Collect firewood from "firewood racks"

[Mark Darkers 151]

Hi, I had an idea for the firewood racks found at houses.

What if we could search for firewood there? This could be handy for survivors without an axe to chop it themselves.

 

For the people wondering about it being to easy or overpowered, please bear with me.

It won't be to easy or overpowered because one would have to : A: either make a campfire close to a civilian area (higher risk) or B: Walk a very long distance to collect the wood and walk the same distance back to camp.

 

So this could be a solution for survivors without an axe or other tools, you can basically search for kindling on the ground, find racks, search a wood rack and voila, you can make your own campfire without tools.

 

 

And whomever wants to survive a longer time and decides to head deep into the woods, they would still need an axe, because this way you can manage your own wood safely away from civilian areas.

 

When eventually persistent tents and stuff are in the game, one could keep his tools in camp.

 

 

What do you guys think? (Please explain your opinion).

 

Edit:

Good suggestions:

 

Draco122 suggested: 

• Like Berry bushes, it's a percentage chance to find a single block of "usable" firewood
• Or log piles such as this are limited on each server start, each holding X number of firewood logs

Edited June 23, 2014 by Mark Darkers

[minime1000 78]

Agree

 

Would add to the interactivity in the gameworld which DayZ seriously lacks.

[pilgrim* 3514]

 

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Hi, I had an idea for the firewood racks found at houses.

What if we could search for firewood there?

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yes - completely logical

nice idea

[Nesuma (DayZ) 108]

I guess this is the way they're going, regarding the apple trees and berry bushes. Nice!

[Draco122 412]

Two ideas towards this:

 

• Like Berry bushes, it's a percentage chance to find a single block of "usable" firewood
• Or log piles such as this are limited on each server start, each holding X number of firewood logs

[Mark Darkers 151]

 

Two ideas towards this:

 

• Like Berry bushes, it's a percentage chance to find a single block of "usable" firewood
• Or log piles such as this are limited on each server start, each holding X number of firewood logs

 

Yea, I had your first suggestion in mind, like most of the logs are rotten and you have to search for a good one, with a percentage change of getting a good one.

 

But maybe the second one is better, having a prefixed number of logs, this way multiple models could be created of the racket, with  3 stages representing different amounts of logs left.

 

I'l add them to the original post.