Top 5 Beginner Horde Bases - 7 Days to Die

[@kdVampire96]

Man, these new player models are so pretty, everytime your character bats his eyelashes at me it makes me blush.

[@Tom_Plays_Games]

Gotta say that I miss the regular uploads. I don't have time to watch the streams. But, I'm happy that you have been able to do things for yourself that make your quality of life better!

[@taigalilly]

You could always watch the stream in small bits. If I don't have time, I'll often just watch for a half hour or hour, then go back to the stream to continue watching later

[@Tom_Plays_Games]

@@taigalilly that would take 8 days per 4 hour stream!

[@taigalilly]

@@Tom_Plays_Games I guess if you only have 30 minutes a day to watch KZbin, then yeah. I can often watch more than once per day, so that's not really a problem for me.

[@tiny_tunas]

Love it! I'm the farthest I've ever been: day 29...I'm a baby and start saves over a lot LOL and ive only been playing 7 Days for a few months. I've learned a TON about base building from your videos! I prefer to convert POIs like this and recently I've started dabbling in making my own bases from scratch but....a lot to learn there 😂

[@grumpynomad3551]

I play up until day 28 and start over again. By the time I hit day 25-28 I have everything and I’m not doing electricity or fighting demos.

[@scoopyrnoopers]

I enjoy making my own custom bases but I honestly don't know enough to making my own lol, plus they are very expensive too

[@NTJedi]

My favorite POI is the drive-in movie theater because it's T4 for better loot bags, plus LOTS of room for building your own base.

[@coltenkelso5764]

I play until i get all end game stuff then do a couple end game horde nights. These are the most fun and challenging horde nights. Then after that I start over.

[@Salkinmusic]

My longest gamesafe was almost 300 days. I then fastforwarded to day 7000 on the highest difficulty and went ham 😂

[@daverocks295]

Excellent video! So glad to see a "regular" video from you as I don't have time to watch the long streams.

[@wessweat7161]

Excellent guide Tem. I've been playing 7 Days since the very beginning, and this is still really useful information for an old player like me!

[@sirdabsalot2087]

I'm on day 13 just moved to the desert and am panicking thinking about my horde base so i decided to take a break and check out your video. Low and behold right across from my house is a judie witches, guess i just found my day 14 horde base! Your the man!

[@frozenburst64]

Also, in the future, don't worry too much about having a horde base. If you don't have time to make or modify a place to defend from the horde, just go to a structure that can easily outlast the horde and camp on its roof.

[@lrinfi]

That Red Barn Bed and Bath POI is already set up to handle an early game horde just fine. Just had to complete the run from the barn over to the house window, knock out the house interior stairs and was good to go. Still straightened out their approach to the beam; gave them a flight of stairs from the second floor up to it; and let them make their own doorways into the barn; but it was fine in a pinch. Didn't look as cool as running a ramp around the silo, but function over form early game every time in my case. Form comes later and I prefer to keep them at arm's reach as opposed to the up close and personal fight windows others might prefer. :) The POIs in this game are amazing. Their new POI artist is a master of those voxel shapes. I've made a game of converting existing POIs, especially the newer, because they're so much more architecturally interesting than a box on stilts. :) Will have to get into designing my own eventually, but...the existing POIs are amazing.

[@zlatanmorrison8182]

Good video, used some of these POI's myself in my own playthroughs. For something like the old creepy church and the issue with zombies going into 'rage' mode because the drop is insufficient I tend to put down 'scratching posts' below the drop - just simply poles that they can whack on rather than the walls holding you up:)

[@Angryllama517]

Always look forward to more videos from you. Thank you for always delivering!

[@leenomedal-lafon5994]

As always, really nice demonstrations with all of them. Thank you for taking the time to help the new players. I need to learn to convert POI's myself. I think I have built a dedicated hoard base every time I have played. Prebuilt would be shaking his head at me...

[@r000tbeer]

Excellent guide, Tem! I typically roll my own but wanted to see your perspective on using POIs.

