, but they could disappear through decay.
Crafting[]
Wood Ceilings could be crafted with 6 Wood Planks, and took 60 seconds to craft.
Ingame[]
6 Wooden Ceilings placed together, creating a roof and floor.
Doorway[]
A Wood Doorway was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. They could only be placed on a Wood Foundation between two Wood Pillars. They appeared as a standard wall made of wood, with an entrance space where a door could be placed.
They could only be rotated by scrolling the mouse wheel before being placed. It was impossible to rotate a wall after it had been placed.
Wood Doorways could be shot through. It was advisable to build a Wood Door or a Metal Door to prevent players being shot or seen inside their bases.
Crafting[]
Wood Doorways could be crafted with 4 Wood Planks.
It took 10 seconds to craft a Wood Doorway.
Usage[]
When placing a Wood Doorway, the green highlight would clearly show a diagonal plank near the bottom on one side of the doorway. The hinge of any door placed inside the Wood Doorway would be on that side. This was helpful to know when placing the doorway in front of a staircase as this prevented the door from obstructing the stairs when opened.
Foundation[]
Wood Foundations are craftable, placeable items. Certain structures in the game require a wood foundation to be built, as they build onto them. They are the basis of all building currently in the game. The only exceptions to this are doors and barricades. Wooden Foundations are currently not destructable.
Crafting[]
Wooden Foundations may be crafted with 8 Wood Planks in the crafting menu.
Dependent Structures[]
The following structures require a Wood Foundation to be placed before the item itself is placed:
Issues[]
Various players have been reporting that the Wood Foundation will break immediately upon placement despite it appearing green first during placement. This is most likely a bug. Some players reported resolving the problem by restarting the server. It is advisable to craft and test one Wood Foundation first before attempting to craft multiple ones to see if the problem exists and to avoid wasting wood.
Pillar[]
Wood Pillars are structures that can be placed on wooden foundations and are required to place a window, doorway, wall, stairs, or ceilings. You can only place wooden structures between wooden pillars.
Usage[]
Wood Pillars are placed down onto a foundation by left clicking while holding a Wood Pillar. They can only be placed on foundations or ceilings. Wood Pillars are restricted when on foundations, they can only be placed on the corners, in the middle of each side, or directly in the middle. Wood Pillars have 5000 durability, and gets healed for 500 So you cant destroy them once placed
Crafting[]
Wooden Pillars may be crafted with 2 Wood Planks in the crafting menu. They are part of the starting crafting menu, so you do not need to research them.
It takes 5 seconds to craft a Wood Pillar.
Ramp[]
Wood Ramp are craftable, placeable items, though they may only be placed on or next to a Wood Foundation.
They can be rotated by right clicking with your mouse.
You can still place a Wood Foundation over a Wood Ramp. So you can't use them to prevent others building foundations around your house to hop in.
Can be destroyed!!!
Crafting[]
Wooden Ramps may be crafted with 5 Wood Planks in the crafting menu.
It takes 15 seconds to craft a Wood Ramp.
Stairs[]
Wood Stairs are craftable, placeable items, though they may only be placed on a Wood Foundation and/or between 4 Wood Pillars. They occupy the space of one foundation and consist of 2x small ramps leading around the edge of space.
They can be rotated by scrolling your mouse wheel.
Wooden Stairs are destructible and require 23-25 hits with a pickaxe to destroy.
Crafting[]
Wooden Stairs may be crafted with 5 Wood Planks (50 Wood) in the crafting menu.
It takes 20 seconds to craft Wooden Stairs.
Wall[]
A Wood Wall was a craftable, placeable item, that could only be placed on a Wood Foundation, between two Wood Pillars. They appeared as standard walls made out of wood. They could be destroyed with 1-3 Explosive Charges. They could also be destroyed with F1 Grenades, but it could take quite a lot of them depending on how much the wall had decayed. Players could rotate a wall before placing by scrolling with their mouse wheel or right clicking. Walls had 1000 durability and would heal 100 durability per piece of wood used when repaired. Walls did not take melee damage (See patch notes for 14.07.13 ).
Decay time was 5 days on a standard. However, some servers possibly had varying decay rates.
Crafting[]
Wood Walls could be crafted with 4 Wood Planks in the crafting menu and took 30 seconds to craft.
Note: Wood Walls were a default crafting recipe.
Window[]
Wooden Windows cannot be destroyed with melee.
Wooden Windows can be destroyed with Explosive Charge
Crafting[]
Wood Windows may be crafted with 4 Wood Planks in the crafting menu.
It takes 20 seconds to craft a Wood Window.
Players can move through a Wood Window's hole unless it has wood bars.
Metal[]
Ceiling[]
A Metal Ceiling was a craftable, placable item made out of Low Quality Metal. It could only be placed on top of Metal Pillars. Players could also place a Metal Ramp on top of it, but only if there were Metal Pillars on top as well.
