High External Wooden Gate

The way in and out of a wooden compound: two gears and wood at a Level 1 bench. Without a lock on it, the whole ring of walls is just scenery.

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Characteristics

Category: Construction

Stack size: 1

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 60 Scrap

Health: 500

Overview

In-game description

A high wooden gate, allowing access in and out of your compound.

A ring of high walls with no gate means climbing over on a ladder every time you come home. The gate takes one wall's place in that ring and swings open wide, so you walk in, and a horse or a car can come in with you.

The gears are the part you have to find. Wood is never short, but gears come from crates and the recycler, so on a fresh wipe the gate often goes up a day after the wooden walls around it. Until then people leave a gap and close it with whatever they have.

Tip

Put a code lock on it before you log off. An open gate turns your compound into a free yard for every roamer on the road.

Say you drive home from a road run with a car full of loot. With the gate you park it inside the walls instead of on the road. Later, when the neighbours start bringing explosives, swap to the stone gate: it needs a Level 2 bench and five gears instead of two, and a wooden gate in a stone ring is the first place a raider looks.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	96–98	2,400–2,450
Satchel Charge	6	2,880
High Velocity Rocket	18	3,600
Rocket	3	4,200
Beancan Grenade	36	4,320
Timed Explosive Charge	2	4,400
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	47	600
Propane Explosive Bomb	3	2,700
Mortar Shell	10	3,000
Survey Charge	70	4,200
Homing Missile	54	5,400
MLRS Rocket	2	—
40mm HE Grenade	16	—
Hammerhead Bolt	23	—

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.

Raid calculator: High External Wooden Gate