[@nunyabidness6961]

Oooo! I actually have a suggestion to make! In playing our joint game, my wife and I have found that the O'Really's Auto makes a great impromptu emergency horde base well into mid-game, that can be prepped in mere moments. There is a ladder on the outside leading to the roof. Knock out the bottom two sections to prevent zombie access, then go up top and kill the zombie that tends to spawn up there. On the same side of the roof as the external ladder, is a hatch in the roof, with a ladder to the inside. Open the hatch, then remove the top two sections of ladder, which will largely stop the zombies from getting up to you, while bringing their heads within easy melee range. You're basically done. If you have time and resources to do so, you can build a small fighting position at the hatch which can keep vultures off you, but otherwise they can just be killed when they show up with little trouble. Having a portable turret of some kind, or another person is ideal, but it works just fine solo, even with Direwolves and such coming in. The structure is concrete, steel and extensive. When the zombies get to the top of the now lowered ladder, they start trying to beat through steel, while you beat through their skulls. The Direwolves just stay below and do the same to little effect, while making easy targets from the top of the ladder. Even Demolition zombies can be defended against from this location solo. It's not easy at that point, but it's good to know it can be done in a pinch. If you need to buy yourself a moment to reload or repair a weapon and things threaten to get out of control, simply shut the hatch to obtain the time you need.

[@vampire7878]

Emergency horde? Whats the emergency? 7D2D Hordes are a joke and easy to survive

[@bobsizzlack008]

Glad to see people are finally cottoning on to the lootstage bonus from POIs, it's a great way to boost loot early game.

[@jons4917]

Thanks Tem, good to see a vid I can watch in less than half a day ;)

[@DavidXanitos]

I really appreciate the resource numbers for each base, even if Im not building exactly in that POI It gives me a solid number to strive for early game. Great video as always.

[@chrishubbard64]

These are fun designs for a temp horde base. I have to admit, im not a personal fan of making a temp horde base. I prefer to make a horde base that can be upgraded over time and added on. So a basic base for the first week, but by the time the rads show up, you have added on all the bells and whistles needed to take down anything. You arent stuck reinforcing a silo hoping its enough to tank any demo blasts or whatever. That said, for a new player who probably wont be getting that far, these are great ideas for simple setups for the first few weeks. By the time they ARE getting that far they will have enough experience to figure out how to make their own long term base.

[@gdgd5194]

Funny, every base is long term... By the time you hit day 21 you still face normal zombies during horde night and you already have infinite amount of bullets and OP gun.

[@chrishubbard64]

@@gdgd5194 Well yeah but a problem with these early bases is, cop explosions and demo blasts and even just the spitters could cause a lot of issues and require redesigning the base somewhat to compensate. And a few of them, as he stated, arent designed to deal with the dogs and such which will chew holes in your base to try and bring it down.

[@gdgd5194]

@@chrishubbard64 True about dogs, that's because of ladders. I just make a ramp walk up instead to be safe against everything.

[@koriyou7594]

I got into 7d2d recently and im on ep 8 of your vanguard series, love the base building in your videos and using parts for my own

[@jgaines79]

Per usual another awesome video. Love this channel and your content!

[@DANKgreenDINO]

thank you for the video. i dont have time for streams but love the vids please i need a series.

[@martyn94ma]

Quite anjoyed this type of video! Would love to see more POI bases!

[@allthegoodnamesareinuse]

Excellent newbie bases! I love the simplicity!

[@blueskadoo1402]

Awesome video. I'm starting my own trader less run because of you. But I'm keeping loot at %100 as I'm not as much of a masochist lol. Hope for the continued success on twitch for you!

[@lvparm]

Yet another banger from my Man Tem! 🎉

[@terrysilverthorn8616]

I like the creepy church base & will build that one up before my first horde night....mainly as I've just cleared one & its not too far from my tower. Thanks for showing!

[@oliverogden4999]

I’m new to 1.0 and this is exactly what I needed this was great especially because you are very knowledgeable about 7 days to die would love more of these but for building a base from scratch

[@CrabClownJimmy]

I've used a few of these, but I definitely could improve my fighting position concepts. Good tips here!

[@bigknees7908]

Perfect vid I legit was playing yesterday trying to figure out where to build a horse base in a random poi

[@leliannathefaun1656]

Please post part two, I'm getting scared of horde nights! XD Also, how do you turn on the stability view?

[@mikeriley2475]

its always a good idea to reinforce any loadbearing columns directly beneath your horde fighting position! Last thing you want is a collapse with a 100 zombies beneath you :P

[@vincelupo8419]

Or is it? Falling and laughing all the way to your doom...

