7 Days to Die Tips and Tricks For Late Game

[@SavensWorld]

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[@TammiKinney]

Do you do any videos on the PVP aspect?

[@chrishubbard64]

I will say that leaving everything on as you leave is a good way to avoid screamers, but by late game you should have at least a couple auto turrets on your base that are aimed to eliminate roaming zombies that get too close to you. Cover all sides of your base then feel free to leave your crafting stations running full time. That screamer will die before it can summon anything, and all you have to do is go out there and gas up the generator from time to time and every week or so check the available ammo as you probably wont use much killing a single zombie at a time. Now you can craft at all hours of the day and night with total safety and no annoyance other than the occasional sound of gunfire. Just something to keep in mind. I had built a base for myself and was digging out an impressive cavern underneath it and it was so OBNOXIOUS to have to halt everything when i thought i heard something, run up the ladder, out the door, and see if I had attracted a zombie or screamer. When I got a generator and 4 turrets on my roof it was just so much better. I could just mine and smelt forever and ignore the screamers spawning. The sound of gunfire making me smile as I continued doing my best dwarf impression. Its a bit pricey to setup sure but oh so worth it.

[@Raven-Blackwing]

I learned the value of pointblank weapons from getting overly cocky.

[@youget2]

I agree to this. I use a knife and fists almost exclusively. If I get overwhelmed I run away to make a better plan. I only pull out my gun as a last resort.

[@rduke325]

I found a sledge and blunderbuss early haven't really switched off that path

[@drphdmd7064]

@@rduke325 worked for me!

[@KARTIKEYA007]

Honestly speaking point blank weapons like shotgun are pretty bad. The only weapon class capable of getting u out of sticky situations is the assault rifle class. M60, tac assaults, AK etc are the only weapons capable of getting u out of situations like 17:09. Saven had shotgun out which is pretty bad in such situations. I highly recommend machine gunner and assault rifles as your main build later on since it is the only viable option

[@orbmaster9815]

Classic

[@mattb896]

Followup tip on farming screamer hordes: I like using robo sledge to juggle mobs off a shallow walkway in front of your door. Throw on a burning shaft mod to both and you're golden. BONUS to this is when they spawn dogs. With a basic farm for potatoes and corn, the dogs also supply you with rotten meat for Hobo Stew. You won't need to worry about starving out

[@SavensWorld]

Excellent tips!

[@zlatanmorrison8182]

'Zambi Jerks' love the way you say that :D plus death noise at 17:19 lol.

[@Squ4ll2]

Tip 10: Don't get cocky. Me: Playing on survivalist difficulty purposely running into those zombie groups in the tier 5 POIs, clear the close ones with the auto shotgun, turn around and snipe the rest with the sniper rifle. Battle music fading off and i'am blowing the imaginary smoke from the tip of my fingers and saying "next!" But i can imagine your aim isn't that precisse for this with the controller. You will be cocky, when you know zombies position, your escape routes and at the late game, you will know those tier 5 POIs like the back of your hand and you want to spice some things a little :)

[@MIHUKI5]

The Dukes tip saved my life. I love your content.

[@SavensWorld]

Unlimited brass 😀

[@sentientcardboarddumpster7900]

Omg what a relief I'll have so much more time to do other things now

[@mbm3155]

Seen like 7 demos and no explosions yet. I use a sniper on horde night and prioritize them and aim for the bottom left leg. It may take more shots but it’s beyond worth it

[@grayzukalooky7395]

I feel like the best way to play is Perma-Death. That helps with Tip 10. If you know that you have to immediately delete your save upon death then you tend to be a tad more careful.

[@SavensWorld]

That would definitely do it!

[@yeahboiii6640]

I found that selling expensive items (high lvl items with all mod slots full) gives massive amounts of XP. Probably the quickest and best XP in the game.

[@SavensWorld]

Interesting. To be honest, I've never really paid much attention to XP gained while selling. I'll definitely have to check that out!

[@yeahboiii6640]

@@SavensWorld yeah just today I was getting about 11k per item sold. Level 6 items with mods. I do have it at max XP though. I play that way just because I have been playing so long. I am thinking that even without it turned up selling has always given me good xp.

[@archieamicable]

I played this game for years and for hoursssss on end and I learned a lot from this! Thank ya!

[@raycar1165]

What's up Saven! I also put a FoB outside each trader that way I can leave stuff I want to sell when I'm on my way home and the trader is closed.

[@SavensWorld]

That is an excellent tip!

[@Cryptix37]

Spent some time looking for a guide like this. There were none. Eventually figured these out after many hours. They are very valuable. Thank you for the good guide. I'm certain it will help many people!

[@Cryptix37]

Ps. Tip 10, same place. Fell down, panicked, blew my teemate with a HE rocket. It was hilarious though

[@SavensWorld]

I hope you are correct!

