The Tower of Death, Horde Defense Base | 7 Days to Die | Alpha 20

Tip - you need to add better lighting for your vids. It was very difficult to see what was happening in a dark tunnel at night. Some lights in the tunnel and a headlamp would have gone a long way. Nice design though.

sick

i wonder what would happen if you made a 1 square wide tunnel and just put a ladder on each of the 4 walls, would it bug them out?

What are the approximate dimensions of this base? Also, what game settings are you running here?

Nice build

<-Brawler, strictly. Jump in that hole and rain powerful fists of pain down on those zombie skuds. If you're not punching in fights then you're not doing it rights.

Seems a pretty solid design, although I would think it would not need to be quite as tall, the zombies come in waves and being taller just means you have to wait longer for them to climb to get to a point where you can accurately headshot them rather than spam shoot.

do the dogs just gnaw away at the tower base?

hey check out my lighthouse base video... looks kinda similar to your tower... although i put motion sensors & dart traps all the way up.. problem is i dont get why, but the zombies sometimes go up the stairs on the inside and sometimes they just stop at the bottom & do nothing... they seem to get confused and just stand there not even attacking.. so i couldnt even test out my dart traps.. i put 20 dart traps...never got to try it out on horde night cos as i said some weirdness keeps happening and i dont know why

Can’t see anything inside your tower … completely dark

I use a similar tower, but I added a sledge turret at the top instead of a fence. Right beside the ladder, knocks them right off.

I was told only so many loot bags spawn. If you have too many out, each time a new one spawns, an old one goes away.

Idea for improvement: I watched a zombie jump off a ladder over a railing repeatedly until it died to fall damage. the block was a diagonal catwalk (it was vaguely triangle shaped when looked at from above) using this base and those blocks at the top you could make an AFK horde base. It would definitely take some experimenting.

Man this makes me think if you built another tower with a an upper and lower bridge connecting them towards the top you could just slap some sledges down to punt them off of the closer to the other side to cycle through them without having to worry about them attacking the tower you're on

Loved it. Just add some torches or some lighting somewhere. Great build. Great video. Subbed, Bell, all that shiiiit.

possibly add some torches going up the tunnel to add light so you can see them better. otherwise awesome!

does bubbles play 7d2d too?

Nice base! I been trying just about everything lol going to try this next for sure

Gonna give this a try
Looks great btw

could you make a tutorial and a step by step on how you built it, I would like to copy urs :D

Maybe put something in the hole to slow them down.
Impact damage doesn't take as much health as it used to.
They can fall from orbit and walk away with half health.
Maybe some spikes or some water.

How tall is this base because this is a great design

That seemed unrealistic. Both from my own plays and watching a bunch of streamers play 7D2D the horde in your video is the smallest I've ever seen. Do you have the hordes turned down in the config or what? Normally those ladders would be filled with zombies climbing them and not just a couple at a time.

you just like me always prepare back up plan xD I live there too my crafting and storage both on top of the bridge so I can have access to water easily

pretty low zombie count it looks like

hmmmm wondering about incorporating a blade trap into that basic design so I can just stand there and repair, going to try it in my test world lol Love your designs, ty for sharing them :D

I thought loot bags despawn if they are a certain distance away from where you are standing. A shorter tower would fix that problem. My base uses the ladder funnel design but it's just up to the roof of the Wild Country POI (I also have a vault door for them to bang on at the top of the ladder inside the kill room, with me shooting down on them through iron bars and dart traps at head level). After horde night I have a giant pile of loot bags waiting for me at the bottom of the ladder.

I didn't like the fact that the tunnel was so dark, could barely see anything until it got lit up with electric fences or spitter spit.🧐 Good vid, just subbed. 😊👍🏾

RICKY

This is a very dynamic base that could easily be added within another person's base and does not take up much room. I think if you like to build aesthetic bases but it kinda wont work in actual combat then just use this or build something like this if your base is crumbling. Definitely love the idea and gonna sub

ANYONE els agree ? I think its a really cool thing that people who make YT videos respond to the ideas and comments in chat and i wish that more popular people out there took the time to read what there fans and viewers are saying to!

Was excited for a plain simple horde design but unfortunately this base does not work for me. The zombies attack the outside bottom corners and if any manage to get up the steps the y just go 1 block in and turn back out or beat the side of the door way. Watched the video over and over its built just as he shows it to.

I like this. I figured out the killing hallway method pretty early on. And honestly its kind of boring. Looking for inspiration for a cooler horde base that is more fun, but also effective at keeping me from getting ate. I think I might try this, the block stopping you from going in is genius. And the hay bale escape route is good too. But I might go full plan Z if mine goes awry. Probably put my gyrocopter ontop, loaded with fuel, in case the shit goes down. Then I can just fly away

Nice design, wanting to test it on single player, How high is the tower by the way.