District Zero Tips & Beginner Guide, 7 Days to Die

[@SnowBee]

Any tips and tricks you would like to suggest? Especially good beginner tips. EDIT: Fire hydrants do not work anymore! EDIT: Quite a few changes since version 2. There are now zombies in the game (they are blue owing to the nanites seeping through their bodies). Fusion tech has been removed. More vehicles and robots!

[@marie-eagle]

2000 dukes sitting on Jens trader building. Nice.

[@MrWhitearchon]

awesome vid SnowBee i will definetly check this one out it looks really cool :)

[@SnowBee]

@@MrWhitearchon Glad to hear Archon :)

[@richardgoldberg2691]

Wrench the robot heads to half the time to break them apart

[@SnowBee]

@@richardgoldberg2691 So, wrenching the head decreases robot wrenching time by half?

[@yvels3685]

I dont know how but you figured I started my new play-through with District Zero and needed help. My reaction to your posted video: "well, thats bloody convenient!" :) Thanks! my biggest issue early levels was robots re-spawning at all times... and starting on survivalist permadeath from the go.. I kited some away from trader and on my way back: you get a respawn, you get a respawn and you too!! Cleared them all: you get a respawn, you get a respawn and you too!! OH BLOODY HELL COME ON! lol

[@SnowBee]

Your avatar is pretty unique... so I spot it before I read the name. Always good to see your posts. :) I are settling directly in the city? My base on my vanilla and District Zero playthrough was the same, on the outskirts farming area. After the first week I have found the spawns dry up a lot. In fact, besides the wandering hordes, I would not see a zombie or bot around my base or at the trader (next door). There were bots and zombies in the trader when I arrived on day 1, but after I cleared them out, and put a claim block in trader Jen's compound, the monsters dried up.

[@yvels3685]

​@@SnowBee I guess placing the claim block should help; I was just tired running around jens compound and killing same zombies over and over when kiting them away didnt do much. Its on the outskirts with farms; def away from city center and large pois. Thanks for the tip.

[@hyrulianguardlyfe3952]

I would also add to your leather tips that the Savage Frontier stores/clothiing stores are particularly more attractive as loot priorities then they would normally be because of the clothing you can break down into leather items,, and most savage frontier stores also have a decent amount of bookshelves so with ever trip to a savage frontier you can come away looking good, learn something new, ,and make yourself a new pair of boots as well!.

[@hyrulianguardlyfe3952]

I started playing D-zero because of you and im on day 4 and struggling with the very issues you start this video with, your video has impeccable timing and i had no idea that you can pick up pretty much the entire world and scrap it which is going to change my solo play in big ways!. Thank you for reading my mind and providing perfectly timed assistance. Also...I like the fact that the robots are for the most part so quiet, makes them more terrifying and really requires you to scout out your surroundings before looting it. I miss the animals and things of flesh, even rotting flesh which...is the point of this mod is it not? Lol. Fight the machine Snowbee, I...and undoubetly others stand by you! You are the next John Conner!.

[@SnowBee]

Haha, thanks for your really flattering words :) Yeah, I am in two minds about them being so quiet. I like the life the monsters bring with their sound effects, but I do appreciate how they sneak up on you, and you need to be on the look out :)

[@saussie22]

I absolutely love this game. I loved 7DTD, but this is a whole new level... play for hours... Fantastic fun.

[@SnowBee]

Yes, mods certainly breathe new life into the game. :)

[@derduerk]

Nice Over-View an Tips. A joy to view and hear the video.

[@SnowBee]

Glad you enjoyed it! :) Thanks.

[@certainwords6400]

Kinda thankful that they didn’t go the titanium route. Cobalt is refreshing

[@SnowBee]

Yeah, I never thought of that. It is a nice change.

[@marie-eagle]

Nice thumbnail SnowBee 😍

[@SnowBee]

Thanks Marie. I will let me wife know. She is the one that created it. :)

[@marie-eagle]

@@SnowBee She is very talented.

[@htran18]

I really like playing this mod, thanks for the tips!

[@joelrivera4874]

I honestly find the robot concept better then the zombies, make it por appealing as robots doomsday scenario is much more posible than zombies!

[@SnowBee]

Yeah, everyone has their likes and dislikes, however, it is seldom we have a completely knew theme like the Robot AI one now.

[@GamingAfter50]

Thanks SnowBee! Haven't given this mod a shot yet but it's on my to-do list.

[@SnowBee]

Yeah, I think by September there will be many pouring in with testing potential.

[@GamingAfter50]

It'll be a fun time, until A22...

[@SnowBee]

@@GamingAfter50 Some are saying that A22 could be worse for modder compatibility. So, they may take even longer to fix their mods.

[@vitrebel]

Im downloading the mod right now and i am very thankful that you made this video its going to help me soo much. Keep up the good work ❤️🤘🏻

[@SnowBee]

Glad I could help :)

[@shak650l]

Nice guide. I am not into the robot aspect but everything else in the mod is very cool.

