ZOMBIE PROOF CLIFF BASE (twice) in 7 Days to Die 1.0

[@Lothaenorixius]

The car was obviously put there by some high-school senior for their senior prank. It's probably the principals car

[@theAkornTree]

Wow, does that ever take me back!

[@-NateTheGreat]

They need a giant hamster wheel so zombies could generate power for your base.

[@JaWoodle]

YES

[@PerceptionOverload]

Better yet, threadmills that you can put on the ground on their path to you, to generate the power.

[@itsjustme2635]

Suggestion. Use radiated zombies in concept testing? The bright green will make them easier to see, especially when you pull back and speed things up

[@doubtful_form]

"Where will I ever use Pythagoras Theorom" ...during a Zombie apocolypse

[@garydemonic]

hey woodle. I did your calculations. the 40 block distance must be a circular 40 degree angle from your characters eye level. so, for example 22x32 (30 from ground level plus 2 meters for your characters height)= just about 40 blocks diagonally from your characters line of sight (38.83298 meters to be exact). if you increase the width of the ramp by one meter, it goes to 39.40812 which is just shy of 40 meters, and if the ground isn't level (which it's not). It goes over the 40 block limit causing the zombers to think it's too far.

[@namelessbeast4868]

It might be time to design some "Stun Baton Only" horde bases lol

[@jeaton1224]

Imagine if they added a stun gun or a taser to 7D2D

[@testicularwarfare6636]

I think he just did ;)

[@testicularwarfare6636]

@@jeaton1224 I'd prefer a cattle-prod type mod for my spear xD

[@danielpeck6269]

Any melee base works for stun baton. The trick is utilizing traps effectively and sustainably.

[@oom2248]

​@jeaton1224 It'd take until 200k for Josh to even look at it.

[@flagrantyeti]

max level parkour, tier 6 fall distance boots, impact bracing, and "too rich to break legs" book mandatory for this build lol

[@Ron_Steel]

Hmmm... I wonder if you could build that base on the side of a large structure? let's say, in a rather dense population centre? Maybe with a certain type of baton? Just asking for a friend. Love ya work mate

[@SuperEmin]

Woodle wonders how a car got up there but anyone who has ever been to Scotland just wonders "where's the traffic cone?" 🤣

[@TheARKMimic]

I love doing regional accents for voice overs and such and I am learning so much Aussie slang from watching you play - "Bush bashing" "bog off"...thank you for improving my vocabulary!

[@ColinTimmins]

It’s fun! I love his accent. =]

[@-WolfMan-]

I'm pretty sure the Devs and the collective staff at The Fun Pimps have learned to Despise how Woodle has consistently figured out how to get around all their absurdist "zombie horde pathing" strategies ... and built an AFK Base in EVERY ALPHA of 7 Days ... and this latest 1.0 (Alpha 22) game release is NO EXCEPTION.

[@capp00]

Sorry for parking my car up there, made a wrong turn and just went full send!

[@Martiandawn]

Back in alpha 18, I built a horde base on top of a desert spire, with a gyro pad on the roof. I didn't create a path for the zombies. The first horde night, I just watched them make their way up to me as I picked them off with a rocket launcher. By that point, the game stage was pretty high, so all the glowing radiateds made it easy to track them. Over subsequent horde nights, I used blocks of asphalt to enhance their path at a few spots, but other than that, I just let them find their own way to me on the existing terrain.

[@namelessdrifter651]

Is it possible that the top of the cliff's height was a factor with the first attempt? Maybe they didn't want to go higher than you were and it was throwing them off? You've said before that they wouldn't go up to then have to go back down to get to you, and the cliff top was not perfectly flat.

[@froxyanicotti]

In celebration of 100k, Josh may well have drank enough big boy beverages to actually have recently slept in urine.

[@brianm.595]

Build a base with a stun baton centric fighting position?😉 do a horde in this base because id be worried about zombies digging under it all.

[@AndrewEddie]

Josh, where's the helipad! :) I love this concept. The only downside is actually getting back to your base to unload. Just imagine if we had real elevators!

[@raycapetillo5569]

16:15 I need this as my screensaver. Just watching zeds play lemmings in a loop.

[@Talzoid]

I disagree with your assessment of that wall ramp, I found it VERY pleasing to look at.

[@spatulamahn]

Am I missing something? When he measured the distance, the blue area didn't come anywhere near the building he was standing in - it could have easily been 6 more blocks to where Woodle was standing, right?

