INSTA-KILL VOLCANO BASE in ALPHA 17 | 7 Days to Die (2019 Alpha 17.2 B20)

[@pittomvilspieter-jan5842]

You can rebuild that sandstone wall by taking the selection tool ( blue) select the area you want to rebuild - and move that blue selection into the gravel stone next to it - press CTRL-C - move the blue back to the empty position you want to refill - Press CTRL-V - et voila - no need to place them 1 by 1 ever again ! There is a easier way to just fill in an entire selected blue area with a block of choice but I need to check that out later bc I forgot 🤷‍♂️

[@pittomvilspieter-jan5842]

you can scale the blue by pressing SHIFT+G you cab move the blue by pressing G

[@JaWoodle]

I never tried to CTRL C and V shit lol. Thanks

[@pittomvilspieter-jan5842]

If you press J on a selection you delete all inside the blue , if you select for ex. Concrete block and press L you fill up the entire selection with that block you have in your hands

[@TDurden527]

Oh Ja . . . this happens so often when I do like things. It's so hard to get things just right (they need an "undo" command). But I feel ya on the frustration. It is maddening:) I really, really appreciate the effort!

[@JaWoodle]

Thanks for watching, makes the effort worth it

[@Kr4ndom]

25blocks was never the max falling distance. i tried something like this back in early experimental builds of A17 and found that while soft zeds like arlene only take 25 blocks, heavier ones take up to 30 and possibly more. i assume radiated take even bigger heights. and don't even bother with bears or zombie bears. i dropped one from 100 blocks once and he just walked it off taking very little damage. those bears must actually be some kind of flying squirrel or something.

[@JaWoodle]

Right. Well. That explains why it didn’t work. Can’t make good bases if the science you base it on is wrong haha

[@Kr4ndom]

@@JaWoodle Yeah, i've been discouraged with TFP recent changes, trying to outsmart cheese bases. i will wait till they are done with their tantrum against safe bases. but i hope you keep fighting the good fight and find bases that work!

[@sc0or]

They want us to play in teams. More people purchase the game, more money they collect. Because their dreams are concrete bases which need a whole week to be repaired after a blood moon night. That's why they are going to add a custom duration of the "week". So every player will have time enough to repair a base. Thus, while one of us restores a base, another teammate is looting. It seems that the developers push us to cooperative game play. Or you can set 10 days between the nights and mine rocks to repair all that time. By the way, while you will cook tons of concrete you will be forced to fight against screamer hordes. I personally don't like to play such game.

[@Kr4ndom]

@@sc0or i don't think that's their end goal, but A17 was surely made to improve multiplayer. I feel like TFP tend to focus on a single aspect they want to improve, and forget all other things around them. I'd rather have them focus on actual endgame content instead, or they will one day find themselves in the trap that rust is now in (they have to wipe every month, or most popular servers every 2 weeks, in order to keep the game interesting, and with their progression system there is no way out of this)

[@namelessbeast4868]

You could make a super villain floating base at the center of this "volcano". But you would probably have to remake the hill to look more "Volcanic-Like", using the burnt soil and stuff like that. Also, I don't know if the game has lava blocks but if it has, you could put them at the bottom of the volcano.

[@JaWoodle]

It does not, but if a modder ever made it I’d love to put it in!

[@emailtooaj]

Love the vids! future idea???... 4x4 impale/death track. A long, strait , one block high track with ramps on the ends(to get 4x4 elevated onto track and at zed head height) with gap in between blocks for zeds to walk/run /collect through. Start at the middle of track to get zeds running into the track channel, and then floor it!! Run off the ramps, do 180 turn and mow them over again. Or, just make one big ass circle(stadium) having one entrance(maybe 2) for zeds to enter(and the 4x4, duh) and go to town that way. Name, "Z-Deathium" or "Arlene Field" :0 Maybe throw some ramps into the mix for jumping the 4x4 and dive bombing onto the zeds once in a while? Incorporate these ideas with your race track idea?? Maybe a figure 8 death track? Would be cool to see!! Won't get exp. killing this way but, what else to do with cool toys?!! Have a good one!

[@JaWoodle]

That would be awesome if the 4x4 did some decent damage :( I have my racetrack already, so it’s not out of the question... I’ll keep it in mind. Thanks!

