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7 Days to Die - Farming Plots - Alpha 18

I had previously tried keeping the zeds away by using arrow slits, with some limited success. (You can see one Killing Corridor with that configuration in the background on the left side of the first picture.)

I tried letting them down easy. For some reason on that corridor they stopped seeing the corridor as a path to me and started beating on the pillar under my cage.

So... back to Jaded’s 8k server after a hiatus. After watching a couple of JaWoodle’s videos (this one and this one specifically), I got an idea for another Killing Corridor. I had a lot of resources on this server, so it seemed like a good test bed.

This one combines the sloping walls idea with the “let them down gently” idea plus the Killing Corridor itself plus a tiny bit of arrow slits force field (just to keep them away from my ladder) and boom, I practically slept through the Day 476 Horde. 

It was awesome! I just needed a junk turret facing inside the cage to protect me against spiders and I’d have been set for a nap.

Yeah. So, one of the things they were supposed to have fixed was how badly the roads follow the terrain. I don’t have any good screenshots of the terrain in question, but let’s just say that it’s impassible on any ground vehicle in one direction, and a major pain in the ass in the other (only because you can bypass the vertical cliff going up in that direction).

So Kaligineux and I dug a tunnel. I mapped it out and dug the initial tunnel; he helped me enlarge it enough to drive a truck through; then he enlarged it further and lined it with concrete walls and a roof. 

I want to note that he did most of the work, and I’m pretty sure he used his own (in-game) resources for the concrete and metal framing and painting.

One end of the tunnel aligns with the road perfectly. The other end comes out over passable terrain, but I got tired of crossing it and having to find the best insertion point. So I did this.

Note that in comparison to Kaligineux’s work, I did this entirely in creative mode. Also I used the new narrow wedges for the same reason they exist in the first place, which are only available in creative mode (or with a patch). 

And before anybody yells “cheat!” I want to point out that the stupid game made it impossible to easily drive between two connected, adjacent cities. I could just as easily have leveled the mountain using the terrain editing tools. (Well, by “just as easily” I really mean “those tools suck ass and WTF did the Fun Pimps think they were solving?”, but I still could have done it.) 

Also I kind of liked the idea of a tunnel through the mountain, so instead of fixing the terrain, I made a tunnel through the mountain. Anyway, here we go; a ramp giving clean access to the East end of the tunnel. And an awesome tunnel.

And all without any decent editing tools. So, Fun Pimps, the tools you gave us are OK for raising and dropping mountains. How about something that will let us do more subtle transformations? I have a section of road that’s really rough because I tried to smooth out a huge bump and instead churned the road into a godawful mess. You make gentle banks in your maps but don’t let us do the same. Why not a tool where I can mark an area and say “slope the marked area to match the connected blocks along the edges?” Why not a tool that says “Make this area perfectly even” or “perfectly flat”? Yeah, I know I can mark an area and delete it... can I mark an area and and fill it? In Creative Mode? No. Can I mark an area and say “raise it to the tops of the blocks?” No. 

The tools you gave us have zero subtlety. So far, for the terrain sculpting tools, you’ve given us Jack and Shit, and Jack left town.

And it doesn’t help that you still give us impassible roads. And then make impassible terrain. Going around is a poor option at best.

A18 still has some issues with the roads, and can’t seem to quite get the alignment right on this bridge.

This is in Jaded’s new server. Kaligineux reported it, I spent a lunch fixing it (using the new narrow wedges, of course). And I still have Admin privs on his server.

I painted it brick because Why The Fuck Not.

Mutated seed - Super Corn 7 Days to Die - Alpha 18

I’ve been looking for a few mods for the newly-released Alpha 18, and figured I should try to organize them in some manner. Dunno about actually organizing them, but I can at least make a list. Please note: This list is by no means comprehensive. It’s just a collection of what I’ve found.

stedman420 has a few “Simple UI”-branded mods that he’s apparently updated, so just look here. I want to note that the A17 compass, the crafting queue, the buff timers and the vehicle storage all worked for me without modification; the bigger backpack 120 worked with a simple tweak (edit entityclasses.xml: change 18 to 27 and 93 to 102; save, exit, run).

Donovan has updated his modlets to A18. I don’t use these, so can’t comment.

KhaineGB has created a mod that enables advanced backpack buttons here. I’ve installed it on my server but haven’t had a chance to try it yet (it was late, I should have been in bed). Thanks to JaWoodle for showing it off in his video, but I wish he’d included a link... Also, “If people want to see the buttons, they will need to have this installed on their client.” But (according to one user) you can see them if you mouse over. So we’ll see tonight (or at lunch) how this works without the mod installed locally. 

My own contribution: I’ve put barbed wire (the sheets, not the fence -- that’s still there) back into my A18 server with a simple tweak. There’s probably a way to turn this into a modlet, I may try to figure that out later, but for now: 

Find your server directory. Mine is I:\sdtdserver.

Go to .\Data\Config (I:\sdtdserver\Data\Config).

Edit recipes.xml. Search for “barbedFence”.

After the barbedFence recipe, copy/paste the following:

<recipe name="barbedWireSheet" count="1"> <!-- trap --> <!-- imported from A17 --> <ingredient name="resourceScrapIron" count="15" /> </recipe>

Save, exit, run the server. Barbed wire sheets are still in the game; Fun Pimps have simply removed the recipe. It doesn’t have to be immediately after the fence recipe, but that’s where the A17 recipe is, and it’s a logical place.

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