Reinforced Steel Upgrade

[The Juggling Hamster]

10 units to upgrade 1 block?

Sigh.

Anyone else think this is outrageous?

[YamaKami]

Nope. High resource cost reflects the high damage the block can take. It's also a late game material, so again that is reflected in the cost of it.

[The Juggling Hamster]

Heh, I have been buying it from the trader thinking that I have enough for a large base.

Looks like I now have enough for a little hut.

Anyway, once you upgrade the block do you have to add more of the Reinforced Steel Upgrade to it when its damaged, or just use more steel to repair it... And how much does it help?

[kkitts]

Originally posted by StickyHamster:

Heh, I have been buying it from the trader thinking that I have enough for a large base.

Looks like I now have enough for a little hut.

Anyway, once you upgrade the block do you have to add more of the Reinforced Steel Upgrade to it when its damaged, or just use more steel to repair it... And how much does it help?

I never had to repair it. I think it had 12000 HP per block once you applied it (plus all the other block HP). Of course, I never played past day 42 after that upgrade came out, either. It would take an awful lot of cop and feral zombies to destroy RS-upgraded blocks, and that's assuming you let them do that much damage.

[DeadlyDanDaMan]

It's the highest HP block in the entire game. It's basically a god tier item. No horde will ever be able to break through it in a default setting game. It shouldn't be easy to obtain.

[Aleksi]

Originally posted by StickyHamster:

10 units to upgrade 1 block?

Sigh.

Anyone else think this is outrageous?

your outrage is outrageous

[m0j01962]

well it was better and you can mod your server,if you dont have a server.. then..well take what your hosting server gives you and play..crying is not permitted in 7dtd...mod it to where you use 4 steel pipes and concrete blocks to make reinforced concrete blocks lol..one example..

[saja_66]

I've been doing a little at a time and I tell you, nothing gets through those walls. I only make my wall 2 blocks high so I can snipe. It was worth the wait.

[Aleksi]

Originally posted by saja_66:

I've been doing a little at a time and I tell you, nothing gets through those walls. I only make my wall 2 blocks high so I can snipe. It was worth the wait.

wouldnt it be less effort to make 2 blocks wide reinforced concrete walls?

[saja_66]

Originally posted by Alex the Savage:

Originally posted by saja_66:

I've been doing a little at a time and I tell you, nothing gets through those walls. I only make my wall 2 blocks high so I can snipe. It was worth the wait.

wouldnt it be less effort to make 2 blocks wide reinforced concrete walls?

Too easy for them to hop up and over. Especially when dead bodies are piling up!

[Aleksi]

Originally posted by saja_66:

Originally posted by Alex the Savage:

wouldnt it be less effort to make 2 blocks wide reinforced concrete walls?

Too easy for them to hop up and over. Especially when dead bodies are piling up!

How is it easier to hop over a 2x2 concrete than 2x1 steel?

[Leg Day]

Its shiny. worth it.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by StickyHamster:

Heh, I have been buying it from the trader thinking that I have enough for a large base.

Looks like I now have enough for a little hut.

Anyway, once you upgrade the block do you have to add more of the Reinforced Steel Upgrade to it when its damaged, or just use more steel to repair it... And how much does it help?

Yes, you can only repair it using more steel polish

It vastly increases the value of the metal block. They have to take off 12000 to remove the steel polish and than they are left with a metal block underneath, then they have to take off that metal to be left with a reinforced concrete block, then they have to beat through the reinforced concrete to be left with concrete block...

I usually save up most of my money and travel to all the traders in hopes of finding steel polish and than only use it on very strategic blocks that I've seen actually get hit by zombies

It's a little too rare to put it on "everything" just for looks (unless you cheat with the creative menu)

At 100 days the most I've had of the stuff was maybe 500 steel polish and that was spending a lot of time focused on earning tokens (crafting to sell) and traveling to find traders with it in stock

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Alex the Savage:

Originally posted by saja_66:

I've been doing a little at a time and I tell you, nothing gets through those walls. I only make my wall 2 blocks high so I can snipe. It was worth the wait.

wouldnt it be less effort to make 2 blocks wide reinforced concrete walls?

Originally posted by Alex the Savage:

Originally posted by saja_66:

Too easy for them to hop up and over. Especially when dead bodies are piling up!

How is it easier to hop over a 2x2 concrete than 2x1 steel?

He said 2 blocks high, he didn't say anything about width. Your original comment made it sound like you wanted 1 block high of concrete but 2 blocks wide "instead"

It doesn't matter what the material is, the zombies can jump on it if its only 1 block high

It has to be 2 blocks high to keep them from jumping, no matter what material it is

I would suggest it doesn't matter what material you start with you can build the basic shape (widht and height) to begin with. You can't build steel directly anyway. You have to build a lesser wall type (concrete or whatever) and than upgrade to the steel

So no matter what shape you are aiming for, a 2 x 2 steel wall required a 2 x 2 concrete wall at some point

Whether you started with wood, started with cobblestone, brick, whatever. You upgrade to (or start with) concrete, then reinforced concrete, then metal cased, then steel polished

Concrete is the upgrade path to steel no matter what the block was previous to becoming concrete

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by saja_66:

I've been doing a little at a time and I tell you, nothing gets through those walls. I only make my wall 2 blocks high so I can snipe. It was worth the wait.

You can top them with truss or iron bars and shoot through it, or at least use them as an overhang to keep spiders from coming over the walls and still be able to shoot down through them

[Akrux]

If your worried about the 7 day horde chewing down the pillars of your elevated base then steel polish is the expensive answer.

Personally I make my pillars 2x2 out of reinforced concrete clad in metal siding with fully upgraded log spikes around the base at least 3 spikes deep. Haven't needed steel polish yet but maybe someday.