Hello there fellow outdoor hikers of Roblox, WoodReviewer here to take a look at one of the premiere mountain climbing games on Roblox, Broken Bones IV by Zaquille. Now some of you might be wondering might be curious why a mountain climbing game is called Broken Bones but that is because mountain climbing can really dangerous if proper safter procedures are not put into place. Don’t believe me? Let’s just take a look at some of the safety issues on Mount Zquillia.

The first issue is clearly visible right after you spawn. The fence that prevents you from going over the ledge has improper wood grain on the posts and the top face of the rails, aka the horizontal parts of the fence. As you will see later in this review, this is a very common issue throughout the game so I am going to just address it here and just skip through it for the rest of the places it appears.

For the rails, the wood grain should go like this, so that the grain on all faces of the rails goes from one post to the other.

As for the rails, while I would personally prefer for them to not be made out of wooden planks and instead be normal wood so that the gaps in the plank texture are not there, if you are to use wooden planks because you prefer the texture the planks should be vertical, sticking up from the ground going towards the rails.

But why does this matter? Because without it the fence would be extremely weak due to the poor wood grain and that might cause it to collapse. As someone who regularly has to attend OSHA meetings as they are a massive danger to themselves, having unsafe railings above a height of 4 feet is a major no-no, and this drop behind the railings is definitely more than 4 feet, no matter how you convert studs to feet.

Moving on for our little hike, the next obstacle we encounter is this save with a spiral staircase around it. While this is also not OSHA safe the lack of railings here is not a problem for me as I am mainly concerned with wood grain requirements, and as there are no railings here there is no bad wood grain on the railings.

At the top of this cave this is a different story as there is a fence here to prevent people from falling down the hole, but the fence does have bad wood grain.

Continuing up the mountain the next feature that I encountered was this rusty plankway. Although I am fairly certain that it is not OSHA safe for being too steep for a ramp, and because it had no railings, and because the metal supports into the mountain have clearly visible rust all I care about here is the wood grain, and it passes the test.

After crossing that walkway, the next issue I came across was some more examples of bad wood grain on some fences next to a cliff. Like all previous and future examples, this is really unsafe.

This fence did lead into a bigger issue, as this ladder has several issues. For one, having a few dozen smaller ladders instead of one large ladder all mounted onto the side of a cliff with rusted rungs probably violates several OSHA rules, but the bigger problem here is that the side rails for the ladder are made out of wood. But they have bad wood grain. Yes, clearly the bad wood grain on the sides of the ladder is the biggest issue with safety here.

Making it past the ladders, I was greeted with some more bad wood grain on some more railings.

Along with these mostly dead trees.

“WoodReviewer, isn’t it dangerous to climb trees like that?”

Yes, yes it is, but don’t worry, my last five OSHA meetings were about that and my OSHA rep gave up on me not climbing trees anymore, so that is OK now. However, the more important thing here is that the bark on this tree is bad.

Now I don’t want to make an entire post about tree bark here, but the basics are that it doesn’t matter how wood grain goes on trees. The only thing that does matter is that the wood grain is consistent for the entire tree. So you see the horizontal wood grain on the tree in the picture above me? That is fine, as long as the entire tree is like that. But as you can see in the branch in the upper left portion of the image below, part of it has vertical wood grain. And while technically this isn’t an OSHA issue, small details like cohesiveness of a blog post have never stopped me from calling out bad wood grain in a place before.

Moving up the mountain some more, it was all clear sailing until I got to the ice part of the mountain. Ice is dangerous as it is slippery, which increases the chances of falling, which increases the need for a safe railing. Unfortunately, this railing has bad wood grain, again, and is not safe. This is a major hazard for any mountain climbers who made it this far.

Moving on, the next obstacle I encountered was this ice tunnel. While it probably should have some type of safety anything here, there isn’t. As such there is now wood grain and it passed my judgement.

Once you emerge from the tunnel you are greeted with another cliff edge, this time without a railing. While the railings with bad wood grain aren’t that safe, there are safer than the alternative. And what is that alternative?

Well, just look here. That poor soul is falling down the mountain, all because there is no railing to keep them safe. Rest in peace Jimmy, you will be missed.

Continuing on from that disaster caused by poor safety standards, I entered another ice cave. While this is again unsafe, at least falling down it would lead you o a better fate than what befell Jimmy, plus there is no wood grain here so there isn’t really anything for me to talk about.

The area past this ice cave did have something for me to talk about. First off, the poorly made railing is back again, with nothing new for me to add on about it.

However past that there is this wooden staircase, which does have something for me to talk about. First of in terms of safety, the staircase is too steep and it also lacks proper railings. In terms of proper wood grain, it has another issue. You see, the gaps in the planks on the top face and the end face do not match up.

If you are more visual learner, this is what I mean. The end grain should line up so that gaps from the top are there on the end. Or if that is too hard, just make the stairs out of normal wood instead of fixing the end grain. I am personally OK with either fix.

This staircase then leads us to the final area of our little hike, the tunnel inside an active volcano. I couldn’t find any laws about what the proper safety rules are for going through a tunnel inside an active volcano that causes magma to be visible, so I assume the proper thing to do is to just avoid tunneling through active volcanos.

But with the volcano conquered, that leads us to the top of the mountain, where there are no wooden railings insight. Is this safe? probably not, but that is OSHA’s problems. Probably. Honestly I have no idea who actually covers safety rules for hiking so I’ve just been using OSHA because they are known for their workplace safter rules because it makes for a funnier joke, but some employee has to shovel these paths so their have to follow OSHA standards I guess.

But enough with that overused OSHA joke, I know what you are here for: Is the wood grain any good?

No.

Did you not read any of the review? The wood grain sucks.