Why does everyone keep destroying their stairs, when you can just destroy the floor around the top; you can repair the floor easier than the stairs if you ever get stuck on the bottom.
I don’t really like to do that one as it just feels a lot more cheesy than sledgehammer where it’s a lot harder to find one of those than a hammer or crowbar
Pro-Tip: You can pick up and move Trash Dumpsters and place them outside in front of windows on the first floor. Depending on settings, they may or may not be destructible. I seem to remember them having the highest durability of furniture used as defense, and they double as storage/compost/trash-removal as you can put things (Zombie bodies, rotten food) in them.
Huge waste of wood tbh, i would recommend forgetting about the first floor entirely or just securing the garage as the insane forests youll need to cut down for the full build is ludicrous, most of that space will be unused anyways, might aswel make sheet ropes in garage and some windows around 2nd floor and save yourself the lumberjack 9000 task :)
Yeah completely understand, In the video I did state that the outer perimeter wall was excessive. The amount of wood that would be needed to complete that wall would be a literal forest like you said. You have made some good points thought obviously and yeah I would do that right at the start but personally I do like rather big bases but that's just me. Also depends on the patience and time you have too :)
I prefer to build/fortify a rather small base-house. I dont need much space: a fridge, an oven and 1-2 ICE freezers, a single bed and some storage crates. If i make a small perimeter wall, i make sure the doors are in an earshot. That way i can hear them bashing the door. I prefer patrolling my safe bubble and kill the zombies i find instead of turtling, except at night while sleeping. Once cleared, an area it takes time to get re-populated with zombies. Usually x% of the initial number every y days passed, plus roamers. 205 days in and doing ok so far. Scenic groove trailer park-> riverside -> west point, slowly making my way toward LuisVille.
Well put, that said if you really want that place secure with nearly no wood expendature, do as in video- sledge stairs, put sheet rope in place of the pole and then below in garage put a line of "wood fence-wood crate-wood fence" combo in a row so your sheet rope is blocked off from zombies and due to their pathing they wont get over it or break it, unless a random crawler decides to somehow not just spawn there but target that specific structure. Tho that is bit cheese, but then you need only 1 rope and wolla entire 2nd floor is clear and so is your way onto/off of it with barely any wood used :) You yourself can get over the barricade by run vaulting it, tho be carefull if obiese or heavy load can lead to injuries.
Yeah I think bases depend on the player, some like very small cozy compact bases whereas other like big mega malls as their base! :) Good luck with Louisville survivor :)
Yeah that would work too however for me breaking the zombies path finding through little bugs/glitches/exploits ruin the game a little bit for me but each to their own and it is sandbox game and everyone can play how they like!
@noughtical barricades on the exterior actually attract zeds. Best to only barricade from the inside. Besides, if 4 planks arent keeping them out, 8 aren't going to either.
Yeah that is true however you could say that perhaps when you are wanting to make a base like this you have an exterior wall like in said video which will keep out a lot of the zeds. However yeah completely understand your point of it attracting zeds, personal choice I like to so that’s why I included it :)
I see this myth every now and then, if it simply was true, then all those "survivor" houses (randomly generated you know) would be always ravaged by zombies.
you can also just wall off the garage part of the fire station around where the stairs are and use half of it as a base, you don't need the whole thing after all.
Not very good . To do that walk you need houndred of Woods to chop and transport . That make no sence for begginers it will be do hard to make for someone and boring. To do this you need vehicle to transport the wood you need a carpentry you need lots of zombie to kill them.for clothes and thatbis ridicolus base for new player
This is a funny trick, craft a composter around the perimeter of your base and you'll never have to worry about them anymore. Just create a pathway from your second floor extending pass the perimeter tile with a rope.
