Ok, so what happened to me was called decay. Here is my post on it on steam:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/252490/discussions/0/630802978973053314/

What it comes down to is everything decays overtime unless it is accessed. Crates, doors, firepits, furnaces all need to be accessed regularly to protect against this.

Fortifications are another matter. One person said you should:

The only way to combat decay is to run in and around your building and to repair it.

To repair, you place the wood/metal on your hotbar. Make sure you unequip your weapon/tool. Press the hotkey on which your material is. It'll repair some of it, and it'll state the current "health" of the building piece.

Hope this can help in the future. Maybe once a login or something.

S

Repair with raw wood and metal fragments? I haven't lost any parts of my building, just the spike walls, gate and 3 of 4 wood barricades I had at the time. The one barricade I did not lose was clipping through the permanent structure and a tree. The others were free standing and all disappeared overnight. I was figuring you could tie these things down from "decay" by having them clip through something on a foundation and permanent. I'm testing this with a monstrosity of an entrance to my base. LOL It's ugly, but everything is tied to each other by clipping through something permanent, plus a gate clipping through 2 other gates to see if it will stay just by contact with the others.
We'll see how it goes. I'll try the repair thing too.

I can now make full radiation and Kevlar gear. I can also now make bolt action rifles.

Crap. I'm stuck in someone's house on the server. I guess I'll have to wait to join it again until you're on.

If you can get to the roof and jump off, you'll be ok. There's no fall damage right now. If stuck completely inside, then you can suicide but lose your inventory. I think it's F1 key and type suicide but I'm not sure. Only the door "owner" can open/close doors/gates though.

On crap, I thought you had already let snapdad which is why I shut the door. I'll open it at lunch (in like 3 hours if I remember.)

So the only thing I lack from making a complete metal structure are plans for the metal foundation. I think Raw is at the same level. This could allow us to make one large metal fort somewhere with each person owning one floor and then get clever with the doors on the first floor.

S

I have metal foundations in my place (and can craft them.)

I was thinking about one nice big building. There are several options. YOu could have each person owning a 1x3 area that opens into a central courtyard. Or you could have the courtyard on the bottom floor with each person owning a door in and a door into their room above.

The main issue here is going to be space. From my experience you need about 15 large crates which you could just barely fit into a 1x3 area. We could share furnaces and camp fires in the courtyard though.

Now the only crates that would be necessary in your own area would be for personal items. I don't have 15 crates of personal stuff. We could have a central area for stuff like food, building supplies, spare ammo and armor.

S

I would think you would want to store at least some resources personally just in case someone managed to get into the communal area.

Ok, if you were in my house the door to the escape hatch is open.

Very good, thank you.

There is a new guy building right next to us called carnis... anyone know him?

Yep, he's one of us. We were all up entirely too late last night on there.

Might pick this up today. What server are you guys on? Do you like it better than DayZ? I will probably pick up both, but thought I would get this one since it seems there is more to do.

I'm Jima and have the place by the hangar.
I'm having some major sync issues now both last night and today. I can't harvest, and only randomly access my crates and campfires and spawn boxes. Can't kill animals or place items.
I'm doomed it seems unless this changes or I will have to rely on others to feed me when I run out of food since I can't get any. :-(

Within 30 minutes I left the game, someone built a foundation and stairs next to my stairwell tower so they could jump in a window.
I don't keep anything in there but it messed up my place with these stupid useless stairs. I would have built walls around it, but I still can't gather wood.
It seems instant craft has been turned on in the server. I wonder if this has something to do with these issues I'm having.

Well I bet the same happened to me. I changed plans last night and never finished putting bars on all my windows. Nothing in there but will be frustrated to have that kind of thing next to my base. Maybe we can have filched remove them.

S

I was on earlier today for a short while. I met Jima/JDSki briefly. I put up a small hut close by, and will build something more robust later today if I get the chance. My name is Astronut in the game.

We're having an issue with a guy called Infernae, possibly Jellyfish going around breaking in and looting.

Master, he built some stairs to your roof and was in there. We went in trying to catch him, but we THINK he put up a metal door from the stairs to the roof. I dropped some spikes outside the door. If that's your door, sorry about that, just trying to pin the guy.