How far have you gone this playthrough?

Just some advice: you should have 6 blocks between the tower and the outer wall so you can add 2 sets of blade traps on the bottom. The blade traps are 3x3 so you would need 6 block open from the tower to the outer wall. Also I would suggest having at least one layer of concrete, one layer down under the floor level around your base. Then go out about 4 block outside of your outer walls. I used 2 layer of concrete under my complete base, this was way overkill though. This is in case you have demolishers exploding and making a hole in anything less than 1 layer of concrete. If the base floor is cobble then there will be a hole in the dirt and the zeds will start digging under your base on HN. The demolsihers do about 1 layer of concrete block damage, but that was at +200 block damage on horde night in the settings. Also this will allow rocket launcher blast to not damage your floor as well. I never used HE rockets, but Frag rockets don't do much damage to concrete.
Not sure what tower you are talking about.
Check this out, If you pause the video at the end, you can see what one demolisher did to a concrete block floor. If this was cobble, this blast would have made a 2 layer or more hole. Then the zeds start digging under.

Nice.
You have definitely been busy and your base is really cool. You might want to add some bars on the sides of the outer walkway though. Not to keep you from damage but to not fall off into the zeds. I have done this a few times and it never ends well.
I agree, it's a work in progress, and will eventually have railing all the way around.

I'm having health issues, and my playtime has been affected. One day, I went out for a walk and it was 68, and I was wearing a full set of long underwear, a full sweatsuit, and a thick hoodie. The next day, I dressed in shorts and a t shirt, got outside and was set to start walking my way back to health, only to get hit by a strong, cold wind. Even then, I was going to try for at least one lap, but as I got near the edge of the covered patio, I started getting pelted with rain, and decided I could wait till the weather was warm and dry, rather than go and try for my 4th case of pneumonia.
I can say that I have never planted a tree, I honestly never thought to. I used to keep my tree seeds in the junk storage. This makes collecting wood a lot easier.
My eyes hurt on a bright and sunny day, so I kind of need to plant some just to have shade to work/play in. My Crafting Base is not in that video, as it is behind the trees. The Farming Base, is right next to the Crafting Base, and has it's own trees. The Leveling - through - Construction Base, has a partial set of trees {Snow Biome}, but the building itself is not even started as of yet.

I'll start working on the current "State of the Union" address in a bit, Horde Night got 4 videos, but they'll have to be watched privately before posting links here, I cuss a lot when the Zombies manage to hit me, lol. Which is far too often.
 
This is what I would refer to as a to as a tower in the middle surrounded by outer walls.

I call it a tower as I have a tall center part behind outer walls. Mine is about 2blocks high.

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The full day 49 update still has not been written due to health/feeling unwell. OTOH, here is a little video that shows what I have built, and where in my current game.


This covers all major construction(s) so far.
 
Day 51, 1932 hrs.
Level 92, 3427 Kills.
QP 50/60.

My drone is still AWOL. I've done quests for at least the pine, burnt, desert, and wasteland biome based traders, none will sell me a drone. At this point, I am just disgusted that they are so hard to come by, and will just be "Beer Running" my way to robotics lvl 100, and just make my own, and to hell with the WHY of the drone scarcity, lol. I prepped by buying a few 'Fergetting elixirs', and will just have to use one each time I want to max out Intellect/Intellect Mastery level 3, for the combined 100% chance to get 2 for 1 when reading. I didn't want to do this, but enough is enough when it comes to not having my trusty, flying little storage box/sidekick. If I manage to build my lvl 6 drone before HN 8, so be it, but if not, then beer runz will continue until I can.

I MUST have my sidekick!

I did HN 7, and managed to get it recorded into 4 videos, and they took some time to upload even in the smaller MP4 format. A friend helped me see how to properly arrange them In my playlist, so we will see if that one link will allow folks to see the whole thing.

That being said, keep in mind that the little digital dude is being controlled by a guy with brain and nerve damage, and that when I am feeling unwell (as I was when I played this), my brain is fuzzy, my fingers twitch, and my eyes loose not just focus, but depth perception.

By request, Horde Night 7.

Enjoy, laugh, mock, or just shake your head sadly. For those that want to, ask question/offer suggestions.
 
That being said, keep in mind that the little digital dude is being controlled by a guy with brain and nerve damage, and that when I am feeling unwell (as I was when I played this), my brain is fuzzy, my fingers twitch, and my eyes loose not just focus, but depth perception.
I have no Idea why anyone would make fun of a disabled vet. I have a below knee amputation (right foot) and its a bummer at times. I have to use a left foot gas pedal to drive, because of the luck of losing my right foot and not my left.

I seen what you have been working on, and I have to say, I hope you turn on respawns on death! Please do not lose your work. I could not imagine it. I am playing Far Cry - The original 2004 game, and I decided to turn up the difficulty and its getting so frustrating dealing with practical impossible combat and having to reload all the time and hope I get lucky. if you are playing to build things in game, like me, I would never turn on dead is dead. But its up to you.

As far as bloodmoon, you should try taking 3 learning elixirs if you can. Any more experience you can get the better. Also you could try some ranged weapons as well. You really don't need a headshot every time like I try to do. The shovel is a bit weird, but strangely looks effective. I like to have a bandage and a jar of honey in my quick slots, you do not have to open the inventory to use them.

I just finished watching it and I am impressed and do not know why you worry about what people would think about it.
 
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Day 51, 1932 hrs.
Level 92, 3427 Kills.
QP 50/60.
That's crazy! One of my playthroughs I'm just short of 47 hours, level 183 (server is 300% exp), 6,966 kills, 168/210 quest progress. And I spent most of that playthrough without any points in combat perks, and restricted myself to not using guns or explosives.

On average that's about 148 kills per hour for me, and 1.77 kills per hour for you. ~83x difference
And that's almost 4 levels per hour for me, and over 21 hours per level for you. ~5.5x difference
I won't assume what exp rate you're currently playing with, but if I was playing at roughly 50% exp rate I'd be leveling about as fast as you are.

How are you able to play so slowly?
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No, actually I got my math wrong on the hours/level. It's actually ~82x difference. Much more closely matches the kills/hour ratio.
By that ratio and that timescale, we're talking about if you were playing at 100% exp rate, and I was on 2% exp rate, I'd still end up leveling faster.
 
What are you using for his hours? Day 51, level 92, even 2h / day, that's a level per hour?
Oh ... that 1932 is just "military time" ... 19:32.
Oh, haha. Yeah my bad.
That makes it much more reasonable if he's only 50.5 hours in (1 hour days).

Only ~x2.15 difference and ~x2.18 difference, respectively.
 
That's crazy! One of my playthroughs I'm just short of 47 hours, level 183 (server is 300% exp), 6,966 kills, 168/210 quest progress. And I spent most of that playthrough without any points in combat perks, and restricted myself to not using guns or explosives.
I'm playing 2 hour days, so about 100 hours into this playthrough. I'm, playing 100% xp, so either I triple my level, or we chop yours down to 1/3. In essence, I'd be level 276/183, or 92/61. Either way, the math comes out with you leveling faster, but not all that much, lol.
 
I'm playing 2 hour days, so about 100 hours into this playthrough. I'm, playing 100% xp, so either I triple my level, or we chop yours down to 1/3. In essence, I'd be level 276/183, or 92/61. Either way, the math comes out with you leveling faster, but not all that much, lol.
Yeah, makes a lot more sense being 101 hours than 1932, haha. ~x1.43, ~x4.36. Just means you're avoiding combat and questing lot more than I do.
 
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