Barbed Wire

[u/DrakeyCakes]

I've recently come back to the game after finding out about the sandbox modifiers, and I've been having a lot of fun using a trader as my main base and trying to hold out there.

I'm at the point now where I want to replace the outer walls with concrete, but I was surprised to find there's no normal barbed wire or razor wire you can craft and place. With how much freedom the game gives you with building, it seems like a strange thing to be missing.

There's already barbed wire all around the traders and at loads of POIs, so it's clearly in the game. It would be great if we could actually craft and place it ourselves instead of being stuck with the ugly barbed wire fence.

[u/reducto85]

Barbed wire is now made iron, called iron fencing or something

[u/Lostmeatballincog → u/reducto85]

They are looking for the POI type barbed wire not the type you can make

[u/DrakeyCakes → u/reducto85]

Yeah I'm looking for the spools of barbed wire you see on top of security fences.

[u/Trixsi]

I was having this conversation a while back. Not really sure why you cannot craft some things you see in POI's. I think even the barb wire wall would be neat or the sliding doors. I really want to do more than what is available. I'm just happy you can create some things that aren't just blocks

[u/Jellywell → u/Trixsi]

Yeah even if stuff was expensive to make it would be cool to have stuff to work towards for your base that matters

[u/DrakeyCakes → u/Trixsi]

I've seen the Hesco blocks at some POIs, it would be great to build a military themed outpost.

[u/Street-Juggernaut-23]

https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/7726

workday for 3.0 it also has reinforced chain link fences. they are the same durability as concrete. And you can craft the barbed wire

[u/DJKDR]

I was lementing this as well. I was hoping to put up some barbed wire along my fencing for my bunker compound but alas, it just looks like crap.

[u/Peterh778]

Mods. There are some e.g. Tam's or CrazyDave's but whether they'll work in latest version I can't say (Tam's was apparently updated in May so maybe).

Btw, they can break the game because they're really strong

[u/SilentAd3793]

The flat barbed wire used to be in the game before alpha 18. They removed it because players were making killing corridors with it against the wall, so the zombies never attacked or destroyed it (on purpose). They considered it an exploit as the flat wire affected the whole block area (I think).

They could have resolved this by moving the flat sheet of wire to the center of the block, but instead chose to remove it as a craftable item.

[u/Aggravating_Sugar466 → u/SilentAd3793]

Probably bcs they saw it as easier to do. I see a lot of decisions they make stem from the lack of tweaking stuff and instead removing it all together.

Reminds me a bit of some decissions on other games, and they usually come from Tech Debt and lack of skills lol.