[@SnowBee]

Hey Shaknor Yeah, it is not everyone's theme and genre, but certainly the mechanics and stuff that the devs are doing these days is pretty inspiring and awesome.

[@KevinSY]

Awesome vid as usual

[@SnowBee]

Thanks :)

[@bennyblack1560]

this mod is great. thx for the vid🖖

[@SnowBee]

Thanks benny :) Yeah, Zilox has done some great work, will be really awesome what this mod will be like in a year!

[@BBoyTapedeck]

"I pick things up and put them down!" Got it 👍🏾 Thanks for your hard work @SnowBee ✌🏾

[@SnowBee]

Haha, yeah, that does sound funny. :D lol ... I do hope you are planning to take them back to your base first... then scrap. :D

[@BBoyTapedeck]

Of course! I love your guides they are very helpful! Thanks again My quote was from this old commercial for planet fitness 😂kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2jKq6ClptJ_bck

[@yvels3685]

@@BBoyTapedeck thats hilarious af! Should be adapted and used as District Zero promotional video :)

[@zoom9940]

Wow, those mechs completely destroyed and one shotted Jen's place. Glad they only come in later for horde nights.

[@SnowBee]

Yeah, with heavy armour their lasers are not that bad. But you can also kite the lasers while in open ground.

[@jk0000079]

Not really, I play w/o horde-nights and I had a Mech roaming around my improvised base at about level 3

[@SnowBee]

@@jk0000079 Was your base close to the city? I have done two play throughs, well, one only lasted about 10 days, but I have had a very peaceful start in both, and only seen mechs in the city. However, I did see a mech on the outskirts near a trader on my early 1.0.7 start. Just even then, the city was quite close by. I know that one only rocked up in the night. I wonder if they come out more at night on the outskirts? I know in the city they definitely spawn at night a lot more.

[@jk0000079]

@@SnowBee it was right next to a trader at the outskirts of a city, coincidentally around 300m away from the next T5 POI. Still, when I first saw (and test-attacked) one at level 3, I was not sure if this mod is something I wanted to continue playing🤣

[@kelwin2180]

Thanks snowbee

[@SnowBee]

Sure kelwin :)

[@timidflounder3232]

So far district zero is the best overhaul mod I have played

[@SnowBee]

Powerful words those. :)

[@rule3225]

good guide, thanks snowbee

[@SnowBee]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@johnpatz8395]

Wow, i didn’t know hydrants filled water jars

[@SnowBee]

Yeah, it depends on the mod. Some allow it, some don't. So you can easily miss it from mod to mod :)

[@manoclocknews]

i just finished playing with darkness falls and i have no idea how to install district zero. can anyone help?

[@SnowBee]

You have two options. Manual install or the Mod Launcher. Here is my manual install video, it was done for Alpha 21, but you can use it for the latest version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaTYiWONlJKhjs0 Let me know how it goes. Otherwise find the "7 Days to Die Mod Launcher", and it will do most of the work for you, but more difficult to troubleshoot if there is a problem.

[@manoclocknews]

@@SnowBee Thanks man. appreciate it.

[@SnowBee]

@@manoclocknews Happy to help :)

[@sammadinah]

wrench used to be the weapon to go against robots ,, but got nefed in the last patch

[@SnowBee]

Well, it is kind of nerfed. It still is used, just not going to give you extra ingredients.

[@zenairzulu1378]

cool

[@SnowBee]

Have you had a chance to play the recent version of District Zero yet?

[@ddssrr1614]

Any plans on doing a updated version for 1.0 ?.. im finding it hard to get food or money for food atm. Pretty much just focusing on hunting food atm to stay alive barely lol.

[@SnowBee]

Not currently. I would go all out to possibly get the 100 polymer needed for the fabricator. Boxes salvaged should help. Finding a trader at the start, I think was my biggest problem when I was checking it out on Friday. I did two restarts, both with zero trader close by. I tend to find the spear a good weapon for the robots early on. Those robot spiders are my problem, I have died to them twice.

[@ddssrr1614]

@@SnowBee I just did this & now have no food problems ever haha. I been using knifes atm & pipe machine gun. Not died yet touch wood. The Robot doggo nearly got me day 2. i was like 6hp & just killed it in time. Near to death as i like to get. I got a pretty good map with a trader like 1km just over. So wasn't to much of a walk. I did do a random gen map & previewed it before starting to gen a decent map with lots of poi's

[@SnowBee]

Excellent :)

[@peanuts4breakfast121]

n1 thx for the info

[@stj-1013]

谢谢你 很喜欢你的modes

[@SnowBee]

Thanks stj-1013

[@boswelloraptor]

What's the robot in the thumbnail called? It's awesome

[@SnowBee]

No idea :) It is what I got out of the software when trying to generate a mech picture that had a similar look as to some of the mechs in District Zero. So there is a resemblance but far from the same.