[@GregScottBailey]

Way fun! And quite honestly I think a lot of people sleep on the desert plateau base building in this game. I've gotta get a mega Plateau Base build done one of these days.

[@jonathanfox3804]

I never thought about using nature as a base. I love it!

[@The_Sykotik]

Woodle-Time!!!

[@chriswoodend2036]

I have a Woodle question... early in the video you're putting down ladders and one of ladders is clipped into the ground and there's sort of an upside down ramp block effect to it. Would zombies still see that as a viable path and if so, would they fall off the ladder? Basically can you build a nature zombie dropper that way by manipulating the terrain. Edit: added timestamp @15:30

[@JaWoodle]

I don't know... might be worth testing but repeatably and reliably getting that affect on the ground would be tricky

[@chriswoodend2036]

@@JaWoodle Deformation by punching the ground can give you pretty fine control.

[@Eldormain9]

I just heard that a recent patch like a day ago (8/8/24), 7 Days was update. And now the "Scaffolding Ladder" piece no longer protects against Cop Spit. I heard this while testing a living base idea that had a drop trap, using the Upside Down Wedge Tips. The idea is a set of stairs about 15 blocks from the elevated base. The Wedge Tips come off of the stairs and there is a path connecting to the base. The non-feral zombies I tested (4 at a time) went through the drop once and then one of the four headed towards the base. The other three continued to the stairs and drop. Once I defeated the zombie beating on the base another one left the group of three and started beating on the base. There could have been a connection to them seeing me but I am not sure about that yet. I wanted to share since you probably recorded this vid before the patch and it may be worth testing again.

[@cannabiscountry4171]

Never underestimate what a camry can do 😂 But seriously, camry and civic are nearing 50 years of production and remained top sellers the entire time. Cant hate on em

[@lawrencee486]

Congrats on the 100K!!!!!! You, mate, are the best!!!

[@VWbosh]

Congrats on hitting 100k Subscribers...long overdue!

[@mechasmoke]

It was so great that they climbed all the way back up to you on their own, after you forgot all about them!! Awesome base idea though!

[@jaydunbar7538]

For your center wall to hide behind you can actually use the half blocks or plates, but they have to be the centered version

[@pcer9973]

This guy went from annoying to gaining one more subb 😂. I like how he brings his own flair. Thank you for the content, brother.

[@MrCitrus]

Much of the time you were giving them a clear and easy path to get to you. I'm curious about a base that maximizes the time a zombie takes to get to you. How many jumps does it take for a zombie to get to you?

[@patrickwyeth4809]

Nice work mate 😂 you made it rain zombies now put the the Homer Simpson sound affect when they fall of the cliff😂😂

[@Wanderinpaladin]

You know to be extra careful you can block the trench with those Jersey Barriers (what the bridge centers that you use for your zombie proof wall.) You know something for you to hop over but they will just run by and no chance of someone getting pushed into the trench by an impatient Arlene.

[@lordjoseph82]

I know you didnt like the switchback ramps, but looked pretty neat once you put the torches on it.

[@Pyxcil]

Lemmings at 16:30

[@Gunsmith2012]

10/10 will always watch Jawoodle park 😂

[@IndestructiBil]

Definitely one of my favorites 😃👍

[@Rugrat]

Actually an awesome build mate 😁👍

[@georgeleslie9907]

Thanks Josh

[@duphasdan]

It's funny how the zombies helped out with pathing.

[@1mouse3]

2:32 I see @robbaz managed to glitch his summer to the top of a cliff 15:59 the lemmings level one 22:01 the lemmings level two 27:23 the lemmings that brute forced level three 28:40 check that was made if the lemmings cheated for level three

[@Ursusrex25]

Josh, at the second cliff base would it be possible to measure the distance between where the zombies fall and their pathway to the valley? Like does it still fall in that 40 block range?

[@JaWoodle]

It seems to have more to do with the loaded chunk than anything else... it will need some more off camera testing before I know for sure. Stay tuned

[@Ursusrex25]

@@JaWoodle Ahh that makes sense, cheers and will look out for that. Keep up the great work!

[@3lapsed]

I admit I don't watch all of your videos, so excuse me if this has been answered or played with. But Josh, have you tried the double double railing yet? ( full name "Catwalk V2 Rail Only Double Double End") Or did you try and decide it was too cheesy and not worth focusing on in case TFPs removed it's functionality soon?

