Fence ?

[Knobipresse]

Is there any way that fence don´t break ?
( without mods )

[Krosis]

no. they could always break after a certain amount of time. Just use hardwood fences if you have the recipie.

[drizzan]

Hardwood fences + spouse = almost guaranteed that you never have to repair the fence again, you would have to be really unlucky and not have the spouse randomly repair the fence for 260-300 days.

[PhilkIced]

Hardwood fences take 2 years to break.

[Lurlex]

I'd really like someone to explain the point of fences at all to me (they seem to be of great concern to a lot of players, but for the life of me ... unless I want to raise wandering livestock, I *REALLY* don't see the actual in-game benefit of them).

If they break so much, why build them when they don't actually help anything?

[PhilkIced]

Originally posted by Lurlex:

I'd really like someone to explain the point of fences at all to me (they seem to be of great concern to a lot of players, but for the life of me ... unless I want to raise wandering livestock, I *REALLY* don't see the actual in-game benefit of them).

If they break so much, why build them when they don't actually help anything?

I do just for immersion and aesthetics, and used them to keep my animals away from the grass that I didn't want them to eat, but they're really not much usefull.

But after you are married and using hardwood fences you can completely forget that they break, because they never will.

[Moz]

Yeah it's aesthetic only, in the old harvest moon games you would want to build fences because you had to MANUALLY push each animal into and out of the barn. So having animals wandering all over your fields was a true inconvenience. In Stardew the developer has THANKFULLY made it so animals manage going into and out of the barns themselves, but at the expense of invalidating any true "need" for fences. I still use stone fences at the moment but will probably switch to hardwood soon soon after I get the last house upgrade.

[Macdallan]

Degrading fences feel like they only force even more resource grinding. You should be able to repair fences before they fall apart for 50% of the resources used to make them in the first place and they should degrade at a reasonable rate, not the ridiculous speed they do now. I've personally seen stone "fences" that have been around for hundreds of years that still don't need repairs. In this game, a year or so goes by and they start to degrade? Wooden fences last years and years, but in this game they start to fall apart less than a year after you build them.

They are mostly for the looks of the game. Ever since they started falling apart on me I've basically stopped using them because it's just one more chore to maintain them when I've got other things to do - things that are a lot more fun than rebuilding a broken fence.

I read that your spouse can fix fences - so why can't I do it? Or ... why can't I hire the carpenters to come over and, for a per-block fee, inspect and repair my fences - re-setting the timer on them? I'd pay them a few thousand once a year to make sure nothing would fall apart on me. As much as fences are not necessary, I like the way they look and like to restrict the movement of my livestock... they're just not worth the effort of tearing them down completely and re-building them again.

[teravisor]

Use something instead of fences that doesn't break? Light lightning rods or sprinklers or whatever... You would still have to make a gate from fence, but, well, restoring 3 fence tiles against 100 is a huge difference.

[EnigmaticBeast]

it's actually not aestetic only, not only does it stop the wild grass from spreading outside your barn animals but it actually adds to the protection of your animals and crops, wild weeds can't destroy your crops and fences decrease the chances that a coyote will come in and kill your animals should you decide to leave the doors open constantly, multiple buildings also decrease this chance as well, to clarify about the weeds, I had a field of parsnips and one of the little bushes that you cut for fiber had popped up in one of the spots where a parsnip was and destroyed the plant