[@crapsound]

"Building for fun" is actually within our sights now that we've finally established a good well-fortified Horde Base. We're just starting to redecorate a POI that we've made our Home Base. But I am planning to build a personal house somewhere else in the map. Making a forward base is actually a good idea for me but I have no idea how to go about it since we got vehicles already. Maybe just more personal houses. I just wish that TFP either bring back some of the decorative furnitures like the Fridge or add more new ones. After working your way to a well fortified base to fight off the blood horde it's nice to finally take care of the aesthetic stuff and make yourself more at home. I also didn't know about the varying stats of lvl6 weapons. I just assume they're all the same.

[@SavensWorld]

More decorations are on the top of my wish list. I want my bases to look good! Also, you always want to check the stats on your gear. Every extra point helps!

[@youget2]

My favorite way to build up heat for screamers: grab your auger and click in the air over and over. Each time you click the heat goes up 1%. Seriously, press F6 and watch it work. Edit: F8, my bad bro

[@SavensWorld]

Excellent Tip! I was mentioning the same thing to the players on the Saven's World server over the weekend. Should have included that in this video 😋

[@justinjackson9342]

Better yet make everything wood frames and upgrade it to steel. Lots of ex there

[@takeshii]

do wandering hordes ever mess with your forward bases? Id be bummed out to go to one and find its wrecked.

[@SavensWorld]

Zombies don't spawn into areas of the world unless there is a player in that region

[@SirDexus]

Really great tips. Haven't thought of making a screamer farm! Will be doing that later tonite come to think of it. Also turning dukes into bullets is a great idea but my inner horder will not allow me to do it lol. I love shiny stuff to much! Thanks for the great idea's man!

[@SavensWorld]

You're welcome! Don't feel bad. It is a very difficult thing to do melting your money down in the forge.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@SavensWorld : You'll need them to buy the solar cells.

[@IAMBatKat]

+30% of 480 is 624, not 503... +5% is 504... weird 7D2D math?

[@hannahshark8080]

I wouldn't have noticed. Haven't leveled INT since 2017

[@jax-117]

came here to say this

[@williamkirkland2222]

protip - parkour perks are SUPER OP, with some practice you can even zombie-surf.

[@SavensWorld]

Yeah Parkour is incredibly OP!

[@thelizardking8999]

Another tip for hiding heat, your #1 tip. Just build your workshop at bedrock. (Or at least 45 blocks from the surface) Then you can be above ground working and won’t get any screamers. I’ve done this for many alphas and works currently as of 08Feb21. #2: Burning barrels are great for screamer farms. No resources after the initial investment, can pick them back up and heat goes away immediately, can set it up at different POIs in town.

[@GunChronicles]

Thanks for the added information. I had wondered if there was a heat map depth limit. I just never took the time and put in the effort to test it out.

[@thelizardking8999]

@@GunChronicles No problem. A super easy way to find a hidden base on PvP servers is screamer activity in the middle of no where. Indicates a player's base is built just under the surface and they didn't dig the bedrock.

[@sliphstream4927]

This has been VERY helpful! Thanks!

[@SavensWorld]

You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@chrishubbard64]

I ground out a TON of levels early game by base building. I basically made a 10x10x5 cube base and upgraded it all to cobblestone. And then i built a second floor. I was kinda curious about how tall I would eventually make it. Its a fun way to pass the night, spend the day gathering stacks and stacks of wood and cobblestone, then spend the night leveling up 2-5 times just building an addition to your house. Run the right pois and you can get tons of loot and cobblestone so you dont even have to sacrifice your day by mining rocks and clay instead of opening loot crates in barns and construction sites while gathering cobblestone and cement by the truckload. Then come back to base, cut down the dozen trees you plant each day or two, and start building.

[@SavensWorld]

That sounds like an excellent approach. Upgrading blocks is the best way to gain xp.

[@chrishubbard64]

@@SavensWorld The one concern I have is, do I need to NOT level up too much at once or else risk getting swamped by higher level zombies that my wooden club and stone sledge cant handle? I imagine its offset by the fact that I AM raiding pois, if not as many as I probably could if I wasnt focusing on cobblestone heavy spots, so my chances of getting better loot are rising with my level (I saw your loot tier video) But if I stayed by my base, and just expanded my mine shaft further, coming up to grab more trees and clay then going right to building a 3rd, 4th, etc floor, would I find myself getting slaughtered by zombies meant to be faced by someone with iron weapons and middling guns at least?

[@SavensWorld]

@@chrishubbard64 It is a bit of a balancing act. If you spend all of your time building, your gear may lag behind which means even with a great character build, you could run into trouble. As long as you don't fully neglect upgrading your gear, you should be golden.

[@ShaolinViolin]

Always like at the start of the video because I know Saven will deliver. Been waiting for this one! Thanks! *Another tip: make sure to repair the item before selling it

[@SavensWorld]

Excellent tip!

[@RichardRitenour0522]

Solid tips for late game , my favorite is #10, the absolute truth lol Thanks and keep rockin' Saven!

[@youget2]

I died for the first time in months recently. Although it's because I jumped in front of my partners machine gun...but still the same reason. Didn't think I had to warn him.

[@SavensWorld]

It is so easy to get complacent. With all the top tier gear that feeling of invulnerability sets in. That's when you get surrounded and eaten!