This is great. I just started playing and figured the fire station would make a perfect first base, and the first video I find searching for "zombie proof base" is using it as the example lol The second floor is a nice living quarters, so knowing I can keep zombies from getting up entirely is perfect. I've been using the building for a few days, but about a week later there started being a lot more zombies around and while I was able to keep them out, they slowly overwhelmed and got into the garage... then the main hallways... then the second floor... 😭 mind you I didn't have much boarded up yet. My thought was "well I'll just lure/fight them outside or on the first floor and carry the bodies outside". Worked for a while but now the entire station looks like a slaughter house save the kitchen area, and their numbers grow outside each day lol.. So, my new goal is to slowly take it back (somehow), board it up working my way outwards and clean up the place. I just hope there is enough bleach in Rosewood though haha. This is going o be a challenge since all my tools and materials are inside except for planks, so not sure how I'm going to rebuild and fight tons of zombies simultaneously.. Either way, let's see if I can do this. 🤞
@@Noughtical I'm sure you've experienced something similar and I wish my reply was something short like "Good, I have a couple layers of walls up, feel pretty safe now and I'm ready to go scavenge the main boulevard a bit more now". Nope lol. I ended up with 5 rope systems in different rooms, but the completion timing on that was kind of nuts. A helicopter had been flying around to the south for several minutes while I was finishing up the last two ropes. It was the first time a heli was around for more than like 10-20 seconds as well. It was just there somewhere south and finally flew over the station. So I walk out to check on it and hundreds of zombies are swarming in from the fields to the south and pouring over the fence. I'm not sure if that was a vanilla event or the expanded heli mod, but either way I had no idea there could be that many zombies in a single horde lmao. They saw me (as I stood there in awe for a few moments like an idiot) then I rushed back into the station. Barely managed to get some stuff up there and destroy the stairs as they started filling the hallways. Let's just say I was very happy to learn you can climb up ropes with no stamina left haha. In the end, I was stuck up there for a couple weeks until things finally got quiet. All fortifications apart from 2-3 surviving log walls outside were completely obliterated. Since then I've actually just left the entire downstairs open afraid it will just happen again lol. I have ton of rope on the second floor, and I put the tools and materials needed to build a couple set of stairs in the garage if I'm gone for an extended period of time and the ropes have been torn down. It's been a few weeks since then going into winter now, as it snowed for the first time, I'm running out of food now and that massive horde has taken over the entire neighbourhood to the north, dozens at every single intersection💀
Yeah that’s always the way to go, just always gotta remember to get multiple sheet ropes otherwise you get stuck without a way to get up unless you can build starts (defiantly not speaking by from experience!!)
@@Noughtical I try to be prepared for that too, I’m trying to grind carpentry and I have ropes, nails, and planks located on both floors in containers.
Interesting video. With over 2000 hours in the game, I will say, you only need an inaccessible second floor. The best zombiod-proof base has to do with clearing zomboids around your base. The best defense is a good offense.
It may just be me, but when I first started playing I was scared of the nights bc zombies would break in while I was sleeping. I don’t have that anymore but idk if it’s my play style changing or if the zombies are different
Yeah same for me when I first started as it’s so scary to fight zombies in general and especially at night which only gets worse when they wake you up! Its probably due to the fact you are far more confident and more used to the mechanics!
Yeah that method would work however if I’m going to be honest whenever I use it I feel a bit like I have cheated the game as its a bit of a cheese strat (I do also admit that a complete skybase that I made at the end of the video is a cheese Strat but I don’t use those for my actual playthroughs)
@@Noughtical i’m with you. Every time I build crate walls or take out an entire town of zombies using 1 molotov, it usually means i’m bored with the run. Or if I wasn’t bored with it then, I am soon after.
Ah well the amount of defences that I placed made it practically zombie proof or to the point where it’s easily defendable and can prevent big hordes ect. It was mainly to make it zombie proof when leaving your base ya know?
@@Noughtical yea i get it but as someone who plays on multiplayer servers there is a big difference between your definition of -proof and something being 100% impassable by zombies because time keeps ticking even when you're not there to defend it.
Ah well this was generally a singleplayer focused video ad obviously in multiplayer you can not always be there to deal with little hordes of zombies ect
not the best or worst tips ever. (waste of soooooooo much wood for defending when you're most likely going to already be clearing out the area... in summary this is exessive unless you're on high pop respawn)
Yeah, bro, it's a bit unpractical. Maybe for late game safehouse, when you actually have decent skill, sledgehammer, saw, asstonn of nails and also at least temporary wiped all undead from decent distance around (because all that noise from dropped trees and construction work in general quickly attracts zeds like crazy). If you have all this checked you probably have 1000+ hours in this game, survived at least a year in game already and don't need any tutorials like this cause know better and more efficient ways to make a place safe.. All of this doesn't sound like "basics", actual "basics" would be hauling nearby furniture to use it around weakpoints, probably something like TVs, microwaves (I believe they still undestrucktable) or other shit that can be picked up easily and quietly. Zeds (or you) can magically noclip through shit that's directly blocks tile near a weakpoint, so keep 1 tile empty as a buffer. I often use couch-chair thing (doesn't require any skills, silent to move, easily blocks most narrow paths in 2-nd floors near stairs. If you have a sledge already - just destroy floor tiles near stairs but keep them there: its easier to re-build floor than stairs.