[@chaleywaley]

Ah man such an amazing video! Ive been following for years now! also my biggest problem with 1.0 is making a horde base combination with regular crafting base! I hope you can make a video on how to make one that would be awesome!! I tried so many times to make one like yours but man it just collapse!!! :(

[@vetheros]

Proving once again to be the technical leader of creators. I'll always send people to your channel to learn.

[@TheFeinmotoriker]

really good ideas, i like the door traps.

[@raymondkemps2786]

Very informative G,N,S thank you friend love your vids cant wait for next one

[@KuronoCthulhu]

Love these videos man, good work.

[@Ryusirius]

Good looking out. I like the Judith witch one. Maybe use the door technique where you'll be hitting zombies to get a relief there as well and probably extend the sides to make dart trap or something. But I would definitely use Judith witch though

[@akuokami1677]

Well now you make me want a multi-player base guide 😂😂

[@NTJedi]

The most ideal base to build results with the loot bags being easy to reach while still keeping you safe from zombies.

[@linfizzy]

I really like all your content, I'm currently building a base on top of a bridge very close to Rekt.

[@RoLo24]

I started playing very recently and my base is in Judie Witch, a very solid place. I made my base in the barn because all its blocks are made of concrete. I've been playing for 40 days now and apart from a few problems, everything is going well. I'm really hooked on this game. It's been a while since I've had this experience with a game. There's so much to do and learn!!🤯

[@NTJedi]

If you reach late game stages such as day 120 and beyond... it's easy to stay interested by starting special projects: 1. Building a bridge across a river to speed your visits to Traders and Towns. 2. Tunneling thru a mountain to speed your visits to Traders and Towns. 3. Building your blood moon base in the wastelands for maximum difficulty challenge. 4. Using electricity to restore lights for your favorite city or town and maybe adding gun turrets to eliminate nearby threats.

[@RoLo24]

@@NTJedi Thank you very much for the tips bro, I will keep them in mind!

[@ccovemaker]

The best early base we found was a POI that was a power sub station. We broke the ladder on the transformer. Added a ladder to a near by fence for the players to climb and jump accross to the transformer. We had initially had put down a ton of spikes to protect the transformer but first night we discovered something. Standing on the power lines for a good view the zombies could not figure out pathing to our position. They beat on neighboring fences, unrelated buildings, really anything but what we are actually standing on. We break a few wood spike per horde but really the base is breaking a couple ladder sections and adding a way in. We are 3 horde nights in and the base in almost entirely intact.

[@tobbytz]

Thanks for the pointers. I wish I could make bases like you do.

[@RobinsNestGaming]

Would love to see him create his own POI. Ive seen his bases, but how is he at building a POI from scratch? LOVE YA Tim! Keep up the amazing work here, stay surviving

[@smarti3pants1999]

@@RobinsNestGaming oh man he does it quite often. The vanguard series that just finished had a completely built-up horde base and the livestream series he just finished also had one.

[@danielrahn5194]

Very handy video! Thanks !

[@lonic123]

Great guide, thanks

[@TheLadiesRoom117]

Awesome video! Thanks so much!!

[@Raida7]

well the loot stage boost from POIs I didn't know, will definitely be building our second horde base in a POI!

[@sweetfeathery]

I wish there was a way to save a base build to where if i go into a fresh game I could just pull out the "blueprints" and with the total supplies needed just be able to pop that base down right then and there.

[@NTJedi]

Contact the developers ask them to add a "Construction Crew Service" to the game

[@mikeberry5016]

@sweetfeathery a blueprint system would be awesome. But how would u implement it? Would it be like it would have the outline of all the blocks as a guide or would it be kind of like I guess conan where you'd build the blueprint in ur inventory and then just place it

[@nooffense6666]

Sounds like dragon quest builders 2

[@elevenchuck2446]

"Press R to recycle backwards"... omg, all this time.

[@verysilentmouse]

Ikr

[@grevedanko]

Same. Over 1600 hours 0:28 into the game and didnt know this.

[@paulc1716]

sorry I have been using R, what's the other button ?

[@gavinstalcup2839]

Mouse click, I believe. ​@@paulc1716

[@bannankev]

@@paulc1716left click goes one way, pressing R key goes the other way. Sorry y’all didn’t know this 😢 💜

[@laurac4660]

Would love to see horde base recommendations for multiplayer!

[@paulc1716]

Judie Witch is the best I've ever used, from begin till end game, safe and sound

[@wills8656]

time to move out of the 3x3 shitbox

[@MrNajsman]

Well done!

