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I used to make hundreds when I could. Just so I'd have so many I could save one more inventory spot and feel ok not looting jars or murky water, since I'd also have more snow then I'd ever use, just sitting in a warm box. Basically, it was just do it once and be done with it for the rest of the playthrough.

Not sure why it is not a game toggle, since the option to get rid of crosshairs while aiming is in the XML file. If you don't have a problem with editing XML files, you can find the option in "Steam> steamapps> common> 7 Days To Die> Data> Config> Items". Make sure you make a back up file first, it's not my fault if you break your game. Once in the file, search for "crosshaironaim", and change the "true" to "false". I leave the one for the bow on, and turn the others off. Just my personal preference. After that you will want to go to "Steam> steamapps> common> 7 Days To Die> Data> Config> item_modifier", search for "crosshaironaim", and do the same thing. The item_modifier XML is where the laser sight and scopes are. If you don't change those as well, then you will have crosshairs again as soon as you attach one of the mods and aim. You'll have to redo the settings on updates. There is/was a way to not have to redo them, but it's been long enough that I've forgotten what it was. But it only takes a few minutes anyway.

Imagine if all you had to do to avoid the zombie virus was to wear a mask ...... yeah America would be screwed 😄 Not sure about other countries, I just know over here there was some .... resistance to wearing one. I wonder if the same people who had Covid parties would also have Zombie parties 🤔

Same here, I even googled it and couldn't find anything lol I think you are right with the actors need to be seen. It is the same reason so many shows that have fire fighters in them, have the fire fighters run into a burning building with no mask or helmet. Also I think lazy writing is often used to move the story along: "This house is haunted, dozens of people have died here" Actor: "Ima spend the night here." Normal Person: "I'm going home."

So I was thinking how long would I survive in a zombie apocalypse. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who thinks about this while playing 7 Days. I was thinking "Well I can be pretty handy, getting old cars to run again wouldn't be too difficult, I've worked on hundreds (forget it if they are computer controlled though lol). I'm a decent shot with a pistol and a good shot with a rifle. Hopefully the gun stores in my area haven't been looted yet. Silencers are simple to make (yeah, I know they don't work like Hollywood silencers). Bows ... well I'd have to train .... a lot lol. I've had survival training, I can make shelters, catch, skin, and cook food. I suppose the smell of cooking food would be a problem. In a zombie apocalypse were zombies can't chew through stone walls I suppose finding a good defensible place to make home wouldn't be too bad, provided I survived long enough. Then I remembered I snore .... loudly. Combine that with me being able to sleep through a bomb blast, I'd probably be eaten on my first night.

Is there a stand alone mod for this? I've only seen this in Undead Legacy. Looks like a cool mod, just a few too many changes for me 😁

Does KingGen still work? I ask because this map of New York City was made with KingGen and the world editor. I haven't tried the map, my PC does ok with vanilla large cities, I just don't think it'd do so well with a mega city. NYC Map: https://7daystodiemods.com/map-new-york-undead/

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Shouldn't be possible. I haven't seen it in the latest versions anyway. What is the level 5 item and are you running mods?

I let a bear into trader Jen's once. Still a pretty new character with a primitive bow, about a 100 arrows, a pretty bad ak47 (back when you could buy ak's on day 1) with about 40 7.62 rounds. I thought it would be funny to shoot the bear in the head with arrows from the safety of the trader's walls to try to kill it. Hit it once and it glitched through the walls into the compound. I just saw it disappear from sight and was confused. Turned around to leave the wall and it was running up the stairs at me 😁Thing must have chased me around for over 20 minutes before I killed it. Ended up with no 7.62 and most of my arrows gone (I think most of my shots missed, I was in a panic the whole time lol).

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I understand how SI works in 7 Days, but I can't recall a part name. I could have sworn that there was a diagonal (or arch) piece that helped with SI. In short I'm building a base, the walls are green and the ceiling to the first floor is mostly yellow with slight orange on the middle block. I thought that there was some sort of diagonal support piece that slightly extended the support from green walls to the ceiling or roof, but can't find it. I know the floor will be fine as is, it's just me being a little nit picky and trying to get the orange in the middle of the ceiling a bit less orange. To be honest, I play a lot of games and most have some form of base building in them, so I could easily be thinking of another game.

Sounds like you're just having unlucky RNG rolls. In some games I find them pretty quickly and end up with way more than I need, in others I can go in game weeks without seeing one. And this is with checking traders every 3 days and hitting up the POIs where they have a chance to show up.

I've never maxed out a character. I pick a play style for whatever character I create and just concentrate on skills that make sense for that character. That is kinda my way of roleplaying in the game. Like my M60 toting Heavy Armor character, he goes in loud, chopping through doors, walls, and whatever else gets in his way. Slaughtering zombies in a hail of gunfire, a steel club, and explosives (when I remember I have them). I maxed out agility for him as well, just for using a .44 magnum because I felt it fit the play style, but I'll never have him take a single point in From the Shadows or Parkour (even though I love that skill). When I feel like I've maxed everything that fits that play style I stop leveling up .. which usually means I start a new character always planning on going back to the previous one, but never doing so. I do break the rule form time to time if I'm struggling when it comes to finding some crafting stations or vehicles I want.

Silencers work on my sniper rifle anyway. I have a tower that is 20 blocks high, and on some nights will sit up there sniping zombies without them noticing. I wondered if the silencer or the distance away from the zombies was at play. So I took the silencer off and they immediately knew where I was and came running. Tried a few times with the same result. So while I agree that the pistol benefits the most, the silencer does seem to make the sound of the gunshot not travel as far.