[@jacob6885]

The zombies were making the smart choice at the midpoint. They couldn't path to you with an acceptable amount of damage from the top. So they pathed to you by running outside to a spot where they could dig to a point of acceptable falling damage while minimizing the amount of digging. (Or they might have dug a downward angled tunnel to you) Edit: As I've heard it, the radiated zombies have regeneration. So they'd heal a bit running around each ledge. Plus, I suspect the have the parkour perk behind the scenes, which explains them having better jumps too.

[@JaWoodle]

Ohhh. Them having a sneaky parkour perk makes a lot of sense

[@Fyreflier]

last time Capp00 tested, he found 25 was the best bet for zombies up to the health pool of Big Mama so I'm guessing TFP changed some things. It _is_ true that the rads have the regen ability (there's an anti-regen module to attach to guns to help combat them) so I'd say that the best bet would be to do the three big drops, and a final step down onto some spikes or blades to finish them off

[@JaWoodle]

The rads where still hitting the bottom with WAYY too much health though :(

[@aci229]

The self loathing it would take for me to build this abomination is off the charts. You build it so we don't have to. You're doing God's work.

[@JaWoodle]

Thanks for watching and making it worth while haha

[@EliteGeko]

Idea to fix major mess ups. Can you turn off the autosave? Then anytime you mess up super bad you reloadast save point? When you finish a project you have to rem to save? Might be worth considering.

[@JaWoodle]

I do manual backups normally. This just sucked

[@EliteGeko]

Seeing as how i have your attention quick. I have only seen you on youtibe, do you do twitch or anything else? What about patreon or anything else? Id like to do more to help support your channel

[@JaWoodle]

I don’t stream rn as my internet is from the Stone Age, but I have a Patreon, which is linked in the description. You can also buy a shirt, which is only available for 3 more days haha

[@Aliyen]

Watch out for them falling on corpses (like dog corpses on the first fall). In the past, gore blocks prevented some or all fall damage.

[@JaWoodle]

Good tip!

[@pbsixgun6]

same with putting spike traps on the bottom they ONLY take the spike damage no matter how far they fall.....

[@pbsixgun6]

which is totally insane and illogical...

[@chimmichunker3955]

You are the smartest man in existence, I like watching your videos while I decimate 3 entire rolls of sushi.

[@JaWoodle]

That is grossly inaccurate. Sushi is pretty good tho

[@schroedingerscat2.054]

@@chimmichunker3955 Midnight munchies? Then you need the Double-Decker Triple Fried Egg, Thick Cut Chip Sandwich with Chilli Chutney. It's a cross between food and bowel surgery. The tricky bit is eating it before the bread dissolves.

[@chimmichunker3955]

@@schroedingerscat2.054 I prefer a hotdog with fries, relish, cheese curds, gravy, and little franks on it. You have to eat it with a fork right of the bat, or eat it with a spoon later.

[@cyrosgold7]

The wedge trap part is subtracting 1 from the fall distance, meaning they only fall 24 blocks. And maybe the glowing ones have fall resistance.

[@JaWoodle]

Maybe

[@VeNuS2910]

so that's why it took so much bullets to kill the irradiated. i was wondering why they're not dying. omg. what will funpimps do next...

[@JaWoodle]

Haha who knows! But whatever it is you know I’ll be here to find a way around it

[@trollystomper9044]

lmfao @ "button on my jeans"

[@JaWoodle]

They’re dangerous

[@jasonfield7642]

From my testing and i have not done it on 17.2 but the damage scaled up the more blocks but was capped at a third. So since the Radiated have so much health it was a ridiculous amount of blocks to get up to a third of their health.

[@JaWoodle]

I thought that 25 blocks was max damage (taking a third of their health) but it seems that’s not the case anymore 😭

[@TheDazzletrap]

@@JaWoodle this vid explains current fall damage mechanics & then some...if only this vid made me laugh like yours always do....good info but kinda dry...try to stay awake...lol...kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYuaYZ-Lf92di6s also i think the place you land also can effect the damage taken...Ie. haybale vs asphalt road

[@pbsixgun6]

around 80 I believe was 1/3 for the most powerful zombies.

