7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

Originally posted by TruculentTonka: This speaks to what I was presenting as a proposition to lengthen the early game a year ago (or more?). Players should start out in a very, very desolate natural setting with no access to traders and with a very long and dangerous path to get to them in order to encourage sitting tight, early game survival, skill development and familiarisation with AVOIDING zeds and wildlife. Guns as we know them should be impossible for the first two thirds of game play to either obtain or LOL craft. Similarly there should be no motor vehicles until the very end as well.

The stepping in the early game is far too fast. This would require some reworking of natural environments (see The Forest, or other surviv...

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Originally posted by FRLyse: Hi, I'm posting here because I have a claim for the devs which it seems is active on Steam. Here is my question: When will you sincerely look into the optimization of the game? I know this has probably been asked a lot and a lot is an understatement but I can't take it anymore.

As others have noted, optimisation isn't a priority while the game is still in Alpha mode, because the additional content that gets added in would then force the optimisation process to start over again.

Optimisation (and bug fixing) will become the prime focus of the Devs when the game moves into Beta phase (I'd suspect somewhere around 1+ year(s) from now). That said, optimisation isn't totally ignored either even in Alpha and there are some current issues which TFP is looking into for fixing for A21.

You could also look at Vintorez' guide, and others if you like, about how to configur... Read more

I'm afraid to say that what you're attempting to do probably isn't possible. Zombies are designed to unload after awhile of non-interaction so the resources can be put to use elsewhere- And that's not a system that modders have access to. Even if you find a way to make them unlimited, the moment you leave your base to go out looting for the same reason- Zombies in unloaded chunks(aka your base) would be removed to put the resources to use on zombies in newly loaded chunks (aka your destination)

Just.. Overall, afaik the settings required to do what you want aren't open to user customization, and even if they were, in both cases messing with that is highly likely to turn your game from a game into a slideshow.

Originally posted by MoistGamer:

Originally posted by OzHawkeye: It takes five minutes to generate a new map? Not my beastie ;-) Hehe

I'll race you : ) AMD or intel? 4080 or 90? I trust 64GB DDR5 is in order either way.

Some friends and I did that recently, raced to make a new map after a series of upgrades we all went through. I couldn't do it now, cause I don't have Alpha 20 installed any more (I play exclusively a heavily modified version of Alpha 11 I made). ...

It takes five minutes to generate a new map? Not my beastie ;-) Hehe

Originally posted by Turd King: its not as much as being able to play it as the SUPER long first time startup time. once you "generate" the map on your pc it loads much faster. but that first time is a doozy.

Yeah, I know. So many people have an issue waiting five minutes to start a map the first time.

I've been considering adding a notification of the currently online players with our Discord bot notification that the bloodmoon is arriving. Then when it's hung up, everyone will see who was online just before.

The POI seen beyond is a prison.

The new water doesn’t look different from the old water so much as it behaves differently and you can actually swim and maneuver in it much more naturally.

Originally posted by Las: You know it's bad when a spear has less practical range than a zombie's arm does.

Except it doesn't and it's not even close. In hard values, Spear has a maximum reach of about 4-4.1~ blocks, and zombie reach is 1.5-1.65 blocks iirc depending on the zombie type. A players Shortest range is bare handed/most fist weapons which tops out at 1.8m.

There's desync in multiplayer, and somehow some people manage to experience it in SP too. But those two concerns are outliers and not the general experience of the majority of players, and are not representative of how things are actually designed.

Originally posted by Blue Hasia: wow that is t5, not that large so must be full of harder dangers

I think the size is a bit deceptive due to the aerial shots. It's at least 2 floors and a roof- I'm betting probably a basement layer too; Plus the grounds themselves. Just looking at the front where there's a bus dwarfed by the entryway is a pretty good tell that it's a pretty large POI overall... Just perhaps not as large as something like dishong tower. Probably is more dense on the danger compared to that monster.

Definitely looks awesome though- I wanna make it into my base Thanks for... Read more

I hope that the phrase "hundreds of new and updated POIs" doesn't go unnoticed. There is a ton of new content in the game for A21. I know some people won't be satisfied if the new content isn't a new zombie, weapon, or vehicle but hundreds of new places to explore are great!

Originally posted by Holy Moly: yes i have crops on my roof

Their increase weight as they grow. So may have overcome the structural integrity.

Clay soil is melted in a forge to make a technically molten form aka 'Clay' which is used for forge recipes. Clay soil itself is used to craft and repair terrain blocks, and for some other recipes like mushroom seeds.