Palisade Building

[Silverwind]

With the rather high material costs for an initial cornerpost, I was thinking of first building as many connected cornerposts as I can, then use a battering ram to knock down walls where I want a gate to avoid building more than one initial cornerpost (to minimize materials needed). I would like to get a second opinion on whether this is a feasible approach.

How far can battering rams move? According to the wiki, they break down after moving a certain distance. Can they be repaired after breaking down? With my current plan, there are at least 2 gates that need to be made with the described approach.

[Kokaiin]

Each subsequent cornerpost after the original only needs 30 wood blocks. What is that, one tree? I just think you'll be wasting your time building a battering ram when you only have to make one new cornerpost instead of two.

[Moogie]

Do not attempt this with less than 100 buffed strength and a pickaxe, or you will never deal any damage to the wall. Even so, you'll spend multiple full stamina bars and probably a couple of hours of ramming before a single wall piece will fall.

IMO, it is much, much less effort to just build another cornerpost than do this, particularly with a relatively young character. Rams aren't much cheaper to build than a cornerpost, after all.

@Kokain: You missed his point. Re-read.

[Gromit]

I am trying to build my palisade walls aswell, there are a few Q's i have.

1. can you simply destroy one of the palisade walls you made by clicking the destroy button, like it works with round-pole fences?
2. If you want to build a gate, can you just build a cornerpost, then 2 more wall tiles, and then another cornerpost and "destroy (with the adventure -> destroy)" button, then build a gate?
3. If built on paved ground, how long until i need to repair them
4. why cant i connect to the games server?

[Salinn]

I am trying to build my palisade walls aswell, there are a few Q's i have.

1. can you simply destroy one of the palisade walls you made by clicking the destroy button, like it works with round-pole fences?
2. If you want to build a gate, can you just build a cornerpost, then 2 more wall tiles, and then another cornerpost and "destroy (with the adventure -> destroy)" button, then build a gate?
3. If built on paved ground, how long until i need to repair them
4. why cant i connect to the games server?

1. Yes and No. Only if you are very high strength + buffs can you even think about taking down a palisade wall with just yourself and a pickaxe. If you click "destroy" it will make a feeble attempt, but nothing will happen (most likely, but then again if you've been around long enough to have a character this strong then you wouldn't be asking these questions in this forum). You'll need a ram and possibly quite a few people with high strength to destroy a palisade wall.
2. Again, you "could" do this in theory, but you'll really need the ram. Just build a new cornerpost on the other side instead.
3. All palisades must be on paved ground, and it is a random decay hit for when to repair them, just watch for them to turn a slightly pink color or darker and then repair them. Sometimes it seems you fix the same section every other day, sometimes when you're waiting for a palisade to decay you wait for a month for any of the walls to come down.
4. Uh...dunno. Currently the server is up, so try again.

[Gromit]

what type of high str? 60+ ? oh and 1 more thing, im gonna need alot more rope and leather arnt i if i want to make around 4 gates?

[Orpheus]

what type of high str? 60+ ? oh and 1 more thing, im gonna need alot more rope and leather arnt i if i want to make around 4 gates?

That would be 40 leathers and 20 ropes. That is, 200 strings. Oh boy. Ropes were the worst part when I built my palisade, gave up on the second gate.

[Gromit]

Really? so you'd advise me to have a large property and one gate near the river? and then over time make a battery ram and get some friends to help me knock down 4 walls to make 2 cornerposts and a gate (much later)

[Orpheus]

Well... as a newbie myself I would tell you that 2 gates is realistic, so you could try that. I have yet to see a place with 4+ gates, to be honest. Do you really need all of those?

[Gromit]

Guess your right -- im making my gate near the river and later one some friends will help me knock down if i got a batteryram if i need to make a new gate