[@KARTIKEYA007]

@@SavensWorld I disagree, you just had the wrong weapon out. With high armor, an assault rifle(like m60 or tac assault) and points in machine gunner perk, you basically become invincible. You could have easily gotten out of that situation if u had an assault rifle instead of a shotgun

[@12rez4utv9]

When he says zombie jerks it reminds me of Jack black 😂

[@SavensWorld]

Jack Black is awesome!

[@stephaniemedearis1271]

What do you consider to be the best surviving character? What I mean is some characters get thirsty quickly, some get colder quickly, so on and so on? Thank you

[@franklinwhitfield1893]

Alot of things depend on what Difficulty and what choices you make when making the map, after that it depends on player skill and experience and knowledge of the game. Otherwise same old material being shared.

[@LordRazer3]

Sham factory a rather dangerous POI. I new about the fake floor but still feel into that madness. Saw what I was up against and designed I'd rather take my chances with gravity and jumped off the ledge to the right onto the catwalk below that lead to a epic battle down the factory. Managed to survive and finish the quest but still nothing gets the blood pumping like fighting against the odds. Point is try to remember the more dangerous POIs and have a plan for them in the even to mess up like I did

[@AJ213Probably]

I fell in that room early game lol. I have ptsd with the floor falling now

[@brodriguez11000]

I set off some grenades, and lead them out to a killing zone by the tower. I've also uses dynamite to disrupt in a big way their swarming by dropping them into the factory below.

[@CrayZJo3Davola]

When you have everything, the game just becomes tedious. I can just go in the open on horde nights and slay zombies without dying. I see that as winning the game and starting a new game.

[@danielhuisman1996]

Sounds like you can start over on a higher difficulty and maybe add a pvp aspect?

[@scottdean185]

Ok been playing this game a long time never knew you could smelt dukes thats worth the watch alone.

[@byronlinares3066]

Hey Saven, me and my friends just began a game with difficulty maxed in all aspects. The game is insane, zombie speed is maxed and so much more. Do you have any pro tips? Or could you make a vid on this, could be fun.

[@SavensWorld]

Could make for a good video 😀

[@byronlinares3066]

@@SavensWorld Yep we've been dropping like flies this first game week, lol, but now with a few XP points up and patience we are able to handle a couple of hits better.

[@Akgopewpew]

What I do to manage heat is make another base or find a house that’s a decent distance from my base and have that running all the time. Usually when I arrive there will be a screamer spawn so I just take them out long range, or if you set up sentries ur set to go

[@SavensWorld]

Great system!

[@Sgt_Kane]

Where is the POI at 17:03 on navezgane, if it is?

[@KD-no7pw]

This is final room of the Shamway Factory. It is located at the crossing of the desert, burnt forest and wasteland, just south of the center of the map, coordinates 110-E 440-S (Navezgane, yes).

[@Sgt_Kane]

@@KD-no7pw oh nice, thankyou! Never bothered looting that place, next thing on my to do list now!

[@shawarmah153]

Haha. The last tip happened to me. Exactly at the same POI. I was doing a tier 5 quest in that POI and that same floor collapsed.

[@SavensWorld]

Yeah I think it is a rite of passage in 7 Days 😂

[@KARTIKEYA007]

Just get machine gunner and some good assault rifle(high quality AK, m60 or tac assault rifle). The only weapon class capable of getting u out of sticky situations is the assault rifle class. M60, tac assaults, AK etc are the only weapons capable of getting u out of situations like 17:09. Saven had shotgun out which is pretty bad in such situations. I highly recommend machine gunner and assault rifles as your main build later on since it is the only viable option

[@brodriguez11000]

@@KARTIKEYA007 : Cary LOTS of ammo. They're good weapons but eat ammo like candy.

[@Maeda_Miakoda_Gaming]

I had no idea that the stats are variable!! I'm always learning something from you. Thanks! :)

[@SavensWorld]

You're welcome! Happy to help!

[@mbm3155]

If u wanna power level is say use wood frames, have wood and flagstone and cement and a nail gun and all those blocks with upgrade 4 times with another cement upgrade if u see that they’ve dried

[@yissnakklives8866]

Did a comparison of upgrading wood to cement vs rebar vs iron frames. Iron frames to cement gives you a good deal more xp than the other variants but also cost 10X the resources (2 iron for rebar vs 18 iron for iron frames!)

[@SavensWorld]

Awesome! Thanks for testing this!

[@RyushiroK]

I may have misunderstood your comment but; Do you know if going from Wood Frames and upgrading all the way up to Reinforced Concrete gives more XP that going straight from Rebar to Reinforced Concrete? And is that difference significant enough to be worth the amount of steps/resources used?

[@R1po]

So, does the heat not bother the Zs when no one is around, or do the Zs not spawn, or is there no heat generated when you're not in the chunk? Don't wanna come back to find my base in shambles. And the heat will still be produced when you're gone, right? Means it will reach 100% and as soon as you enter the chunk a Screamer will be spawned. I think I'll stick to firing the forges at night when I'm at the base, and turn them off (and give the heat time to decrease over the day) when I'm on my looting runs.

