Utility of iron spikes vs wood

[Rusalka]

I was looking into upgrading the spikes around my BM base, but it looks like on one of the 7d2d wikis, iron spikes are listed as having the same cumulative durability as wood. Is it practical, given the heavier resource use, to upgrade to iron spikes? Do they do more damage or have higher durability in practice?

[Lelo Mariin]

wood spikes are usefull for vulture killing on your roof
or for screamers around your base

iron spikes are a waste of resources unless you have to much iron lying around

its marginally usefull on horde-night, only to slow down the radiated feral ones.

[Macdallan]

The wikis aren't always up to date so I can't say if the data you saw is accurate or not. The iron spikes have a lot more health listed on the wiki than the wooden ones.

In my current game the iron spikes seem to last far longer than the wooden spikes do when enemies are running over them frequently. Wood spikes always seem to completely break down one level each time they get a "hit" and they are destroyed on the third "hit." From what I've seen while playing the iron spikes last much longer.

If you have loads of iron then it's worth upgrading the spikes to iron (or making iron instead of wood) but otherwise I think you're better off using other traps and wooden spikes since wood is very easy to harvest. I'm around day 100 in my current game and I don't use metal spikes very often, I'm still mostly using wood.

If you can make iron spikes you can make barbed wire barricades which slow zeds and seem to last quite a long time. I often put at least one electrical fence around a horde base since that stops them in their tracks for a couple seconds and makes it very easy to get headshots. You might be better off investing in those, or blade traps, instead of metal spikes.

[Rusalka]

Yeah, we're only day 30 vanilla, and possibly over-prepared for it. We used a robotic sledge to boop zombies into a series of bladetraps, plus 4 layers of wood spikes around the base. Horde nights are a breeze so far. We haven't used barbed wire yet, but that's a good idea.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Ren:

Yeah, we're only day 30 vanilla, and possibly over-prepared for it. We used a sledge to boop zombies into a series of bladetraps, plus 4 layers of wood spikes around the base. Horde nights are a breeze so far. We haven't used barbed wire yet, but that's a good idea.

Sounds like you've got a good handle on defending during the blood moon. It's actually a good thing if the horde nights are a breeze. It's far better to be over prepared because if you're not prepared enough you could lose everything if you're defending hordes from same place that you have your storage and crafting. Many players build storage/crafting bases and separate horde defense bases that aren't close enough to the horde base that there is any danger of the hordes wrecking their storage or crafting stations on horde nights.

[RasaNova]

If you can afford iron, use iron. Anything beyond basic zombie types will barely be slowed by wood.

[Amins]

I never find spikes, or traps in general, very useful. I lay down a bunch of spikes and the zombies just break a path through them in the first few minutes and totally avoid the rest. Blade traps break pretty quickly, too. And pretty soon, they're all just clustered up at the front door anyways.

I always just reinforce all my walls with concrete/steel, set up hatches at the front door and blast them when they get close. Eventually, once I have the resources and schematics, I make some SMG turrets and those help a bit when I have more 9mm ammo than I know what to do with. As long as I can get them to come to where I want them, I never make it to a point where my base is overrun.

[Captain Pike]

Eons ago we slapped down log spikes and upgraded them then called it a day. I miss them

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Pike:

Eons ago we slapped down log spikes and upgraded them then called it a day. I miss them

I remember using those quite often and if I remember correctly they were quite durable.

[Captain Pike]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by Pike:

Eons ago we slapped down log spikes and upgraded them then called it a day. I miss them

I remember using those quite often and if I remember correctly they were quite durable.

They were the lowest maintenance defense option, which is why I liked them. I hate repairing mid horde or spending the whole next day repairing after. Now I just fortify a nice building for each horde and call it good, way less work rn

[Oldman Deuce]

Originally posted by Ren:

Yeah, we're only day 30 vanilla, and possibly over-prepared for it. We used a robotic sledge to boop zombies into a series of bladetraps, plus 4 layers of wood spikes around the base. Horde nights are a breeze so far. We haven't used barbed wire yet, but that's a good idea.

I'm gonna say "boop" when I club a zombie from now on.

[Crashtian]

Originally posted by Pike:

Eons ago we slapped down log spikes and upgraded them then called it a day. I miss them

Long live Log Spike tips. They exist still in Darkness Falls, or maybe it was Classic Legacy.

By far the best defensive option for the cost / durability and aesthetic.

[Megakruemel[GER]]

Originally posted by Crashtian:

Originally posted by Pike:

Eons ago we slapped down log spikes and upgraded them then called it a day. I miss them

Long live Log Spike tips. They exist still in Darkness Falls, or maybe it was Classic Legacy.

By far the best defensive option for the cost / durability and aesthetic.

I love those spikes. You can put them on walls, into ditches, or just put them one block deep into the ground. The zombies will think it's normal ground and walk over them and sometimes dismember their legs. Super easy to repair, super easy to see which ones are damaged, too.
Really wished they made "easy mode stuff" like those optional for the vanilla game.

[Crashtian]

Originally posted by MegakruemelGER:

Originally posted by Crashtian:

Long live Log Spike tips. They exist still in Darkness Falls, or maybe it was Classic Legacy.

By far the best defensive option for the cost / durability and aesthetic.

I love those spikes. You can put them on walls, into ditches, or just put them one block deep into the ground. The zombies will think it's normal ground and walk over them and sometimes dismember their legs. Super easy to repair, super easy to see which ones are damaged, too.
Really wished they made "easy mode stuff" like those optional for the vanilla game.

In the long long ago.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=209415347

[Trulight911]

I miss the sticky tape hehehehe build a7 block high platgorm put sticky tape around it, and spikes under the bars, shoot em from above.