Question about spike walls.

[Preacher]

I read an old thread that said that spike walls won't damage wild dinos, even if they are attacking your base. I'm wondering if this is still the case? Would be nice to know before I go and spend hours building spike barricades around my walls.

I play on a private server with some friends, so I'm not worrier about protecting my base against players or tamed dinos. Just the random wild ones that creep up on my walls.

[Troa Barton]

Dinos won't attack your walls unless they have a reason to.
Beyond that though spike walls do in fact do damage, just not any noticeable amount.
They are best used as "field barricades" to protect your tames from dilos or raptors ect.
For your intended application though they are really just cosmetic.

[therealshakur]

i'm pretty surethey hurt wild animals, accidently kited a t-rex into a spike wall when trying to tame it, he then proceeded to try and eat it and withought me shooting a single arrow he ended up killing himself. the death might have been created by something else but not sure what it was since i cleared the area first.

[PocketYoda]

PvE they are useless..

[Kulkulaph]

Well I once saw a wild Rex attacking a huge spike wall from someone else next to us and it indeed damaged him.

[Falsedemise]

Spike walls do nothing to wild dinos.

[Bum King]

I spent hours building a spike wall barricade around my base. when a spino finally arrived and i decided to test it, he ran right over the barricade unaffected. Pretty much no clipped right throught it. luckily i had two trexes standing by in case anything went wrong, but when I looked it up and found out that it wasn't a glitch, that they really dont effect wild dinos, it really took the wind out of my sails.

I gave it some thought as to when they work and when they don't, and basically you need to build a wall first, then put spikes in front of it. The wall stops wild dinos, and when they attack the wall they wind up attacking the spikes. Only when they actually attack the spikes does it seem to hurt them. Spikes gives walls an ability to bite back. But even if it's designed to be that way, the item description is very misleading. It says it hurts anything that TOUCHES them, when if fact it doesn't even slow them down.

But on the other hand they're still kind of neccessary if you dont want to come home to your base to find a spino broke a hole through your wall and killed half ur dinos before it was taken down, and if you dont want to spend forever gather rocks to build a perimeter of stone. They're basically a jagged pill you gotta swallow, no pun intended. Unless, maybe, you could build a wall high enough that wild dinos were never able to see a reason to attack, but sometimes i feel like some of them. like the rex, attack structures for no apparant reason. Anyway, hope the devs make some changes. Good luck.

[AstroZombie]

I play on PVE (Official Server 441). I setup regular wooden spike walls around the outside of my base. Read numerous times on here how the spike walls do nothing to dinos. Was outside my base picking fiber when a 40 something argent attacked. Ran towards base and stabbed it a few times but ran off to get a drink so I was dying. The bird turned and attacked my spikes and killed itself on them. So make of it what you will...My thoughts are they only harm the dinos if the dinos actively attack it.

[Coneshot]

I tested this on SP. I built a 2x2 square of wooden spikes and then aggroed a bronto, he couldn't touch me and killed himself on the spikes (he damaged himself to the point where he stopped attacking and ran away till I took one down and he turned around to attack again, I replaced it as he got back and he killed himself)

[Falsedemise]

I watched a spino attack my metal spikes for 20 minutes without dying. They were changed about a month ago (when they stopped taking damage from dino attacks) to no longer do damage. When I asked about it, I was told that the devs intended them to not work on wild dinos because it made killing them too easy.

Edit: Uploading video evidence now.

[Dances With Ghouls]

It seems we still don't know what the current capabilities and future plans are for spike walls. A melee attack required by a dino has been mentioned by the devs I believe but the actual current game mechanics is unreliable or disabled sometimes. I too would like to know how to use them properly to protect my base and structures when playing local, official PVE, and official PVP servers. As the game currently stands it is very difficult to protect a structure, even a simple 2 x 2 house, from a large dino (e.g. - Spino, Rex, Alpha).

[PocketYoda]

I know for a fact they don't work in PvE i've had countless dinos poking through them for hours with no damage at all...

Even devs have stated that they do no damage in PvE. Apparently because people can kite them into them and get exp... but apparently its ok to do it in PvP even though that sounds like a piss poor way to level up...

[WaightZer]

On PVE spike walls do damage wild dinos.
Experiment it for at least an hour. 4 bronto, 3 carno, 3 rex, 1 spino, when they attack they died from spike walls spikes.
Before all that experiment, i was chilling right next to my spike wall, then when i turn, saw a wild rex try to get to me, stuck in the spike, then he proceed to bite (attack) the spike and died.

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by WaightZer:

On PVE spike walls do damage wild dinos.
Experiment it for at least an hour. 4 bronto, 3 carno, 3 rex, 1 spino, when they attack they died from spike walls spikes.
Before all that experiment, i was chilling right next to my spike wall, then when i turn, saw a wild rex try to get to me, stuck in the spike, then he proceed to bite (attack) the spike and died.

Official servers they do not hurt dinos..

[PocketYoda]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594820656472747281/#c594820656472755888

[WaightZer]

Originally posted by DanteYoda:

Originally posted by WaightZer:

On PVE spike walls do damage wild dinos.
Experiment it for at least an hour. 4 bronto, 3 carno, 3 rex, 1 spino, when they attack they died from spike walls spikes.
Before all that experiment, i was chilling right next to my spike wall, then when i turn, saw a wild rex try to get to me, stuck in the spike, then he proceed to bite (attack) the spike and died.

Official servers they do not hurt dinos..

I"m on OFFICIAL HARDCORE PVE, yes they do hurt WILD Dinos and as well as your own dinos.