PC What do you do at night in Alpha 17?

At night I am out gathering resources, killing zombies with a bow in the area, only thing I don't really do is explore poi's at night due to the amount of zombies in some of them, and how easy it is to wake the entire poi up. Bascally I mostly loot poi's during the day, and at night I work on gathering stuff like iron, clay, wood, and killing the odd zombie I happen to see, maybe work on a base a little bit while checking around me. If you get a wandering horde at night, your actually safer outside than in a poi. I've died inside poi's from wandering hordes at night, but never outside as I can see them coming and get out of the way.

 
1. Take a break. It's been 40 minutes, it's a good time to stand up.

2. Perk allocation. It's dangerous to stand around during the day with your nose in your menu.

3. Inventory management. Pull items out of my "Dump chest" and sort them into appropriate storage containers.

4. Establish a plan for the next day. What is my priority? Do I need to resource/build for horde night, or do I need to go raiding?

5. Road cleanup. Go out with a wrench and an axe and pick up tires and roadkill. Bicycles are amazingly quiet and great way to get around the roads at night.

6. Pre-travel. If I have to walk/run to the trader, or start a long trip to my desert mine, getting an early start saves valuable daylight.

Being outside at night is OK, but it requires some consideration: You need to be in good shape, well armed with a melee weapon, and to keep moving to dodge hordes. Night time isn't a good time to be banging on rocks, trees, and for the love of all that's still holy, nothing metal.

 
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Organize inventory, cook, and spend skill points. Then I go fold laundry while I wait for the rest of the non-playable time to lapse. I sure am glad the patch brought so much essentially forced downtime.

 
I make wooden spikes. Thousands of wooden spikes. If you are ever on a MP server and you come across looted POIs that are full of spikes, you'll know I was there. I never put the spikes in main paths or in front of loot because my aim is not to kill other players. It just makes it easier to deal with all the back spawning, trigger spawning BS the devs thought was a good idea in this patch. So watch out for spikes. Like I said, my intention is not to kill other players but even I have stepped in my own traps on occasion.

 
Spend the night in one of a few temporary "expedition bases".

Looking at stats, or crafting when in the main base.

 
You can do a similar thing by going to the main menu when night starts, change day length to 10 minutes, sit through the 2 minute night, and then exit and change the day length back to normal.
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I might do that if loading the game didn't take as long as a regular night.

 
I mine 6 nights a week and kill bloodmoon horde on the 7th.

In 60 odd game days across multiple saves I have never been attacked underground. I don't understand why people think mining is dead or dangerous.

This is not the sort of game where you can afford to waste the hours at night.

 
I tried playing "legit" with zombies running at night, but after many times of getting my base ravaged by wandering hordes around 3:30am while squatting is the dark with a stealth/visibility score of 1, I turned that off. I have no idea how in the heck they can spot me inside my base while I am quietly figuring out what perks to choose.

So now I harvest trees and rocks outside at night. It's so dark out the zombies that do show up still surprise me often but at least I'm gaining resources now instead of treading water.

 
It took me 4 days to find my first Shamwich in a17.....I'd usually have a stack or two of them within four days on a15

 
I do whatever I feel like because I turned off running zombies. My justification was that I already know I can sit in a safe place for half an hour, I don't need to do it over and over every night. It's also pretty fun to battle zombies in POIs when its dark, adds to the atmosphere.

 
wow had no idea we could distract them with rocks gonna try that one.

But normally after i spent my skills and done some cooking i crouch in a corner and go for a cigarette lol. only on day3 atm tho, havnt got the balls to go outside and farm at night yet

 
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