# Root walls and jackhammers

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/root-walls-and-jackhammers/17065>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [October 19, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/root-walls-and-jackhammers/17065 "2018-10-19T02:24:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![hydroplatypus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hydroplatypus/32/4070_2.png) [@hydroplatypus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/hydroplatypus)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/root-walls-and-jackhammers/17065/1 "2018-10-19T02:24:45Z")

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While clearing a triffid heart, I noticed that I couldn’t burrow through root walls with the jackhammer, with the message “You can’t drill there”. However the [wiki](http://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda_wiki/index.php?title=Guide:_Triffid_Grove) recommends bringing a jackhammer, implying that you can go through these walls.

Is root walls not being jackhammerable a bug, or was it just a change that was added at some point, without the wiki being updated?

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**Author:** ![Orange01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/orange01/32/2469_2.png) [@Orange01](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Orange01)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/root-walls-and-jackhammers/17065/2 "2018-10-19T03:09:47Z")

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Ive found a good blunt weapon knocks them down easily. I used a halligan bar.

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**Author:** ![hydroplatypus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hydroplatypus/32/4070_2.png) [@hydroplatypus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/hydroplatypus)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/root-walls-and-jackhammers/17065/3 "2018-10-19T03:20:04Z")

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> [@Orange01](#):
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> Ive found a good blunt weapon knocks them down easily. I used a halligan bar.

Oh there are definately other ways of getting by them - or you could just light the triffid heart on fire with a molotov like I did. I was just wondering if the jackhammer specifically was a bug. If it it, to let people know so they can fix it. If not, so I - or someone else if they get there first - can go update the wiki.

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**Author:** ![Eastwardrope91](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/eastwardrope91/32/3313_2.png) [@Eastwardrope91](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Eastwardrope91)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/root-walls-and-jackhammers/17065/4 "2018-10-19T17:56:19Z")

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I don’t think it is. I say this with the logic of the root walls being akin to trees. I mean have you ever seen a lumber Jack chop a tree down with a jackhammer(doesn’t work too well just scratches it up). And the root walls are also a living organism as they shift and move as you go through.