🎯 HD Corewood Fortified

HD Core Wood fortifications: palisade walls, roofed walls, gates, lift gates, drawbridges, fences, spikes, braziers, ziplines, a smarter ballista and more!

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✅ Recommended Plugins:

• MyBuildCamera by EndoCo.

Workbench

Walls

• Fortified Entrance: 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Fortified Wall: 40 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Fortified Wall Stairs: 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Fortified Wall Stairs (Alt): 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Fortified T-Junction: 40 Core Wood, 12 Wood
• Fortified Corner: 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Fortified Inner Corner: 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Fortified Curved Corner: 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Elevator Wall: 35 Core Wood, 12 Wood

Roofed Walls

• Roofed Entrance: 40 Core Wood, 10 Wood
• Roofed Wall: 40 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Roofed Stairs: 45 Core Wood, 12 Wood
• Roofed Stairs (Alt): 45 Core Wood, 12 Wood
• Roofed T-Junction: 50 Core Wood, 16 Wood
• Roofed Corner: 40 Core Wood, 10 Wood
• Roofed Inner Corner: 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Roofed Curved Corner: 40 Core Wood, 12 Wood

Internal Walls

• Internal Wall: 20 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Internal Doorway: 15 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Internal Corner: 20 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Internal Corner Curved: 20 Core Wood, 8 Wood
• Internal T-Junction: 30 Core Wood, 12 Wood

Fences

• Fortified Fence: 4 Core Wood
• Large Fortified Fence: 8 Core Wood
• Windowed Fortified Fence: 6 Core Wood
• Fortified Fence Gate: 4 Core Wood, 1 Bronze

Spikes

• Fortified Spikes: 2 Core Wood, 2 Wood

Forge

• Fortified Gates: 10 Core Wood, 6 Wood, 1 Bronze
• Fortified Drawbridge: 8 Core Wood, 20 Wood, 6 Chain, 4 Bronze
• Fortified Lift Gate: 10 Core Wood, 20 Wood, 8 Bronze
• Fortified Brazier Small: 2 Wood, 2 Iron, 5 Coal
• Fortified Brazier Large: 4 Wood, 2 Iron, 5 Coal
• Bronze Spikes: 2 Core Wood, 2 Wood, 2 Bronze
• Iron Spikes: 2 Core Wood, 2 Wood, 2 Iron

Towers

• Fortified Watchtower: 60 Core Wood, 20 Wood, 3 Iron

Drawbridges

• Large Fortified Drawbridge: 30 Core Wood, 8 Wood, 8 Chain
• Roofed Drawbridge: 40 Core Wood, 12 Wood, 8 Chain, 2 Iron

Chain Towers

• Small Chain Tower 8m: 12 Core Wood, 10 Wood, 1 Chain, 2 Iron
• Medium Chain Tower 15m: 20 Core Wood, 16 Wood, 2 Chain, 4 Iron
• Large Chain Tower 21m: 30 Core Wood, 24 Wood, 3 Chain, 6 Iron

Note: A build camera is recommended to place the towers!

Ziplines

• Zipline Post: 8 Core Wood, 2 Iron, 10 LinenThread

Defence

• Fortified Ballista: 10 Black Metal, 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 3 Mechanical Springs

Artisan Table

• Black Metal Spikes: 2 Core Wood, 2 Wood, 2 Black Metal

Black Forge

• Flametal Spikes: 2 Core Wood, 2 Wood, 2 Flametal

Frost Foundry

• Fortified Spikes Bloodgold: 2 Core Wood, 2 Wood, 2 Bloodgold

⛓️ Chain Towers:

Build two chain towers facing each other across the water and they link up on their own. Use the winch on either tower to raise a net of chains from the seabed, and use it again to lower it.

• While placing a tower, a preview line shows which tower it will link to, or why it can't (too far, too close, or not facing each other).
• Each size has its own reach: 15 m, 30 m or 60 m. Two towers of different sizes can link, up to the shorter of their two reaches. The towers must be at least 6 m apart.
• Hitting the net passes half the damage on to the two towers. If either tower is destroyed, the net goes with it.
• Each size's reach can be changed in the config, and chain towers can be turned off entirely.

Note: A build camera is recommended to place the towers!

