Stronger Walls And Barricades [B41]

Player constructed furniture, containers and walls now have around 3 to 5 times more health and barricades have even more hit points / last longer. This works on all Playstyles and Challenges, without having to adjust the Sandbox Construction Strength option.

Already existing / built furniture, containers, walls and barricades won’t have the updated stats! You will either have to rebuild or repair stuff in ongoing saves or start a new game for all stats to update correctly. Unbreachable Log Walls might be the exception to this rule.

On Sandbox specifically, Construction Strength will further increase or decrease new health values from this mod, depending on chosen options, though it doesn’t affect barricades at all.

Three different options to choose from, you can use/activate them separately or all at once:

All wooden furniture, containers and walls have around 3X – 5X more health. Plank / Metal barricades are now 10X stronger. This option also increases the Carpently Level health bonus from 50 to 100 (for each level) and the Handy Trait health bonus from 100 to 1000 extra HP.

Option only affects Barricades!
Plank/Metal barricades are 100X stronger. 1 Plank = 1000 HP | 1 Metal Sheet/Bar = 10000 HP

Isn’t this overpowered, you ask? Not really, here’s why. With the original / vanilla barricades, it takes 1 Zombie around 30 in-game minutes to break down 1 Metal Sheet. With the Main Option above, it will take 1 Zombie 5 in-game hours to break it instead. With this option, it should take around 50 in-game hours, just above 2 whole days for that to happen. But, here’s the catch…

Each window or door can be attacked by around 5-6 Zombies at once, which will reduce the time to break 1 Metal Sheet down to around 1 hour with the Main Option or around 10 hours with this option. These times are doubled if you barricade windows and doors on both sides. So you can rest easy for a while, but eventually you’ll have a horde of Zombies coming your way.

DO NOT USE BOTH VERSIONS AT THE SAME TIME. This is a different version of the above Extremely Strong Barricades option that directly modifies game files. Use this version if you get weird bugs with plank or metal barricades. AND if you want less or custom health on barricades:

STEP 1 – Delete the POETStrongBarricades.lua from [POET] Stronger Player Constructions, if you have that mod/option enabled. The original Extremely Strong Barricades must be disabled.

STEP 2 – Open ClientCommands.lua from this mod, then edit the metal:setCondition(X) and plank:setCondition(X) lines inside that file. Replace X with your desired barricade health.

Option only affects Log Walls!
Zombies will now ignore and won’t damage wooden Log Walls. Log Poles are also likely unbreakable by Zombies. They can still burn down and get damaged in other ways.

I have no idea how Metal Walls or Metal Furniture is exactly affected.
(Probably still 2X stronger than wood, the exact values elude me.)

If you try to build barricades only through Cheat Menu options, they won’t have the increased health bonus. This might also apply to other constructions. I’ll make a patch for this later.

Workshop ID: 2508717129
Mod ID: POETConstructionBuff
Mod ID: POETExtremeBarricades
Mod ID: POETIgnoredLogWalls
Tags:B41,Tweak,Easy,Easier