[@jonathanrees657]

Great video mate thank you

[@jamaalstricklin9867]

Good stuff as usual T

[@Kaikulet]

I just stumbled upon a block thats good for melee rather than the scaffolding ladder, in the scaffolding ladder sometimes zombies tries to tend to climb them even its rotated, use the catwalk v1 rail only it's kinda good actually, also combined that pole strats with your door walk way it will be awesome, anyway like the tips 💯

[@frozenburst64]

I think they use the scaffolding ladder to allow melee fights while also blocking cop vomit. Also, if you rotate the ladder to its side, they can't climb up it.

[@xeternalxeyesx]

The church base I tested is either terrible, or at the time playing the zombies were dumber in path, but I saw nothing on why they wouldn't use the ladder way and flanked me on the left swarming me on the front? I even closed off the door, which wasn't done in this video.

[@chungkwancheng9565]

excellent and thx. for sharing. you got very sufficient building material at 14 days to buld this base? or it's just a demonstration and with condition the resources has no limit?

[@weldabar]

I just love this. I've got (much) more than a thousand hours in this game, and I still learn from other players. Normally we are all lazy (efficient) in that we find something that works and stick with it. So it's good to see new ideas. The silos at 8:02 are IMO the best (strongest) horde base location. I've built many different styles of bases there.

[@Gary87]

Me and a friend have a world and on our first horde we had Dire Wolves, second horde Cops, I dread to think what’s to come on our 3rd horde! Oh just to add we are in the pine forest so can’t wait for the increase in difficulty if we move biomes!

[@blakecongdon3719]

I started a new solo world with 1.0 and had dire wolves, dogs, cops and vultures all on the first blood moon. Not sure what my game stage was but had only made it to lvl 18 and my main weapon was still a pipe baton. As you can guess it didn’t go well.

[@GamingAfter50]

Great, easy bases!

[@Salkinmusic]

I recommend the 0.025m round pole instead of the square one. That makes them fall off much more 😊

[@rourke8027]

Great ideas.

[@Mariusz803]

Awesome video but, don't you run the risk of these bases dissapearing when you start a trader quest at this POI?

[@zachbrown3872]

Can’t wait for the next one about how to defend against cops and demos

[@Grey_Ghost]

I think I'd like to see some super Direwolf Friendly designs so I definitely don't lose any of those sweet Loot Bags they're guaranteed to drop.

[@filypefx]

I cant stop thinking of pools after seeing your X base, I just dont know if it will work with one layer of water (I'm 5 hours from the first horde)... maybe try building a pool for the next (than only digging a pit)... also, that loot stage controll, thinking about doing a base on the intersection of biomes.

[@yourin8er]

I used iron bars that explains why I can’t open and close the door. Thank you for the tips from a console player.

[@ashryver3605]

23:00 I rebuilt something like this just out in the open not in a church and had a bunch of supports since otherwise it would just fall, and probably 1-2 blocks taller than this overal, but when I would open the door and they would fall, they would just start killing the support pillars and half way through the night boom everything collapsed. How to stop this ?

[@hobbitguy1420]

With the double door setup, could you put plates/pole plates on top of those doubles on the outer edge of the door, to prevent the zeds from standing on the hinges?

[@fullmetalfr1171]

Thanks 😁👍

[@adamgeigerjr6995]

the ole billboard base is ideal cause you can be 12 blocks high to avoid zombies entering rage mode destroying the base below

[@shonjames5131]

Game stage 40 for both dogs and hellhounds, 44 for vulture. I had to turn my game on to see what ours is. My friends and I just started playing a day and a half ago. I don't know if the game is based off all of the game stages or just me hosting but the highest was 23 and we've seen all 3 of those on Day 14. I'm looking for all the help because we couldn't defend against 3 hounds.

[@lennythekid8328]

Would be helpful if you could show us on the map where you found these locations

[@zeldaz100]

For the crypt base at the end, would you just punch a whole under your zombie kill point into the crypt so they have to run all the way back up? also a free grenade pit or moly

[@puristgreen]

Are you going to be uploading video series again at all, or is it just live streams now?

[@xsilvawolf747]

Question ... see the other designes for the tower like builds will that work for the fire district place ? Because im wanting to just stay there and make a proper bace

[@anthonygianettino2557]

At 2:14 you start modifying the water tower. The one you chose is built differently than the other 2 you pointed out. Your modifications will not work on the other water towers as described.