🛗 Elevators:

Elevator Wall: a fortified wall with a built-in lift platform that carries players up to the top of the wall and back down.

Fortified Watchtower: a corner tower with a lift inside that stops at the ground, the first floor and the top.

• Use the platform itself to send it to the next stop, or simply step onto the platform and it moves on its own.
• Use a switch to call the platform to that switch's floor, or to send it on if it is already there.
• The Fortified Watchtower has a lever on each floor: pull it to call the platform to that floor. Every player sees the lever move.
• Anything standing on the platform rides with it, and the platform stays in step for every player on a server.
• Speed, automatic movement and sound volume can all be changed in the config, and elevators can be turned off entirely.

🪢 Ziplines:

Tie a rope between two zipline posts and ride it, hanging from a trolley.

• Hold the Alt Place key and press Use on a post to take a rope from it. Walk to another post and do the same to tie the rope there.
• Press Use at either post to ride. Downhill ropes speed you up; hold Forward to pull yourself along (this uses stamina), and Backward or Block to brake. Jump or Use lets go.
• A post holds up to four ropes by default. Look along the rope you want before pressing Use.
• Jump or fall into a rope away from the posts to catch it in mid-air.
• A rope is refused if it is too long, too steep, or a rider would hit the ground, water, trees or buildings on the way.
• Destroying a post takes its ropes down. If you log out while riding, you come back on the ground by a post.
• Rope length, speed, braking, stamina and more can be changed in the config, and ziplines can be turned off entirely.

🏹 Fortified Ballista:

A ballista on a raised Core Wood base. Load it with any vanilla bolt, and give it trophies to pick which creatures it shoots at, just like the vanilla ballista. On top of that:

• Predictive Aiming: it aims where a moving target will be when the bolt arrives, and allows for the bolt dropping on the way.
• Fast Turning: it gets up to speed and settles on its aim quickly, so it keeps up with moving targets and fires sooner.
• Homing Bolts: within 25 m of the target, bolts turn in flight towards it. They turn only so fast, so a dodging target can still be missed.
• Spare Buildings: bolts that miss do no damage to building pieces, so it cannot shoot down your own walls, towers or other ballistas.
• Auto Reload: when it is not full, it takes bolts from chests within 10 m, every few seconds. It only uses chests its builder may open, never while someone has the chest open, and only the kind of bolt already loaded. Graves, carts and ships are left alone.
• A scanning sound plays while it sweeps looking for a target.
• By default it shoots only at enemies, not at players or tames.
• Each feature can be turned off, and the range, scan arc, turning, targets and ammo can all be changed in the config. The ballista can also be turned off entirely.

Note: Auto Reload is safe in multiplayer, but every player and the server need this mod installed for chests to hand over bolts.

⚙️ Configuration:

Settings are in BepInEx/config/MagicMike.CorewoodFortified.cfg (or press F7, in game or on the main menu, to open a panel with the settings of all your installed Magic Mike mods).

• Enable Plugin (default true): turns the mod on or off. Restart required.
• Gate Sound Volume (default 1): volume of the lift gate and drawbridge sounds, from 0 (silent) to 1 (full).
• Large Drawbridge Sound Volume (default 1): volume of the large and roofed drawbridge sounds, from 0 (silent) to 1 (full). Used instead of Gate Sound Volume for these pieces.
• Chain Tower Sound Volume (default 0.5): volume of the chain tower winch sounds, from 0 (silent) to 1 (full).

Elevators (synced from the server)

• Enable Elevators (default true): if off, the Elevator Wall and Fortified Watchtower are hidden from the build menu and placed elevators do not move.
• Automatic Elevators (default true): if on, an elevator moves on its own when a player steps onto the platform.
• Elevator Speed (default 2): how fast the platform moves, in metres per second, from 0.5 to 10.
• Elevator Sound Volume (default 0.5): volume of the elevator sound, from 0 (silent) to 1 (full).

Chain Towers (synced from the server)

• Enable Chain Towers (default true): if off, chain towers are hidden from the build menu, and placed towers stay but their winches cannot be used. A net keeps the height it had.
• Max Span Small (default 15): the longest net a small chain tower can hold, in metres, from 15 to 64.
• Max Span Medium (default 30): the longest net a medium chain tower can hold, in metres, from 15 to 64.
• Max Span Large (default 60): the longest net a large chain tower can hold, in metres, from 15 to 60.

