[2020] A19 storage chest and boxes smaller??

90% of your [time I think you meant] sorting out junk? Nonsense. I spend much less time sorting in A19, because we have smarter pick up and drop off functionality for containers now.

Over the alphas the vehicle storage has gotten bigger, the backpack's gotten bigger, and the toolbelt's gotten bigger. But they change one thing the other way, and here you are. So fine, let's talk about the storage chests.

Storage chests are physically smaller than storage boxes. Storage chests can be made on day 1 out of nothing but wood, while storage boxes are a more advanced recipe, requiring nails.
Despite this, the storage chest held as much as the storage box. It made no sense. The storage box looked larger and was harder to craft, but provided no more space. It was a let down to spend the resources to 'upgrade' to storage boxes that weren't any better than what you had. But now, the container size reflects visual expectations and the progression curve.

Regarding sloped walls and whatever the next weird-shape-of-the-month is, yeah, the player shouldn't be infinitely safe for a finite amount of effort. You ask what the point is? Well let me turn that around. What is the point of playing with zombies turned on, if you don't want them to play their role as the antagonists?

Because it's a sandbox game, it won't do for the zombies to merely navigate most of the possible geometries. They have to be able to handle whatever weird shape a player's base takes.

There are a zillion answers for what you're supposed to do about the Blood Moon horde. This is what drives player creativity. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that. Just look around the forum. If you're really coming up blank, steal some ideas from here.

https://community.7daystodie.com/topic/21362-advice-for-higher-level-blood-moons-basedefense-alpha-19-b180/

Chests had their inventory reduced because they are tiny and craftable with a bit of scrap wood at any time; It was fairly imbalanced. The storage crates however have the same amount of inventory as it used to.

The change was done to bring a bit of balance to the issue and to add a sense of progression as you go from 'tiny chest you made at the start' to 'proper large wooden storage crate nailed together'

So, Your complaint that you need twice as many is inaccurate. You only need twice as many if you insist upon using chests which are meant to be for early game primarily, and for smaller amounts of items in mid to late game. Mass storage should be done in the big crates.


As to the complaint about slopes....Yes, You're supposed to actually engage the zombies, use your traps, use some ingenuity, Not just completely ignore them with a base design that makes them completely ineffectual. If you don't like it, You can always turn the blood moon off in the settings, Or turn zombies off entirely. But, the player should never be 100% safe at all times in a survival game. (Plus, it was an exploit.)