[2022] What is the point of building underground?

Originally posted by TruculentTonka: I wonder, with having zeds now tunneling and Swiss-cheesing the ground between, precisely beyond temporary mining and such, precisely why would you want to build an underground base?

You can still put a lot of blocks, with cumulatively a lot of HP, between you and the zombies. Remember, they may dig down now, but it’s not like they won’t ‘dig’ sideways, e.g. through your walls, to get to you at the surface. So the gap in viability between above ground versus underground bases has narrowed.

Originally posted by Condor:

Originally posted by TruculentTonka: I wonder, with having zeds now tunneling and Swiss-cheesing the ground between, precisely beyond temporary mining and such, precisely why would you want to build an underground base?

There is no point. its another example of how the fun pimps continue to destroy game play. Players come up with strategies to deal with zombies and hordes and the fun pimps keep changing play to counter player strategies. Doesnt make any sense. It used to be fun to build under ground bunkers but now its just a waste of time. I wish they would deal with real issues like bugs, making a random world gen that was actually worth a ♥♥♥♥, instead of continually destroying what is fun with the game.

Before, there was less gameplay if you built underground. Namely, there was no interaction with zombies. Now there is. They fixed problems with the AI, so that more gameplay that occurs when above ground can also occur when underground.

In other words, not only can you still build underground, but TFP actually added gameplay to that domain. This was a win for anyone on the side of more gameplay. And I would argue more gameplay if anything means more fun, not less.