Legacy:Palisade

Palisade
Vital statistics
Size	1 x 1
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Yeomanry
Object(s) Required	Initial Cornerpost: Block of Wood x100, Leather x10, Bone Glue x2, Rope x5 Subsequent Cornerposts: Block of Wood x30 Wall Sections: Block of Wood x3 Gate: Block of Wood x30
Repaired With	Block of Wood
Can be Lifted	No
Hit Points	2500
Soak Value	25
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A sturdy wall, hard to destroy without the aid of a Battering Ram for an average player.

• You will need at least 626 strength to damage it with your bare hands. (576 with a pickaxe, 484 with a sledgehammer.)

• You will need at least 36 strength to damage it with a battering ram solo. Two characters with 10 strength each is enough to do damage with a battering ram.

A pickaxe does not help while using a battering ram, according to loftar.

How to Acquire

Build > Walls and Fences > Palisade

Begin by constructing a corner post on a paved tile. The post must set for 12 real time hours before further construction can continue. Once the post is set, right click on the corner post to expand the wall.

Two empty tiles with corner posts on either side make building a gate possible (see notes for extra information). Once a gate has been built, the character laying the final touch on the gate will receive a Key for it.

A corner post has the option of being sealed after being built. This prevents any additional extensions from being built off that post. Warning: sealing a corner post is permanent. It is highly recommended to complete a palisade as quickly as possible and then seal the corner posts. Many players looking to cause problems will seal corner posts left open (usually the first corner post being built and left too long) or extend a wall closing in a gate in the case of a completed wall.

Notes

• All palisades, cornerposts and gates must be constructed on paved tiles.

• Each gate requires its own unique key to be opened, one key is received for free upon completion of the gate. Keys can be named. If you want additional keys then you will have to copy them via the use of a Key-Mold. Each copy will require a nugget of metal.

• If you finish by building your gate with the first and last palisade corner post you will only have to build one initial corner post, additional gates will require more cornerposts.

• You only need to build 1 initial palisade cornerpost to make a rectangular wall with 1 outer gate, not 4, unless you want 4 outer gates. If you take some time planning/drawing it out, you could build other outer gates with just 1 initial cornerpost but this would separate the inside of your palisade into different parts.

• Seal all of your cornerposts and keep the materials to make a battering ram spare to prevent yourself from being sealed in by griefers. This can not be stressed enough.

• A palisade is only a stop-gap measure for defense on the way to a brick wall. Players with enough strength to break a palisade by hand start becoming common within a couple of months after a server start.

• For practice, one may try building a small Roundpole Fence. The game mechanics for building the fence, Palisade, and Brickwall are identical. If you make a mistake with the fence, it's easy to see where you goofed up and correct.

• When the gate building process is completed. The gate-key is given to the character that did the final action. (When multiple characters are participating in the building process. This can be any of those participating characters.)

• A "double gate" or "wagon gate" can be created with a little creative work, a couple extra players, and a battering ram. (This means you'll need enough Str and time to break two of the posts built.) For a graphical example, see a post on the HnH forums: http://www.havenandhearth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20407&p=244710&hilit=+wagon+gate#p244710