Stone Paths are damaged by rain?

[Kragevalgt]

Is it possible to make it so paths are not damaged by rain? Particularly for stone paths which require stone to make and upkeep?

[Draconis]

Stone paths are not damaged by rain.
So whatever did harm to your stone path - it was not the rain.

[Kragevalgt]

The wiki says otherwise. Also they seem to have dirt show up on them overtime. Why do you say thats incorrect?

[Draconis]

Because I never saw stone paths get damaged by rain in my roughly 1600 hours in this game.

Also, the wiki neither says here https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Paved_road nor there https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Stone_structures that stone paths would be damaged by rain.

That dirtlike look on your paved road (if that's the stone path you are talking about) might be from terraforming or cultivating activities near your paved road. This can sometimes overlap a bit and your road looks a bit dirty.

[Kragevalgt]

Between size and crafting materials is a box that says "Damaged by Rain?" and below that question is the word yes. On the link you sent for Paved road.

[Draconis]

To be honest I am not sure if the wiki is really correct in that regard. According to the wiki even the paths you make with the "pathen" tool would be damaged by rain. And I never saw any of these being damaged by rain.

[Draconis]

I just did an experiment on this:

made a piece of paved road right next to my stonecutter, both exposed to rain.
Set weather to rain via devcommands and waited until the damage the stonecutter took resulted in a visible change.

The paved road did not change. Not the slightest. I built a fresh paved road overlapping so I would see a difference - but there was none.

Also, I am not sure how something that does not have health points can actually be damaged.

Do you have a screenshot of a damaged path or paved road?

[iamoffline1]

Also from the wiki under Decay [valheim.fandom.com] it says:

"If wooden building sections are not covered during rain, are not linked to a roof, or are submerged in water, they will decay to a maximum of 50% durability and will seem rotting until fixed. When exposed to rain, defensive structures do not rot decay. Stone, black marble, and crystal structures will not decay when wet or submerged.

Building the desired structure's roof first, with the appropriate supports and foundation in place, will aid with constructions lasting days or weeks if rain is a worry".

And no, as far as I'm concerned - haven't heard of health for the paths either. I imagine that would've been mentioned at least a dozen of times by now, since there's so many builders in the community.
Edit: And if it had health, wouldn't we need to be able to repair it like pretty much anything else? That'd be a lot of work tho ...

[Draconis]

Another thing.... if you translate the pages for paved road and pathen on the wiki, the information about rain damage is not there.

I guess the wiki is just wrong about that.