[@iSirTaki]

I have an issue with your NoTraders Map. no height information found or something like that. Maybe can you make a video for how to import a generted map? Thx

[@xmannkiller]

Dont forget Cops can spit through railings so when cops show up you take quite a bit of unnecessary damage

[@frozenburst64]

Replace them with scaffolding ladders to block the spit. Tilt them on their side so nothing can climb up them.

[@cgravaris]

Does the spear benefit from hidden strikes perk or anything else as a kinda bladed weapon or just knives? (Or the other perks that help with bleeding and blades, might have got the name wrong)

[@danielchin4198]

Made the mistake of speedrunning trader rekt missions and basing near trader jen in burnt forest on day 5💀.I hadn't played in a while. Good loot though. You should make a guide on basing in wastelands, it's absolutely hellish out there.

[@frozenburst64]

Basing in more difficult biomes requires the same strategies, but with more effort into them. Your base likely will need to be made of stronger materials, and you need to make sure it is prepared for the tougher zombies that will spawn sooner.

[@NTJedi]

I feel the snow is more difficult than the wastelands because there's more fast animals. The wastelands is only worse if you're traveling in the wilderness due to land mines. Enemies in the wasteland are worse for combat... but you can outrun most of them. Also when it's snowing and fog within the snow the visibility is almost nothing.

[@danielchin4198]

@frozenburst6463 no kidding, direwolves and cops started spawning on the first horde night.

[@NTJedi]

@@danielchin4198 Lower the XP setting before the game starts... this will prevent dire wolves and cops on the first horde night. *My gameplay settings:* Difficulty: Survivalist 24 Hour Cycle: 120 mins ======================= Blood Moon Count: 64 Zombie Day Speed: Jog ======================= Loot Abundance: 75% Loot Respawn Time: Disabled Death Penalty: Permanent Drop on Death: Delete All ======================= Party Shared Kill Range: Disabled ---------------------------------------------------------------- All the rest are default settings

[@pds72]

With all the buffs the Dire Wolf received, 40 is way too low to be seeing them. They should be between the Rads and Demos.

[@adrewbateman1760]

All the wood doors I found have a frame . So when u open it there’s a frame on all sides . Where did u find the door with only 1 side of frames ?

[@JSQDMODZ]

What are the coordinates of the crypt base that can be seen at the end? And which map is that?

[@grimsgraveyard3598]

Are you using a mod for graphical improvements? The model looks better than default.

[@graffixx8088]

ty----??? do u know when undead legacy will be coming for 1.0??? and the other top mods?? should do a video on the subject.. thanks

[@ericeclifford]

Can you make some Darkness Falls base design too? :)

[@AshisME101]

Whats the range of player that the zombies have to be within to go into rage mode? Trying to set up my own raid base

[@istrasci]

How do you do that 3rd person camera thing in your videos?

[@kuddlethegamer]

Dire Wolves are my worst nightmares, I can't believe they only require a gamestage of 40 but vultures, cops, and ferals need a higher level. Hell, dude, I'd honestly take rads zombies over dire wolves too to be entirely honest

[@Varloth]

Temcam got four kills. Good on em

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

As I commented on the last vid, Direwolves especially feel too low-tier for how they specifically function among the zombies and when they start showing up in gamestage, and they're the biggest pain when it comes to horde base design because of how itchy their trigger is to start rage mode it feels like.

[@scottusumakiuchiha5188]

very good bases but the question is is it useful for any difficulty?

[@tapioperala3010]

This was a great video, thanks! I've been playing 7D2D pretty much since day 1, but I tend to always do the same thing :D At one point, me and my friends did a sort of castle as a horde base and that was awesome, but when I'm playing on my own, I kind of do the same thing all the time. Now in my 1.0 play I do my take on your tower horde base. We'll see how that'll go :P

[@jamesrush4617]

I am playing this on Ps5 haven't ran onto this farm yet. Wonder if it is.

[@clydedavis3623]

The whole press r thing has always been so confusing to me, since thats all I've ever done. It took until recently learning about the proper other direction, for me to understand.

[@seadragonpirate8195]

How do you access stability mode?

[@feathersmcgraw7608]

Do the cities not spawn in the pine forest biome?

[@robertjackson2692]

How do you turn on stability mode?

[@Lemieuxonline]

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