Simple Yet effective Early Game Horde Night BASE - 7 Days To Die

[@statichammer9984]

Instead of putting a block above the zombies to prevent them stacking, its generally a better idea with this style of base to make the wall there 4 blocks tall and then a small overhang. by preventing them from stacking in a standing state, you force them to crawl to stack instead, which can force them through your little window setup. You may also be better off having the funneling pathway be in line with the window so that when you fire into the crowd, missed shots at zombies in the window are more likely to connect with a zombie behind them, having the pathway off to the side means your shot can only potentially hit the ones that happen to be at the top of the ladder, rather than all of the zombies on the pathway.

[@voncheddar4319]

I really like this build. The one thing I would do different is the pillars. Instead of one pillar I use a 2x2 area and put a pole in the inside corners. Uses the same space, but 4x stronger. Can't remember who I got the idea from. I watch a lot of you guys.

[@radioactivespeeder2591]

Thanks man

[@EvilNecroid]

im not sure if its true or not but i remember hearing somewhere that zombies do bonus damage to poles?

[@ihtfp01]

Simple and effective. Easy to integrate into a POI should the player wish to. WELL DONE! Had to check if I was on the right channel because you didn't set yourself on fire ;)

[@TheBigfoot425]

This is really simple and cool, the only problem is when zombies fall they go into rage mode and start beating on things, usually temporarily but sometimes you need to inflict damage on them to get them out of rage mode. I didn't know about them not attacking pillars if there is a ditch built around the pillar so thank you for that info.

[@michaelrizzuto3870]

sounds like the crash bandicoot music. Great video thanks for the info!!

[@reborika]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

[@DaveTormala]

Pretty nice base. Thanks for showing this.

[@Gokolito84]

Good one. Thanks for inspiration.

[@GodsKing69]

You should put a block down on the top right of the single walkway. Then put the sledge turret on it facing the opposite way. This way has a better chance to hit an knock them off. Great vid and base by the way.

[@ImezRuez]

same thing but turn the ladder pillar 90 degrees and put in arrow slits that give you line of sight to the ladder so you can thin them a bit on the way up.

[@Apathetic_Trash]

And here I spent 4 days full on redoing a 3 story house in full steel and turned it into a friggin Winchester mansion 2.0 when I could've just done this 🤣 I've learned, they do jump and definitely do dig the hard way.

[@pernellfrantz8875]

Thanks for the ideas...great video

[@ReachGaming]

I appreciate the kind words 😄

[@ardriena2998]

This was a lovely video. Thanks.

[@roscopcoltrane]

I will have to give this build a try, very cool!

[@ReachGaming]

Thanks!

[@RichardRitenour0522]

Very cool!

[@voncheddar4319]

With all that snow you're never going to run out of water

[@taiming71]

Nice little horde base

[@ReachGaming]

Thanks.

[@austins161]

I just saw your poll on do you still enjoy the videos. I will say videos like these are more why I'm subscribed but to be honest maybe try and branch out to other more popular games if you want to keep growing your channel. 7 days to die is a great game, but doesn't have the massive audience and player base that bigger games do... untapped market right there for you in my opinion. great vid!

[@ReachGaming]

I play other games on this channel... and no playing popular games isn't what makes you popular it's all about tags, titles and ideas & being unique. 🙂 but the fact that people don't even notice I play other games on the channel just proves my point.

[@austins161]

@@ReachGaming I'm just trying to help man, I just recently got back into the game, and did a quick check of your channel and to be honest the only game I saw anywhere on the main page was 7days to die which is why I said what I did.

[@codesterharris2230]

how many hordes would this take?

[@haraldsill7979]

Just ready to build it. After my first plan, to load it in to an existing savegame went to nothing. :) Problem is, you sayed it is an early-game-design. But in early game, there seem to be a lack of robotic parts.

[@ReachGaming]

You don't need the robot sledge that just helps.

[@haraldsill7979]

@@ReachGaming I hope so. I have done the build with 3 ladders. They come up realy fast. not much time to shoot them down whilst climbing. But thaks for the build. I am just before night 49. and night 42 on a ground based podest with 2 rows of spikes and a 2 blocks high wodden wall was really hard. Would not do this again in night 49. 4:00 died at 0:30 because i forgot to bring cobblestones for repair and healing-stuff. So they crushed their way through. But i spawned some good distance away, so the did not managed it to find me till 4:00. i wonde if i will find THEM on my way to my backpack

[@haraldsill7979]

@@ReachGaming Works good now with healing and repairng Stuff and an Battle-Axe instead of an Spear. But the robot sledge i placed several times to adjust won´t work. even the burning shaft mod i placed inside does not lit up a single bit. It is a sledge i found, Level 5. But i have allready learnd the Robot- lessons so i might build an own one. But i do not think its why it is not self build. maybe i missed an little detail to bring it to action.

[@reborika]

Hey......I can't get my ladder stable? I'm on PC

[@flipflop4235]

Nice build

[@siouxprano5000]

I’m gonna try this base 👍🏽

[@ReachGaming]

Hope you like it!

[@siouxprano5000]

@@ReachGaming it worked awesomely! I added extra ladders and used a narrow block so that when they came to the window, they fell off easily. Thanks for the content! keep up the inspirational work.

[@kingofgoth]

How would you go about handling Dogs?

