Khissi

Just discovered the Military Tablet... I am in awe. I cannot begin to understand all the nuance of your modding skill and the skill of other modders. I can only say, thank you with all my heart. I really do like the trader guards and I'm one of those who enjoys living with the trader. I usually take Laborer right away, and the first thing I do is begin their base upgrades. I never fight the Blood Moon horde at a trader base, though. I do, however, protect it from wandering hordes and screamer insanity. The guards are usually very good at their job as long as you clear their line of sight, though I've also seen some that just don't shoot at zombies, others that just disappear, and a few that glitch through the flooring, but, for the most part, they do their jobs very well which is saying quite a bit when you consider the coding that they must have. I augment them with turrets by the time I start getting crazy insane wandering hordes, but, before that, I don't have any issues. Everyone plays differently, though, so I can understand. I hope they will be protected in some fashion, if only to take them back to vanilla protections. Speaking of trader protections... Trader Caitlyn is extremely vulnerable, so much so that even doing a quick dash into and out of her base can bring death to everyone there. Does she still respawn if she's been killed? I believe I remember that she did in alpha 18, but I'm not sure if things have changed in a19. She just looks... different.

I'm playing DF-small1, as well, and have seen this happen. However, I discovered that, crouching through a 1 block hole in a wall will help you see what you couldn't see before, such as panels placed in the wall that do NOT appear wonky. So, there's a hole in the wall without the wavy cover that alerts you to the fact that there's a HOLE in the wall with your satchel in it. Annoying, but not insurmountable. So far, it's worked every time. Some of the POI creators for Compo Pack chose to make the wall perfect rather than giving a tell-tale to let you see there might be something hidden there.

I play with horde night turned off because I am in this mod for the story, the adventure and exploration and the fun, nasty deaths in the wasteland. I won't have time to enjoy those things if I have to be focused on horde, which, in this mod, is sometimes VERY overwhelming, ammo heavy, and deadly. My first few times playing Darkness Falls (other alphas), I did the hordes and it got to a point where I was just frustrated, not able to progress as I'd like in the adventure. In alpha 18, I tried doing the horde the first time I played. I made it to level 80 or so and got so annoyed after yet another insane horde that I just quit. Alpha 18 changed lots and lots of thing, and I really wanted to experience those changes through Khaine's filter. So, I tried it with the horde turned off, and what a difference it made! I didn't level as fast since I didn't have those massive hordes for XP every week, but I discovered so many cool things, had such great adventures, it didn't really matter! I took the time to enjoy the mod. This alpha has changed things even more, and I'm currently almost level 100, have died twice (even with no blood moon, I just suck sometimes) and it's a blast! Living with Rekt is the only annoying thing I've found so far, other than fields of snakes and spiders, but, I'm having so much fun, who cares!

If you've ever noticed what looks like an abandoned survivor's base with guard towers, a water tower, and small stores (it has a gun safe with land mines in one of the rooms) in vanilla 7 Days, that's what Caitlyn's base looks like. I've found 3 of them in DF-small 4, so can only imagine there would be more than one in other maps, as well. It's a pretty large base, so will show up well on your map. Hope you find it!