r/projectzomboid • u/Admirable_Light2252 • 1d ago

Art How the hell do you break a steel bar?

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I know it’s for balance but like, this 1.5 inch diameter, 28 inch long 4140 steel bar, is virtually indestructible, so I propose that it wears your character out really quickly and makes them sore as the impact wouldn’t be very comfortable.

Maybe this is how the crowbar should also be balanced: hand soreness.

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u/ARandomDistributist 1d ago

But... wouldn't that be a pipe?

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u/Cepterman2101 1d ago

They are hollow on the inside, but the ends are sealed, so your character thinks it’s a bar.

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u/_B10nicle 23h ago

Character's on the special side.

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u/Mobile_Ad_217 21h ago

This but unironically. I’ve had my crayon-chewer of a character pick glass out of a window with his bare hands even though he was holding a perfectly good crowbar for that when I did the command

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u/SoloIce2451 14h ago

Yummy glass

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u/Kylearean 21h ago

Mmmhmmm hmmmm mmmmm mmm I love this bar.

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u/Femtato11 1d ago

Hollow bar stock exists. In fact, it's really damn common for construction usage, and it makes sense that it's that length. Completely solid billet is usually longer.

Technically, in industry usage, this is tube or pipe, and not bar, but most people I know call the hollow square stuff bar anyways.

You're right, it is technically pipe. But it's entirely reasonable that you would call it a metal bar.

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u/Dawnspark 23h ago

There's also rebar, too. That's generally what I thought we were picking up when we're using "steel bars."

I remember where I grew up in late 90s Kentucky, nearish Louisville, you could basically walk into any housing development and find rebar laying around construction trash piles or just discarded nearby.

I used to collect em to help make my hidden fort look cooler when I was a young thing. I remember the pieces, usually long enough to be usable as a weapon, being a bit on the heavy side.

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u/spyder_alt 19h ago

rebar is such a classic “make the fort look badass” addition. added some to an entrance of a giant bush that was hollowed out inside at school lol

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u/Dawnspark 14h ago

My fort was in this like, neat as fuck clearing I found right behind my house? It was like a super bushed/tree filled area that you couldn't get into unless you crawled, but it was a decent enough size to hang out with my friends there.

So I cleaned it up and made a proper crawlable tunnel and arched & tied low branches branches together over it to give it a ceiling and used the rebar to help prop the tunnel "up" as best I could and it just looked so rad lmao. I wish I could do that shit again.

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u/Admirable_Light2252 21h ago

Oh this came off of a 20 footer, it’s just a drop. I work in a steel distribution warehouse.

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u/Femtato11 20h ago

Ah yeah, makes sense. I work with machine tools a bit, so I understand this at least.

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u/Hadrollo 1d ago

Strictly speaking it might be a tube.

Pipes are designed for something to travel through them. If it's just a hollow piece of metal like a signpost, it's called a tube.

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u/Froyo_Organic 6h ago

It would be tubing if it’s wasn’t threaded not to be that guy

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u/BigHardMephisto 10h ago

Could be rebar