[@ReachGaming]

Same as a zombie? Dogs climb ladders in 7dtd

[@kingofgoth]

@@ReachGaming that's weird cause I built a tower with ladders and they wouldn't climb mine just would attack the base

[@ReachGaming]

@@kingofgoth they definitely climb so do bears, wolves, chickens, rabbits etc they all work on the same AI system

[@zorthecruel6558]

looks good for the first or 2nd horde night, but as soon as zombie dogs and bears/animals start showing up on horde nights, this wont work.(they can't go up ladders) You would need to have ramps or stairs leading to the top by that point, so that they can path up. Plus, ramps and stairs don't cause as much pathing issues as ladders do, but cost a lot more blocks to get to the same height. So maybe don't build quite this high up. In my experience, anything more than 7 or 8 blocks above ground level is unnecessary and makes no real difference. I didn't know about the pillar 1 block below trick. I'll have to play around with that :)

[@ReachGaming]

There's no bears or animals during any horde nights this is vanilla and animals climb ladders including bears as shown in my stream I did, we used this base on a modded map and pigs, wolves all climbed the ladders just fine

[@zorthecruel6558]

@@ReachGaming They might have fixed the pathing for dogs and bears and such with ladders without me noticing. (They used to have a terrible time getting up ladders, so i just stopped using ladders entirely for zombie paths.) But the zombie dogs definitely do show up in vanilla horde nights, they always have. You can verify by giving your character 100 levels and changing the game day to day 70, to be sure you are in the advanced game stages.

[@emdeegee8996]

I think it is good that you show them how to build this base. verry easy and so effective Someone gave you 2 thumbs down and I give you 10 thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@MrCheminee]

1:16 this song rocks!

[@roadblockk363]

It had a plants vs zombie vibe to it

[@1776-RoundTwo]

Pipe pistol.. Sure. I have all night to reload. I break those down or sell them and I never use them. I craft a pipe machine gun and save my 9mm rounds until I get a proper pistol. Which in my current play through, I have gotten a .44 on a quest rewards before I have gotten a semi-auto 9mm. Still waiting....

[@BigRedDog-mz3or]

Mr Reach, I am unable to find this base download on your Discord.

[@ReachGaming]

Tagged you on discord in the correct channel

[@nevynalar]

Just curious, what would be the plan if you had dogs?

[@lunajackson3965]

Hope you don't have dogs and deal with them after the night if you do is my guess

[@Eviaification]

I really like those informative videos. I enjoy the game but i got a problem. I get 0 zombiespawns at all. Dosent matter what i do -.-. Keep up the spirit.

[@ReachGaming]

You base in water or ocean?

[@Eviaification]

@@ReachGaming No, not at all. I made new game and still no zombies There is animals. Clearing missions by the trader, but yeah... no zombies. In settings all on default.

[@ReachGaming]

@@Eviaification steam verify your game files

[@Eviaification]

@@ReachGaming I veryfied and nothing changed. I guess i will just reinstall the game. Thanks for the advice though

[@roadblockk363]

@@Eviaification before you reinstall you can always just make a backup of the game via steam, uninstall and reinstall the backup first. Most steam backups only save the verification files so it's similar to a fresh reinstall files. If time/data is an issue

[@mikezharov725]

the new godtier fighting position block is the scaffolding ladder placed sideways u can hit them, you can shoot them, but they cant hit,or spit on you. double it up and you have a nice way to safely dish out the damage

[@ReachGaming]

Yip already done a video on this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJW7lKaeapd_fdEsi=MaRxoyN_PfGGdG4b

[@whood]

Let's check this one out :)

[@ReachGaming]

I hope this helps you!

[@whood]

@@roadblockk363 why not? Early like+comment helps the video to become popular and it's free support for the channel i love.

[@Tornven2003]

Realistically by day 5 you won't have had 300 let alone 500 cobblestone blocks. But it's a cool base.

[@ReachGaming]

Wrong. I built this base within 24 - in-game hours default settings from 0 cobble and I built this thing, so it's definitely definitely doable wouldn't have uploaded if it wasn't cobble is really easy to get.

[@Tornven2003]

@@ReachGaming I guess if you grind and don't do much else. But that can't be easy to achieve from day 1/2? But then again you can double loot mission places and often there's cobblestone to collect.

[@ReachGaming]

Cobble is extremely easy, go see for yourself, I did this all within 24 in-game hours I built this base. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3vNd5-wbrKnoMU

[@ellis2097]

Cobblestone is easy, it's stone and clay. Also working stiffs and construction sites usually has a bunch floating around.

[@OverL00k707]

I usually have over 1000 by day 3

[@rogerhull2062]

[@SUA666]

pit of death

[@zo2dfarm923]

dogs exist and this is extremely resource intensive for a beginner base. there are better designs. I do like the buried supports

[@ReachGaming]

I built this within 24 hours in-game vanilla settings on a LIVE stream with 70 people watching, it's not resource intensive

[@The_great_Beep]

😃

[@ReachGaming]

👍

[@mikeshoults4155]

Cops would destroy that

[@ReachGaming]

Good thing you don't get cops early game right?

[@panagiotisfotopoulos3228]

Can we see a base build without the creative/chest mode on??? That’s 2 Thumbs Down!!! 👎 👎

[@ReachGaming]

No creative mode was used to build this base, don't be an idiot and watch correctly. Thumbs down all you like it doesn't help nothing