MechanicalLens Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Disclaimer: Most of the credit to this design goes to madmole. So you're new to 7 Days to Die and you want to know how to fight off the first blood moon hordes. While there are many ways to go about this, one of the simplest and cheapest structures a new player could erect is the humble 9x9 tower. Take a chair and have a seat follower, I'll show you the tricks up my sleeve. You're going to want to start off by digging a 9x9x1 square pit into the ground with your shovel. It should look like this: https://imgur.com/oVTGIOQNow wipe the sweat off your brow and put away that spade. It's building time. Fill in the 9x9 hole with flagstone, and upgrade the two outer layers with cobblestone rocks to cobblestone. You'll see why in a minute. https://imgur.com/5MqZUiENext you're going to erect the two outside layers five blocks high to form the lower base of the tower. Be sure to place and upgrade the corner blocks to cobblestone first, for you won't be able to reach the innermost corner blocks once the walls are in place. https://imgur.com/2W4xAS7Nerdpole your way inside the base of your tower and choose one corner for your ladder system to go. Place wooden ladders and a hatch on top. On top of what, you might ask? Why, a ceiling of course! (Just be sure to leave a spot open in the ceiling for where the ladder shaft will go.) https://imgur.com/hnner70With the necessary blocks now in place, make your way up the ladder and emerge on to your new second floor. This is where you will make two layers of wood bars placed sideways going all the way around the tower, 5 blocks above the ground; making it two blocks across will lessen the chance of you falling. Add protrusions along the corners to stand on and allow you toss throwables down at the zombies below, like molotovs or pipe bombs. (Be sure you're using wood bars and not wood bars centered!) You can upgrade these to iron bars in the future when resources permit. https://imgur.com/hILSfGQNow it's time to get the third and final story started. Erect 5 block high walls around the edge of the second floor. These don't need to be double thick since the brunt of the zombies' attacks will come from ground level. Leave a spot open on one side to put in a door later on, and spaces for windows in the locations shown, mirrored across all four sides. https://imgur.com/HqMBvJHRun along the bars and place sideways-facing poles (not poles centered!) upwards of the window holes. Attach hatches to these poles so that they open upwards, as shown here. Replicate this on all four sides. You can upgrade the hatches later. https://imgur.com/LTujYcDHead back on inside and install a door and wooden bars placed furthest away from the player along each square window, as shown in the image. Now would be a good time to add the roof above, but again leave room for another ladder shaft. https://imgur.com/5AePYCKWhile you're at it, place a lip that circumferences the tower on the same elevation as the floor above. On the underside of this lip, place flagstone arch 2m all the way around as shown in the image. https://imgur.com/XplV7ftNext, raise a wall two blocks high around the very rim of the top of the tower, and place additional blocks to form a parapet with gaps, forming as the castle battlement. How could one not appreciate a medieval aesthetic touch? Prior to this, adding in second ladder system and a hatch would probably be a good idea! https://imgur.com/7gAnPLcYou remember the ladder shaft on the one side of the ground floor? Knock out the flagstone block placed at the bottom of the ladder shaft and dig a 1x1 pit down. I chose mine to be 9 blocks deep, with the back edge of stone knocked out and replaced with flagstone to support an extension of the ladder system above. You'll also have to knock out the bottom-most ladder on the ground floor to place in an additional hatch. This is going to serve as the entrance/exit of your tower base. https://imgur.com/KeLriYHClimb down to the bottom of the ladder and mine a straight tunnel three blocks high and as far as you care to go. I chose my tunnel to be 24 blocks in length. https://imgur.com/1I5tqTwOnce you've mined out a sizable tunnel, dig straight up and break in to the surface. Place another wall of blocks on the back side where you will attach a ladder shaft leading up to the surface. You'll want to make this entrance/escape hatch visible, so construct some sort of simple structure that easily stands out. https://imgur.com/YcobmYyNow it is time to place the defenses. At this point in the game (day 7-14), you should have a forge going and a fair bit of forged iron produced. Use a portion of this forged iron to craft iron spikes, and use them to surround the base of your tower. I made my single row of spikes two blocks in height, to prevent most zombies from jumping on top of them. If you don't have access to iron spikes, wood spikes and/or barbed wire fences will do for the first couple of hordes, but be sure to place a far greater quantity of them! https://imgur.com/mqGINXjThere's no point fighting the horde if you can't see the gun right in front of your face. Place some torches around the structure, inside and out, to give you the necessary light levels to face the horde comfortably. If you're concerned about screamers possibly showing up due to the torches, consider turning up your gamma instead, or simply remove some of the torches. https://imgur.com/pDb0uj3You're all done! The majority of this tower should be possible for you to construct for the day 7 horde, and as long as you continue to use it, be sure to make appropriate upgrades, such as upgrading the rest of the flagstone to cobblestone, and then the cobblestone to concrete and then reinforced concrete. This design is only intended to do well against the first few hordes on its own, but with the right additions and modifications, it could certainly take you into the late-game, assuming you haven't constructed a much more foreboding base elsewhere by then! https://imgur.com/avRWsp4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
