Metal Window Bars

The default cover for a window you only want shut to climbers: 25 metal fragments at a Level 1 bench. Bullets still pass, so it is no cover in a fight.

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Characteristics

Category: Construction

Stack size: 10

Durability: 100

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Health: 500

Overview

In-game description

Metal window bars made to fit a normal sized window.

Most windows in a base need one thing: nobody climbs through them. Metal bars do that for 25 metal fragments at a Level 1 workbench, cheap enough to close every window frame on the same evening you raise the walls.

What they do not stop is bullets. The gaps let you shoot out, and they let a roamer standing outside shoot in, so a barred window next to your sleeping bag or your loot boxes is still a hole. Keep the gear away from it, or cover it with something solid.

Window cover	Bench	Good for
Wooden bars	None	The first hours of a wipe
Metal bars	Level 1	Most windows, most of the wipe
Strengthened glass	Level 2	Seeing out with no gaps
Reinforced glass	Level 3	Top tier, built against projectiles

So the order is simple. Swap the wooden bars for these as soon as the first bench stands, and later move the windows that face trouble up to glass or an embrasure.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Timed Explosive Charge cheapest	2	4,400
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	200	5,000
Rocket	4	5,600
Satchel Charge	12	5,760
High Velocity Rocket	34	6,800
Beancan Grenade	66	7,920
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	100	1,200
Propane Explosive Bomb	4	3,600
Mortar Shell	17	5,400
Survey Charge	125	7,500
Homing Missile	100	10,000
MLRS Rocket	3	—
40mm HE Grenade	29	—
Hammerhead Bolt	40	—