HOW TO BUILD a INSANE HORDE BASE that TRAPS ZOMBIES FOREVER in 7 Days to Die 1.0

[@JaWoodle]

RUN MY PUPPETS RUN!

[@NerveDoc]

uno reverse card

[@wowiwon8828]

awesome base!!

[@AryonaSamoto]

I'm now picturing you dressed as a puppeteer with a bunch of Arlene puppets dangling from your fingers🤣 Edit: a maniacal grin on your face😉

[@scaryimpacts7504]

When they drop in the bucket, do they not destroy it because they are far enough away? Wouldn't they still want to destroy it because they can't get to you and would try to create a path?

[@Fresonis]

Almost 100k subs! Really deserve it all man. You're fun and informative to watch.

[@cyberwarlord7363]

As always enjoy the channel. Quick upgrades: Have long straight paths going towards the center and back for easy headshots. 1 high blocks on the outer path to slow them even more. Dart traps could be easy to abuse here. Placing weak doors to group them up before the pit(needs testing) If it works, place a landmine behind each door for mass wave clearing.

[@Newtie1998]

Jawoodle base builds are always so fun to recreate in game, and the extra challenge of making them for larger groups then one solo guy

[@levirichard1450]

Great, now the zombies are going to unionize and demand fairer treatment. All thanks to you Woodle.

[@Lexie-bq1kk]

How stupid, that they would even expect a living wage. Don't they know they just exist to serve their masters?

[@Abrogator91]

As clever as your designs are, I really do think TFP should incorporate the old AI in addition to the new. Have some zombies that pathfind like they do right now, and have some that just go straight for you like the old days. Hordes would be a lot less exploitable if half of the zombies were unpredictable

[@JaWoodle]

100% been saying this for years. Instant cheese base fix to have 50/50 smart/dumb AI

[@Abrogator91]

@@JaWoodle Dumb demolitioners would be actually terrifying, given how fast they can destroy blocks. I'd love that...

[@NickRoman]

But then wouldn't you have really simple bases? This way, you can build all kinds of elaborate bases like this. If half the zombies just go straight for you, wouldn't you then just build the entire base to deal with that? Thick walls?

[@MrKalidascopeEyes]

​@@NickRomanyou would end up with larger bases. I think you would build at least 5 layers taller to support a sorting system of sorts. But mostly being a blender bellow and ai pathfinder base on top. Would also farm screamers well if your main heat score is there

[@gozzilla177]

Honestly zombies patching is to smart for its own good, and while I don't think it's bad cuz the old were exploitable in other ways, making it so we have to mix and match would be better. I say that as someone who aims to build structurally sound bases usually from a building already in the game and fortify it, but now I can easily funnel them to where I want, at least it use to be an all sides horde 😂

[@Zero_Wolf-i8t]

Josh if you haven’t noticed it yet I think they added your purple hair back we noticed with the recent experimental build a bunch of other colors were added to the list in the character creation

[@samuelcornett1307]

Zombies still can't spawn on player placed blocks in 1.0. Bit of a grind, but I filled out all but 25 squares of a 107x107 square with a 7x7 base and controlled where zombies could spawn for horde. It would be one of the longer viddies in production time to get done, but I'm curious what you could do with that.

[@mementomori5580]

Would be even better imho if your redesign it so that you have some long stretches toward the center point and then back again on all 4 cardinal directions, wit the last one running into the dropper. That way, you have several "lines" of zombies you can shoot at from time to time, which allows your piercing snipers and such several hits as once regularly.

[@bobvalley2221]

Came here to say exactly this.

[@NickRoman]

Yep. Though this base does at least look cool.

[@nezunskyfire292]

Fantastic build mate! This made me think of something, instead of just having them run in a circle like that, you could instead make them run along a winding path that's on one side if your base/kill box, that way the zombies spending more time running in a straight line down your sight range, removing the need to aim/lead your shots.

[@kylejohnson8519]

Keeping with the math lesson, an addition shaped base could be good for the penetrator perk, get the pathing running towards and away from you instead of laterally. It could still curl all the way around all 4 sides for all your friends

[@becca_boops]

Yay more Jawoodle Park! That base is so esthetically pleasing to look at too.