[@SavensWorld]

Heat only generates in loaded chunks.

[@apock2474]

Addendum I would like to propose: Don’t get cocky in certain areas of POIs. In the ShamWay factory specifically 90% of it you can keep moving forward playing baseball with zombies heads. But that 10% is MASSIVELY deadly. The room you showed and the cafeteria early on can wipe you out if you get swarmed in them. I have found the SM factories significantly easier to raid.

[@SavensWorld]

Yeah the devs have made certain areas of POIs extremely difficult. They try to lull you into a false sense of security and then drop the hammer!

[@brodriguez11000]

Oddly if one approaches the cafeteria through a hole in the wall near the ceiling there are LESS zombies than if one approaches at ground level. With that said, I find a mix of building choke-points, mines, and my trusty junk turrets, backed by a good gun really helps.

[@craighills2977]

Is this on the PlayStation? You have PlayStation control options in the top left. Or is this you have a playstation controller set up on your pc and it recognises this?

[@SavensWorld]

There is a version on PS4, but I am playing the PC version. It has controller support, and I prefer playing with a controller.

[@eliasseldon1644]

Sooooooo much quality content. Just played my first night after watching all your newb-tutorial videos. Extremely well done.

[@SavensWorld]

Thanks! Happy to help!

[@cbe7991]

Great episode, Saven! Finally tips & tricks for the final stages... Any additional tips on getting better quests than the ever same factory_01 and factory_02 etc.?

[@SavensWorld]

Unfortunately, tier 5 quests are rather limited. They are supposed to be working on quests for A20, but I don't think they have any new tier 5 POIs planned.

[@tigrecito48]

i never realised the weapon stats are variable... good tip

[@TerryHesticles00]

What do you think is easier smelting the dukes or using the dukes to buy out the traders around you if they reset every day?

[@SavensWorld]

It is cost effective brass-wise to smelt down the Dukes. However, buying ammo does save time.

[@chrishubbard64]

No reason not to do both. Every trader restock day go to all the traders, buy their tips, casings, gunpowder, buckshot, and ammo, then smelt down a stack of coins to make up the difference in needed brass since you can mine for everything else. Like saven said, its a time saver and its really not that expensive once you get going in the game. A single stack of dukes will likely net you enough brass casings to craft ammo for the next couple hordes.

[@tigrecito48]

i had 4 demo zombies turn up within 5 minutes of my horde night on my last playthru and they completely destroyed the front of my base and then the zombies found it hard to path to me (although not impossible) meaning i found it very difficult to hit them and they damaged a large area of my base in various places... is there an easy solution? maybe i should make 2 horde bases next to each other with a walkway in case the first one is compromised?

[@chrishubbard64]

Best solution is to not shoot them in the green button. I know it sounds kinda silly to say it like that but its true. Find out whats setting them off. is it your auto turrets? The sledge turret? Your gunfire being badly aimed? And work to fix that. Having a second base nearby will only double the number of demos zombies it takes to ruin your horde night if you keep setting them off. Head shots only. Dont hip fire into a crowd of zombies that has a demo in it. Better to take time aiming than to have your base collapse.

[@tigrecito48]

@@chrishubbard64 im on my second playthru level 90+ and still never used any electronic stuff, turrets or guns or mines or grenades... i just hit things with a mace or stealth kill with bow in pois... the only guns i tried using was shotguns in my strength base for killing policemen & demolishers but im not very good at shooting.. kept hitting the buttons... i mostly like to hit still enemies with my bow all nice and tranquil...

[@chrishubbard64]

@@tigrecito48 Shotguns pellets spread so unless you are using slugs you are going to hit the button. Thats probably the problem. A powerful rifle, or automatic weapon would probably be easier to take down demos without setting them off.

[@tigrecito48]

@@chrishubbard64 cos i go for strength mostly at least at first so shotguns the easy choice... but which mods are best to use for shotguns so it doesnt spread? i dont understand the descriptions... basically my 2 playthrus i went 7 strength then 7 agility, use bow and stealth in pois... then i go fortitude 7 with regen and less damage taken.. by then im pretty much immune and never die outside of horde night (unless birds give me bleeding damage or a bear or wolf or tiger attacks me out of nowhere) after that i put all 3 up to 10s... i then go for other stuff like intelligence and food things etc ... ive never made healing stuff either and never carry it with me, only the ones i find whilst in pois.. my bases are usually filled to the brim with ammo and medicines i hardly ever use

[@justinkoecher9807]

thanks Saven my buddies and i are planning to do a 7 days channel also. You and Neebs are epic and hope it works as well as you have done.

[@SavensWorld]

Being mentioned in the same sentence as Neebs Gaming is quite the compliment! Thank you! Good luck with your channel!

[@justinkoecher9807]

@@SavensWorld Thanks Saven we're noobs and its awesome

[@ryannewman5804]

Mining with an auger is the fastest way to easily farm XP, but the build for fun technique is much more entertaining gameplay.