[@JaWoodle]

I have, but I have this personal idea that the cheese builds have to make sense in the world. Invisible blocks and things that couldn't exist in the real world just... don't sit right with me? They have to look like they'd be physically possible, and obviously levitation is not a thing. I'd never use them in my own games, as a personal preference thing, so I generally don't focus on them in videos. A fine line I know, but that's just me. No shade on people using it for their own games though, play however you have the most fun, that's what's so good about games!

[@3lapsed]

@@JaWoodle Thanks for answering. Figured it was something like this, you've always been on the cutting edge of new tricks in the game

[@Ronaldtjuh4]

Ramp 6m 03 works very good as a zombie dropper aswell

[@troyalton4956]

Thank you for waiting till after hoard night for this.

[@Aylajd19]

The old game had a drawbridge you could make. Crazy they didn’t bring that over 😩

[@Mrdevs96]

I'm pretty sure it's still in the game, another creator I saw was using it. There is a regular one and a powered one , which can be connected to a switch or motion sensor

[@filypefx]

After seeing that afk base "floating" (from another creator), I was thinking of something like this (but not this good). Other one is building a base on the intersection of 3 biomes (to control zombie spaw while keeping the loot bags on the highest loot stage one).

[@morto5969]

“I love drawbridges in this game” Proceeds to use a double door rotated instead of the literal drawbridge that’s in game 😂 what a galar

[@isabela9005]

the scientific mind will spawn inside any field of human interest and i love that for this species we begrudgingly belong to

[@tommyigoe3952]

I love it...a zombie conveyer belt.

[@Md936S]

Ok for zombie dropping try making a pole side centered line with a single catwalk plate v2 block having one point pointed at the zombies. Yeah it's floating but if you give is some support it'll still work. Just try it

[@TheYourfaceable]

If anyone were to get a car up on that cliff it'd be an Australian 😂 "Yeah nah mate, just drove me cah up the ol' mountain mate, no biggie"

[@JohnA...]

Josh it might not have been the distance causing them to not go up the ramp. It might have been seen as above your sanding height, that slight block at the end of the ramp is about half a block above you, and because of that they don't go up to get to something lower down.

[@ALIVELESS87]

I still don't quite get why that ramp would be a valid path for zombies 🤷‍♂️

[@wesleyson21]

I'm pretty sure it's because in their pathing they see it as a whole block, so they think they can walk anywhere in the volume it occupies. There's also blocks that are the complete opposite. You can clearly walk across them, but zombies don't see them as a valid path.

[@ALIVELESS87]

@@wesleyson21 makes sense, as so far as that it completely doesn't 😅 I wonder why they can't sort it out though (from a programming perspective)

[@xmannkiller]

The rule of falling 15 is always good since having bigger hordes they tend to pile on top of each other and can gap the few meter threshold. Only negative to making a base 15 blocks up is it is 15 blocks up so 60 blocks if you do 4 pillars or 600 cobblestone/conc and that is without the rest of the base and path

[@ling0s138]

I’ve seen him say build at least 7 blocks high a few times now, did it change with 1.0 or is that just a bare minimum number? Building my first base soon and had planned for 7 high but don’t want to screw myself over

[@xmannkiller]

@@ling0s138 within 13 or so from the player for the destroy everything, and 7 high is to make them less likely to bash your pillars over running far. that is why his dropper builds have more than 13 drop or drop them more than 13 away normally

[@ling0s138]

@@xmannkiller thanks for the help!

[@silentmayan5427]

2:49 They're just lost

[@syphon583]

I don't think the 40 blocks is the total distance they would travel. Rather, it's if they can find a viable path within 40 blocks. That's why your spiral base still worked. They was way more than 40 blocks total, but because the "opening" to the viable path was within 40, they were fine taking it.

[@atonofkeys4602]

Why not the spiral staircase? Would that solve the "aesthetic" problem?

[@SheyD78]

I do love watching a good afk base, kind of like a lava lamp.

[@deathshocker77]

First base, instead of building that janky ramp path up to the top, i would have carved a path from bottom to the top into that mountain side and all those resources from digging path to the top can be used later on. only problem would be metal class node if you find one... screamers love metal type of node when your harvest them. but with your idea you can build base out of all that stuff you harvest into cobble base for your first horde. Finally for that car, they where playing prank on a friend by using helicopter to leave the car there.

[@miketurgeon5506]

thanks for the laugh Josh....congrats on the 100k....cheers

[@RichardRitenour0522]

I really like the second cliff base, brilliant!