Doorway[]
A Metal Doorway was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. It could only be placed on a Metal Foundation between two Metal Pillars. It acted as a wall that could have a door placed inside it. Players could hold 'E' while looking at the door and select 'Change Password' to enter a 4-digit PIN so they could share the door with friends.
Foundation[]
A Metal Foundation was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. Only metal structural items like Metal Pillars, Metal Walls, etc could be placed on a Metal Foundation. Additional Metal Foundations could be snapped to existing foundations provided that:
- there was space for the foundation;
- the new foundation was not completely underground/sub-terrain;
- the new foundation height was not taller than a reasonable height (approx. the height of your character).
Obtaining[]
The Metal Foundation could be found in Airdrops or looted off Mutated Animals. To learn how to craft them, a player had to use a Research Kit on it while standing at a Workbench.
Crafting[]
The Metal Foundation could be crafted using 8 Low Quality Metal after a player learns the recipe. It is unknown if a Workbench was required to craft them.
Pillar[]
A Metal Pillar was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. Metal Pillars had to be initially placed on a Metal Foundation. Other metal structural items such as Metal Walls, Metal Doorways and Metal Ceilings could only be placed between metal pillars, (Metal Doors are not included in this as they could be placed in a Wood Doorway or Wood Shelter). Like Wood Pillars, Metal Pillars could not be manually damaged or destroyed by any means and could only be harmed by Decay.
Ramp[]
A Metal Ramp was a craft-able, place-able item made out of Low Quality Metal. It could only be placed on a Metal Foundation or a Metal Ceiling with Metal Pillars attached, or on the ground, leading up to a Metal Foundation.
Obtaining[]
The Metal Ramp could be found on Airdrops or looted off radiated animals. To learn how to craft them, a player had to use a Research Kit on it while standing at a Workbench.
Note: Although Metal Ramps were able to connect 2 floors of a house together, it was not advised. A recommended alternative was to use stairs instead, as they can be placed on top of each other.
Trivia[]
- It was not possible (26/04/14) to walk or place things (Large Wood Storage Box, Small Stash, Sleeping Bag, etc.) underneath Metal Ramps.
Stairs[]
Metal Stairs was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. Metal Stairs could only be placed on a Metal Foundation or Metal Ceiling with Metal Pillars attached.
Obtaining[]
Metal Stairs could be found in Airdrops, or looted off Mutated Animals. To learn how to craft them, a player had to use a Research Kit on them while standing at a Workbench.
Note: Metal Stairs could be destroyed with 2 Explosive Charge.
Wall[]
A Metal Wall was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. They could only be placed on a Metal Foundation between two Metal Pillars. They appeared as a standard wall made out of rusty sheet metal.
Metal Walls could only be destroyed by placing 4 Explosive Charges on them. They did not decay, and could not be destroyed by hitting them with a Pick Axe, Hatchet, etc. When placing Explosive Charges on a Metal Wall, players had to take into account any previous damage done to the wall (it was impossible to repair them).
They could only be rotated by scrolling the mouse wheel before being placed. It was impossible to rotate a wall after it had been placed.
There was once a bug with doors that allowed players to glitch through them. This was eventually fixed.
Obtaining[]
The Metal Wall could be found in Airdrops or looted off Mutated Animals. To learn how to craft them, a player had to use a Research Kit on it while standing at a Workbench.
Crafting[]
Metal Walls could be crafted with 4 Low Quality Metal. It is unknown if a Workbench was required to craft them.
Window[]
A Metal Window was a craftable, placeable item made out of Low Quality Metal. They could they may only be placed on a Metal Foundation or a Metal Ceiling, between two Metal Pillars. They appeared as a standard wall made out of rusty sheet Metal with a square hole for a window in the center.
Metal Windows were only destructible using Explosive Charges. They could not be destroyed by hitting them with a Pick Axe, Hatchet, etc.
They could only be rotated by scrolling your mouse wheel before being placed. It was impossible to rotate a wall after it had been placed.
Windows were the leading cause of house raids. It was suggested that players only use windows if they were building a structure at least three levels high, and were unable to place a foundation on the ground below it. You can also use Metal Window Bars to stop people getting in.
Crafting[]
Metal Windows could be crafted with 4 Low Quality Metal. It is unknown if a Workbench was required to craft them.
It took 20 seconds to craft a Metal Window.
Window Bars[]
Metal Window Bars were craftable, placeable items made out of Low Quality Metal. They could be placed in either Wood Windows and Metal Windows. Metal Window Bars were used to prevent players from climbing through windows. Players could fire both into and out of them. They also raised the toughness of Wood Windows as Wood Windows with Metal Window Bars required 2 Explosive Charges to destroy in instead of just 1.
Note: The bars themselves could not be destroyed, only the window frame itself could be destroyed.
Crafting[]
Metal Window Bars could be crafted with ?? Low Quality Metal. It is unknown if a Workbench was required to craft them.
Max Stack Size: 5