Why is stone so weak?

[Khârn]

I decided, stupidly, to tear down my wooden defences and replace them with a new 'Great Wall of the Forest'. I was excited to test out the new stone walls and build, what I thought would be, a superlative defensive wall.

I mean, stone is stronger than wood, right? RIGHT?

How stupid I am and how wrong I was. Stone walls are actually weaker than the wooden defense walls. A group of cannibals quickly punched through my walls as though they were leaves and sticks.

I'm not asking for the game to be hyper realistic, because that certainly wouldn't be fun, but it would surely make sense for stone walls to be considerably stronger than wood. They don't need to be invincible, but normal cannibals shouldn't be smashing down my walls so quickly.

Perhaps the cannibals have Mongolian ancestory and are good at taking down walls.

If I were to hit a wooden plank (even one with a sharpened end) with an axe several times, it makes sense that it would eventually break. But if I did the same to a stone wall, it would be some time before I'd do any damage. I'd more likely break my axe than the wall.

So why on Earth are cannibals FALCOPUNCHing through my walls in less than a minute?

Maybe I got unlucky. Maybe it's a bug.

And don't counter with "but walls aren't meant to be defensive in this game"
THEY'RE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MADE OF STONE! If the devs wanted to create a new material that was super weak, they should have made it cardboard and not stone.

Simple solution - Bump stone HP up a bit to make them last longer.

PS. Again, I'm not looking for them to be invincible. I like the danger that my defences might be overcome. But not in 1 minute, especially when it's taken me hours of real time to build.

[Bunker]

you play with building damage on?
ah. there's your problem.

Since the damage and health numbers are just variables that can be changed at any time. I don't see this as an issue right now. Perhaps when all the things are in the game. that would be the right time to ask the community for balance.

I assume they know what number they've programmed in and why.

[Khârn]

Originally posted by Bunker:

you play with building damage on?
ah. there's your problem.

Looks like I'm going to have to turn it off, which is kind of a shame, since I do like buildings taking damage. It just seems like, currently, it's a bit too much.

Thanks for reminding me about the option :-)

[M.Red]

maybe the devs will change values later on
currently stuff is still under development

[Scar]

I mean walls should be near invincible especially to regular cannibals, only ones I can see breaking stones down is brutes but even then.