Gathering Materials for Your First Horde Night in 7 Days to Die 1.0 [Survival Guide #5]

[@MrMagyar5]

Yea, believe it or not, upgrading your base is a huge XP boost. As far as you first hoard night goes, the wisest course of action is going to be to use a POI and make changes and upgrades. You can probably make it through the first 3 or 4 horde nights this way. A dedicated horde base is VERY resource intensive. I used Pass n Gas #4 and it only cost me about 20 blocks to get a good Horde base. The truth is, you really don't need a Horde base. Find a POI that is mostly comprised of cement blocks (tap it with an axe and if it's 5000 life it's made of cement.), knock out all ways to get up to you, climb to the top of it.. wait it out. Easy peasy. Personally I have started to doubt the contribution that a Horde night brings to the game. It's really only good for XP. It costs a LOT of resources, only good for XP, (which is VERY easy to get) and doesn't provide anything other than the.. "I survived a Horde night". I may just turn off Horde nights and see if I miss them at all.

[@Setixir]

I turned them off and instead used a mod to make cities more dangerous with a big city map. I do not miss hordes at all

[@MrMagyar5]

@@Setixir I like this idea. What mod makes cities more dangerous?

[@abbynormall207]

I talked to someone who said „online horde night! I get 3 lvls in about 30 min.“. He had his xp set at +200 %. LoL

[@someduudee]

@@MrMagyar5 I use the "dangerous cities" mode from the 7days mod website. Easy to install, and makes citites really zombie infested ;)

[@JustChillinOnThe5thFloor]

​@@MrMagyar5should be able to find it by searching on nexus and the 7D2D mod website using "dangerous cities" for just more zombies in the cities and also "improved hordes" makes wandering hordes a real thing. Hopefully sooner or later there will be an updated mod to select the size of the horse in the world options.

[@vexingcat9813]

You are mostly likely aware of what I am going to say, but new players may not be. On the subject of clay: This is not a method I target for cobblestone. This is my habit early on for clay needed in my forge. Potted plants, I make room for them in my inventory, and smelting the potted plants down in the forge can add up nicely in the forge. I don't scrap them, I just feed them whole into the forge, much like I would radiators for brass. Any clay you don't have to dig or use a tool to get, is something I find of value and time saving. You can start your collection of potted plants well before you even build the forge.

[@elpaezontube]

I've never had a problem with resource gathering in any build, cruz i always go for The buried supplies first, that way i get foos AND resources.

[@indigothompson6705]

I believe the reason the first quest is buried supplies is so new players know the ground is made of clay cuz after updating to pc I didn’t understand that

[@thekingofmeerkats]

Cannot wait to start this up on Xbox, been watching the daily vids and it's been bloody helpful! Very enjoyable commentary 👌🏻

[@icwiffacee3288]

I just got into the game but I did figure out that I really wanted a nice Horde base, I farmed around 500 blocks on day 5 since I didn't bother saving the axe books. And I built a pretty nice base following a guide from WaywardEko, I love watching your videos and getting a good idea what my next goals should be though! Ur really consistent in giving information in a chronological order, it makes it really easy to follow along. Much love from the Netherlands

[@abbynormall207]

Great series

[@just_ed_07]

the mission in the crib under the ground , the chapel on top has a weapons bag behind that lead glass window ( normally i don't know if the bags can change ) . love it all

[@dirkd7510]

If you make cobblestone you can update any building in the world and get xp for it except traders of course in vanilla.

[@Rdlprmpf12]

You can save a lot of material by upgrading an existing building to a horde base. The outer wall of the crypt from that last mission is amazing for an early base. Just build a little ramp on the inner and outer side of the wall to let the zombies up and then a little "base" up there - a few scaffolding bars are enough. A ladder for yourself and that's it for at least 2 weeks. Costs

[@TheFrauentausch]

this graveyard was my base in a previous alpha. Was kinda awesome.

[@sakuraokami25]

Found a base design i like though i believe its around 150 blocks for the basics and easily over 200+ making sure the horde cant knock it down. But i do know it works perfectly. Atleast on a lower difficulty, insane may actually show any faults it has (apart from cost). I do think i could alter the design to make it cheaper but i may try that later. Currently at day 4 and on nights where i wasnt already in a poi or just hiding for my life id focus on improving horde base. While i do enjoy trying to reach and survive first horde night as a challenge (that i likely shouldnt have set for myself as a new player). I dont think will be doing it often or with faster zeds after i have done it once. Lost quite a few good starts to either ferals or not knowing a poi had dogs. And im now starting to wish there was some kind of icon or something indicating when lucky looter has proc'ed. As i feel the times i started out with it i have found better stuff overall but have no real way of knowing if it has helped or if i was just that lucky. I mean i do doubt i have had it proc 3 or 4 times in a single poi when its at level 1 but yeah.