[@chriswoodend2036]

@JaWoodle Something I want to mention about people saying "this only works because you build it out of concrete," there have been some JaWoodle Park examples in the past that could only be built as seen in the video out of concrete because the spans were long enough that wood and/or cobble would collapse over the spanned distance when you were upgrading from basic blocks. I personally had that problem in (I want to say) A19 with something I was trying to replicate. It just felt like the expressed concern might not have been either expressed or understood well.

[@columbus-69]

Love the maze design Woodle, cant forget the little sprinkle of "Fuck Yeah"

[@nickclark6236]

That last stretch you could turn into stairs to elevate just the bunker part of the base to 11-13 blocks high. Incase the zombies fall closer to the bunker.

[@evilspyke5760]

what do you mean you dont have friends? pick a subscriber

[@CloudBorne]

I'm not real. You're not real. The Internet is fake!! XD

[@VSodaki]

For real id play with woodle id try and break his legs lol

[@cmmeeks18]

I volunteer for tribute!

[@evilspyke5760]

I'm real. I've been here since before AI

[@kampar82]

This simulation is really impressive, I almost believed you guys are real.

[@flagrantyeti]

inb4 tfp releases their next 7 days spin off game, 7 Days TD. Just a full send tower defense style game haha

[@Ruffster]

A couple bomber zombies blowing up at a horde night could put some dent in that maze though.

[@jrm0601]

I noticed after you opened the door 28:42, the closest zombies behavior changed as if they see the door as a potential path they need to reach. They were pausing and throwing swipes to do damage as if the concrete under them is blocking the entrance to the door. Arlene corrects herself after a second, but that taller zombie guy that was seen paused for a long while. Removing that closer pathing rung or just making sure to shut that door every time might help. Or maybe even swapping those doors with a stack of hatches. Cuz I don't think it's the opening itself that's the problem, I'm almost certain it's influenced by their programming regarding doors.

[@theAkornTree]

@JaWoodle It would be great to have a video covering the absolute basics of base building, especially when it comes to things like how structural integrity works. There are several videos already out there, but they're all either well out of date now, or are presented in a very amateur way, not explaining things clearly, not showing what they're talking about on screen, etc. You could do a really good JaWoodle Park episode on it, and with 1.0 just out it seems like a particularly good time.

[@Bru_Dog1]

I like Woodle Park. It would be real cool to interweave this base into city tower poi's. If possible...per map. That would be a laugh. I also dont like when people use "cheese" The Pimps programmed it. If they wanted to wreck the killing corridor they would have broke it long ago.. NOT cheese.

[@Ssjg-Broly]

i have noticed in 1.0 that zombies seem to run off the ledges more often when they have to do a sharp turn zombie dogs seem to do it even more

[@NickRoman]

That's a pretty cool base. It's scary as you're getting blasted from all angles. It does mean that zombies are always running perpendicular to your line of fire which makes it maximally difficult to shoot them. But, you don't really need to. And, the cops will stop to let you shoot them; so, no problem.

[@man_bear_pope5897]

TFP: This is the panicle of this game! The absolute GOLD standard! Nothing can beat it! Woodle: Hear me out: long path.

[@chickenman297]

You should check out how to draw a labyrinth. This is a perfect build to incorporate one, just for funzies.

[@dracostar6323]

JaWoodle, they added new hair colors in the newest update to the Experimental Build. Various colors were added and one of them was PURPLE!

[@FabioPCarvalho]

The funpimps must love you lol

[@theAkornTree]

Rather than raising the whole lot up to 13m high, you could just have the stretch of path between the dropper and your bunker be stairs, and put just the bunker up 13m high, looking down over the maze. Also, I was surprised you just had a pit under the dropper. I thought you were going to have the dropper deliver them nicely to the base of the stairs to start over

[@taigacha8347]

Who else saw the bucket full of hands and thought "Kaaarrrlll that kills people kAaarll"

[@stainedglassstories7735]

I'd be really curious to see what happens to the ones you shoot or trap that fall off from the inner rings. Wouldn't they rage and come for your supports? That said, as an OLDschool Tower Defense mazer, this makes me so very happy, and is what I would love to be able to do something like in survival game, lengthening the maze and adding more traps to it as I gather more materials.

