Electrified Fence

A fence post of live wire. Touch it while the line is powered and you are shocked and thrown back.

Crafting

A Cable on top, two rods of any metal under it, in a column. Makes two posts. The post carries whatever the cable is made of, so it conducts and drops voltage exactly as that cable does.

Placing

Posts connect to anything electrical touching a face, like cable, so a row of posts side by side is one line. Unlike cable you cannot walk through a post, and it is never insulated: it is live whenever the line holds a voltage, loaded or not.

What touching it does

Anything whose box overlaps the post takes a shock for the line's voltage band, is knocked away, and sees a spark. The same thing can be shocked again after half a second. It is touch only, not a field.

How hard it hurts depends on what the victim is wearing and standing in, never on what it is:

	Effect
In water or rain	worse (x1.5)
Metal armour	worse, in proportion to how many of the four pieces conduct
Leather or wool armour	better
Standing on a metal floor	worse
Standing on wood	better
Off the ground (jumping, flying)	half

Dry, bare, on stone it is the same damage as a bare wire. The total is capped at double. Insulating gloves still protect a player.

What it costs the line

Every shock draws 1 A from the line for a moment. A Galvanometer on the post shows it, and a fence being mobbed by many things sags the whole line. Taking hits is what a fence is for, so it wears nothing.