[@boswelloraptor]

​@@SnowBeeI might go as far as saying it's my favourite design, so I thank you for showing it to me

[@SnowBee]

@@boswelloraptor Thanks Boswelloraptor. I will also let me wife know, as she is the one that did my thumbnail :)

[@ArcangelWolf060385]

Sorry for my question, I don't understand the part to make the food, what things does it require once you have built the food creator to make it? I hope it is well translated, I must use Google

[@SnowBee]

I am unsure if I understand you. Meat is made automatically, the same as water in the dew collector. So you don't add anything, just wait. Am I understanding your question?

[@ArcangelWolf060385]

@@SnowBee oh how about that look my question is what materials do I need to make the meat oh food in said device oh yes in that case it creates itself without materials

[@SnowBee]

@@ArcangelWolf060385 Yes, once you have the food processor it just creates meat without any added materials.

[@ArcangelWolf060385]

@@SnowBee oh, thank you very much, that was my big doubt that I had problems, living with old cans or sandwiches is a problem.

[@joshuat2751]

only issue i have is getting nitrate and stuff for gunpowder... any tips for that?

[@SnowBee]

Coal and Nitrate are the same as vanilla mining. What is the problem? You could also change your tactics to using melee for a while and ranged for the higher end bots. Otherwise you need to make a lot of auto miners.

[@joshuat2751]

@@SnowBee I totally forgot you can mine it. Just hopped back on after ages 😭😂 thanks brudda

[@SnowBee]

@@joshuat2751 Haha, no problem :)

[@EVanTorrente]

how im going to trade if the traders are not spawning

[@SnowBee]

I am unsure what zilox has done about traders in the most recent version, however, this problem if I recall is related to a version mismatch. Possibly your DZ version is incorrect for the alpha 21 version you are using?

[@autumnradabaugh6036]

Fabricator help ! Requirements? Please.

[@SnowBee]

Hi Autumn. Requirements? In what way? If you select it, you get the actual ingredients. Skills? EDIT: Actually, I think you are possibly wanting the skill requirement. You do need to collect some workstation magazines. You can see it under the workstation crafting skill magazine section. DZ still uses the vanilla magazine system, just it is adapted to the DZ items.

[@autumnradabaugh6036]

@@SnowBee I used 6 magazines and it's still locked. Do you know what resources it takes to use it?

[@autumnradabaugh6036]

@@SnowBee thanks for the help.

[@SnowBee]

@@autumnradabaugh6036 Actually it opens on the 2nd Forge Ahead magazine read. The dew collector also opens with it. It needs iron, polymers, duct tape, electrical parts and one nano chip. The nano chip you can get from wrenching robots. So, you should be able to craft this on the first or second day. However, the problem is you need 100 polymers and 5 duct tape.

[@autumnradabaugh6036]

@@SnowBee thanks :)

[@GameKingdom94]

just to let you know the fire hydrant trick does not work

[@SnowBee]

Yeah, unfortunately it was removed after I made the video. :(

[@dobbers9921]

Ripping off Jen as part of your guide makes this vid an 11/10 instead of a mere 10/10.

[@SnowBee]

I can live with an 11 out of 10 :)

[@yvels3685]

@@SnowBee best I can do it three fiddy out of 3.

[@darkage5]

My only beef is why would he leave that stone crap as a lootable item? Who would be carrying a stone hammer or shovel in a hover car? Seriously? Stone tools should have only ever been a starter item and never anything you should be looting. It's not like you can craft a stone wrench.

[@SnowBee]

I would be for the removal of all ancient tools and have the new tech as entry level. Just have to balance the tools and weapons.

[@shadowproductions969]

​@SnowBee personally I think it'd make more sense.. either make the new tools upgrades above steel or simply replace the vanilla tools with the futuristic ones.. currently it just seems redundant.

[@SnowBee]

@@shadowproductions969 Yeah, the upgrades after steel will take too long to get to. However, I guess you could rebalance the lower tier stuff to appear and complete quicker. Then you could get to the new tech quicker. All the overhaul I know of generally keep vanilla weapons/tools. I wonder if there is a problem if you removed them, or if it could lead to a massive amount of work to keep the mod stable without them.

[@piterszot650]

No a real meat 🤯 😭

[@SnowBee]

Yip, Star Trek style :)

[@Fheara_Nyakki]

Seem itneresting mod and some interesting mechanics for sure than alpha 21, but I still prefer horror zombies...

[@SnowBee]

Yeah, it is not everyone's cup of tea. Still, as you say, pretty interesting mechanices.

[@yvels3685]

Im RP the f out of it as "gone rogue Ai" and wiped all humans. "KILL ALL HUMANS" "MUST KILL ALL HUMANS" Benders vibes. Hilarious. I now must find a way to have a Bender as rogue robot saying this. I MUST!