[@BoredBob]

I bet that you could make two potential pathways that are alternately connected with powered hatches that could be controlled by sensors which could potentially force the zombies into an endless loop where each time they passed a sensor it swapped the hatches and thus the path and just keep them running on the mouse wheel.

[@davidward3091]

Okay.. seriously... That's genius!

[@BoredBob]

@@davidward3091 I imagine that there might be some technical and timing problems to work out with it but imagine the fun of just sitting back and watching them run back and forth all night. Maybe if sensing didn't work then a couple timing blocks could be used. Closest I ever came to trying something like that was having multiple pathways and hatches connected to switches that I could manually activate to use an alternate pathway if one got broken by the zombies that they didn't use until I needed a new one.

[@s12y6o24]

i think he tried something similar awhile back; but as more zombies filled the base, and started spreading out, it started setting both off continuously at about the same time(or...something like that. i think)

[@danieljones620]

like youre saying at 6:15, i just survived my second horde with a killing corridor. bottom 2 blocks are wood and the rest are frames, besides the walls the push them to fall which are also wood. I had to replace like 3 nonessential frames and that was it

[@erniewelz]

I’m just glad you didn’t say “Maths Lesson”. I’m enjoying the newest version of Woodle Park. Some really good ideas for standing around through Horde Nights.

[@Midkemma]

There is a cross (think 4 way pole) that, after adv rotation, you can place like a wall. That is also a good vomit blocker. Added bonus of Molotov capable. May need to put a little raise if you wanna melee but the added bonus of Molotov... I think it is worth it.

[@abbynormall207]

Today - my 3rd horde day zombies were coming in from behind my base. About 5-6 times they walked straight up to the blocks under me and started hammering the blocks. Their buddies went to the path up to me which was about 10 blocks away. If I hadn’t shot them they would have just stood there and tore up the support columns

[@Ova-bv4os]

what if you used ramps and things to make the path weave under and over itself like an overpass. then just sit and watch the havoc as dozens of zombies scatter all over the screen haha

[@tyghe_bright]

For the melee base, you could make the stairs turn a couple of times, rather than having them go straight up. Give it a smaller footprint.

[@dossy_the_pineapple]

Yay!! More JaWoodle park!!! Thanks Josh!

[@daviingvarsson6091]

Hey Josh. The game freezing when you dismember is an old problem you had way back in A18 as well. Think it was in Doomsday the same thing happened all the time. It fixed it self after you formatted the computer.

[@Combsstudio]

🎉 great build! Many people seem to forget the pathing part of tower defense in this sense. Nice job on exploiting it!

[@dweagar]

I see your design works in a test, but I've never managed to get these to function as advertised during the relative spawning madness of a bloodmoon.

[@jaalenn1]

I've used several of his builds across multiple alphas. The only issues I ever encountered were when certain rules were changed for some of the blocks.

[@ThePEI]

This would be a good base to use for an evolution base. start with wood for day 7. metal/concreate day 14. Basic traps added Day 21. etc.. maybe a playthrough base? May silence the nay sayers.

[@particulatecalligula]

I don't know what's happened since 1.0 but my zombie dropper isn't as perfect as it used to be. Any time I'm standing in my bunker area, they start clobbering the pillars under me instead of heading for the stairs. Once I step out onto the span, however, they path properly. 🤷‍♂️

[@davinci3259]

You could have the pathway sloping or slowly elevating so by the time they reach you it is 13 blocks up and you don't have to build all of it that high.

[@jonathonchristensen3279]

Josh have you encountered the zombie bear and dog hoards yet? We had a run in with that on day 5 in the middle of the pine forest. 2 zombie bears and 6 dogs... Absolute nightmare...

[@bluesmachine1006]

I noticed this in one of their own POI while playing last night. Big fat dude and a load of whites poured out of a building and got stuck at the doorway, thank fook. I only had a pointy bone and no armour 😂

[@Ryanc64]

You could even slow them more adding a bit of '3D' vertical dimension.

[@Zeathoz]

Do you have any intention to build a killing corridor, that has some kind of loot-chute? Currently I have a team of 3 players. That also want to loot our kills during horde night, so that all the loot isn't cluttering up the whole "killing area". We just started to experiment with ramps and bars. But we haven't found anything fully functional yet. An identified problem is when zombies ragdoll and fall into the chute themselves. So yeah, is this something for your park? Love your content, keep up the awesome work! Best Regards, Zeathoz

[@anderswallin3883]

Cautious Pancake made a base that made the zombies run the entire night and they did not reach him. No dropper or any other cheese method, just plain and simple pathing and jumping stairs.

