7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

Originally posted by JimmyIowa: If you want an actual challenge you want a small fast enemy that attacks in swarms. A lumbering low-agility enemy that gets stuck on terrain and you just empty a M60 drum mag into is super easy and boring.

Here's an idea - infected rats. Smaller than the rabbit, and faster. Low health individually, but attacks in swarms of 50 or more. Has a leap attack within 3m or so. Bite does low damage but can cause fast super-infection.

Can climb most vertical surfaces, move through imperfections in homemade doors, and chew through wood. Totally unaffected by most traps, such as spikes or barbed wire, electric fences, or blade traps. Sleep tight, kids.

And I feel a mod coming on once the ...

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The biggest obstacle to having a physically large enemy was how to get it to navigate the world, e.g. fitting through doorways and whatnot and looking good while doing so. We did get Grace as a boss enemy, but she’s limited to a POI where the devs can control the environment. In other words, she gets her own boss arena.

Player bases can take any shape, since it’s a sandbox. So we got the Demolisher instead: a zombie with amped up block damage yet with human-sized proportions. The way I think of it these days, the Demolisher IS the Behemoth. If your base can shrug off Demolishers, chances are it could already withstand whatever a proposed Behemoth could dish out.

The one thing that may still change the game where enemies are concerned is bandits. They intend to add a story along with bandits, so I have to imagine we’ll see some sort of climactic showdown against a big bad bandit king or similar enemy.

Originally posted by xXMagnusXx: ...this was at 4am, when the sun is up but the traders are closed...

Aha. That sheds some light on the circumstances.

So the intention, as I understand it, isn’t to just randomly screw over the player. The intention is that the nights are particularly dangerous and scary, at least in the early game, and laying low at night makes a real difference. Hence there are dire wolves spawning at night among other things, even in the relatively safe forest.

I suspect your dire wolf was technically part of a nighttime wandering horde, which is supposed to just pass through if it’s never disturbed. Yours happened to show up right at dawn, and they don’t disappear with the sunrise. ... Read more

There are TWO active threads with questions, answers, tips and information. One is still on the first page even.

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Originally posted by Tin:

Originally posted by Shane: okay so it does a job in a simple fashion... but OCD is off the charts !!

I use to have a nice, neat and tidy house/base until i decided to put a light bulb in every room and now it looks less than appealing. I would really like to hear that this part of the game is going to get some TLC from the developers.

how on earth using a prefab house as a base do you hide the wires and relays ?

Apologies for my english.

Wait a minute. I don't care about wiring anymore for aesthetics. But in previous alpha´s i remember that there was a kind of fuse box that hides any cables.

Did they take o...

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Kindof as Seftak said. When you're just casting tiny ingots in your backyard for shiggles, then sure, a pair of tongs you picked up somewhere or made yourself'll be just fine for picking up your 5lb crucible and it's 1lb of molten metal.. But when it comes to long term survival, minimizing injury and streamlining the process are big pluses when moving around 200+ lbs of superheated molten metal.

And at the end of the day, whether you view it as doing it with tongs or not, it's an end game recipe that unlocks a huge amount of end game top tier items for use- It's recipe using rarer materials like oil and mechanical parts is, if nothing else, normal gamification.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/f0/49/14f0492e723d8d3078ab63be04e2f42b.jpg Take this as an example. The crucible is seated a a considerable distance from the moving parts; the radiant heat of the crucible isn't enough to burn the oil, though; only direct contact would.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b9/91/c0/b991c0a554de628cc4b3d610e3bc50e7.jpg this one is similar.

Depends entirely on the oil used, and the location of that oil in the aparatus being used.A swinging arm that you hang the crucible in for example has the crucible on the end of the arm, but the moving parts containing oil far away from the heat.

I suppose you think you're just reaching your hand into the flames and picking up a searing hot 3500+F steel crucible? No, You created a mechanism to input and withdraw the crucible without getting your tender fleshy bits anywhere near that thing, and also to pour it into ingot casts/molds.

Moving parts = mechanical parts. Smooth movement that doesnt lead to sloshing molten steel = oil.

Originally posted by Mostly Nice: So my take away from this was always build new. Dont try to convert existing structures

One thing to note is that in some cases the devs either purposefully or unintentionally built past the SI limit in order to make things look good. And so in order to prevent these structures from just collapsing instantly upon game start, the game actually intentionally avoids checking the SI of POI structures added during map generation until the player themselves causes the SI function to be called upon the structure; At which point it will calculate the SI of the affected block and any blocks relevant to that specific blocks location.

So yeah, Until you know -exactly- what you're doing with the str... Read more

For starters, it's not stealth. It's sneaking. "Stealth" is a misnomer and should be removed from all games where it's not actually stealth. This being one of them. You can't be completely invisible.

Also note that some sleeper volumes have a trigger to wake them, so it really doesn't matter how sneaky you are.

Originally posted by Shane: how on earth using a prefab house as a base do you hide the wires and relays ?

Very carefully.

Honestly, Spend some extra time with your relay and light placements, You can make it look clean enough if you care to. It's definitely a bit trickier in a prefab house though, as with a custom built house you can purposefully build in maintenence halls and ways to hide your wiring.

Originally posted by vgifford:

Originally posted by Shurenai: Cheat mode itself does nothing directly that could cause what you're experiencing. It essentially just pre-enables creative mode so you don't have to.

However, the things you can do WITH creative mode, such as creating a thousand running forges, or placing a thousand torches, or spawning a gun and shooting off rounds like rambo at anything and everything not limited to but including the very zombies you're calling endless, could very ...

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Cheat mode itself does nothing directly that could cause what you're experiencing. It essentially just pre-enables creative mode so you don't have to.

However, the things you can do WITH creative mode, such as creating a thousand running forges, or placing a thousand torches, or spawning a gun and shooting off rounds like rambo at anything and everything not limited to but including the very zombies you're calling endless, could very easily cause seemingly endless waves of zombies.

Also, building in or to near to the wasteland can cause a similar effect, as in the wasteland at night zombies respawn instantly; so if you engage a zombie with a loud weapon like a gun, then you alert every zombie around you, and the first one you killed will respawn immediately- so you have an endless chain of zombies all night long that is further reinforced by screamers attracted by all the gunfire.