Bro thinks we got the amazon forest at our disposal 💀
Fr bro, I'd most likely have died well before getting all the planks and logs needed to make this
I was so bummed when I realized I wasn't able to slide down the fire pole! I'm shocked they over looked this detail!
They should just make it function like a sheet-rope.
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@@mitchelkvedar674How tf did mods autocorrect to kids lol?
@@galaxycraft0075 who knows lol
Why does everyone keep destroying their stairs, when you can just destroy the floor around the top; you can repair the floor easier than the stairs if you ever get stuck on the bottom.
Yeah that is defiantly something that you can do for sure, just depends on the person.
Just admit you weren't aware of this! @@Noughtical
@@SuperHonkyPodcast excuse me? What do you mean?
I don’t really like to do that one as it just feels a lot more cheesy than sledgehammer where it’s a lot harder to find one of those than a hammer or crowbar
Pro-Tip: You can pick up and move Trash Dumpsters and place them outside in front of windows on the first floor. Depending on settings, they may or may not be destructible. I seem to remember them having the highest durability of furniture used as defense, and they double as storage/compost/trash-removal as you can put things (Zombie bodies, rotten food) in them.
Ooh that sounds really good and is a great tip!
Can zombies climb trough the fence and break it just started playing the game.@@Noughtical
Huge waste of wood tbh, i would recommend forgetting about the first floor entirely or just securing the garage as the insane forests youll need to cut down for the full build is ludicrous, most of that space will be unused anyways, might aswel make sheet ropes in garage and some windows around 2nd floor and save yourself the lumberjack 9000 task :)
Yeah completely understand, In the video I did state that the outer perimeter wall was excessive. The amount of wood that would be needed to complete that wall would be a literal forest like you said. You have made some good points thought obviously and yeah I would do that right at the start but personally I do like rather big bases but that's just me. Also depends on the patience and time you have too :)
I prefer to build/fortify a rather small base-house. I dont need much space: a fridge, an oven and 1-2 ICE freezers, a single bed and some storage crates.
If i make a small perimeter wall, i make sure the doors are in an earshot. That way i can hear them bashing the door. I prefer patrolling my safe bubble and kill the zombies i find instead of turtling, except at night while sleeping. Once cleared, an area it takes time to get re-populated with zombies. Usually x% of the initial number every y days passed, plus roamers.
205 days in and doing ok so far. Scenic groove trailer park-> riverside -> west point, slowly making my way toward LuisVille.
Well put, that said if you really want that place secure with nearly no wood expendature, do as in video- sledge stairs, put sheet rope in place of the pole and then below in garage put a line of "wood fence-wood crate-wood fence" combo in a row so your sheet rope is blocked off from zombies and due to their pathing they wont get over it or break it, unless a random crawler decides to somehow not just spawn there but target that specific structure.
Tho that is bit cheese, but then you need only 1 rope and wolla entire 2nd floor is clear and so is your way onto/off of it with barely any wood used :)
You yourself can get over the barricade by run vaulting it, tho be carefull if obiese or heavy load can lead to injuries.
Yeah I think bases depend on the player, some like very small cozy compact bases whereas other like big mega malls as their base! :) Good luck with Louisville survivor :)
Yeah that would work too however for me breaking the zombies path finding through little bugs/glitches/exploits ruin the game a little bit for me but each to their own and it is sandbox game and everyone can play how they like!
Was gonna say you can use a fence instead of the window wall for the escape rope it's half the resources and has the same effect
Yeah that is a fair point and better off resource wise!
@noughtical barricades on the exterior actually attract zeds. Best to only barricade from the inside. Besides, if 4 planks arent keeping them out, 8 aren't going to either.
Yeah that is true however you could say that perhaps when you are wanting to make a base like this you have an exterior wall like in said video which will keep out a lot of the zeds. However yeah completely understand your point of it attracting zeds, personal choice I like to so that’s why I included it :)
I see this myth every now and then, if it simply was true, then all those "survivor" houses (randomly generated you know) would be always ravaged by zombies.
Yeah that’s true 👍
@@lesnoyelf228 Code works in mysterious ways
Yep its a mystery 😂
you can also just wall off the garage part of the fire station around where the stairs are and use half of it as a base, you don't need the whole thing after all.
