PC Do pitfalls still work, to kill most zombies?

When they had the infinite hordes, I just dig a pit a left them there. With A16: No exp, little loot, why bother killing them?

Just get them out of the way to bedrock and continue working for the morning adventure.

 
I am working on a castle build. My pit is 5 x 91 on each side, about 53 deep, landing on spikes. Most 'normal' things die on impact or as soon as they move.

My experience is that gore blocks really do cushion falls, so I make it a point to put arrows/bullets into them and use the machete to keep the area near my 50% pillars clear.

I made the mistake of putting a few turrets at the bottom, and I can confirm they did not go off. I though about adding trip wires and dart traps, but what a PITA.

 
My fighting floor surrounds a 3x3 pitfall with 50% pillars, 4 high. I'm going to remove the top pillar segment in the middle 3 pillars of two sides, and install a blade trap upside down on the ceiling, on both sides. This ought to whack the zeds as they fall down past the blades and hit the log spikes (which are inverted to give me a flat floor). Anything that stands on top of dead zeds or gore blocks before I can remove them, gets its head lopped off too. The only danger is that a blade trap will fail and leave a 3w x1H slot missing from the top row of pillars, allowing spiders to escape, if I don't reseal it pronto. I've never done it before, so its worth a try.

 
Hello guys!

I built a pitfall at bedrock with lots of electric fences, campfires, dart traps for emergency and blade traps at the entry point, and it is very effective so far. We are at day 104 now. Lower zombies and dogs arrive the bottom instantly dead, most ferals and cops are severely injured and easy to kill.

At first, I had some turrets, but they weren't working, too. So I switched them for the dart traps.

Here you can see the installation at blood moon 98:

Prior to our pitfall, we needed hundreds of bullets at blood moon. Now it is some shotgun shells and a few bullets. Repair cost is Iron and some parts.

Greetings

 
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