[@malikthemadman]

the heat thing is why my teams main base is far away from our horde base

[@rapmaster1990]

question... i was on about day 80 and my game crashed when i restarted it i was back at the starting spawn lvl 1 still the same day though lost everything i had on me which was alot do you know of any way to fix that or do i just have to lvl myself back up again also i had just made my very first gyrocopter and didnt get to place it b4 it crashed

[@SavensWorld]

Oof that is rough. I would recommend always making a backup of your game saves. As for restoring your stuff, unless you go into the creative menu , you'll just have to rebuild.

[@KARTIKEYA007]

Just go into creative menu and give yourself everything u had

[@louismantush6296]

Hey Dave, think the videos are great! Would to see a Cooperative Multiplayer tips/clarifications. Things like shared exp, charismatic nature, or how various game settings alter a multiplayer experience geared towards playing with friends.

[@louismantush6296]

Saven* didn't catch the auto correct, sorry! :(

[@SavensWorld]

@@louismantush6296 Haha no worries! Gotta love auto-correct! I would like to do some videos on multiplayer. Have some planned here in the not too distant future.

[@kaildraconis]

Do screamers actually continue to scream? Haven't tried in the last update i dont think but it always seemed like they stopped calling in hordes after 2 or 3 screams

[@kaildraconis]

Also as soon as i saw what number one was a i knew number two was going to be next lol

[@SavensWorld]

@@kaildraconis I do believe you are correct. In my experience, a single screamer will call in 3 groups of zombie friends. But once you get your heat map up high enough, the screamers will continuously spawn. I was thinking of calling tip 2, "or don't!" 😁

[@kaildraconis]

@@SavensWorld what a missed opportunity not calling it "or dont" lol. But keeping things simple has its bonuses too. i haven't played a single game past day 40-50 in a while but thats usually when im trying to farm screamers.

[@mgineman]

I love how your "late game" is always on "Day 1" in the videos. :-) Keep of the good work

[@SavensWorld]

Haha yeah my testing world is almost always set on day 1. Probably should have fast forwarded a bit 😋

[@Iarizonaitalian]

Please do a more extensive video on God mode in creative mode especially how to shut it off also if you couldn't explain to me why while I was inside my base a screamer and another zombie managed to go right through a steel outer wall like it was nothing

[@SavensWorld]

Done! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpbInGCdbpuDY68

[@-icemagez-8748]

Do you know how playing with a friend and fighting at the same base affect what zombies we see during blood moon were both game stage 80

[@thelizardking8999]

Game stage of bloodmoon is calculated by the combined gamestage of anyone in the “local area” regardless of being partied or not. So your collective gamestage would be 160, demos spawn after game stage 150 is hit as reference.

[@thelizardking8999]

@@曉p-p7t Here is the actual math. The 160 was just lazy math, just a ball park number thrown out because I didn't feel like doing the math or a full explanation over a cellphone. Calculation - Party If you are in a party, then you will have a Party Gamestage which determines the types of zombies you will encounter (but not loot; loot is different). Party game stage is calculated as follows. The highest individual Gamestage in the party is multiplied by startingWeight (gamestages.xml; default in A19 is 1.0) The next highest Gamestage is multiplied by parameter diminishingReturns (gamestages.xml; default in A19 is 0.5) and added to the party total The next highest Gamestage is multiplied by diminishingReturns2 and added to the total The next highest is multiplied by diminishingReturns3 and added to the total ...and so on... Example Player 1: Gamestage 100 Player 2: Gamestage 80 Player 3: Gamestage 60 Party Gamestage = (100 * 1.0) + (80 * 0.5) + (60 * (0.5 * 0.5)) = 155 Calculation - Blood Moon Horde on Multiplayer Servers On multiplayer servers, when the Blood Moon Horde event triggers, the game considers "nearby players" (details are not specified; see gamestages.xml) as a party and calculates a party Gamestage for the purposes of the local Blood Moon Horde. If any nearby players log out or log in during the event, the local "party" Gamestage will not change.

[@kathrynck]

On Tip 1: The wiki is simply 'wrong'. The heatmap spawns them, but at that point they're looking for 'you' not the items which make heat. Screamers (and heatmap-created wandering hordes), will spawn somewhere around the heat source (roughly horde night spawn distance), but will then seek out the player in a very large radius. If you want not to play with the screamers, you need to be far enough away that the whole heat & screamer dynamic is completely un-rendered. It works as a kind of hybrid between normal zombie and horde night mechanics. Or in simplest terms, you need to be really far away to not get screamers from heat sources. Also, destroying, building, or upgrading blocks all raise the heatmap, along with jumping, shooting, explosives, killing, gore blocks, power tools, etc. (especially power tools). If you leave lit torches laying around in your home town, you'll get a ton of screamers at your base without even doing anything. Actually, I wouldn't recommend using torches at all, for anything, not even candles, not even at locations away from your base. A torch running 'all the time' can generate more heat than a forge running for 20 minutes in a given day. The "start-crafts and then leave" tactic can work, but you need to leave town entirely, not just leave the base. On Tip 3: Mining is as good as upgrading. Perhaps not "per second", but you can mine indefinitely, and you can only upgrade to the limit of your materials. Of course the mining gives you the materials to do upgrading, so it's win-win. Typically in a duo though, where one person mines and the other person builds & upgrades, the miner will pull well ahead in XP. Especially if they're higher level with a lot of miner-69er, mother lode, and have good tools.