[@markpeterson1027]

I have an accidental fall base I made. I had cleared a path up to the top of the corner ruins (the one with two wall safes, one half-buried in destroyed stone and one on the third floor) by mining out blocks (I havd steel tools by this point) and was standing in a nearby POI where zombies couldn't get to me to cower for the night and apparently even though it was about 20 blocks away across the street from the POI I was in, they thought they could run up the first POI I mentioned to get to me. (you've read the meat of my post by now.) Except instead of a ramp it was just flat blocks so that when a screamer came in and I had no ammo and decided to hide (bad idea, btw) there was just a pile of zombies who were jumping up step by step all the way up the side of a ruin I didn't care one bit about because I never laid one brick on top of another brick to build it up and most of them went down enough times that they got killed by fall damage. I could have killed for some ammo right then. A ramp would have made it better for fall damage, but having a ton of "runners" slowly hopping up the side of a base was too good of an opportunity to pass up on. I went back to base to grab my bow and crossbow so I could finally burn through my non-gun ammo. Admittedly this was in an old 17.0 save that I decided to keep so perhaps the zombie AI in that world hasn't been updated? Now it's built up a little more with redundant pathways just in case a cop blows up the main path and I'm left with only the brick walls of the POI I'm standing in to protect me from a horde of feral zombies but it seems like a good "help I forgot to build a base" option. Just remember that you need to be standing on a higher point higher up than the point you want them to jump off of for this to work.

[@JaWoodle]

Sounds good man! And yeah, if you kept it at 17.0 it will have the old AI

[@kamuiius]

This could work if you do the infinite loop like you did on the tower possibly? You know where they would climb up, run at you, then fall and they would climb back up and do the same thing over and over.

[@JaWoodle]

I do know. Takes longer but does work (as you’ll see in an upcoming ep)

[@kamuiius]

@@JaWoodle Awesome. :)

[@Metastuu]

Maybe the half-block trap made the fall smaller than max fall damage height since they slide down where they were supposed to start falling?

[@JaWoodle]

I don't think so, but I can't rule it out completely

[@donut7929]

Howdy again JaWoodle! love your vids

[@JaWoodle]

Thanks Donut 🍩

[@darkguygaming7084]

Part of the problem may be that after u added in the wedge drop offs you reduced the height of each fall by 1 block.

[@JaWoodle]

They're still landing with so much health though, especially rads and ferals

[@omnivos]

What makes this so funny is we've all done it. I wonder if they would take more damage landing on concrete instead of dirt.

[@JaWoodle]

That's a good point... I don't know. But knowing 7 Days logic, I doubt its that smart haha

[@megarata2000]

bro I love your videos and I appreciate the work you do since your constructions should take you many hours of work thanks for sharing

[@JaWoodle]

My pleasure mate! Thanks for watching

[@TwoGunToast]

Does the giveselfskillxp command still work for you? It hasn't worked for me since they switched from A16 to 17 I'm wondering if maybe they changed how to do it or changed the way the skills are named in the files but before as long as I matched what it said in the skill menu exactly it worked

[@JaWoodle]

still works for me, just gotta put in how much xp you need giveselfxp 10000 for example

[@TwoGunToast]

@@JaWoodle hold on let me rephrase giveselfskillxp doesn't work, giveselfxp works just fine but I'm amazed how much XP is needed. I've only earned around 30 skill points and I'm literally putting in millions of XP until I'm leveling up now

[@steffenrumpel2784]

@@TwoGunToast - A17 has no more skills since it's perks only. So I'm not surprised that "give-self-skill-xp" no longer works. (I've never tried that command myself). If I remember correctly, the "give-self-xp" needs 10,000 character xp to push a level-1 character to level-2. From that point on, it takes more and more xp per level-up.

[@TwoGunToast]

@@steffenrumpel2784 well they should rename the page in the menu to Perks then because it still says Skill List or whatever so I thought it would still work hell it even still says Skill Point Earned when you get a point. . As far as the XP, I know it requires exponentially more XP as it goes but like I said I've only earned about 30 or skill points, and I'm literally typing in 2,000,000 XP at a time, three or four times in a row with the XP muliplier on 125% and still not leveling up

[@steffenrumpel2784]

@@TwoGunToast - They should do a lot of things, but they won't. And if you were to take that complaint to the official forums, the only answer you'd get will be "It's in Alpha!!" -- Anyways, what I did when I still played A17 was to type in "giveselfxp 10" followed up by many more zeros (not give-self-skill-xp). If I executed that command, and it complained that the 2nd argument was no valid number, I simply removed a some of zeros from the end before the next try, until it finally accepted the command. -- bam, level 300 and a ton of perk-points -- That approach worked like a charm.

[@tking791]

You make some awesome vids dude!! But how do you bring up the stats on the individual zombies?!? I cant figure it out and its driving me INSANE!!!!!!!! Thanks in advance and keep up the good work. Also you should do more of those Astroneer vids. I may have to pick it up next payday, thanks to you!

