Watch Tower

Watch Tower is featured in State of Decay.

“Seems like we're getting a reputation. Some neighboring survivors asked if they could come get some firearms training from us. There's 3 cases of ammo in it for us.” — Lily Ritter

The Watchtower is a facility that can be built to allow a survivor to be on watch and protect the Home Sites in State of Decay. Further upgrade allows for increased XP from Shooting and Ammo income by training neighboring survivors.

Requirements

• Watchtower
• Another view of the watchtower
• Watchtower at Snyder Trucking Warehouse
• Shooting Platform at Snyder Trucking warehouse
• No people in the Watchtower bug
• Another picture of no one manning the Watchtower bug

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Watchtower

"To help defend our home."

BUILD WATCHTOWER:

• 15 Construction Material
• 5 Influence
• 1 Labor
• Build time:
  • 1hr; 0m (Without a Tools Expert)
  • 30m (With at least a Basic Workshop and Tools Expert)
  • 20m (With a Machine Shop and Tools Expert)
• Benefits:
  • LOOKOUT: Having someone up here should help keep the zeds at bay.
  • SNIPING ZOMBIES: We've been actively sniping zombies, giving us a larger safe area around our home.

Shooting Platform

UPGRADE TO SHOOTING PLATFORM:

• 25 Construction Material
• 25 Influence
• 1 Labor
• Build time:
  • 1hr; 0m (Without a Tools Expert)
  • 30m (With at least a Basic Workshop and Tools Expert)
  • 20m (With a Machine Shop and Tools Expert)
• Benefits:
  • LOOKOUT: Having someone up here should help keep the zeds at bay.
  • SNIPING ZOMBIES: We've been actively sniping zombies, giving us a larger safe area around our home.
  • SHOOTING PRACTICE: Raises shooting skill for the whole community.

Facility bonuses

Watchtower

"Something to protect our perimeter. Having a watchtower increases the safe area around our home."

• LOOKOUT: Having someone up here should help keep the zeds at bay.
• GUARD DUTY: <Survivor's first name> Keeping an eye out for trouble.
• SNIPING ZOMBIES: We've been actively sniping zombies, giving us a larger safe area around our home.

Shooting Platform

"We could make something a little less rickety. REQUIRES WORKSHOP."

• LOOKOUT: Having someone up here should help keep the zeds at bay.
• GUARD DUTY: <Survivor's first name> Keeping an eye out for trouble.
• SNIPING ZOMBIES: We've been actively sniping zombies, giving us a larger safe area around our home.
• SHOOTING PRACTICE: Raises shooting skill for the whole community.

Abilities

Watchtower

• SNIPE ZOMBIES (1 Ammo, 5 Influence, 1m; 0s): We can extend the safe area around our home with a little sharpshooting. (Effect lasts 1 hour)
• REMOVE (1m; 0s): Free up this space for something else.

Shooting Platform

• SNIPE ZOMBIES (1 Ammo, 5 Influence, 1m; 0s): We can extend the safe area around our home with a little sharpshooting. (Effect lasts 1 hour)
• FIREARMS TRAINING (3 Ammo, 25 Influence, 1m; 0s): Gain increased XP from shooting. (Effect lasts 1 hour)
• COMMERCE: TRAIN OUTSIDERS (25 Influence, 1hr; 30m): Gain +3 AMMO to train survivors from another community with firearms. (Usable once per 1.5 hours real time)
• REMOVE (1m; 0s): Free up this space for something else.

Notes

• Some Watchtowers are pre-built into certain Home Sites (e.g., the treehouse at the Savini Residence), while others must be constructed using materials and influence.
  • Some Watchtowers, such as those at Snyder Trucking Warehouse and McReady Farmhouse, may suffer from a bug preventing survivors from manning them. This bug often resolves itself automatically. Logging out to the main menu and back in usually fixes it. Traveling far from the base to unload NPCs and then returning can also reset their AI behavior.
• Survivors on guard duty with a shotgun may sometimes fail to complete their reload animation, leaving them unable to fight off zombies.
• Shooting platforms are visible outside the County Court House, but The Law enclave does not use them and behaves like any other generic enclave. Similarly, at The Grange, the player helps build a Watchtower through a mission, but the NPCs do not actively use it.