[@grahamlothian2695]

Dont ask about the car, it was a drunk night with some friend, enough said

[@SwampWaterHealing]

The door should've been able to be oriented at the bottom of the block above and have two small wedges underneath, no?

[@Annon917]

why did that path in the second base work, they ran so far without getting pissed

[@HyperV2Gaming]

Josh rocking the blink-182 shirt!!

[@jonathanlee7355]

I'm confused..why did the 2nd base work on its own. Wasn't that path farther away than the ramp u built at the 1st one?

[@christopherg7483]

i mean, a switchback is a functional, and practical way of creating a path up a cliff side

[@ColinTimmins]

You know what would be cool? Fn trains in 7 Days to Die… =]

[@Merlin-gu9nz]

So you've created 7 Days To Die : Lemmings edition

[@summerclown]

That is so reminiscent of Lemmings! Why not use the 'new' zombie barrier instead of digging the ditch ?

[@brandankalaway619]

You should do a series were you build everything no living for places that already exist

[@RogerDDillon]

I sent you a message on Instagram thinking I might have figured out the cop vomit and the more than half block. Was rather long so couldn't put it on X as originally planned. But a way to clean up the first ramp maybe wrap it around the front of the cliff face to keep it within range?

[@blakeguidroz]

Thats why my horde base didnt work i was using the wrong block i was using corner pole block since i made it 2 wide for centering purposes and they wanted to beat the door instead of routing up i swapped it to the ramp60 block hopefully i have better luck come horde night

[@livebyhonor]

Personally Id have tried making a 3 x3 or 4x4 spiral stairwell inside the mountian so it hides the "building ugliness. just have to give them an opening at the base of the stairwell to get into it. Be like a elevator shaft for them to cleanly accend. Or do your dropper stairwell you recently made so they can never actuall get to you. Then the drawbridge is not needed and out can make a more astetical walking bridge to the house

[@Bru_Dog1]

now you can build that style base in the center of the map plateau... When you start your new series.

[@michaelknightmustdie]

I'm such a sucker for mountain bases. It would be a huge pain in the arse, but you could build the zombie staircase inside the mountain to hide it. You're probably going to need a vehicle ramp, too.

[@JaWoodle]

No vehicle ramps necessary that Camry got up there fine... somehow

[@Derkiboi]

But that's special, it's a Camry ​@@JaWoodle

[@michaelknightmustdie]

@@JaWoodle 😂😂😂

[@michaelknightmustdie]

@@JaWoodle The craftable Camry is the mod we need.

[@Mrdevs96]

The ramp has to have switchbacks so it stays closer to the base

[@razgriznpm]

Im going to have to apply this to an undead legacy base i wanted to do

[@Loan--Wolf]

that is a bad ass oh shit fall back base

[@brandond.7768]

Doing everything he can to avoid the baton run... lol

[@rincewindTA]

Love a cheeky cliff base! Reminds me a bit of the Super Villain Volcano base. Good times!

[@muzzleburnhurts]

spiral stair case josh

[@PaPaMurph]

best admin tool skills in the game

[@nbnadeau]

"Lazy" is what uninformed people call "Efficient"

[@BEkappelmann]

That car was a first failed attempt to launch it into space. Didn't make it.

[@Keenok]

This bass reminds me of the lemmings game.

[@morestupidforms]

Pit of spike traps, farm bags.

[@Goofy_The_Scot]

So that's where i parked........ what a night that was

[@Metanaut1]

just mine a tunnel from the bottom up, which will give some resources

[@jamesbloor9266]

Theres gotta be a story about that car

[@dossy_the_pineapple]

I love a sprinkle of muppetry with my coffee!

[@jazzafly257]

"Mr Science Woodle" - whoda thunk it??

[@Andy.Smurphy]

If you use the Ramp 6m blocks for your horde fighting location then you have a cop spit proof base .... cops can not see through these blocks and will not spit at you

[@Zigurat7]

Do you think you could do something like this but instead of a cliff in an island?

[@screkox3900]

Whats the weapon used to destroy blocks easily?

[@Ageratos01]

This is giving me lemmings vibes

[@jimdob6528]

I play games like “enshrouded” “7dtd” “return to Moria” “Minecraft” “Valheim” ect and I always build massive bases… always…

[@CxMonstah]

Ok but what can we do with that information?

[@-WolfMan-]

Large Bases are more difficult to defend. Especially on your own. Keep it smaller - just more Fortified.

[@thomaswalker4950]

Josh spiral stair case up the side of the cliff