[@chrishubbard64]

Isnt mining slower because you have to go from resource to resource?

[@kathrynck]

@@chrishubbard64 "usually" you can mine a mineral vein all day and all night, gathering thousands upon thousands of units of material, and still not mine all of it. Even with a fully modded tier 6 auger and max miner69er and mining books, a decent iron vein will take you at least a full day (likely more) to fully clear. And you and your motorcycle will be hauling a frieght train worth of ore. You could build with those materials for XP which comes in a bit faster, so you might want to save your "xp potions" for that, since they don't last all that long. But the mining gives more total xp than building things with the mined materials, and it's quite a lot of xp once you're able to mine in bulk quickly.

[@chrishubbard64]

@@kathrynck Ah I didnt realize the ore keeps going deeper and deeper. Often I get like a layer or two below the surface and start hitting nothing but rock again, but im a new player using a level 1 iron pickaxe I looted from a crate at the tool shop. :p Is that with the mother lode type skills?

[@kathrynck]

@@chrishubbard64 the ores are like 2-3 blocks wide at the surface, and narrow down to 1 block wide as they go down... but they only stay that narrow for a few blocks of depth, and then they branch out into a huge area with hundreds of blocks of ore. I usually just ignore the top part, go about 8 blocks to the side of it, and ramp down underneath it. I end up in a huge cave made out of all the mining being done. I've pulled over 60,000 iron out of a mine before just leaving it cuz I wanted to do other things. It gets to a point where you stop looking at the number of iron you're mining, and start thinking in terms of how many stacks of 6,000 you have accumulated. Just be careful, if you cause a big enough cave-in, it can kill u :P hehe. Oh, also you'll likely attract some zombies eventually, so be mindful to have a good weapon handy ;)

[@KARTIKEYA007]

@@kathrynck You are wrong, torches don't increase the heatmap at all. You can put as many torches as u want.

[@juanfisi]

Is ammo really a problem in late game? mining, trading, questing, most resources are near infinite with those.

[@waynesmeltzer4623]

can you please do a video how to use a ps4 controller on the pc i followed other videos but i still have xbox controls while using my ps4 controller Thank You

[@SavensWorld]

I explain the PS4 controls in the first few minutes of this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ2wnJ6wicyFbNE

[@tigrecito48]

why do you need a base in each city? i just put storage chests on the ground.. its not like you get attacked much apart from horde night.. unless there are other players

[@chrishubbard64]

Its mainly an excuse to build more and get some extra levels I think. Honestly I suppose it makes sense if your playstyle is to strip every city bare instead of doing quests then move on. You can pack up your crafting stations in your 4x4, head to the next city and build another temporary home cube base till you clear that city out, then move on again. Only having to go back home for horde night.

[@tigrecito48]

@@chrishubbard64 im playing on one of the big pregen maps now they have huge cities... takes like 1-2 in game weeks to explore each city.. i put down a bunch of storage, bed, fire workbench in every city i also try to defend some place in that town when horde night comes rather than going back home until ive cleared the whole town... i tried to defend one of those underground bunkers.. looks quite strong but they are rubbish... it was going well for half the night they hadnt even got thru the first bunker door.. then a demolisher came along doing 500 damage per hit... he basically went thru every single door in a few game hours... also i got surrounded as the rest of the zombies just dug thru the ground and went thru the rubbish ceiling.. im sure the devs made most of the buildings rubbish to defend on purpose.. like tall towers that collapse with a few hits... ive seen some buildings that have 10,000 strong blocks on one part and then 500 strong in other areas, so it will still collapse easy.. the easiest way to defend is to get on a roof of a building with 2500 walls build a small hut to defend against birds... get rid of any way up for zombies and just sit there all night.. you can even move about so they destroy various parts of walls and not all directly under you... one night i built a wood walkway around the edge of the roof of a building and i just walked around it clockwise all night.. the zombies below spend most of their time walking back & forth rather than destroying stuff...

[@chrishubbard64]

@@tigrecito48 Yeah, underground bases got nerfed extra hard in alpha 19 I think it was. It used to be underground bunkers worked great, now they are super powered moles with structural engineering degrees who know exactly where you are and the fastest way to get to you. They work great for home bases, ive just started a game where I dug to bedrock (took like 3 repairs of my stone axe to get there, lol) Then hollowed it out to put down storage and whatnot and so far no issues with zombies. I like the idea of finding a high rise and doing laps around it to avoid too much damage being done. It works if you dont want to fight the horde.

