PC Attention! Block Damage.

[Cirion]

And none of that really helps too much since the zombies all get a massive bonus to damage when they're in proximity to eachother, combined with their psychic pathing that makes them focus on the weakest block.
Unless that's changed with new updates, been awhile since I played a17.

Yeah I mean I have the Stainless steel block mods, and had 3-4 layers of stainless steel, playing with a friend on insane. On that difficulty it least it doesn't matter what you have, they tear through stuff so fast even several layers of stainless steel (which you can't even get in vanilla!!). You could argue that it's because I'm on insane and should lower the difficulty, but it wasn't this bad in A16. They really dramatically upped zombie damage in A17 to obscene levels.

 

[eXSe]

When you figure out how zomberts "think", you can survive anything even with plain wood blocks. Now that they've become "smarter", you can screw with them at your leisure

 

[Cirion]

When you figure out how zomberts "think", you can survive anything even with plain wood blocks. Now that they've become "smarter", you can screw with them at your leisure

I know how they think now but didn't quite grasp it when putting together the base with my friend. I realize now that the # of layers of walls you have to add to prevent them from going for the walls is increased as a function of the size of the base. We took over a huge POI and found it took around 5 layers to prevent this and have them go for the traps instead.

Knowing this in the future I plan to stick to smaller footprint bases. Skyscrapers seem to be a smarter base since they have less footprint to worry about layering up while still allowing ample space to put your stuff.

 

[eXSe]

I know how they think now but didn't quite grasp it when putting together the base with my friend. I realize now that the # of layers of walls you have to add to prevent them from going for the walls is increased as a function of the size of the base. We took over a huge POI and found it took around 5 layers to prevent this and have them go for the traps instead.

You can screw with them with a simple ramp and a path with a hole in it that they don't "see" to make them fall down and just do that over and over.

 

[Auner]

You can screw with them with a simple ramp and a path with a hole in it that they don't "see" to make them fall down and just do that over and over.

I think most know this now, but it just feels cheaty and boring. “Most” people don’t complain about block damage because it’s impossible to deal with, but because it’s restrictive in design. I’ve gone to building bases on top of Iron Sheets (one down, one up) which creates a floating base. I’d honestly prefer to just use concrete walls and arrow slats but if a wandering horde hears me opening chests/digging, my walls will fall before I get outside.