Cant chop a tree?

[Jess]

Im trying to just play a normal survival game offline and I can't break down any trees even with a stone axe. Does anyone know how to fix this or had this problem? Block durability is always set to %100 because everything else is fine at this durability...except the trees.

[Dies Fourth]

Is it making the " thunk thunk " sound as your hitting the tree ? A 600 fireaxe takes 1 or 2 hits to take down trees, stone axes take longer depending on quality.

[Brassqund]

The power of your axe depend of your level.
(your level x 10 + (between -50 and 50)

With a quality 1 axe, this is a pain to destroy trees.
Try to make a bow and kill some zombies to get a couple of levels.

[the_real_slim_shea_d]

the stone axes you start out making cut down a tree in roughly 25 hits, sometimes they break before that, so have a few of those on hand. Or can you just not chop down trees at all?

[oohbetty]

Originally posted by the_real_slim_shea_d:

the stone axes you start out making cut down a tree in roughly 25 hits, sometimes they break before that, so have a few of those on hand. Or can you just not chop down trees at all?

not cutting down trees with stone axes is the key, smash the bushes for the sticks, if you need burning mats,9 sticks makes 3 spikes that burn for 1m48s in total and take any sofa parts you see for fuel too

[Buntkreuz]

i experienced the same problem with offline games. When i was new to the game playing a bit offline doing any work with stone axes on trees was just weird, nothing doing at all. I once even tried out to get one tree down and destroyed 3 stone axes and then left the game because it seemed to be BS when you have to craft 3 axes for only a tree and the thing is still not down.

When i then started multiplayer with a friend i made the experience that it shouldnt take in any way that long. It was a smaller tree, not a big fat one in both situations. You should go for the smallest and youngest trees with stone axe to get wood. As soon as you can get a fireaxe then you need only a few hits to get a normal tree down. But overall i often think that the durability is gay in this game. You destroy one axe with only 2-3 trees. Sure you get better tools later. I still think the grey ones get down to quickly. I think they should change the durability thing and only let worse tools take longer to do the work, but not get faster broken.
Differently said, a grey tool should stay nearly as long usable as a better tool, but just need longer.
The overall durability mechanic of the game right now seems dull to me. After about 40+ hours playtime.

[Ragequit Inc.]

Also note that smaller trees take less hits. It's also adviced at the start to gather up enough materials to make stone axes until you get one close to the current max quality, at level 1 about 50-ish is ok, 60 being the max. It'll be quite a bit better than a quality '1' axe.