[@tigrecito48]

@@chrishubbard64 yeah, i usually mine iron by digging one small hole straight down, and then making a big cave... if a zombie comes along i wait for them to fall down the hole and fall over and then i whack them whilst they are getting up... problem with this game is, i decided to use my brain and this game doesnt like you using your brain... i decided to dig a hole right under that hole into the gave.. a pit trap so they fall in and cant get out easy so i can kill them, but the zombies magically knew id made a hole under it and they just dug thru the earth in a random spot and all fell in, cos id been waiting wondering why they werent coming down the hole anymore the screamers had called in about 30 odd zombies, so i suddenly got surrounded & killed.. just proves using your brain in the game is pointless.. just play how the devs want you to play.. there is only one way to play... talking of high rises... i once cleared out that tallest skyscraper in the game thats in the desert in navezgane... right at the top i took away the way to the upper most part and sat up there in horde night.. i heard nothing all night... i think i was so high up the zombies had no idea how to get to me..

[@isoSw1fty]

Im def building a storage unit at each city or major POI

[@zone3093]

another way to get a lot of screamers to spawn in is to feather(tap instead of hold) your auger/chainsaw. !!!CAUTION!!! doing this for a whole tank or more will call in a ridiculious ammount of screamers dont do this unless you want to die, have a shit load of ammo you dont need, have a great base or u have a lot of explosives to use for your zombie hole base. also might be usefull in certian pvp situations.

[@SavensWorld]

Excellent Tip! I was saying the same thing to the players on the Saven's World server awhile back. Should have included that in this video!

[@TheIceThorn]

*peeks ar screwdriver mods* "dood, you're not using those and skipping the metal breaking one, right?"

[@VictorWangW]

Question my dude. Will you do these type of tutorials for modded versions of 7days? My friends and I have gone through vanilla, and are now on to mods, and some of the mods are kicking our butts! Would love to see how you handle them. (a 14 day base build recommendation for Darkness Falls mod would be great!)

[@zone3093]

put a sledge turret about 2 blocks (find the distance where it hits the zombies but not the front of your defences) infront of where u fight from the hatch or bunker facing you so as the zombies are attacking the hatch or wall/poles the turret is going to town it stops them from building up and does a lot of damage /ragdolls them. so far seems like an exploit. if a demo shows up back up a bit the turret turns off than u gun down the demo and move forward agian and go back 2 work!

[@SavensWorld]

I may in the future. I'm not very familiar with the modded versions and would have to educate myself on these before releasing tutorials.

[@greensmile1873]

Although I am Russian, I can now know a lot about this game with the help of Yandex

[@iskandarr1496]

Love it thanks

[@SavensWorld]

You’re welcome 😊

[@applefunk9905]

1 = 1 Duke to Brass...you gotta be kidding me. THANK YOU!!!!!

[@SavensWorld]

You're welcome!

[@elementalblaze79]

Not sure if it's my luck or not but for brass, I find way to much brass items(not including the Duke coins) that even on day 1000 with me being over lvl 100, I always have enough brass for my ammo! It's the lead I have problems getting! Lol

[@chrishubbard64]

I actually agree, I get tons of brass knobs, trophies, and other such things to scrap. Lead doesnt seem as common. But its early days for me.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@chrishubbard64 : Mining will give plenty of lead.

[@swagikuro]

Thanks!!!

[@MFJiggy]

does anyone know how to change the texture of wooden blocks?

[@SavensWorld]

You need to paint them. Get yourself a paintbrush and some paint.

[@MFJiggy]

@@SavensWorld thank you so much i love your videos

[@SavensWorld]

@@MFJiggy You're welcome! I appreciate your support! If you want some more info on painting, check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmeWc553iJudoMU

[@xreact]

these are tier 5 high quality fully moded tps!

[@SavensWorld]

Thanks!

[@JohnWick-tc1xy]

Very good content

[@gogoasa76]

The #10 tip don't apply if your character is above LV 200 with full gear club and assault rifle main with a mouse and a keyboard

[@maelstrom2594]

Great video but the part with upgrading seemed weird, 20% of 480 should have added almost 100 xp. going up to 503 is an increase of only 23 which is not even the 10 % you should get from the nerdy glasses. in fact it's less than 5%, I don't quite understand how that worked or maybe I missed something. I guess it's possible some of the bonuses only apply to zombie kills.

[@SavensWorld]

I did a follow up video about that. You can see it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYO7h3-baLdlmac

[@nach0x]

What eluded me every goddam time is the fucking crucible it force me to go the int skill tree... Every. fucking. Time.

[@MrAllekzander]

I think even in the latter game, about the most frightening situation I run into is getting surprised by a pack of zombie dogs. That can be humbling really quick. Lol.

[@SavensWorld]

Absolutely! Completely agree!

[@chrishubbard64]

Yeah had that happen a couple times. Im building my horde base and not paying attention when RAW RAWR RAWR! Dog leaps over the first row of blocks and starts biting me. I managed to club it to death and was like, "Wow, that was random." Then two more come circling around to attack me like a pack of raptors. I think I was at half health and had 6 dead dogs before I finally stopped having to search for more. Still better than BEARS though. /shudder

[@k1dby479]

Now THIS is something I can use!