[@JaWoodle]

Numpad 0 for stats. I do need to get back to Astroneer ASAP!

[@tking791]

@@JaWoodle Cheers man, thanks a lot!!!

[@jappperon7012]

I always liked to outline the hole then just undermine the tower of earth till it collapses. im trying a lighthouse bladetrap gauntlet. just lots of trial and error left.

[@JaWoodle]

Yeah thats the best way to do it in survival!

[@awilliams050289]

Too bad you don’t have actual lava blocks you can put at the bottom...Maybe some sort of blend where they fall through the wedges and hit spikes on the way down to the next level.

[@JaWoodle]

I wish I had lava!

[@dcsobral]

Curious. I tried the Num 0 on 17.2 B20, and it only showed zombie names, not their AI, etc. Yet, you are seeing all information there. Did they change the key for that or anything?

[@JaWoodle]

Do you have DM mode on?

[@dcsobral]

Yes. Really curious.

[@deathshocker77]

if you add electric fences on each lvl that take off about 100 hp, so each fall but fence = about 170 hp lose per lvl

[@JaWoodle]

I was hoping I could make it with just falls, but I don’t think that’s possible anymore :(

[@Zzazs]

how do you do that blue box delete thing?

[@JaWoodle]

Check the description. If not in this video, check a newer build video

[@Zzazs]

@@JaWoodle Thanks didnt see it at bottom loved the vid .

[@sould11]

the rebuild of the those walls was the karma for the rabbit jajajajajajajaja, so... the radiated survived because their healing factor, what I did was a huge hole to the mother stone and protect me with bars, and shoot them with the radiation mod

[@JaWoodle]

Hahaha damn that rabbit

[@NickRoman]

Can't you just save and restore if you screw up where you dug? And, actually, isn't it quicker to restart the whole thing than to fill in a huge section? maybe.

[@JaWoodle]

It was going to be borderline, so I filled it in instead haha

[@mick2211]

Hi how do you use the land clearing tool please?

[@JaWoodle]

Check the description. If it’s not there, check more recent eps :)

[@jgomezmoreu]

Kind of disappointed for the click bait... they didn't die.... but *at least you tried* just build them some ladders or circular stairs and keep them falling in a loop as long as it takes... and in case of emergency you will need to actively defend with a rad remover and snipe the green ones at least once.

[@JaWoodle]

I mean, it's what I set out to build as was the idea in the comments way back when, so borderline but I'll claim innocence on the click bait haha. I made that system in my AFK base, which has been updated in a upcoming episode for A17.2

[@jgomezmoreu]

@@JaWoodle yeah I know. I suggested it that way as well back then. Looking forward for more episodes 👍

[@alilxmas]

I thought that that step down dropping would work fine... It seems they were losing health ok until they landed on bedrock, wondering if the bedrock is somewhat padding their landing where the drop damage doesnt actually give the full damage as expected..

[@JaWoodle]

They still seemed to be taking damage, just not enough from each ledge. Curious

[@trevorjainese3855]

try doing this but try the hatch trap so they just fall all the way down

[@JaWoodle]

They have a capped fall damage though :(

[@UTBhatt]

water base with electric trap only imagine you build an under water base in a lake and lake is fully covered with electric current zombie won't get you ....

[@JaWoodle]

Electricity doesn't travel through water in 7 Days

[@UTBhatt]

@@JaWoodle maybe if u dig a tunnel inside your water base to outside it should work

[@PatrickPoet]

what mod do you use to mark an area and clear selection? How do you do that?

[@JaWoodle]

Check the description fam

[@michielcoorman1894]

you can do it by enabling the debug menu. i got azerty so with me it is 'w' button to select, press 'w' again on another block to select te area between them. L is filling the area with the Block you currently hold. J is to clear the selection.

[@spooner0000000000]

Put fires on each lvl

[@JaWoodle]

Fires don’t do anything, I tested that in a different video

[@yonatanmakara6856]

Yay

[@JaWoodle]

Weeow!

[@brett369]

how do you get rid of the ground clearing blue square after you use it?

[@JaWoodle]

Check the description

[@brett369]

@@JaWoodle Hey mate, you said how to turn it on and use it but after you clear out a section it leaves the blue box there. What key do you push after that to clear the blue square?

[@JaWoodle]

Oh. Backspace

[@brett369]

@@JaWoodle Thanks mate. Your a legend. Love your videos.

