Critique: Too strong decay!

[Grog]

i was away (on holiday) for two weeks...

now my claim [big claim, next to other claims, near strong village claim, all on paved ground...]
is nearly totally decayed!
timber house gone, wallgate gone, mansion close to death

thats too much i think!
im a pretty active gamelayer, but i have some rl (and so far you are not able to play h&h then )

[Coriander]

I agree with Grog on this.
The decay feature is great, but it is too assertive.

[sabinati]

only a madman would disagree

[Uriel]

same here, everyday starts from reperaing palisade and houses, what is the point of this grinding ? It just kills the game
I have a request for the devs ( and I think that most players) to lower dmg done by decay.

[Darkren]

Two weeks destroying a house? I'm sorry, this "random decay" shit isn't really working. :c

[burgingham]

I think the randomness is where the problem is at. I was gone for almost 3 weeks, and yes I had some repairs to do, but it wasn't that bad. One chest had vanished. Everything else outside was still ok. Beehives, timber house, you name it.

[ViciousGamer04]

i was away (on holiday) for two weeks...

now my claim [big claim, next to other claims, near strong village claim, all on paved ground...]
is nearly totally decayed!
timber house gone, wallgate gone, mansion close to death

thats too much i think!
im a pretty active gamelayer, but i have some rl (and so far you are not able to play h&h then )

I guess I am just lucky. I left a random base I made for about 2 months and checked it recently and it's not fully decayed, yet.

I even saw a base with a copper mine as i mentioned in another thread. It still has walls that haven't decayed since about 2 weeks after this world began.

[Jackard]

the decay can be too strong at times, but i think repairs being so tedious is the larger problem

[Brackwell]

Or perhaps repairing an object protects it from decay for a brief period of time?

[Danno]

Maybe it wouldn't be as bad if things were protected for a certain amount of time from their last repair/construction. For example, after building a timber house, it could last 5 (real life) days before it can even begin to decay. If you repair it to full after it decays some, it would be protected for another 5 days. Or I dunno if there's already something like this... I don't pay that much attention to every tool, building, and fence in my settlement. If there's already some set protection, it should last longer.