Yep of course there are lots of ways to do this kind of base and it’s up to personal preference really
Just build outer walls from chain link fence on each side back to the building
True however to build the chain link fence you need a mod, or the ones that are actually good?
@@NoughticalI think he means what I do- connect the chain link fences with wooden wall
Great tips! Especially good for new players 👌🏻
Thanks a bunch mate and yeah always thought about making a video about this so i decided to do it! Hope it helps anyone it can!
Not very good . To do that walk you need houndred of Woods to chop and transport . That make no sence for begginers it will be do hard to make for someone and boring. To do this you need vehicle to transport the wood you need a carpentry you need lots of zombie to kill them.for clothes and thatbis ridicolus base for new player
I said in this video that this base was not a beginners base…
I’m not sure how much you watched but it can’t have been much…
This is a funny trick, craft a composter around the perimeter of your base and you'll never have to worry about them anymore. Just create a pathway from your second floor extending pass the perimeter tile with a rope.
They really need to add ladders to zomboid
Yeah it would help a lot wouldn’t it, there was a mod for ladders however I believe they are broken now sadly
This is great. I just started playing and figured the fire station would make a perfect first base, and the first video I find searching for "zombie proof base" is using it as the example lol
The second floor is a nice living quarters, so knowing I can keep zombies from getting up entirely is perfect. I've been using the building for a few days, but about a week later there started being a lot more zombies around and while I was able to keep them out, they slowly overwhelmed and got into the garage... then the main hallways... then the second floor... 😭 mind you I didn't have much boarded up yet. My thought was "well I'll just lure/fight them outside or on the first floor and carry the bodies outside". Worked for a while but now the entire station looks like a slaughter house save the kitchen area, and their numbers grow outside each day lol..
So, my new goal is to slowly take it back (somehow), board it up working my way outwards and clean up the place. I just hope there is enough bleach in Rosewood though haha. This is going o be a challenge since all my tools and materials are inside except for planks, so not sure how I'm going to rebuild and fight tons of zombies simultaneously.. Either way, let's see if I can do this. 🤞
Ah sounds good! Goodluck with it! Also I’m sure you may have tried to do this already so how did it go!?
@@Noughtical I'm sure you've experienced something similar and I wish my reply was something short like "Good, I have a couple layers of walls up, feel pretty safe now and I'm ready to go scavenge the main boulevard a bit more now". Nope lol.
I ended up with 5 rope systems in different rooms, but the completion timing on that was kind of nuts. A helicopter had been flying around to the south for several minutes while I was finishing up the last two ropes. It was the first time a heli was around for more than like 10-20 seconds as well. It was just there somewhere south and finally flew over the station. So I walk out to check on it and hundreds of zombies are swarming in from the fields to the south and pouring over the fence. I'm not sure if that was a vanilla event or the expanded heli mod, but either way I had no idea there could be that many zombies in a single horde lmao. They saw me (as I stood there in awe for a few moments like an idiot) then I rushed back into the station.
Barely managed to get some stuff up there and destroy the stairs as they started filling the hallways. Let's just say I was very happy to learn you can climb up ropes with no stamina left haha. In the end, I was stuck up there for a couple weeks until things finally got quiet. All fortifications apart from 2-3 surviving log walls outside were completely obliterated. Since then I've actually just left the entire downstairs open afraid it will just happen again lol. I have ton of rope on the second floor, and I put the tools and materials needed to build a couple set of stairs in the garage if I'm gone for an extended period of time and the ropes have been torn down. It's been a few weeks since then going into winter now, as it snowed for the first time, I'm running out of food now and that massive horde has taken over the entire neighbourhood to the north, dozens at every single intersection💀
Use the apartments above book naked. Ezy mode base and you can build over to the next building and have a massive roof grow operation going.
Yeah there are numerous locations where this base design would work, the rosewood fire station was just a big example!
I just break the stairs with a sledgehammer and I’m good
And then use sheet ropes to get up and down?
Always, I have two placed, one at the stairs and one from the locker rooms
Yeah that’s always the way to go, just always gotta remember to get multiple sheet ropes otherwise you get stuck without a way to get up unless you can build starts (defiantly not speaking by from experience!!)
@@Noughtical I try to be prepared for that too, I’m trying to grind carpentry and I have ropes, nails, and planks located on both floors in containers.
