r/7daystodie

This is my first one I’ve built for hoard night. I’ve always just powered through on a roof of a house but I wanted to try sum different and ik I gotta have a good one for later game.

Brings me to what’s wrong, they all just went for the supports on the bottom which ig is the easiest path. I have two cobble bars blocking the cat walk as seen in pic and a solid path way for them. I’m just confused why they just went for the supports.

Tried smashing blocks around the point and nothing. Couldnt find anything to activate either and ran around like a lunatic 15 times over

So, my base is The Mausoleum. It comes with a lovely set of built in walls, which over time, I've upgrade to concrete for the bottom 2 blocks where they Zeds can reach, so each block is 5,000 health.

I have 1 land claim block that I have checked more than once covers the entire base, at the very least, 1 block to the outside of the walls, so it has full coverage.

I also have a bed - I built a second floor within the church and have my living quarters up there.

My problem:

I'm getting spawns happening within the base. It doesn't happen often, but today, it was the worst ever.

A couple of times, it's just been a single Zed, but it was early on when I first moved in. Could have been leftovers, no idea, no biggie and I dismissed it.

So today, I came back to the mess in the photo: It was a screamer (actually, 2 I think) came running at me the second I got home. I'd been gone awhile - two in-game days, so I figure that they must have spawned when I took off to head to the desert, as I got out of range they broke in, and then kinda held in place until I got back.

That's a lot of damage though, and they dug 2 or 3 dirt squares in front of where they broke the concrete, which is weird (to me - I've not been playing super long). Regardless, I got home, got screeched at, and I realised the Zeds were inside the base.

Ok. Hole. Fixed, repaired, all good.

Less than 10 minutes after that, I got 3 screechers again - the real ones, I'm assuming, not the leftover ones from 2 days ago.

Fine, no biggie. But the horde the spawned from the screech spawned INSIDE. Again.

So, not sure if I have a problem or not. Would dropping a second land claim block change anything? I mean, this isn't the first time I've taken over a POI, just not sure what the heck is going on.

The first few instances I can explain, more or less (kinda sorta) but that last one with the spawns inside, absolutely not.

Our base wasn't ready for the next horde night, so we took the gyrocopter to the nearest skyscraper.

Loosely based off NEST from re2 remake and isn't fully complete yet as I'm doing this solo and getting duct tape for dynamite is annoying and I'm having issues with electricity so thats why the torches are everywhere in some spots

Its also not fully furnished as getting chairs is annoying and I've been working on the tunnel of despair (see picture 9) thats connected to my horde base

Anyway I figured I'd show y'all what I've been working on for the past few days

Horde night zombies keep doing substantial damage to the base of my tower and I can't figure out why. Are they seeing that as the weakest way to get to me? Like if I add a bunch of steel plating around the base, will that stop them from preferring to destroy it? I have two row of steel blocks in front of my fighting position so I thought maybe that was making it too strong or something.. or maybe my tower isn't tall enough? Do I need to dig a pit for them to land in? Fuck I don't know. Can anyone help me out here?

Full version - https://youtu.be/RZLbTozXbkI

As you can see I got my ass kicked on day 91 (solo and I have my hordes set to every 10 days)

My base has 10 spinning blades around the front that I got from a supply drop and some electric fence posts up front, not all the way around due to power issues using my time on a underground bunker (stay tuned for that showcase) , also I have double thick concrete walls and the front is mostly steel with the second layer being concrete but zombies always funnel to the front door and almost got through with only 3k health remaining, what pointers can I get to improve it?