[2020] Reverse scarecrow to attract the horde

Originally posted by HM Pumba: What about buildning something to attract zombies?
Would be kinda cool to have them running down your gauntlet of turrets and sawblades.

That's what your 'friends' are for. Back in A16 I believe it was, when I played coop seriously, all my hours of planning out the ideal defenses to slow and redirect zombies to a safe distance away from me was overshadowed by my teammates. All they needed was a piece of flat ground to engage in a melee. That meant zombies ignored me in my carefully designed sniper tower, as I was the more distant target. Anyway, as others have said you're supposed to be able to throw rocks or snowballs to distract a zombie's attention. They seem to pause for missed arrows too, but those are more expensive.