7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Grimreepr: Zombies cannot spawn on a player placed block. ...

This has not been true since like Alpha 7.

Before Alpha 17 you could just fill the void with frames and then pick it up to kill the sleeper blocks, but that went away with the new volumes.

Originally posted by Lesh-9:

Originally posted by Geck0: Doesn't the LCB stop zombies from spawning in it's radius?

Yea, but the blood moon horde is immune to its effects. I think screamer spawns might be too.

Correct. The LCB and Bedroll have only ever stopped POI spawns. Biome, screamer, and bloodmoon spawns are not affected by them.

Originally posted by Spirit Wolf: So, if you are in a deep cave base. Will the blood moon horde spawn in the ground 50 blocks from ya or just spawn above trying to dig to you?

Above, and they will absolutely dig down to you. Even if you make a big hollow room, i dont think they can spawn underground (Never really tested though.)

How big of a base do you have..?

In any case, The zombies currently spawn around 50~ blocks out from your location, ish. Given the default zombie spawn total of 8, if they spawned much further than that, you'd basically only ever have one or two zombies active at your door, and the other 6-7 way out away from your base on their way back from respawning, just taking up pathing space for no real reason. Spawning them such a distance away too would require more active loading of those regions rather than just having it prepped and ready for you to travel into them; And also would require increasing the size of the AI's pathing grid to compensate (since blood moon hordes always know where you are; their pathing area must be large enough to contain the player from the range at which they spawn.), which would increase performance costs of the AI.

It's just.. Not really a good deal to make them spawn further away, in any aspect.

I'll have to give this a try. :O Even just a small increase'd make me happy.

Actually, a20 is planned to be the first stage of Beta, and is expected to arrive near the end of this year. The is along the plan of a19 releasing within the next few months.
And if all goes well, Gold is expected by next summer.

Originally posted by Dark Fox:

Originally posted by Crater Creator: For some people, spreadsheets and optimizing are fun.

Anyway, this is good, and what would be even better is updating the wiki with your findings.

I might do that, though I'm worried they'd just delete it, though the wiki itself is practically dead.

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For some people, spreadsheets and optimizing are fun.

Anyway, this is good, and what would be even better is updating the wiki with your findings.

Originally posted by Henry: I guess this depends on playstyle. I play sneaky crossbow archer and went very carefull in that room the first time. I noticed the ground is breaking and moved (in slight panic) towards the stair as I thought it cannot break. This was true. So I sat up there, sleepers still sleeping and could easily snipe them one after the other.
Also there is big red warning light above the door you enter that room. That SHOULD give a hint.
My point is. It is possible to survive that even without knowing what awaits you. Just by entering a room slowly, watching, listening. This does NOT mean I havent been cought by such traps in other buildings. But those are not that severe.
So if you move carefully in rooms you don'...

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Originally posted by The Civillian: Just been playing a game with my friend, raided a shamway factory, got near the top, followed the lights as your supposed to.

Went through a door near the top and got dropped into a room FILLED with zombies (Ferals and radiated, about 12 I'd guess), she got eaten within seconds,

No warning, no way out, it was litterally a 'you die here' room, regaurdless of what you have and or do.

I thought things like that were getting removed as they were seen as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ttery.

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If it's the room I think it is, There is a way out. It's just not immediately apparent; So it's quite easy to miss while you're panicking about all of the zombies coming for your tasty flesh.

There is a way out of just about every trap you can fall into in the game; The only exception that comes to mind is a three story drop that tends to be a one way trip to spla... Read more

Originally posted by Waaaghboss Smashface: Okay good to know this is an option. Thank you!

Since I was still able to survive the onslaught on Bloodmoon I'm fine and will try to just gather that Iron again.

Is there any way Forges share materials from a pool? (might be off topic, sry)

No. Each forge only uses its own, self-contained material. You can, of course, have a cluster of forges and keep the raw materials to eventually be smelted in one crate, however.

Originally posted by Trooper Bri: The reason for resetting a POI for a challenge is to insure that it is in fact a challenge.
Just say no.

And to make sure theres loot there for you to get; And to make sure there are zombies inside for you to kill for the quest; And to make sure the placement of the quest bag is there if applicable; And to make sure the player hasn't turned the quest house into a killing floor for the zombies that spawn..etc, etc, etc. Lotsa reasons for why.

Originally posted by Ragequit Inc.: It is as intended, essentially. Activating a quest resets the whole POI.

(I always put my loot chests in the middle of the road)

This. short version is it's intended and there are reasons for it. Just plop your chests out on the road; Or don't do quests in POI's you know you have storage chests and stuff in. (You can always abandon quests instead of doing them.)

The area is only reset upon interacting with the floating '!' marker at the quest location; So you have plenty of time to cross reference your map or memory, or even just check inside real quick if it's a place you're using for storage.

When you chop down trees in the burnt forest you get both wood and coal as harvest material so I'm pretty sure that "coal" is a broad abstraction that includes charcoal. If your idea is to generate another source for coal in addition to mining it or chopping burning piles or trees in the burnt forest biome then I think it is a good idea and could be a campfire or forge recipe to convert wood into coal. But I doubt the developers will want to introduce a new item that is just a weaker version of already existing coal.

Can't have multiple output items from a recipe, so no. Also making it similar to coal would just be duplicating for the sake of duplication. There really isn't a need to make a second source for charcoal.

Originally posted by Nimbull: I wouldn't say nothing myself. I've kept myself occupied pretty nicely with the game. That said, Alpha 18 has been the least played version for me because the terrain seem locked to a specific pattern and I can't get it as random as I used to like in Alpha 16 and such. Gets kind of old playing in remakes of the pre-fab map that's slightly random but not completely.

Have you tried Nitrogen to generate maps instead? A lot of users swear by it.

People have been bringing up "too long in Alpha" ever since 2015 when it hit its 2-year anniversary in Early Access. All the accusations of "dishonest devs" "lazy devs" "incompetent devs" "uncaring devs" "disorganized devs" etc etc etc were all made way back then and it turns out we were barely into it. Here we are now an additional five years beyond that time and the same exact pointless dialogues are happening.

Obviously, all of this talk about nothing has zero effect on how quickly or slowly the game is developed. "It's done when it's done!" is the only answer TFP has for those who wonder when it will be over. The journey is a ride that you either enjoy or don't. If the destination is all you care about then wait for it.

Originally posted by Schamoo:

Originally posted by Shurenai: Timed charges are specifically intended for breaching doors and safes- It has basically no effect on any other block. I believe this is mentioned somewhere in the item description or perhaps elsewhere in the game.. Been a bit since I saw the description in question.

A wooden door?

There are iron doors, and steel vault doors in the game too- Both player made (pvp) and in PVE in several POIs, usually the higher end... Read more