Barb Wire or Iron Spikes?

[WestBayKid]

What do you guys like best? Any better than the other? GO!

[↯Zindy⛦]

personally i like barbed wire fences the most and find them very effective, especially in the late game but they do require alot of iron that could be used elsewhere, specifically before day 7 or day 14

[Dead Inside]

Barb Wire Fences are great for slowing down hordes, but break very quickly and are hard to target for repair.

Spikes deal less damage, but have higher durability (assuming we are talking about the big cone ones), as well as taking lots of materials.

I tend to set up multiple rings of spikes around my permanent base and then on bloodmoon nights, set up a scattering of fences to slow them down.

[WestBayKid]

Cool, what about just barb wire, seprate from fences? what is that used for?

[King Bampot]

Originally posted by WestBayKid:

Cool, what about just barb wire, seprate from fences? what is that used for?

I find non fenced barbed wire great for under ledges to stop spiders, sides of walls that I stand above/below and shoot out of or anything else that you want barbed wire fence but flat for. Im sure there is a couple of Youtube videos out there that can show you images of its use. I love it and use it often in base builds.

[Mhaelrath Imultis]

Bloodmoon nights? just climb a roof, probolem solved :D

[WestBayKid]

Originally posted by toxic zombie:

Bloodmoon nights? just climb a roof, probolem solved :D

haha yep, I was just asking as i am doing a large build with a big perimeter. wanted ideas of the most effiecient ways to slow those ♥♥♥♥♥ down at a somewhat reasonable cost...

[WestBayKid]

Thanks all!

[garravesh]

bloodmoon is a waste of time...dig deep harvest the earth whilst the zombo's die on your traps.....I usually deploy no less then 300 spike traps of various kinds...In the morning I casually head out and harvest corspes for 10 minutes....and repaitr my defenses......I can sit on a roof and take pot shots at some mobs but I tend to just stay below and dig.... As to the OP I use spikes over barb wire...since I am not there to shoot them...I let em walk all over getting diced and sliced....it costs very little to repair spikes of various types....

[ChewyChops]

Originally posted by garravesh:

bloodmoon is a waste of time...dig deep harvest the earth whilst the zombo's die on your traps.....I usually deploy no less then 300 spike traps of various kinds...In the morning I casually head out and harvest corspes for 10 minutes....and repaitr my defenses......I can sit on a roof and take pot shots at some mobs but I tend to just stay below and dig.... As to the OP I use spikes over barb wire...since I am not there to shoot them...I let em walk all over getting diced and sliced....it costs very little to repair spikes of various types....

I like fighting the blood moon as its a ton of free loot.

[Ingestible Bulk]

Originally posted by toxic zombie:

Bloodmoon nights? just climb a roof, probolem solved :D

I'm on Blood moon number 5 right now and all I do is stand on a walk way jutting out from my roof thats over 2 blade traps. they just walk right into the blade traps, some walk around it but that just means I get to up my rifle skill

[garravesh]

Originally posted by ChewyChops:

Originally posted by garravesh:

bloodmoon is a waste of time...dig deep harvest the earth whilst the zombo's die on your traps.....I usually deploy no less then 300 spike traps of various kinds...In the morning I casually head out and harvest corspes for 10 minutes....and repaitr my defenses......I can sit on a roof and take pot shots at some mobs but I tend to just stay below and dig.... As to the OP I use spikes over barb wire...since I am not there to shoot them...I let em walk all over getting diced and sliced....it costs very little to repair spikes of various types....

I like fighting the blood moon as its a ton of free loot.

I get all the loot in the morning.....it is still there...

[VonStreed]

You can also put barbed wire on your belt, that way if dogs, wloves, bears, running zombies come at you you can place it as you run backwards to slow them down and kill them easier.

On blood moons i usually make a stack of exploding bolts, a bounch of ammo, pound some beer and just kite them around in the streets blasting them. That way I can spread out the carcasses and maximize the loot.

[RiggedQuarter]

if you want to have fun with bloodmoon i reccomend a slope up to your base surrounded with iron spike with barb wires on the sides and lining the rows that are further away with the barbwire fence.gotta pay alot more attention with no kill pit and plus the more you take out instead of the traps, the more exp and difficulty ramping up :D

[Rhonen]

I prefer barbed wire. I use a combination of spikes as an inner area and barbed wire as an outer area. The main reason I like barbed wire more is that the barbed wire tends to hold zombies in place without them jumping all around the place, this makes it pretty easy to pick them off. When zombies are on wooden stakes they tend to bounce around a bit and makes it harder to hit them. When zombies are on the spikes it breakes there legs quickly and they turn into crawlers and they tend to spin around on the spikes and it makes it hard to pick them off.

[FancyLad]

Originally posted by WestBayKid:

Cool, what about just barb wire, seprate from fences? what is that used for?

Use advanced rotation on barbed wire to place it flat on the ground. This is great for slowing, de-legging and can even kill many zombies. It takes relatively little damage compared to spikes and has low upkeep.