entrenching tool

[dgabbless 0]

I picked up an entrenching tool at the NE airfield, does anyone know what it does?

[ThatGuy (DayZ) 47]

Dunno,

I don't think you can actually dig a trench or foxhole with it with ARMA2's engine so I'm thinking it's probably to fill sandbags or "dig" the super secret underground caches that are soon to be added.

[bodycount 83]

I found sandbags in Stary! I understand if you have both sandbags and the entrenching tool you can build some type of fortification. I could never find the damn entrenching tool though.

[orbital 10]

Dunno' date='

I don't think you can actually dig a trench or foxhole with it with ARMA2's engine so I'm thinking it's probably to fill sandbags or "dig" the super secret underground caches that are soon to be added.

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Now there's a sexeh thought! We need a way to stash our finest cans of beans! Tents are also cool, as long the stash doesn't dissapear on server restart.

For now the entrenching tool is nothing more than a token of exploration (or kill), thank god it doesnt take up a inventory slot but sits nicely next to the hunting knife and matches.

[dgabbless 0]

nice, ill hold onto it then and look forward to the future

[Felix (DayZ) 21]

Rocket said the trenches and sandbags will let you fortify a town and stay persistent on that server in a future patch. The tool I found didn't give any context options ever so I don't know that it lets you do temporary trenches now or not.

Something to look forward to, try keeping ahold of it.

[trauma.au 14]

I've had it as well, before some dog killed me while I had a pack of zombies after me. It says you need the engineer pack to do stuff with it.

[Felix (DayZ) 21]

Hmm, only seen patrol and assault packs. Wonder if the engi pack is in?

[AshB 2]

I found an Entrenching Tool on a corpse I looted...Never actually got to get a look at it because, as I expected, My life was ended before I could crawl away. Im never approaching a random dead body unless ive killed it again..

[kinex 1]

so much casual players....WTF

they speak like they don't even know arma... engi pack....THIS IS NOT BATTLEFIELD...

i hope arma 3 gets s HARD to to play and boring you casuals will go back to the witcher bitchjer or your gay Skyrim

[alienfreak 6]

so much casual players....WTF

they speak like they don't even know arma... engi pack....THIS IS NOT BATTLEFIELD...

i hope arma 3 gets s HARD to to play and boring you casuals will go back to the witcher bitchjer or your gay Skyrim

+1 for this post :)

ArmA 3 without Counterstrike Aimpoints at your screen, without 3rd person, with real electronic warfare in to aim missiles with...

[oilman 72]

And yet the helicopter and vehicle system is entirely unrealistic, along with the movement system, and the medical system. I don't hear any complaints that seriously injured limbs cannot be repaired properly without weeks of therapy.

Really, the idea that playing a game that is more 'casual' than another is some kind of crime is absurd, because there are always games out there that are more 'hardcore' than the ones you enjoy. I have been playing this series since Operation Flashpoint, and absolutely adore it, but I still play Peggle every now and then.

[r6b 0]

or when u break a bone take morphine and it go all better:P i rather love it actually

[Hoboleader 22]

lol "casual gamer" wtf. ok im sure a gaming company will make a game just for the hardcore players only...

[r6b 0]

I think its the opinion of the word Hardcore players ,

They target a specific group of ppl , so if there are hardcore games to others it doesn't mean that they are for us

[Greasymullet 7]

so much casual players....WTF

they speak like they don't even know arma... engi pack....THIS IS NOT BATTLEFIELD...

i hope arma 3 gets s HARD to to play and boring you casuals will go back to the witcher bitchjer or your gay Skyrim

"Waah DayZ has brought tons of attention to my average game so Arma 3 can be even better"

Seriously.... you sound like an ass.

[unster 1]

I have already succesfully used the entrenching tool to build a wall.

You need to have it, obviously, and the sandbag. Right click on the sandbag, you will build a low sandbag wall.

I know it says on the entrenching tool description that you need to have an engineer backpack. But there is no engineering backpack on the game. I believe they will fix it later.

[bonafide 2]

I have already succesfully used the entrenching tool to build a wall.

