Player Woodpiles

VodkaFish · October 26, 2020

I have spent my first month in this game experimenting with base building as I loot the coast. One thing I have noticed is having a lot of things loose on the floor causes lag, a lot of lag, in the immediate area.

Side note: I can use this lag to spot hidden loot, players, bases. When the game takes a long time to render the surroundings in it shows players, loot, and bases, before buildings materialize. I can intentionally clutter the floor in an area and use this exploit, like xray vision, to clearly see my surroundings over a great distance. Fix please.

To reduce lag created in base building we should be allowed to make woodpiles of similar items. The game has wood pallets, this is the same idea except it would apply to firewood, short sticks, long sticks, logs, and player made planks. The piles should be large, it was not uncommon for me to have more than 40 logs at one time. I am thinking in terms of 100s for each pile.

Once a pile has been created it is immobile. There should be a feature, like crates have, to let us place the pile.

Additionally wood does not spoil like food, it dries, it seasons. It becomes better for burning and building. Construction companies don't build with freshly cut wood. Fireplaces don't burn well with freshly cut wood.

Wood piles should last at least 2 weeks, and indefinitely with a flag.

Wood piles should be able to be destroyed via dousing them in an accelerant like gasoline and igniting them or adding a campfire to them and igniting the two.

Having to store firewood for cooking, heating, etc, in some sort of container so it won't vanish is silly.

Edit: The piles of wood would not stack on each other. Additionally, they should provide little, to no, elevation so people can not exploit them to boost over walls.

Thank you.

Edited December 24, 2020 by VodkaFish

VodkaFish · October 26, 2020

Additionally you should be able to make sticks / kindling out of planks. You should be able to use planks as firewood as well. In real life, most people don't burn planks in their fireplaces because they are chemically treated and expensive. In the game they share neither of these qualities.

So, I say INTO THE FIRE!