7 Days to Die Bunker + Underground Garden / Tree Farm

[@mikereds2997]

This is pretty cool I usually do a garden on top of a structure I build or in a walled in area connected to base with a underground tunnel but this looks fun to try as well your builds always inspire

[@jasonhenderson4826]

Dude, nice work on the whole out lay of everything!!

[@klaudiosaganic4574]

G.Spartan, thank you for your ideas! I love the 'greenhouse' setup. Currently at day 29, and transfering my garden from my first 'base' (just a semi-fortified little cabin in the woods) to my still-in-progress future badass-ZOMGWTFPWN base downtown :) I completed so far only 1/4th of the base design but was able to withstand the 28 horde pretty well. Dedicated one whole day to hunting and nest plundering (bow/crossbow buff here, no guns). I ended up with ~70 hides and meat, ~400 feathers and have now 4 forges running plus the meat stew whoa! Just bragging. I took over a small piece of flat fertile land downtown and starting to farm there. Wanted to do it the old style with poles and barbed wire but the wire sucks at stopping things, it 'just' slows them down. So: a wall or a sunken garden like your one will be the best thing. I must have been a Dwarf in some previous life, I always end up deep underground smashig rocks and smelling torch smoke.

[@GrandSpartan]

Nice man! Thank you for the progress update and kind comments!

[@klaudiosaganic4574]

Hello again! Just popped in to brag a little. I've built a fair amount of 'holes in the ground' bases as you call them (your design) and they work great. Did a couple variations but your concept is awesome. Just finished my brand new underground farm, as per your design. The 'pit' I had to dig was 16x36x6=3456 blocks of dirt to dig out plus the access tunnel and an extra exit 'well' with hatch and all..more than 3500 blocs to dig. And I never use the Auger so busted quite some steel showels. I love to mine so all the walls are concrete with the upper tier and all the 12 pillars of reinforced concrete. The garden data: plopped down 464 blocs of fertile dirt for 232 plant plots. Plus all the cotton I can squeeze in between. You were so right: my days are now twice as long than before and the nights just go by when I can farm at will. I realized I will need thousands of corn for food and alcohol, and tons of cotton to level up my Medicine etc. Plus, put all that collected animal fat from zombies and hunting animals to good use: almost 30.000 fuel from biogas :) Bike has a nice 595 engine, so it will last me for quite a while all that gas :) Bummer: can't loot the dead through the grates. Thus the extra exit with hatch nearby. Surrounded the garden with 4 rows of log spikes to break them zombie's legs: much easier to head-shot them while they are slowly dragging their bellies legless :) In that role the sniper rifle is just brutal. I never try to 'finish' the game, I rather try to 'live' the game world, day by day, not just surviving but tryin to make a more-less normal post-apocaliptic RP 'life'. Thanks again for the great ideas, they really did 'spark' my creativity hehe.

[@GrandSpartan]

Nice man! Thank you for the update! Link me up some screen shots or videos if you have the time. I'd love to check it out!

[@klaudiosaganic4574]

Hello! This here was my first underground garden (actually a greenhouse lol), in the previous game. The glass 'windows' has to be 'glass PANE', and not glass bloc, otherwise the plants can't 'see' the sky and will just wither and die. Even with these panes, the thing was a bit wonky here and there, like there were dead spots where I could not plant a seed. Also, the openings are 1x1 and the glass panes being soo fragile, sometimes a stray bullet or a blast from a poorly aimed explosive bolt would shatter the glass and thus make a hole in the ceiling. What would happen, is that on Horde nights I would find my beautiful garden full of growling zombies and the plants and soil destroyed, all messed up. This system with iron gratings seems to work much better, and a lot less use of reinforced concrete too. Old system: imgur.com/a/FHhFP And the new system, much bigger: imgur.com/a/H0948 and the roof layout (sorry for the dead Z's :D ) imgur.com/a/gkp2O

[@GrandSpartan]

Looks great!! Thank you for sharing!

[@TehDanno1]

Really like your whole set up here, really nice.

[@GrandSpartan]

Thanks!