Zombies be like “open da noor”
So much for 600 subscribers by 2024, you already got 3.28K and 2024 hasn't even hit!
Yeah its been a very good year so far for the channel! 😂
Interesting video. With over 2000 hours in the game, I will say, you only need an inaccessible second floor. The best zombiod-proof base has to do with clearing zomboids around your base. The best defense is a good offense.
No joke
I literally had the same idea with the walls inside and outside
I also use air locks in 7 days to die
Yeah exactly its always a good shout to do, airlocks are my best friend!
@@Noughtical Don't you mean LITERALLY best friend
It may just be me, but when I first started playing I was scared of the nights bc zombies would break in while I was sleeping. I don’t have that anymore but idk if it’s my play style changing or if the zombies are different
Yeah same for me when I first started as it’s so scary to fight zombies in general and especially at night which only gets worse when they wake you up! Its probably due to the fact you are far more confident and more used to the mechanics!
wait, good tips, but HOW were you able to instantly build, if so, tell me what mods you used
So I have a cheat mod installed which is called CheatMenu:Rebirth and there is an option for instant building :)
Any tips on getting nails?
Best method is to find boxes of nails however if you can’t dissemble furniture and you can get some nails back!
Great video
Why not just use a Fence-Crate-Fence build? Isn't that the most zombie proof?
Yeah that method would work however if I’m going to be honest whenever I use it I feel a bit like I have cheated the game as its a bit of a cheese strat (I do also admit that a complete skybase that I made at the end of the video is a cheese Strat but I don’t use those for my actual playthroughs)
@@Noughtical i’m with you. Every time I build crate walls or take out an entire town of zombies using 1 molotov, it usually means i’m bored with the run. Or if I wasn’t bored with it then, I am soon after.
Yep exactly my point, I want to make it feel as real as possible!
I barricaded the INSIDE of each window before seeing this video. Is there any real difference or benefit to doing the outside instead?
Good tips but with that title i was expecting to see how to zombie proof the first floor. RIP
Ah well the amount of defences that I placed made it practically zombie proof or to the point where it’s easily defendable and can prevent big hordes ect. It was mainly to make it zombie proof when leaving your base ya know?
@@Noughtical yea i get it but as someone who plays on multiplayer servers there is a big difference between your definition of -proof and something being 100% impassable by zombies because time keeps ticking even when you're not there to defend it.
Ah well this was generally a singleplayer focused video ad obviously in multiplayer you can not always be there to deal with little hordes of zombies ect
@@Noughtical just learned with some testing that zombies wont attack stairs and can make the perfect barrier
Oh wow that’s pretty insane, so you make yourself a wall of stairs looping your base as the outer walls??
Cant you just scrap the stairs with a sledgehammer? Or like the floor that connects them to the 2nd floor
not the best or worst tips ever. (waste of soooooooo much wood for defending when you're most likely going to already be clearing out the area... in summary this is exessive unless you're on high pop respawn)
Whats the mod you're using named!?Give me the sauce!Please!
The mod for the cheat menu that I was using? If so, it’s called Cheat Menu: Rebirth
@@Noughtical No,the one for fast building and barricading,it would be really useful when playing in a forest ,or somewhere far away from population
@@candycrane1428 the cheat mod that I used has an option for instant barricading and building ect :)
@@Noughtical Aaaah,alright ,thank you so much :D
No worries, good luck survivor! Also love your username :)
whats mods are you useing?
Yeah, bro, it's a bit unpractical. Maybe for late game safehouse, when you actually have decent skill, sledgehammer, saw, asstonn of nails and also at least temporary wiped all undead from decent distance around (because all that noise from dropped trees and construction work in general quickly attracts zeds like crazy). If you have all this checked you probably have 1000+ hours in this game, survived at least a year in game already and don't need any tutorials like this cause know better and more efficient ways to make a place safe..
All of this doesn't sound like "basics", actual "basics" would be hauling nearby furniture to use it around weakpoints, probably something like TVs, microwaves (I believe they still undestrucktable) or other shit that can be picked up easily and quietly. Zeds (or you) can magically noclip through shit that's directly blocks tile near a weakpoint, so keep 1 tile empty as a buffer. I often use couch-chair thing (doesn't require any skills, silent to move, easily blocks most narrow paths in 2-nd floors near stairs. If you have a sledge already - just destroy floor tiles near stairs but keep them there: its easier to re-build floor than stairs.
Game name
what is the mod?