Wooden Barricade

Stakes that hurt players and animals running into them, for 300 wood and a rope with no bench at all. The cheapest barricade that bites back.

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Characteristics

Category: Construction

Stack size: 10

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 15 Scrap

Health: 250

Overview

In-game description

A wooden barricade. Will hurt players and animals that run into it.

Run a wolf into it. The game says this barricade hurts players and animals that run into it, and on a fresh wipe the second half matters as much as the first. You are walking home with a backpack of wood, a wolf has picked you up, and two of these stand in front of your door. You sprint past them and the animal takes the hit.

It costs 300 wood and one rope, no workbench, 15 scrap to research. So it is within reach before you own anything better than a stone hatchet. If something runs short it will be the rope; the wood comes quickly.

Tip

Once you have a Level 1 bench, the barbed wooden barricade also slows people and costs only fifty frags more. Keep the plain ones for animal paths and spots you can afford to lose.

It is still wood, though. Anyone with a hatchet can chop through it if nobody is shooting at them, so a barricade you do not watch only buys you a little time.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Satchel Charge cheapest	1	480
Beancan Grenade	4	480
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	20–22	500–550
High Velocity Rocket	5	1,000
Rocket	1	1,400
Timed Explosive Charge	1	2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	10	120
Mortar Shell	2	600
Survey Charge	14	840
Propane Explosive Bomb	1	900
Homing Missile	15	1,600
MLRS Rocket	1	—
40mm HE Grenade	4	—
Hammerhead Bolt	7	—

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.