[@SavensWorld]

I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@jlyvren89]

That little outpost (F.O.B.) idea is something I haven't considered...Hmmm...🤔

[@SavensWorld]

FOBs can definitely come in handy

[@jlyvren89]

@@SavensWorld I can tell, although I've been using (an) unconventional method(s) for storage: like putting those smaller boxes on walls (usually building my own if none is available) away from Quest Markers to keep it from erasing it. Not to mention the fact I'm making (somewhat) protected mine shafts of sorts...🤣👍

[@SavensWorld]

@@jlyvren89 Very nice!

[@YoungIroh]

So today I decided to get some screamers spawning thinking I was prepared. I was. Barely. I've done it a few times before and got maybe like 7 zombies to spawn idk what happened but at least 20 zombies spawned along with dogs and they kept coming and coming cuz of the screamers

[@SavensWorld]

Oh yeah! You have to be very careful when dealing with screamers! Otherwise, you'll have zombie jerks galore before you know it!

[@greyed]

9x9 structure? **Inner Direwolf20 squee**

[@diabetichamm3776]

My means if xp is my massive hwy project through a mtn lol

[@SavensWorld]

I love huge, creative builds like that!

[@diabetichamm3776]

Thanks! I'm also working on a runway for my gyrochopper

[@junkapopo]

Can you define "mid game" and "late game" please?

[@applefunk9905]

20000 stack...you gotta be Kidding Me. THANK You!!!

[@SavensWorld]

Yeah a full stack of 20k Dukes is better than tossing in radiators and trophies and constantly having to babysit your forges

[@applefunk9905]

@@SavensWorld my last on this... I can not believe I did not know this. It changed my entire future 7d2d experience. 👍 Mr. Saven!

[@SavensWorld]

@@applefunk9905 I'm glad the video helped you out!

[@TheIceThorn]

"abundance of resources" == no ammos

[@ArcLexAurCus]

Thank you.

[@SavensWorld]

You're welcome

[@mutsuhanma7807]

I use 4 dbl barr shotguns and fists

[@SavensWorld]

Nice!

[@edrandell424]

Man I HATE the demo zeds! they wrecked my horde base ¬_¬

[@Toxicblackmambahs]

oh wow didnt know the damage of weapons varies

[@SavensWorld]

Pretty much all item stats are variable. It is an easy thing to miss.

[@Toxicblackmambahs]

@@SavensWorld I'll keep an eye on that, I started a club weapon build in my new start game.

[@Ming1975]

I don't care about level ups once I'm lvl 30 on wards.

[@Ming1975]

@@thetruth-hl7ct I stopped caring after day 7 till i realize I need something and have 20+ points to use. hahaha!

[@amunderdog]

I tried the modify item for sale thing. I made better dukes selling the mods separate from the item. Guess i will need to look further into that.

[@SavensWorld]

Only worth it with quality 5 and 6 gear. Anything lower than that just isn't worth it. Quality 5&6, however, is definitely worth it!

[@balazsadorjani1263]

may I propose an idea for a hardcore drinking game? aka how to get drunk af in 18 minutes? drink 1 shot every time Saven says 'in 7 days to die' great vid tho! I have ~110 hours in 7 days to die (*drinks 1 shot), and I still learned a lot from your vid! thanks!

[@hannahshark8080]

"All weapons have variable stats" Wait WHAT

[@SavensWorld]

Indeed 😉

[@ernestcote3398]

Yea, did the cocky, went down a hatch. Didn't come up.

[@SavensWorld]

Haha me too

[@TheIceThorn]

tip n°9b: the bridge base is good for demoes but the zombies have to fall down in a pit after being activated, therefore activate them and shoot them on the leg to cripple them and make them fall down.

[@Zonker66]

How come no one is saying 480XP*1.3=503XP... is JUST WRONG. That's just shy of a 5% bonus... NOT 30%.Why, when he wore the glasses and drank the drink was his first comment not "WTF... that certainly doesn't work!"

[@SavensWorld]

Wow you are absolutely right! Can't believe I missed that. This definitely warrants some testing and follow up! Thanks for pointing that out!

[@Zonker66]

@@SavensWorld Thank you for not thinking I was just bein' mean. Look forward to the test results.

[@SavensWorld]

@@Zonker66 No worries. I try to take the best possible meaning when reading comments. Most people are good and well intentioned. The asshats go out of their way to demonstrate their asshatedness!

[@lillerosin2915]

why on earth does this dude sound almost exactly like JaWoodle?

[@netgafs1]

Or u make a cave at bedrock and can run all heat 24/7

[@chrishubbard64]

I literally just started a game based on that today. Day 1, i took my stone axe and dug my way straight down to bedrock and started hollowing it out. Ive got enough space for my land claim block, some storage boxes, and am working on widening the room enough to place my eventual crafting stations. Glad I chopped down a lot of trees though. i was not expecting to need like 40 ladders to climb back out. :p I think I have repaired my stone axe about a dozen times so far. On the plus side ive upgraded it to level 4 just from leveling up doing all this digging.

[@kaidestinyz]

If only you could stop saying "in 7 days to die", we know which game you are talking about man.