Ziplines (synced from the server)

• Enable Ziplines (default true): if off, the Zipline Post is hidden from the build menu, placed posts and their ropes stay but cannot be used, and ropes cannot be caught in mid-air.
• Max Rope Length (default 150): the longest rope between two posts, in metres, from 10 to 400.
• Max Slope (default 60): the steepest rope allowed, in degrees, from 10 to 80.
• Max Ropes Per Post (default 4): how many ropes one post can hold, from 1 to 8.
• Require Clearance (default true): refuse ropes where a rider would hit the ground, water, trees, rocks or buildings.
• Rope Sag (default 0.02): how much a new rope sags in the middle, as a share of its length.
• Max Speed (default 20): top speed on a rope, in metres per second.
• Gravity (default 1): how strongly a downhill rope speeds you up.
• Crawl Speed (default 0): minimum speed towards the far post, so riders arrive without pulling. 0 is off.
• Pull Speed (default 4): speed when holding Forward to pull yourself along, in metres per second.
• Pull Stamina (default 6): stamina used per second while pulling.
• Brake Strength (default 10): how fast braking slows you down.
• Auto Brake (default true): slow riders down automatically before the far post.
• Arrival Speed (default 3): the speed Auto Brake slows riders to, in metres per second.

Ziplines (each player's own)

• Ride Animation (default hang): body pose while riding: hang, repell, grappling, attach_chair or none.
• Hang Height (default 2.3): distance from the rope down to your feet while riding, in metres.
• Rope Thickness (default 0.05): how thick the ropes look, in metres across.
• Grab Rope In Mid-Air (default true): catch a rope by jumping or falling into it.
• Log Back In On The Ground (default true): logging out mid-ride brings you back on the ground by a post.
• Messages (default Short): Short shows a few words in the corner, All the full help, Off nothing.
• Zipline Sound Volume (default 1): volume of the rope sound while riding, from 0 (silent) to 1 (full).

Fortified Ballista (synced from the server)

• Enable Fortified Ballista (default true): if off, the Fortified Ballista is hidden from the build menu, and placed ones stay but do not turn, fire or take bolts, by hand or from chests.
• Scan Arc (default 100): how wide it sweeps while looking for a target, in degrees from one side to the other, from 10 to 178.
• Sweep Time (default 7): seconds to sweep from one side of the scan arc to the other, from 1 to 15.
• Turn Rate (default 45): how fast it turns, in degrees per second, from 15 to 90.
• Fast Turning (default true): get up to speed and settle on its aim quickly. If off, it turns as gently as the vanilla ballista.
• Range (default 30): how far away it finds and shoots at targets, in metres, from 3 to 50.
• Predictive Aiming (default true): aim where a moving target will be when the bolt arrives. If off, it aims like the vanilla ballista.
• Homing Bolts (default true): bolts turn in flight towards their target once within 25 m of it.
• Spare Buildings (default true): bolts that miss do no damage to building pieces, including other ballistas. If off, they damage whatever they hit, like the vanilla ballista.
• Target Players (default false): it can shoot at players.
• Target Tames (default false): it can shoot at tamed creatures.
• Target Enemies (default true): it shoots at enemies.
• Max Target Trophies (default 10): how many trophies can be loaded to pick its targets, from 1 to 10.
• Max Ammo (default 40): how many bolts it holds, from 5 to 100.
• Auto Reload (default true): take bolts from nearby chests when not full.
• Auto Reload Range (default 10): how far away a chest can be, in metres, from 2 to 20.

Fortified Ballista (each player's own)

• Scan Sound Volume (default 0.5): volume of the scanning sound, from 0 (silent) to 1 (full).

💻 Installation:

Automatic Install

• Plugin is created to be installed with r2modman or Gale. For Nexus downloads you will need to install manually.

Manual Install

• Un-zip and drag the plugins and config folders into your BepInEx folder.

💥 Plugins Created by Magic Mike:

• Corewood Extras
• Corewood Fortified
• Corewood Additions
• My Dirty Hoe
• Chest Preview
• YabbaDabbaDoo

💬 Comments/Suggestions/Help: Nexus, Discord.

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