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Log Spikes
The old log spikes are back: a sharpened log that stands a full block tall, hurts whatever walks into it and outlasts the small spike traps by a long way. You know how to make them from day one.
How it works
- Wood Log Spike: 15 wood, in your backpack. Scrap Iron Log Spike: 40 scrap iron, in your backpack. No magazine, no perk, no workbench.
- Upgrade one with a repair tool, step by step: Wood (10 wood) to Reinforced Wood, 20 scrap iron to Reinforced Wood Metal, 40 scrap iron to Scrap Iron, 40 scrap iron to Reinforced Scrap Iron, and 10 forged steel to the Steel Log Spike.
- Each step hits a little harder and takes far more punishment: 200 health in wood, 1,000 in scrap iron, 10,000 in steel.
- Anything that walks into one is Spiked for a few seconds: it bleeds a little health and stamina. That includes you.
- A broken spike drops back a step instead of vanishing (steel to reinforced scrap, and so on). Repair them with the material of their step.
Tips
- They are solid blocks: rows of them make a wall the dead have to chew through while it chews them.
- Wood spikes burn as fuel; the metal ones give scrap back when destroyed.
- Each hit is small. Their strength is that they keep working all night.