Normally I’m the forever GM and ran 2 and a bit 1E APs; but I’m playing in a Kingmaker game atm. We barely started and just leveled up to L2, but it’s already great fun. Last combat encounter, a small bandit camp, my Swashbuckler/Wrestler just had the most incredible luck and basically 1-hit killed everything he touched. Sentry up a tree? Just athletics up the tree and dropkick the bandits sternum through his spine. Another 3 bandits met similarly brutal demises.

You could give it some slashing/piercing resistance. But I’d argue that is too much. Hardness 7 will make destroying the thing already pretty difficult. And unless this happens during a combat encounter/ some kind of time crunch, it really doesn’t matter at all. It will just take longer. I wouldn’t even let the players make the rolls, just decide it takes X minutes and move on.