Metal Window Frame
| Metal Window Frame | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Building |
| Type | Metal Structure |
| Build Menu | Welding |
| Build Skill | |
| Build XP | |
| Tiers | Poor, Metal Window Frame |
| Learned From |
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| Location | Built |
The Metal Window Frame is a welded wall section with a hole for a window. The tooltip says it must be built on a wallframe.
It belongs to Welding and sits in the Welding section of the Building menu. It comes as a Poor version and a finished version. It gives a metal building light and a view while keeping the strength of a metal wall. Windows taken from other buildings fit into it. Barricades can go up over it.
Use it where a metal building needs windows. A plain Metal Wall is the safer choice on an exposed side.
How to Build Metal Window Frame
Both tiers take a Welding Torch and Steel Sheet - Small. The finished tier uses a little more sheet.
The Poor tier needs Welding level 3. The finished tier needs Welding level 5 and gives more Welding XP.
Both recipes must be learned first. Welder Monthly - June 1993 teaches them. The Welder occupation knows them from the start.
A wall frame must be standing first. The window frame goes onto either a Wooden Wall Frame or a Metal Wall Frame.
Each version of the Metal Window Frame has its own tab with the skill it needs, the XP it gives and its materials.
The Metal Window Frame recipe builds the Metal Window Frame (Poor). It needs Welding level 3. Building it gives 30 Welding XP. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welding Torch | 
|
4x | No | /additem Base.BlowTorch
|
| Steel Sheet - Small | 
|
3x | No | /additem Base.SmallSheetMetal
|
The Metal Window Frame recipe builds the Metal Window Frame. It needs Welding level 5. Building it gives 50 Welding XP. The recipe has to be learned first.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welding Torch |
|
4x | No | /additem Base.BlowTorch
|
| Steel Sheet - Small |
|
4x | No | /additem Base.SmallSheetMetal
|
Learning
These can teach the build recipe for the Metal Window Frame.
| Name | Image | Type | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magazine: Welder Monthly - June 1993 | 
|
Magazine | /additem Base.MetalworkMag1
|
| Welder | - | Occupation | - |
How to Use Metal Window Frame
The frame stands in a wall line like any wall. Its health matches a metal wall of the same tier. A window can be fitted into the hole afterwards.
The window is still the weak point. Zombies attack the window or its barricade first and then climb through the gap. A frame with a broken window or no window can be climbed through unless it is barricaded.
On an upper floor, a Sheet Rope can be tied in the window. That gives an escape route out of the building.
A sledgehammer can knock the frame down.
Build Tiers
The Poor tier opens at Welding level 3. The finished tier needs level 5 for a little more sheet. Switch to the finished tier once the skill allows.
Each version of the Metal Window Frame is listed with the skill it needs, the XP it gives and how much health it has once built.
| Version | Image | Build Skill | Build XP | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poor | 
|
Welding: 3 | Welding: 30 | - |
| Metal Window Frame | 
|
Welding: 5 | Welding: 50 | - |
Notes
- Must be built on a wall frame.
- Barricade the window, or zombies climb through.
- A Sheet Rope in an upper window makes an escape route.
- Welder Monthly - June 1993 teaches the recipe.
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