[@ABootToTheHead]

if they land on the dead bodies they wont take any damage so thats a thing

[@JaWoodle]

So annoying. They aren’t THAT squishy

[@JessicaMarinaRushie]

I feel like TFP are ruining 7dtd by trying to make z's so hard to kill just because they can't figure out how to have decent numbers of them instead, i swear the older alphas like 14/15 had far more z's in the horde then 16/17.

[@JaWoodle]

You may be right on that

[@JaWoodle]

That’s why I’m here, to keep making new bases when they hamstring my old ones lol

[@KageRyuu6]

Zombies can only take 34% damage per fall, this is a MAXIMUM not a fixed amount, either fall damage is not % based, pretty sure it is distance or maybe even speed based, with the first 6 blocks being a 0 HP safe drop, pretty sure humans take 1 HP every block thereafter up to a certain height before taking greater damage, which may extend to zombies as well.

[@JaWoodle]

Yeah, that’s what I was hoping for. But apparently it’s different per zombie

[@Derkiboi]

the irradiated were healing just enough to survive the falls?

[@JaWoodle]

They ended up at the bottom with more than half of their health remaining. So annoying

[@Derkiboi]

@@JaWoodle While watching I thought it was HP regen, weird nonetheless

[@66srsen66]

why not add a loop in where they climb the ladder then fall again and climb again and fall again until they die?

[@JaWoodle]

That's what I did for my AFK base

[@frogos202]

i think you should put a dr evil face on the side of the mountain

[@JaWoodle]

Put my own face on it 😏🤓

[@schroedingerscat2.054]

@@JaWoodle That's what he said!

[@michielcoorman1894]

you could've just selected the removed area, equip your sand blocks and press L, no hours of work ;) also to clear your selection, you can just press J. Might be easier ;)

[@JaWoodle]

Nope. That only works in prefab editor mode. Not normal creative mode.

[@michielcoorman1894]

@@JaWoodle oh i didn't know that. my mistake :)

[@DanteKenchi]

dude, radiated regen hp :D

[@JaWoodle]

I know! That’s why I dropped them in quick succession so they wouldn’t have time to

[@tyjones6968]

Will alpha 17 go to xbox or ps4?

[@JaWoodle]

Eventually if they can get the rights back from telltale

[@tyjones6968]

Ok just wundering because I love this game with all my heart and I played this game on my pc and it crash crash and crash till I got it on Xbox. Thank you for telling me

[@zxgamer21]

I like your videos

[@JaWoodle]

Thank you so much!

[@love2rogue]

yea sum1 needs to hijack modded minecrafts build wand, sounds exactly like what you need

[@JaWoodle]

Yes please!

[@coyoterx6002]

Luckily he’s a KZbinr and not a contractor.

[@JaWoodle]

Hey. I at least finished the job, therefore I’m BETTER than a contractor haha

[@raytoshlyra]

how , why or who unsubscribed me from this channel? wtf?

[@JaWoodle]

It's okay, you're back now 👍

[@simsinator9418]

To bad you cant fill the bottom with lava and burn them up like in a real volcano

[@Joshoert2]

hi

[@Joshoert2]

gday josh my names josh but YOU can call me fried rice

[@JaWoodle]

G’day awesome sauce

[@slowsteadysqueeze4246]

You coulda just dug the other walls back one more instead of rebuilding the entire wall... just saying lol

[@JaWoodle]

Would have been too big a hole at the top :(

[@ReNNuX]

😁

[@pbsixgun6]

yeah, Capp00 was testing the max damage drops also for zombies and it varied according to how powerful they were. but they obviously changed it even more to avoid the multi-tier drop traps after people tested it and put the tests on KZbin....bastids. lol

[@JaWoodle]

It’s always the way

[@TripleXclown]

Volcano.. wtf.. must watch says no views...

[@JaWoodle]

You were in the first minute haha. That’s a quick draw!

[@TripleXclown]

Being quick is not always a bad thing..

[@maskedlurker2297]

--'{@ Looks like fall damage From repeat climbs is the way To kill off zombies.

[@JaWoodle]

Like the AFK base. Actually just filmed an update to that. It works better now!

[@likasil]

Hmm...radiateds regen health too quickly, I’d think, for that to work.

[@GaryTabarJr]

You really need to try to actually play the game instead of cheesing it using cm mode. Use a a17 map on a17, and experience the desperation of progress limits.

[@JaWoodle]

I use creative to build ideas. This isn’t a playthrough, just a idea test.