PC Is your base your home?
- Thread starter ElCabong
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I usually either use the farmhouse or the farm with the silo behind it. I live on the top floor and use the second floor as my horse base. The zombies don't get to me and if a screamer or random horde comes by, you drop down, kill em and go back up and keep doing your thing. Unless I'm down in the mine, which now, all the zombies just dig down to you while you're digging/mining/etc. I would think the range would be too far @ the bottom but they sense me even with feral sense off
BFT2020
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For me, it depends on where I setup at.
In A22 so far, my base is typically a residential POI and I convert a secondary location as a horde base. Last playthrough I converted the destroyed kitchen poi (0 stars POI) into my horde base and there was a motel close by that I setup as a fallback position if I felt I need to relieve the pressure buildup on the primary horde base.
In A21, before the biome city changes, I would setup a base in one of the broken down apartment complexes as both my main base and my horde base - lower level was the horde base and top was the main base. I am going to do that in my next playthrough, but haven't decided if I will start out in the higher level biomes or mod the game so I can get larger cities in the pine forest so those POIs will be placed there.
In A22 so far, my base is typically a residential POI and I convert a secondary location as a horde base. Last playthrough I converted the destroyed kitchen poi (0 stars POI) into my horde base and there was a motel close by that I setup as a fallback position if I felt I need to relieve the pressure buildup on the primary horde base.
In A21, before the biome city changes, I would setup a base in one of the broken down apartment complexes as both my main base and my horde base - lower level was the horde base and top was the main base. I am going to do that in my next playthrough, but haven't decided if I will start out in the higher level biomes or mod the game so I can get larger cities in the pine forest so those POIs will be placed there.
slicksister
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First 4 horde nights were spent on top of a MD Melt Downs billboard. built a platform off the front with a scaffold ladder melee window. Zombies followed stairs up to a 5 block long 0.05 center-side pole "tightrope" approach to the otherside of the scaffold ladder melee window. This limited the number of attacking zombies to 1 at a time and the height was sufficient that zombies didn't go into destroy everything mode if they fell or were knocked off the tightrope approach. I hacked thru as many as I could each horde night as they ran the climb stairs, walk tightrope, get knocked off circuit. All this was only in cobblestone. Once I acquired concrete, built a dedicated horde base in the wasteland (maximize loot stage for horde night) following similar paradigm but without the billboard. Elevated tower (5x5x15 high) with scaffold ladder melee window with 30 block long tightrope style approach. Started out with machete, then switched to sniper rifles, ap ammo, and penetrator perk to kill multiple Z's with single shot. Lining the tightrope with barbed wire slows the approaching zombies and I manage 700 kills each horde night with around 500-600 ap bullets and end up with mid-30's number of loot bags. Eventually converted the tightrope to steel as one horde night the concrete one was destroyed by a second demolisher oopsie in same place. Otherwise everything is just concrete.
As far as home goes, I played nomad for first 5 weeks, building storage boxes in front of which ever trader I was currently dealing with. Hunker down at night high up in some cleared POI until I acquired nightvision goggles. Though running around at night wasn't all that difficult with a stealth build. Just throw rocks to distract any zombies that got too close. I set up a couple of forges, workbench, and a cement mixer out in an open field in front of Rekt in the initial forrest biome. I wouldn't spend much time there, only to load up and empty the workstations. Eventually, used a claim block to move them to the wasteland where I built an actual home base out of concrete and bulletproof glass with farming and dew collectors on the roof. The first floor has a drive-thru garage with 5x3 powered doors where I park my vehicles when not in use. Once the wasteland becomes manageable, I feel there's little need to return to the other biomes. So I put off building a home until settling in the wasteland. Besides, Joel is so much more friendly.
As far as home goes, I played nomad for first 5 weeks, building storage boxes in front of which ever trader I was currently dealing with. Hunker down at night high up in some cleared POI until I acquired nightvision goggles. Though running around at night wasn't all that difficult with a stealth build. Just throw rocks to distract any zombies that got too close. I set up a couple of forges, workbench, and a cement mixer out in an open field in front of Rekt in the initial forrest biome. I wouldn't spend much time there, only to load up and empty the workstations. Eventually, used a claim block to move them to the wasteland where I built an actual home base out of concrete and bulletproof glass with farming and dew collectors on the roof. The first floor has a drive-thru garage with 5x3 powered doors where I park my vehicles when not in use. Once the wasteland becomes manageable, I feel there's little need to return to the other biomes. So I put off building a home until settling in the wasteland. Besides, Joel is so much more friendly.
After the "forge house" was permanently removed (real forge then dummy forge) We build our own starter home next to a small town. Then we move to some big ass open field in a predetermined Biome, and slap down our steel heaven from hell... This time, wasteland. Next wipe, snowy base...
AidenwithAnAxe
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wait.. Bases and houses are two seperate things?? I just lived in a hardware store 
Frozendreams
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If I'm building from scratch, my horde base and home/crafting base will always be in the same structure. With POIs, it depends on whether or not it's easy to secure--if it isn't, then I'll build a separate structure for horde night.
The garage behind Johnnytown is probably my favorite structure to turn into a base/home combo since it's sturdy from the get-go...and even with an extra level, all of the other stuff I tack onto/put into it, and multiple demo/cop explosions, I've never had the building go hurtling into the abyss of the bunker below (I play Survivalist in vanilla with the default amount of zombies/block damage, though, so your mileage may vary). Once the garage is fully upgraded and set up the way I want it, I usually flip the main house for fun and add some extra farming plots.
The garage behind Johnnytown is probably my favorite structure to turn into a base/home combo since it's sturdy from the get-go...and even with an extra level, all of the other stuff I tack onto/put into it, and multiple demo/cop explosions, I've never had the building go hurtling into the abyss of the bunker below (I play Survivalist in vanilla with the default amount of zombies/block damage, though, so your mileage may vary). Once the garage is fully upgraded and set up the way I want it, I usually flip the main house for fun and add some extra farming plots.
Frozendreams
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My previous post was put up twice for some reason. 
Sorry about that!
Sorry about that!
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