[@TehDanno1]

I stole your tower design, I made a 20x20 pit down to bedrock on MP server All Night Gamers B. It's not totally finished yet but I finished clearing out the pit this morning and got all the bottom section done and spiked out, now building the center tower upwards but its so far down in the ground. Starting to regret clearing out the whole center instead of leaving the center and carving out the bottom of it and building a tower on top and just digging down through the middle. lol

[@wiccanwulf8032]

glad to see i wasn't the only one who had the idea to build a garden under ground. though to be honest thought i was only one who had that idea for awhile till seeing this video.

[@GrandSpartan]

In the beginning, we used to grow everything down at bedrock and grow it with torches. You would also have to keep everything watered back then as well. Took quite a bit of planning back then to grow that way, but was well worth it. This is the best I could do for now with all the crops needing actual sunlight to grow, but still be protected underground.

[@MiniGamePainter]

I just bought this game. Holy crap there is a lot to this game.

[@conservativemacro80]

minecraft and csgo have more stuff to them

[@squeakyproductions3055]

+Conservative Macro he didn't mean in that sense.

[@Jakedyerrr]

Awesome ideas. Huge fan of your videos .

[@samuelstephens1257]

Love the forest garden idea. Any idea on starter dimensions for it? Ty great stuff.

[@GrandSpartan]

It is 20 x 54 if I remember correctly for the garden/tree farm.

[@TheSighphiguy]

nice build! iron bars can hang out at least 6 blocks with no support so you could have pillars 12 apart with no issues. it seems a lot of unnecessary resources expended. ive never had issues with surface farms ever. even at night. that said...it has a cool factor. hehe

[@GrandSpartan]

You are not taking in account that in each square of 4 pillars, there are 32 bars. I tried this same build with the pillars just one more block apart. The bars fell in without even walking on them. So yes, you do need to have them spaced apart just as I have them or you will have a mess on your hands.

[@mikereds2997]

Yea if you max anything on weight it could collapse from a player or zombies being extra weight on it extra support is always a good idea

[@rodgerlewis9405]

Great video! I'm building something quite similar in my single player play through. Waiting for more friends to get the game so I can do multiplayer!

[@Adam-or6mb]

I really like this build. I need some new ideas so I'm definitely going to try this :)

[@Supermandtm]

Awesome video! Love the ideas and keep the videos coming

[@GrandSpartan]

Thanks! Will do!

[@codyyb03]

That's sick bro! I thought my base was dope till I saw this! nice man! good ideas bro

[@GrandSpartan]

Thanks!

[@elessarstrider5532]

+Grand Spartan really a great idea but i have a tip: use metal trussings to put the iron bars on. because of the load the trussings can hold you can place about 11 bars on them without needing a pillar while they collapse after 6 if connected to concrete. so you can use the free space to grow corn and stuff 😆

[@Mullematsch]

Great video as always. Not sure what your plans are for a multiplayer 7Days to Die series or any other games but I would love to join. :)

[@chrism8645]

Your voice is so smooth. You should be on the radio :p

[@Nezlyn]

I had no idea Theo Von played 7DTD

[@TheStupidcomment]

Great base, barbed wire flat on the ground really slows down every zombie allowing you to shoot them easily, try it out.

[@jonathanbrown1120]

Zombies can dig downward, I had a vault door that a zombie destroyed by breaking the block beneath it, which was under it

[@takeshii]

do the walls of the farm itself have to be wood? I kind of like the dirt and random textures,

[@dazrael2133]

Nice farm, think I'll build one of those :)

[@belatcradus6123]

Nice Vid. so if I understand you correctly, I can plant everything in the underground, the plants just need light from above ?

[@GrandSpartan]

Yes. Everything will grow underground as you see here. The trees however, will not grow through the bars on Alpha 15.2. You will have to plant them at bedrock so that they do not go through the bars.

[@belatcradus6123]

Thx for this fast reply!

[@belatcradus6123]

and kepp up the good work, I could understand you pretty well !

[@JustGiona]

beautiful setup!