II Blittz II Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Hi, MechanicalLens Awesome beginners base, I might have to built this and try it out for myself. I'm still fairly new to the game, but unfortunately I don't have a PC right now so I only have access to the Console version atm. With that being said, will this base be possible to build on Console or does your base include some new items and material that aren't available in the Console version? Anyway great job on the base, I really like the simple design and layout of it, thanks for sharing...cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechanicalLens Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Hi, MechanicalLens Awesome beginners base, I might have to built this and try it out for myself. I'm still fairly new to the game, but unfortunately I don't have a PC right now so I only have access to the Console version atm. With that being said, will this base be possible to build on Console or does your base include some new items and material that aren't available in the Console version? Anyway great job on the base, I really like the simple design and layout of it, thanks for sharing...cheers! Hey Blittz, I haven't played A15 in some time but I can confidently say that, yes, this base should work for earlier versions of the game and all the blocks used (wood bars and different spikes aside) can also be found in A15. Nonetheless, pole walls - horizontally placed regular poles forming a defensive wall - were much more effective back in those days (and thus on console). And as always, happy to help. (: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
II Blittz II Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Awesome!!! This makes me happy to hear, I'll let you know how everything goes after I build it. I don't know when I'll get to it, but when I do I'll make sure to keep you posted. Thanks again mate, cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechanicalLens Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Awesome!!! This makes me happy to hear, I'll let you know how everything goes after I build it. I don't know when I'll get to it, but when I do I'll make sure to keep you posted. Thanks again mate, cheers! Hey, I'm just here to help. (: Best of luck to you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FileMachete Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Kind of you to make this tut for folks, and it's well done too! :) On the Wood Bars though, weren't they later than 15 or even 16? I recall forging Iron Bars in at least 15... I think? & I've never played the console, so no idea if there :) Not really important but just in case wood bars aren't available, you might be able to substitute Ladders in their place; assuming those are upgradable in console...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
II Blittz II Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I ended up using wood railing for the balcony part that goes all around the base as a catwalk. I also updgraded them to iron rails shortly afterwards, which has worked flawlessly since I'm able to shoot between them. And ever since I added concrete walls with iron bars around the entire base, they barely make it to the center base any more lol! With that being said, I also placed iron spiked logs on the lower part of the wall facing out towards their legs, most of the time it chops their legs off and they crawl with thier heads sticking through the iron bars and I take em out that way lol! Although I do plan on adding some upgrades to the wall in the near future, I have a feeling that the hordes are going to start getting much stronger down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FileMachete Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Nice job @II Blittz II 😀 Railings hadn't occurred to me; can't recall exactly but used to be that you couldn't shoot thru them, or maybe you could the wood & not the iron ones...? something like that where it didn't make sense.. Not sure how Hay Bales work in console but on PC they used to prevent leg sprains/breaks, so were handy for bailing out off the top of your base, if needed. So for earlier bases sorta like this one I'd usually have a 2x2 hay bale area to jump out onto if I needed to gtfo, which was always hectic and fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
II Blittz II Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 3 hours ago, FileMachete said: Nice job @II Blittz II 😀 Railings hadn't occurred to me; can't recall exactly but used to be that you couldn't shoot thru them, or maybe you could the wood & not the iron ones...? something like that where it didn't make sense.. Not sure how Hay Bales work in console but on PC they used to prevent leg sprains/breaks, so were handy for bailing out off the top of your base, if needed. So for earlier bases sorta like this one I'd usually have a 2x2 hay bale area to jump out onto if I needed to gtfo, which was always hectic and fun Thanks! And by the way, that's pretty awesome about the Hay Bales you were talking about. I'm not entirely sure if it'll work on console, but I'll definitely have to try it out since there's a barn literally right up the road from where my base is located. But yeah, this is why I genuinely love 7 Days To Die, games like this can go as far as you have an imagination which is why I'm so fond of this type of genre. Also about me using wood railings, I just rotated them to where I could walk on them, they've work really good so far as well and haven't had any issues whatsoever. However there's this YouTuber that goes by the name "Max Fox Gaming" the credit goes to him and where I learned about using wood railings as a platform to walk on, he has some really solid tutorial videos as well. Anyway thanks for responding back, hope you and your family are doing good, stay safe....cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FileMachete Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 11 hours ago, II Blittz II said: Anyway thanks for responding back, hope you and your family are doing good, stay safe....cheers! Certainly! and thanks; all ok so far (fingers crossed) same to you & yours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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