How much strength is needed to hearthbash?

[Jacob_Lee]

Some fag built his hearth fire in my place and I was wondering how much strength I needed to bash and destroy it with a pickaxe. Preferably, I want to be able to destroy it in only a few minutes.

[Mashadar]

You'll need 16 strength.

[painhertz]

I thought it was 35?? Or is that to operate a ram?

[kralmir]

You'll need 16 strength.

give more detailed info or don't type a reply, you are not helping the situation like that.


anyway you need to get past 5 soak, so you gotta do 6 damage. a hand axe does 1 so you need 5. 5x5 = 25 str needed.

IF you have a pickaxe then that adds 2 damage so you need 4x4 = 16str.

[MagicManICT]

I thought it was 35?? Or is that to operate a ram?

You're getting a lot of numbers confused there.

You only need base strength to operate a ram. The question of how much Str you need is what you're trying to destroy. For a palisade, you'd need 36 strength solo or a team of 4 people with 10 strength. (A 2 or 3 man is in the middle somewhere.)

A hearth fire has a soak of 5, so that means you need 36 str to deal 1 damage to it without any tools. Since everyone has a stone axe, it lowers the str needed to 25. A pick axe or sledgehammer would help even more, 16 and 4 str respectively.

[painhertz]

I thought it was 35?? Or is that to operate a ram?

You're getting a lot of numbers confused there.

You only need base strength to operate a ram. The question of how much Str you need is what you're trying to destroy. For a palisade, you'd need 36 strength solo or a team of 4 people with 10 strength. (A 2 or 3 man is in the middle somewhere.)

A hearth fire has a soak of 5, so that means you need 36 str to deal 1 damage to it without any tools. Since everyone has a stone axe, it lowers the str needed to 25. A pick axe or sledgehammer would help even more, 16 and 4 str respectively.

Ah....Thanks.

[Saphireking65]

You'll need 16 strength.

give more detailed info or don't type a reply, you are not helping the situation like that.


anyway you need to get past 5 soak, so you gotta do 6 damage. a hand axe does 1 so you need 5. 5x5 = 25 str needed.

IF you have a pickaxe then that adds 2 damage so you need 4x4 = 16str.

Wrong. You don't do damage in intervals of one. You can do 5.001 damage, and that will hurt the fire, so you REALLY need a minimum of 10 str in order to damage a HF with a pickaxe, but you will only be doing .16 damage per hit.

[kralmir]

You'll need 16 strength.

give more detailed info or don't type a reply, you are not helping the situation like that.


anyway you need to get past 5 soak, so you gotta do 6 damage. a hand axe does 1 so you need 5. 5x5 = 25 str needed.

IF you have a pickaxe then that adds 2 damage so you need 4x4 = 16str.

Wrong. You don't do damage in intervals of one. You can do 5.001 damage, and that will hurt the fire, so you REALLY need a minimum of 10 str in order to damage a HF with a pickaxe, but you will only be doing .16 damage per hit.

ye.... no. tested it repeatedly. a 10str alt with a pickaxe can not damage his own hearthfire.

i am sure a 10str character would have done some damage after 10 stam bars. it did none.

aka: damage IS done in INTERVALS OF ONE

[Mashadar]

Yeah, almost everything in the game is integer-based, damage included.

[Saphireking65]

Damage isn't. It didn't seem like you were doing damage cause a HF has a shit ton of hit points. I can smack a fire with a sledge for a few hits before the color starts to change, and I do about 14 damage a hit.