[@Sero121186]

Is there a video of the base next to the garden with a description how you build it,how big it is,.... Have you ever tried to build a garden on a stage? Would that be an option for the update? Your ideas are amazing and inspired my wife and me a lot.The time and the work you put in all of your bases are great to see. We just started with the game a week ago and the are still so many things to do better. How are you solving the food and water problem?

[@GrandSpartan]

Here is a link to the speed build, which you can pause or play back in 1/4 speed, similar to the base in the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWe3dGCVm8Rqnas You can just build the garden out on the ground. I prefer to have it enclosed so that I can garden at night without being pestered by zombies. If you watch my most recent Let's Play Series, you will see how I approach everything from early game to late. Here is a link to the first episode of the series. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKDbq35je9eHqJo

[@jonathanzzz7849]

awesome!! 很帅，功能很齐全，厉害了我的哥。

[@The1AndOnlyJMac]

awesome garden

[@yasuyachan3010]

Thank u a lot *-* This is awesome !

[@DanAkron]

Hey spartan do you know if trees or crops need sunlight or rain to grow?

[@KenNylandMusic]

Nice job! Does the tree have to be a certain amount of blocks below the bars to glitch through lie that?

[@GrandSpartan]

As per the description, this does not work with trees beyond Alpha 14. On alpha 15 they changed it so that the trees will destroy the blocks as it grows through them. You would have to plant the trees at bedrock to assure that they don't hit the bars.

[@Tec187x]

Is this what you consider your best bunker build? How about your mini-bunker? It seems the same dimensions as this, but only 4 deep as apposed to this one, 7 deep? Im trying to decide if i should go with 2 or 3 columns in the pit? Thanks for the great content mate, think i watched all of your 7D2D vids by now ;)

[@GrandSpartan]

Thank you for the support and kind comment!

[@GrandSpartan]

I like this one the best currently. Always go 3 high on the pillars. When they stack up on spike/corpses, you don't want them beating on a flat block. Making the pillars 3 high will prevent this for the most part.

[@denniswitvers5124]

So for the tree part. I read that its fixed now and that the trees leave a hole where the bars where. Now i am wondering what if you make the hole deepenough for the trees to fit in? I dont know the max height that a tree can get, but would that work. If you make it deep enough?

[@GrandSpartan]

A subscriber on the channel here did say that he tried it at a lower depth and that it does work. You would have to go pretty deep though. Something like 36 blocks or so.

[@denniswitvers5124]

Grand Spartan so if i would go like 40 deep it should work? welp i know what i am going to do XD

[@GrandSpartan]

Please get back to me after you have completed it, so that I know for sure that it works doing it that way. Thanks!

[@denniswitvers5124]

Grand Spartan will do

[@jimdenton9770]

Did this work?

[@Ogmosic]

Great looking tree farm

[@GrandSpartan]

Thanks man!

[@Vichyssoise1000]

Good stuff man. I was just wondering if you were gonna continue on the tutorial series any further. is this the same map, or a different one??

[@GrandSpartan]

Not going to be continuing the tutorial series. I noticed that after the first few videos the views dropped off and not many people actually watched them all the way through. Looked like most people watched the first two videos and skipped to the last video of day 21. I have already started back over a couple times while streaming on Twitch. Mostly I have been streaming my progress live there. I may do another series of some sort here in the future.

[@Vichyssoise1000]

+Grand Spartan Ah that's a shame dude. I've watched and loved all of those episodes.

[@GrandSpartan]

Thanks for the support man!

[@hanzberger7093]

Very nice~!

[@Exultant]

question , hope you answer :) but all these bunkers mainly the advanced ones such as this one could they be main bases?

[@GrandSpartan]

Yes! The server I play on is beyond day 300. My favorite base to take the horde on in, is a base exactly like the one you see here in this video!

[@SuperDankBud]

Amazing video but I believe crawlers can in fact attack downwards but only crawlers

[@GrandSpartan]

The only thing that can attack downwards are cops with their projectiles. Tested many times over.

