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Traps,Trenches and Siege equipment etc.


Comrade Crimson

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Right, so I had the thought where one could make some defensive constructions for one's lil stronghold, and some other nifty traps for animals and trespassers alike.

 

What I was thinking is suggesting the following:

 

Bow mechanism traps, like the one in this video:

 

 

And defensive trenches, where someone can dig them and zombies will fall in them but can't get out properly, and possibly could have spikes to have them get impaled upon some sharpened wooden poles. From what I understand there is an issue with digging down/making basements in the game so visually perhaps we could just have it where if zombies or people run into the spiked trenches they will play an animation of getting impaled in it, or they could even make a moat by filling said trench with water.

 

Which brings me to my next suggestion.

 

Drawbridges, and buildable ladders and ramps. Say you want to have a mechanism controlling a bridge that you operate via a crank or rope of some kind? Want to secure your fort for the night and close it down? Well with a drawbridge you can, as the bridge would lower and act as a floor to walk across such dangerous things such as spiked trenches or moats.

 

And on that note, what about more variations of doors, or perhaps full on gates? Reinforced doors and gates should be an option for any post apocalyptic frontier stronghold, we are after all surviving in a zombie apocalypse with hordes of ravenous corpses and opportunistic survivors and raiders and their own warbands, seeking to pillage our own crafted or siezed homes for their own prolonged survival. And maybe making doors out of scrap metal wouldn't be a far fetched idea either, as we already have plenty of mods that include forging into the game.

 

And say you got a really tempting fort to siege perhaps? Perhaps that fellow whose got his drawbridge closed up or his sheet rope all tucked away and maybe there is a gap, maybe a ramp you can deploy would be in order to walk across a pit, or a ladder to climb up a wall? We of course in the game right now can make stairs and little siege towers and ramparts to get inside a base but its all very ad hoc and hardly transportable by any means, as you have to lug around several planks of wood and lots of nails just to construct a siege tower, which is hardly efficient when in real life the equipment to besiege a fort on a basic level wasn't terribly complex.

 

Obviously building siege engines in this would be a stretch, so catapults, trebuchets, ballistas and full battering rams are likely a no go, but I then thought as well, what if we had police battering rams in game? And maybe a person could make a basic one man battering ram for themselves, where it takes a lot of exertion to swing it but it can smash through doors specifically with relative ease.

 

Crowbars to some effect should also have an animation to try and wedge doors open, with great exertion of course and would add more use for them ingame.

 

 

Sort of like these if you will:

 

 

Which would be able to be found here and there as police, fire departments and military all utilize tools like these for very practical purposes.

 

And maybe some defenses for a perspective stronghold? Perhaps some pitfall traps made for a 2nd story floor or higher with trench spikes below said pitfall or just the sheer drop alone doing the job. A person walks on said floorboard and then it drops, and perhaps the way to avoid it is by perhaps visually looking carefully at the floorboards and then seeing how it doesn't quite look right, and maybe to counter this, safety ropes could be introduced to where you tie yourself to a wall, window or some other object. Such a thing would have uses outside of sieges too, maybe you're constructing a tower to oversee your humble abode or climbing a structure and you risk plummeting to your death, so instead you get some rope or lots of chord or clothe to make a little safety rope tied around yourself, with primitive versions ensuring you don't fall to your death but may hurt you from the sheer amount of constriction applied when you fall and snap back, while more advanced versions are a proper harness that'll prevent you from falling down and stressing your body from the snap back of the safety rope. Once your fall has been stopped, hanging there, you can perhaps climb your way back up or just simply let yourself down.

 

 

 

 

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