Electric fence post degradation ?

[Akatosh]

Hello

I noticed that my electric fences are breaking without any reason (the post are well hidden behind the wall).

Is there a kind of degradation, making them loosing HP each time an enemy is chocked ?

[Kiwicami]

I dont know what is up with the electric fences degrading each time it shocks something but i despise it, its not the post taking damage its the wire that is between post A and post B that is... WHY!?

After maybe 20 shocks max it just breaks and the wire between the posts is not "stretched" anymore so if you go through its the post that sparks and you're not shocked anymore.

Why is this a thing? It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You literally can't use it on horde night, let alone a screamer horde... You can't expect me to rewire the fence in the middle of a horde, seriously.

[CellNav]

First of all ... Not all the posts will lose durability, the post downstream between two will take the hit. I can give an example using 3 posts ... Wired in order, #1, #2, #3.

#1 post will never take a hit.
#2 post will take a hit when the zombie is between #1 and #2.
#3 post will take a hit when the zombie is between #2 and #3.

Post durability = 200.
Each hit = 0.5 point loss/second over 4.5 seconds (9 hits to durability max)
At 50 durability, the fence stops taking hits, the wire is gone (post never breaks).

IMO, the reason why the post takes the hit is to simulate wire degradation.
Having a wire never degrade = stupid when the zombie walks "across it".

[Andi]

No need to rewire anyway. Just build it so you can repair the last post in line during horde night. It's just one click with any repairtool. Just have forged iron and eparts on you.

[Kiwicami]

You dont understand. Its not the post that is getting damaged, i can't repair any posts because they didnt take any damage. The wire between post A and post B is hanging. I found out that its a bug that hasn't been fixed in almost a year, another thread created in april 2018 talks about this hanging wire between posts bug if the fence post is a block lower than where zombies would walk on...

[Andi]

Ah, now I know. Yeah right. Sometimes leaving the chunk and come back fixes it. Or log out and back in. Yeah, annoying.

[[PBS] MoZz]

You can change the "DamageReceived" value from "0.5" to "0.0"
Then the fence wont get damaged over time.

File is located here:
C:\Steam\steamapps\common\7 Days To Die\Data\Config\Blocks.xml

Find the block here in the file, you can find the damagereceived under
"<block name="electricfencepost">"


you can make a 100% afk base now or 100% save ammo, and prepare for the morning loot run base. xD

[Crater Creator]

This thread is over a year old and we've had a major alpha release in the meantime, so I'm closing this thread on grave digging grounds.