[@tpierce104]

@@sakuraokami25 I played the Wild West Mod a lot a while back, and it has quests where you have to go to a place, build a horde base out of supplies given (you can use more if you bring them) and then fight off a horde. I got really good at quickly throwing down a decent elevated base that isn't terribly expensive. It's not cop-proof or rage-mode-proof, but it can be made to be pretty easily.

[@indigothompson6705]

Note: those boxes he left behind are really good for collecting polymer. He technically left behind another dew collector or two

[@PREPFORIT]

Thank you.

[@shikamaze1489]

Honestly i wish the "hide in a poi" was the main focus of balance. I don't know why people like horde bases tbh

[@wolf3794]

If you build it well enough, and spec out your build right, you're going to essentially be bored while xp and levels pile up.

[@frozenburst64]

Especially if you take some learning elixirs before the horde.​@@wolf3794

[@ruski77]

Doesn’t that get boring to you? Just sitting in a building doing absolutely nothing waiting it out? I at least like to build a small base where zombies run down a path to where I can safely kill them, so I’m not doing literally nothing.

[@wolf3794]

@ruski77 I have my base set up so that I can go outside the turret covered area and play with an m60 or shotgun or pipe bombs or whatever I want to play around with. And then head back inside the protected area while I grab more ammo or drop off loot or whatever.

[@Blackmere65]

@0:20 Umm, why are there iron crossbow bolts in the output area of the campfire?

[@IzPrebuilt]

Because i put them there

[@dominicsantiago271]

When you are selecting an explosive the game shows the ammount of block and entity damage, pipebombs do 5 block damage

[@benolson152]

i liked the video cuz im a watcher that doesnt care what you say :)

[@tito3640]

Instead of gathering materials for building your own base, is it viable to just take over a building and barricade it for the horde night?

[@IzPrebuilt]

Viable? Yes. Optimal. No. If that's what you want to do though you can vertainly try. The issue is just finding a good poi that you can meaningfully fortify.

[@abbynormall207]

I think they will eventually get in and you can’t hide from them on horde night they will always find you. You can build an „afk base“ where they just run in a loop until horde night is over. I would just turn off horde night if I didn’t wanna mess with it.

[@therecandyonlyone]

Wow!

[@nikewilly8404]

It's really depressing that horde night, one of the main unique features of this game has been made obselete by the fun pimps' horrible progression system.

[@Storytellering]

Feels weird being this early

[@bl4ckw0lf88]

Whats the reason why your not reading your books collected? Thanks

[@IzPrebuilt]

Saving them for when i have a level 6 nerdy outfit so i can hunt as few books as possible.

[@frozenburst64]

The armor piece Izprebuilt mentioned here has a chance at getting 2 points in progress when reading a magazine. A lvl 6 nerd outfit has a 50% chance of it happening. Doing this properly can make Izprebuilt not need as many books to learn how to craft things he might need in the future.

[@dirgesheverish]

can't you wrench an office chair for mechanical parts? or am I crazy?

[@frozenburst64]

You can, most just want the leather from the chair and I think you get less leather when you wrench the chair.

[@Acydrayne3]

What map is this?

[@rollinthrone5109]

🗣️I wish they would have 7days on mobile 🙏🏽🤞🏽 I think it would b a great idea 💡

[@Ronald-qs3ke]

Problem is, that 7 days would do to most phones what little boy did to Hiroshima.

[@Jowwee]

I'm 4:45 to 4:47

[@JustChillinOnThe5thFloor]

What's up with that like to dislike ratio? He offered great advice and also for new players. So confusing???

[@IzPrebuilt]

There are currently 5 dislikes to about 600 likes what what are you talking about that's a 99% like rate.

[@crowleyV8]

Any MFRK that do 7 day wasteland horde base have the knowledge to do it.

[@crowleyV8]

Just go for tick POI and ajust, no cost.

[@1000Neji]

And...and so??? Could you do it? I almost like these videos, but some things I get annoyed with!!!!

[@Domaorn]

I dont even know why they give us the bellows and anvil it really dont make much of a difference in the end.. ive sat there watching vids while two forges cook two stacks each of stone.. one with a bellows and anvil... the other with out... then make the cement.. its stupid however i will give this tip... place ya forges well away from ya main base.. outta render range... keeps screamers at bay... also you can use a workbench to scrap items like the gazillion radiators you will get... wtf cares if ya lose 25% of mats scrapping no one but a sweaty try hard is gonna sit near an anvil and put in 5 stacks a pop to smelt in a forge for hours at a time