7 Days To Die Dev Tracker

Originally posted by llldiver: i just started a new game and first building i see when i spawned in was a trailer , first zombie i met was a dog , it was like 5mins in and nearly died

That is a POI specific spawn. Just like the junkyard has several dogs.

A roaming dog horde the day before bloodmoon is pretty normal. They are also extremely easy to avoid as they follow the same mechanics of a wandering horde.

Originally posted by Tunguska:

Originally posted by Shurenai: Well...Here You are cracking your way into a hardened military chest, Or into a steel gun safe; Do you really think no other survivor before you ever had that thought themselves? "I bet there's something good in there, I should break into it." . . . If you can think of it, Someone else is liable to have thought of it too. :)

So why can't someone else have beat you to it, Found awesome loot and ditched their crappy stone ...

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Originally posted by Tunguska: Well in this perspective it makes sense to find stone tools into small houses and camps that were probably a base for some unlucky survivors before they turned into the sleepers in that house but it only make sense to find these primitive items in simple storage boxes and containers, not in a hardened military chest or a steel gun safe :D

Well...Here You are cracking your way into a hardened military chest, Or into a steel gun safe; Do you really think no other survivor before you ever had that thought themselves? "I bet there's something good in there, I should break into it." . . . If you can think of it, Someone else is liable to have thought of it too. :)

So why can't some... Read more

Infection may well be a death sentence in the early stages.......So why are you putting yourself in situations where you're at risk of infection that early?

Before you get some kind of antibiotic (Honey, Herbal antibiotics, or antibiotics), Do not engage in melee combat with zombies. If you must engage, Only take swings you know for certain you'll hit and that won't put you at risk.

Also get armor ASAP- Padded armor at the very least, it's crafted with cloth and duct tape.


Traders always selling antibiotics is a cop out. It's too easy to get dukes, Either it's then expensive enough that you can't just easily buy it in which case having the trader sell it doesn't help the early game, Or it completely trivializes ever getting infected since you have a guaranteed source of antibiotics.


It's a survival game....Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, The cards just aren't in your favor, And you will die..And that's okay.

Originally posted by Hawthorn: .. I assume I can play single player now? I remember before I bought a server on gplay or some such in order the play with my wife and her sister.

You can play single player. That's always been an option.

Originally posted by Crater Creator: In the past there have actually been technical limitations on how much of the map can be revealed. There were versions where you would run out of space for revealed parts of the map, and the oldest parts you'd revealed went back to the 'fog of war' state. Hopefully that's fixed now, but if not, it probably explains why they're stingy about how much is revealed.

This still happens. On the server-side it's adjustable to an extent, but if the map file size for the player map gets too large, it will cause sync issues.
The default is 131072 chunks. I have tested doubling this up to 262144, and have not had any issues, but much larger and the client will begin to de-sync from the server when i... Read more

Yep. Now the physical size of the container better reflects how much storage space it has. And there's a progression to better containers as dr.toast said, instead of having the best container from day 1. Of course, even with the storage chests, you can just make more than one of them. I find that's a good idea anyway, to better sort things.

In the past there have actually been technical limitations on how much of the map can be revealed. There were versions where you would run out of space for revealed parts of the map, and the oldest parts you'd revealed went back to the 'fog of war' state. Hopefully that's fixed now, but if not, it probably explains why they're stingy about how much is revealed.

Originally posted by Tunguska:

Originally posted by Shurenai: To add to this, Tool and weapon choice matter now. Booking it to iron tools is not 100% the best way to play, now. It's worth running around with stone tools for a bit till you find some tool mods and get some skill points to reduce stamina costs. You can more or less swing a stone axe all day at first; But swinging an iron axe takes way more stamina. Once you get some stamina skills you can swing an iron axe for a long time, but steel will st...

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I personally look at it from the perspective of 'You are FAR from the first person to have come this way'.

By which I mean, 7DTD takes place YEARS after the zom-pocalypse. Store shelves are looted, Gun factories have been stripped top to bottom. It's rare to find anything of use anywhere. Many people had to make do with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tools in lieu of not being able to find something good; And when they found something good, do you think they kept those ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tools? No. They tossed it, Just like you do when you find something good. You either throw out or scrap your stone tools the moment you find something iron.

So, to me at least, It's not that immersion breaking to find stone tools in places i would expect to find iron ones- Hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of people before me have stripped the countryside.


Then later, once your gamestage improves (Which is somewhat arbitrary), you stop finding places that people left their crappy stuff, a... Read more

Originally posted by SylenThunder: If you're level 1, sure. Once you put a single point into t-rex it's no longer much of an issue.

You also manage stamina boosts with the food you eat.

A lot of work went into balancing it through the early development in a19. Once you figure out the mechanics, you hardly run out of stamina ever.

To add to this, Tool and weapon choice matter now. Booking it to iron tools is not 100% the best way to play, now. It's worth running around with stone tools for a bit till you find some tool mods and get some skill points to reduce stamina costs. You can more or less swing a stone axe all day at first; But swinging an iron axe takes way more stamina. Once you get some stamina skills yo... Read more

If you're level 1, sure. Once you put a single point into t-rex it's no longer much of an issue.

You also manage stamina boosts with the food you eat.

A lot of work went into balancing it through the early development in a19. Once you figure out the mechanics, you hardly run out of stamina ever.