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Sentry01

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Hi,

I have only just started playing 7dtd.

I have downloaded a prefab (A large house) from nexus mods.

I have a few questions if anyone can help me.

1. where do I copy the prefab to on my pc.

2. do I have to create a new world to use my downloaded prefab house or is there a way to insert it into my saved game im playing.

3. If I create a new world will it place my downloaded prefab randomly anywhere in the world ?

4. If I can insert it into my saved game, how do i go about this ?

Hope some clever person can help me,, it would be very much apreciated.

 
Is it in a mod folder, or is it just the loose prefab files? If it's a package mod, with a modinfo.xml and stuff, just install it into your Mods folder in your main 7 Days folder. If they are loose files, they go into 7 Days To Die\Data\Prefabs\POIs. It should get used on any newly generated RWG maps after you install it, but depending on the POI it may be limited to certain areas to spawn, like commercial or industrial, etc. If you wanna add it to an existing world, you can use the world editor to do that. Plenty of YT vids to help with that if needed.

 
bdubyah said:
Is it in a mod folder, or is it just the loose prefab files? If it's a package mod, with a modinfo.xml and stuff, just install it into your Mods folder in your main 7 Days folder. If they are loose files, they go into 7 Days To Die\Data\Prefabs\POIs. It should get used on any newly generated RWG maps after you install it, but depending on the POI it may be limited to certain areas to spawn, like commercial or industrial, etc. If you wanna add it to an existing world, you can use the world editor to do that. Plenty of YT vids to help with that if needed.
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It would probably be better to place loose POI into the LocalPrefabs folder instead of mixing them into the vanilla POIs.  They get picked up from there just fine by the game.

Sentry01 said:
Hi,

I have only just started playing 7dtd.

I have downloaded a prefab (A large house) from nexus mods.

I have a few questions if anyone can help me.

1. where do I copy the prefab to on my pc.

2. do I have to create a new world to use my downloaded prefab house or is there a way to insert it into my saved game im playing.

3. If I create a new world will it place my downloaded prefab randomly anywhere in the world ?

4. If I can insert it into my saved game, how do i go about this ?

Hope some clever person can help me,, it would be very much apreciated.
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  1. See bdubyah's reply.
  2. You can manually add a POI to an existing game/map using the World Editor in the game.  I believe you'll have to use chunk reset in the game from the console to refresh the area where you placed it in the World Editor to get it to show in the current save, though a new save with that map will have it where you put it automatically.  It's been a while since I've added something from the World Editor, but I'm pretty sure that's required.  To do that, press F1 while in the game and next to where the POI was placed and type "cr" and hit Enter.  Press F1 to close the console.  That should make the POI appear.  Note that people have had problems with chunk reset causing issues with their game, though I have never experienced that when using it.  To be safe, you may want to make a backup of your save and map before trying to manually add any POI to the existing map or save.
  3. See bdubyah's reply.
  4. See #2.
 
bdubyah said:
If they are loose files, they go into 7 Days To Die\Data\Prefabs\POIs
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That works but I don't think that's the best place. The rest of bdubyah's comment are spot on.

Riamus said:
t would probably be better to place loose POI into the LocalPrefabs folder instead of mixing them into the vanilla POIs.
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That's the best place, IMO. That location is more insulated from changes made by TFP.

Loose files:

C:\Users\'yourusername'\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\Local Prefabs

Modlets:

C:\Users\'yourusername'\AppData\Roaming\7DaysToDie\Mods

Sentry01 said:
Hope some clever person can help me,, it would be very much apreciated.
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The only advice I would add is that you should consider the version for which the modlet was made. You're going to have trouble if you mix in modlets that are Pre-1.X as there were block changes. Anything Pre-A20 is going to be a complete waste of your time as it will have little chance of getting placed by the world generator and it will be missing so many blocks it will be a complete mess. If you want some of those old POIs, the creator is not actively posting updates, and you're not into making/refurbing old POI files, then you should look for that POI in the CompoPack as that team works really hard to bring old POIs up to the current version.

 
Thankyou for everybodys help.

Ive managed to download some prefabs. I put them in the local prefab folder.

The V1 7 Days to Die Prefab Pack Collection worked great. There was a download for a very nice house in KATSPURR'S MODERN HOUSE PREFAB PACK but for some reason no prefabs from this pack would generate in my new world.

The V1 7 Days to Die Prefab Pack Collection worked great, some very nice prefabs.

Is there a way to remove the Zombies from these Prefabs I have put into my new world ?

I would like to use Apollon Bunker [Tier 2] as a base but it has Zombies in it , it would be nice if I could remove them when I generate my new world.

I bet there is a way to do this ?

 
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Sentry01 said:
There was a download for a very nice house in KATSPURR'S MODERN HOUSE PREFAB PACK but for some reason no prefabs from this pack would generate in my new world.
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I've not checked out her modlet in a while. I'm not sure if she was keeping it up-to-date or not. It was uploaded to the Nexus on 24 Sep 2022, 12:17AM. Making me wonder what version that was. A21? I can take a look and post what I find here.

Sentry01 said:
Is there a way to remove the Zombies from these Prefabs I have put into my new world ?

I would like to use Apollon Bunker [Tier 2] as a base but it has Zombies in it , it would be nice if I could remove them when I generate my new world.
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In game, place a bedroll in the middle of it. You'll still have to kill the zombies but you won't get respawns within the bedroll's radius.

If you want no zombies in the POI as you find it in the world ... a gift base ... then you'd edit the POI in the PrefabEditor and remove all of the "sleeper" blocks and get rid of the zombie volumes.

 
Sentry01 said:
There was a download for a very nice house in KATSPURR'S MODERN HOUSE PREFAB PACK but for some reason no prefabs from this pack would generate in my new world.
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I'm looking at her prefabs now. There are lots of missing blocks. I'll bet her modlet was for A21, not 1.x.

I'm pretty certain the CompoPack is including her POIs and is keeping them up-to-date. The person to ask is @stallionsden.

 
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