[@fundamentalconvolution1749]

Personally I'd also adjust the height so it had some higher and some lower, then could use electrical traps and such to zap them as they ran, and it'd also let me have the center hit that 13 blocks high spot without having to make the entire thing do that.

[@tears_of_asariel3198]

you should make the inner cage full blocks for the legs, with bars on top, then a trap door at eye level in front of the bars, so you can open/close shooting windows, this way cop vomit doesnt keep wrecking the base (unless i missed some kind of update where cop vomit doesnt damage blocks, just players?)

[@copperkidultra5005]

*Woodle: great base mate! Sweet zombie confusions! Best time lol*

[@namelessbeast4868]

This base is aesthetic AF

[@Me__Myself__and__I]

JaWoodle that initial time where they attacked your central pillar and then one by one switched to your path is likely a new optimization. They probably do a quick calc to determine each zombies initial goal then run longer calcs on background threads to find optimal goals for individual zombies. Fyi

[@dhaxiskhadhammer]

I feel like you're giving Fun Pimps too much credit

[@Me__Myself__and__I]

@@dhaxiskhadhammer Lol. No, definitely not. I'm not really a fan of TFP. My opinion is if there is a good way to do something and a bad way to do something they will probably manage to find an even worse way to do it. That particularly applies to game design. I am however an experienced software engineer and understand what goes on under the hood and how things are often optimized. TFP can be terrible and still manage to hire a decent software contractor.

[@DarkKyugara]

We could place a few Robotic Sledge on the inner passage to push zombies down.

[@Smarkstrdnot]

Why?

[@DarkKyugara]

@@Smarkstrdnot Why not?

[@covid19wasaWMD]

16:55 All that muppetry and all you get outta of it is a bunch of questions and who knows 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Woodle logic 😂😂😂😂🤙🤙🤙🤪🤙🤙🤙

[@DarthPeachy]

Thank you josh! :D

[@FaiT90]

With Z you can select a amount of blocks, then press ESC and you will see a part called "selection" you can see how many blocks you have selected, and you can see the distance of your selection (amount of blocks in length for example).

[@JoeJoe0o]

Yes but how do I turn that off? I'm doing a run with my fiance and I keep accidentally destroying the base when I turn on debug mode loool

[@FaiT90]

@@JoeJoe0o backspace unselects

[@JoeJoe0o]

@@FaiT90 hoo man you just saved me so much time 💪🏿

[@FaiT90]

​@@JoeJoe0o also good to know is holding down g when you have a selection to move and shift g to increase selection size. Ctrl c and Ctrl v copy paste selections. When you have a selection and you press J you fill it up with what's selected in your toolbar and L remove any objects. (edit: or it was L for fill and J for empty might have them switched up) Good luck in your building adventures

[@Jawmax]

Oh Josh, I just saw 1.0 mods video and the hud and wireless crafting mods are back. Also, since you like too I won't tell you straight out what some found out about it but trying experimenting with new the four-way (plus shaped) block.

[@tremas3329]

Ive been wanting to try out that new shape myself, but all my playthroughs at the moment are with my friends and ive been having trouble integrating it into a larger base. I need to experiment with it more, myself.

[@Jawmax]

@@tremas3329 Pseudo Posse has some videos that show it is on par with the scaffolding ladders if used just right.

[@dhadmusic]

supposedly, mr. eko said you can run hordes now in fab editor

[@Reginaldesq]

Nice work Joshy. Base looks like a cook top. Paint it red :)

[@georgeleslie9907]

Thanks Josh

[@amazonhaokip8888]

I think it would be much more interesting if you we're to add a few seconds of the finished horde base at the beginning of the video to show the viewers what we can expect. Thank you

[@MrCraig139]

Rather than having the zombies run around the hub, could you build the path so they run towards and away from the hub so you have straight line shots that could take advantage of the Penetrator perk and AP ammo.