[@SuperDankBud]

+Grand Spartan wow really thank you that's too easy😂

[@SuperDankBud]

+Grand Spartan that would only make sense

[@seknight2835]

please answer my questions it will help me out ALOT so firstly what alpha is this played in? (or console version?) secondly do you just use iron bars to let light in or do you also use windows/glass and which?

[@GrandSpartan]

This is A 14.6 on PC. Here I used iron bars, but you could use glass/windows as long as the zombies cannot attack them. I would not use glass on this build as the cops would shoot projectiles at you and break through.

[@seknight2835]

+Grand Spartan so iron bars work as well? great thats all i wanted to know thanks

[@breeece]

Can you explain to me how the tree farm works and how it is self sufficient?

[@GrandSpartan]

The advantage to having it underground and in one place is, 1 - You don't have to leave your base running around trying to find trees for wood. 2 - You can cut the trees at night time without being bothered by the zombies. This saves your precious daylight hours for more important things. 3. Everything is spaced so that as you cut the tree, you can immediately plant another in the hole in which you cut the last one. 4 - You have 30k wood at your disposal every couple game days right at your finger tips. So many beneficial factors play into having an underground tree farm in your base.

[@ICanHeavy]

I live in a biome where some days it snows. but I wanna have a garden in my base so will it snow between the iron bars?

[@GrandSpartan]

The snow will come through the bars.

[@PasqualItizzz]

For some reason (on xbox) it snows on my workbench ... 20 feet below ground :p

[@earthisflatgoogleit.2114]

how do you make white bars as a room for the trees? I play on pc what is it called so I can craft some too thank you! :)

[@GrandSpartan]

They are actually red. The gamma may have been turned a bit too high as well as my mining helmet turned on during daylight. They are called ( iron bars). You can craft them in the forge. This build was on Alpha 14. The tree farm part of this is no longer valid, as the trees do not grow through the bars anymore as stated in the description. However, you may still grow an underground garden with this build.

[@earthisflatgoogleit.2114]

Grand Spartan subbed :D

[@GrandSpartan]

Thank you for the sub! Good luck with the under ground garden!

[@earthisflatgoogleit.2114]

Grand Spartan Thanks! :)

[@LtksK]

I build an underground garden yesterday and my trees destroy the bars where they grow. Was there a change since your video? I guess it's zombieproof as long as the trees are there, but that way I can't chop them at night, since they take to long to fill their gap again.

[@GrandSpartan]

There must have been a change in the bars since the video. Thank you for letting me know! I will post a note in the description.

[@LtksK]

Maybe they interact with the bars only on a certain height (since I have another one). Is your garden still alive and can you check? In that case I could just change the height. If they actually changed it, I would just place a wooden frame as a cover everytime I chop a tree. The tree would destroy it, but it's only 5 wood loss for each tree. The only problem would be, that a Zombie could slip in for a second, if my timing is bad.

[@GrandSpartan]

Unfortunately I cannot. The server has been wiped since I did this build. I had another I built a short time ago on SP, but deleted the save game after I completed it and made the video The build was on Navesgane and I knew I would never play on it again. Thank you for letting me know. I did not notice the same thing happen to the most recent on that I built though. It could have something to do with the height the tree makes contact at. I walked all around up top when the trees were growing and didn't notice any bars missing.

[@LtksK]

I now built a single bar at your height to test it. But I have to wait till the tree grows. I also measured how deep I would have to dig to cover the whole tree, but I guess that would be too much work for only trees. I'd rather plant my trees outside and use the garden only for other plants. Or as I already thought of, I would just fill in the gap with a wooden frame everytime. And since your videos helped me a lot to get started, letting you know about changes is the least I can do. ;) Edit: The tree grew and destroyed the bars at the same height your setup has. So it was actually changed.

[@RedScareClair]

the not attacking part is only semi true. zombies attack directly in front of them therefore a crawler can in fact attack "down"

[@GrandSpartan]

There is a part two to this, where I use wood frames to disprove this theory of zombies attacking downward. The Fun Pimps took the ability for zombies to attack straight down many alphas ago. They were digging to bedrock, turning whole maps into swiss cheese, and crashing games by doing so. Here is part one of two. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHK6Y32Vm9GGm80

[@RedScareClair]

hmm interesting. I could have sworn that my mine hatch took damage one day when I was getting harassed at my mine. (ps4) I guess it's possible I damaged it myself but I never heard a clank. Anywho great vids!

