About carpentry: weight and damage

[Bob]

Hello everyone, I have an important question about the game because whenever I want to build something with wood, I have to carry heavy planks and my character can't carry that much weight. To build some stairs for example, I need 15 planks among other things and if I put that in the inventory, my character literally dies or breaks his legs while his health goes down. Is there a safe and fast way that I can build without hurting myself? Because it takes a long time to go plank to plank. Thank you very much

[Grishnerf]

You cant die of overweight, your hp slowly drops to a certain point then stops, you are just slower and not able to fight properly.

you can also drop all materials on the ground one by one to craft stairs.

[martindirt]

Drop the plank on the ground where you want your stairs, stand close, right click, etc .. if you have all the necessary materials in proximity, you can build it.

[Bob]

Thank you

[Tasolth]

Your character can hold up to 50 (KG?) of stuff in the main inventory. Health will stop dropping at around 75%. Just be mindful that you REALLY don't want to fight zombies while that encumbered.

[LODE]

Originally posted by martindirt:

Drop the plank on the ground where you want your stairs, stand close, right click, etc .. if you have all the necessary materials in proximity, you can build it.

It's worth noting there can be a huge difference between the actual tile you dropped the plank(s) on (the one you are standing on when you /drop) and where they are represented in-game on the ground/floor. This confused me as a noob and tbh i still get bamboozled by it once in a while.

[LODE]

Originally posted by martindirt:

Drop the plank on the ground where you want your stairs, stand close, right click, etc .. if you have all the necessary materials in proximity, you can build it.

For the sake of precision, the proximity you speak of is exactly 1 tile (including corners) from the tile any given resource is on. Let's say you've building a wall, this proximity means if you saw a 4-stack of logs (12 planks) on the same tile you can only build three wall sections before needing to move planks. This why I usually make 2-log bundles to space them out when i'm putting up a wall.

[Kaldrak]

There are mods in the workshop that reduce the weight of planks as well as mods that have bags with 100% weight reduction if you want to collect everything and not ever worry about weight again while you are building.

[Undefined]

Originally posted by Kaldrak:

There are mods in the workshop that reduce the weight of planks as well as mods that have bags with 100% weight reduction if you want to collect everything and not ever worry about weight again while you are building.

If cheating is on the table, just go into debug and spawn in a bunch of planks and nails everywhere.

Edit: better yet, just spawn in the actual stairs.

[Kaldrak]

Originally posted by Undefined:

Originally posted by Kaldrak:

There are mods in the workshop that reduce the weight of planks as well as mods that have bags with 100% weight reduction if you want to collect everything and not ever worry about weight again while you are building.

If cheating is on the table, just go into debug and spawn in a bunch of planks and nails everywhere.

Edit: better yet, just spawn in the actual stairs.

Just making some suggestions.

Some people don't want to make a hundred or so repetitive trips back and forth between the places where they are getting planks and where they want to actually build something. Building absolutely anything other than a few small wooden items takes ages that way unless you have a vehicle or something else to help you carry things, or you are literally building right next to where you are getting your wood from.

[william_es]

Originally posted by Kaldrak:

Building absolutely anything other than a few small wooden items takes ages that way unless you have a vehicle or something else to help you carry things, or you are literally building right next to where you are getting your wood from.

I'm stripping all the trees around each thing I build. It's december in my playthrough right now, so trees, trees, trees everywhere. Right now I'm building walls across small gaps, to sort of block off areas, and other projects.

Now base improvements, yes, those are tedious. But I've got a work around for that. I have a second story raised walkway set up through much of downtown riverside. I run across the roofs, and then I've built 2nd floor walkways across the gaps and streets to more roofs. All stairs in buildings knocked out with sledgehammer. I can get from the restaurant in riverside all the way to the bank next to gigamart. Without once setting foot on the ground. Got windows with ropes to get up and down all over the place.

I drop down through a window/rope... chop down nearby trees, and haul the wood up to the roofs. and just leave it there, until I need the wood later. grabbing more wood for a base project is a bit of a run, but it's made in PERFECT safety. All the raised walkways were built the same way too. By hauling nearby chopped trees up to the roofs, and using them to build the walkways.