[@elitearbor]

The auto generated captions!! 🤣 "KDAY guys my name's Josh you can call me Jo woodoodle"

[@hogweedblitz8739]

Absolutely hilarious! Well done, you are doing the impossible. Keep up the great work!

[@Chris_Sizemore]

That is a lot of running. Now just a thought. How far can you make a zombie crawl?

[@Mark-kw5tg]

I wonder if you build the path higher and occasionally make them fall down to recalculate distance if they will repath to get around the limit?

[@Mark-kw5tg]

You also might be able to take advantage of those slippery corners. Maybe using a slim block on each corner would make the occasional zombie fall? Having enough corners might eventually get rid of them all

[@Urban_Achiever]

If you are building an AFK base, do you have to be on the same level as the zombies during the horde? So, if my base is directly above the horde base, would it still work? I'm using a wedge60 dropper..

[@EvilNecroid]

5:03 i like filling things with my snake :p

[@disconnectedsoul8250]

That Melee only base may be tall AF but even only partially made out of Cobble it works wonders, 11/10 will build again and gets the Mother Seal of Approval from my mom

[@ZaxxaZ]

Gleefully insane. Love it!

[@mechasmoke]

That build looks so appealing! Great video Josh!

[@techmarine83]

That's not what a daisy chain is. You mean sympathetic detonation.

[@AndrewOhNi]

Love some JaWoodle Park!

[@YamatoForever]

This is why I subscribe.

[@Universal.G]

We need to see this in action with a higher horde night. Day 7 is easy peazy.

[@JackMacLupus]

27:15 Can someone maybe add the Benny Hill Theme here? XD

[@kaicoldfell5455]

instead of going around, build it with back and forths where you get periods of them running towards you in a straight line for easy shooting

[@MinkStolle]

round and round we go, and oh, don't you know, that this is the game we came here for - Spandau Ballet

[@nickclark6236]

You can stop them from falling off by just throwing some rail up.

[@WenFassett]

Hey Jawoodle, could you test then on a 100 day horde? I actually created a base last night much like yours on the server I played on. It worked great at first for my friends and I, but once those demo's showed up...damn!! It was hard to avoid their no-no buttons when there were sooo many other zombies around them. My base was destroyed and the ground looked light a mini Grand Canyon. I'm going to go back to the killing corridor for the next a horde night to see if that works better, but I would love your thoughts on how to survive the demos.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

What a great day 7 horde base!!!

[@russellcharlton7814]

That overhang from the tower has to be able to be shot through.

[@PatrickPoet]

Now I want to see the zombie cannon again...zombie pachinko

[@thepurpledragon3870]

Perhaps use Pipe Bombs if you have them in preference to Grenades. If IRC Pipe Bombs do Zero structural Damage.

[@John-es3qc]

would making the middle colum round help with stopping them getting caught on it?

[@RichardRitenour0522]

JaWoodle Park!!!💜🖤

[@Branwhin]

Ooh, double-doubles! (ahem, blocks I mean) G'day from Canada!

[@weriesblack1375]

Question can you make a base to deal with a only cops and demolishers or the hardest zombies you know of because dropper base with a good explosion can cause issues just a thought please.

[@weriesblack1375]

So aftr watching this base i think you answered all my questions haha its the zombie Olympics 😂

[@cryptosanta7199]

Great stuff Josh. I have missed your builds.

[@stifflersmom4490]

Just make a path to the pit and bypass all that corn maze crap. You get XP for each kill, you dont want to drag it out too much

[@queenpanduh3786]

this looks so fun to do, something to work on over time in a world haha

[@WenFassett]

I would love to see you test it with a day 100, or higher (700? 😉) horde. When it's really insane! As always thank you for your vids... I took notes 😊

[@N1ghtR1der666]

while fun to build and look at, the whole running parallel makes for much harder shots, perhaps this is good for training you to shoot better but eprsonally I will just take the lazy way out and have them run towards me directly

[@ariesace02]

you should build it up higher and you never have to worry about destroy everything mode.

[@hessian144]

before the video even starts i see its JaWoodles park and i already know im giving it a like

[@dichebach]

Absolute Mad Lad LOVE IT!

[@talidras]

Ok Josh we need a video about the hair fix they put in for you!

[@HUNGERG4MER]

Sick!

[@The_Sykotik]

Woodle-Time!!!