[@GrandSpartan]

Thanks! Things may be different on console. I am not familiar at all with ps4 or xbox versions of this game.

[@l0vekitten]

so amazing I'm jealous

[@TheFrostDrake]

its in the ground yes but its still the surface i expected a farm that was actually underground in a cavern or something like that

[@GrandSpartan]

You have to have light to grow crops/trees. This setup allows you to farm at night when you normally can't go out and do such.

[@simongodfrey4756]

i created/modified your bunker idea but my base has suddenly become unstable. anyone found bad or unusual structural integrity issues?

[@gregistopal]

Simon Godfrey well you modified it didn't youv

[@simongodfrey4756]

Yes... but surely if there were S.I issues they wouldve appeared whilst building. Now its a if i remove a wal torch the base collapses.. :/

[@GrandSpartan]

I have had that happen after hundreds of days playing before. The base would be fine for a long time, then all of a sudden random blocks would just start falling off here and there. When you would try to replace them, they would just fall off again. Think it is just an issue with the game. Have not had that happen yet in A15.

[@simongodfrey4756]

Cant wait for the next update to consoles as i kinda dont want to try and base build till the game feels a lil more stable.

[@kalebmanning8861]

how do you get the nail gun

[@GrandSpartan]

Most commonly found in working stiff crates

[@kalebmanning8861]

Thank you

[@OutOfNameIdeas2]

can this survive a hord ?

[@GrandSpartan]

Yes

[@OutOfNameIdeas2]

Are u shoure about that !?

[@GrandSpartan]

Yes I am sure about that. I used this same bunker on my server for over 300 days. Works like a charm.

[@OutOfNameIdeas2]

Ok :)

[@kiandewinne694]

What's the area for the farm?

[@GrandSpartan]

The farm area was something like 51 x 21 x 7.

[@kaiisdabei]

Awesome!

[@Expert_Venom]

what are the specs like is it a 9 by 9

[@Expert_Venom]

would you be able to do a speed build maybr

[@GrandSpartan]

Here is the speed build. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWe3dGCVm8Rqnas

[@Expert_Venom]

thank you but i meant the farm i forgot to tht in my comment but thank u tho

[@GrandSpartan]

It has been a while since I created the farm, but I am pretty sure it is 20 x 54.

[@Expert_Venom]

Thank you ... great build watched the video any way

[@rickyferguson7373]

tree farm dimensions?

[@GrandSpartan]

20 x 54

[@rickyferguson7373]

thanks and does that include the garden or is it only tree space?

[@GrandSpartan]

That is the entire structure.

[@maxkarnaukh3298]

does it work in alpha 15?

[@GrandSpartan]

Only the garden portion works in this format. The tree garden will work as well, but requires that you dig out the height of the trees. If they go through the bars, they will knock out the bar directly above them now.

[@willcoversongs]

Very kool

[@TheGoblin666]

no blueberrys in the farm.

[@GrandSpartan]

I only grow a garden for meat stew!

[@cream8627]

Hey!

[@GrandSpartan]

o/

[@jacknapier7066]

That's not really undground is it

[@GrandSpartan]

If it were above ground you would have to fight running zombies at night while trying to garden and harvest your tree farm. Building it underground this way provides the light needed to grow everything and can be harvested during the night while zombies are running. So yes, it is an underground garden.

[@solmyrarkana573]

gg

[@rapzidapap3749]

Nice fucking base bruhh

[@jonnytang6324]

Anyone with mic that lives in Australia and wants to play with me?

[@Ghost05Ayy]

Zombies dig now

[@GrandSpartan]

Zombies have always had the ability to dig straight forward, say into a mountain. They absolutely cannot dig straight down. Only cops can spit downward. I recording two videos you can find on google by searching for, can zombies dig downward.