You need to have it' date=' obviously, and the sandbag. Right click on the sandbag, you will build a low sandbag wall.

I know it says on the entrenching tool description that you need to have an engineer backpack. But there is no engineering backpack on the game. I believe they will fix it later.

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do sandbags have multiple uses or is it a one time only deal? If its a 1 time deal can you break down your sandbag wall and take the sandbag back?

[The Wolf (DayZ) 0]

so much casual players....WTF

they speak like they don't even know arma... engi pack....THIS IS NOT BATTLEFIELD...

i hope arma 3 gets s HARD to to play and boring you casuals will go back to the witcher bitchjer or your gay Skyrim

If there was such thing as a "gaming hipster" this guy would be it. In fact, if there's not, there is now, and it's this guy.

[Azrail (DayZ) 211]

so much casual players....WTF

they speak like they don't even know arma... engi pack....THIS IS NOT BATTLEFIELD...

i hope arma 3 gets s HARD to to play and boring you casuals will go back to the witcher bitchjer or your gay Skyrim

looks like you don't even know arma, better educate yourself before you talk nonsense in offtopic, i didn't even use one and already know what that guy was talking about...

back to topic: can anyone explain in detail how this stuff works?

i have seen a fence in my very first days, i guess its one time use?

if i have the shovel and a sandbag, how much of a wall can i build with that? i guess if i need like 20 sandbags to build a 1m x 1m wall its not gonna pay off :S

also, is there any limitation to place sandbags? like build them next to trees to incorporate them into a wall, or build them at castle gates etc..

can you stack multiple walls? like build one, and build another one on top?

will this stuff survive server restarts like tents?

maybe someone could place a tutorial on youtube :)

[willcyd 17]

My personal experiences:

One sand bag makes 2m long sandbag's wall, when You remove this wall, it disappears and does not spawn back in You inventory,

Zombies path finding makes them run around sandbag fences, but if there is no possible way, they sometimes walk over bag fences (is it bug?),

Unlike the wirefences, sandbags do not create graphical bugs,

Unlike the wirefences or tents, sandbags spawn perpendicularly to You (making the point just in front of You a middle of sandbag that goes left and right),

You can use v to walk over sandbag fence, just like with any other fences in game,

You seem to need Entrenching tool to build or remove sandbag fences,

No engineering backpack is needed to use sandbags.

[kebman 213]

Strangely, entrenching tools and sandbags are so rare, that... Well, I don't get it. It's, like, potato sacks with dirt sand in them. You don't even need a shovel most of the time. But hey, it's just a game.

Edited October 10, 2012 by kebman

[Jex =TE= (DayZ) 218]

And yet the helicopter and vehicle system is entirely unrealistic, along with the movement system, and the medical system. I don't hear any complaints that seriously injured limbs cannot be repaired properly without weeks of therapy.

Really, the idea that playing a game that is more 'casual' than another is some kind of crime is absurd, because there are always games out there that are more 'hardcore' than the ones you enjoy. I have been playing this series since Operation Flashpoint, and absolutely adore it, but I still play Peggle every now and then.

I take my PC out in the woods with a generator and I LIVE dayz. The PC never gets turned off, NEVER! I sleep by it with the speakers turned up. Many a night I have been woken by the sound of something and grabbed my airsoft rifle....

If I light my camp fire rl, I have to light one in game. If I eat any food in game, I eat it rl (I hate beans btw and I've put on 200lbs). Only noodles, beans of sardines I allow myself.

Only noobs play dayz at home...

[puppetworx 474]

The trick is to acquire both an Entrenching Tool and Sandbags before you die and lose your loot.

Easier said then done.

so much casual players....WTF

they speak like they don't even know arma... engi pack....THIS IS NOT BATTLEFIELD...

i hope arma 3 gets s HARD to to play and boring you casuals will go back to the witcher bitchjer or your gay Skyrim

'Engi pack' was a retard comment but if you don't like Skyrim you can just suck a bag of dicks kind sir.

Epic thread derail.

[joeoblong@yahoo.com 614]

Whoa necro! But kudo's for using the search function! Beans just for that!