Where are all the damn zombies coming from?

[Darksurgeon]

Ever since I made a wall all around a house I have been using as my base and started running a generator, I have been dealing with dozens of zombies every time I return to my base. I just went back and they were all inside my house and destroyed my damn water dispenser. What the hell is going on?

[Rodrigo]

well, afaik, zombies (re)spawn randomly around the whole map after a certain time, also they might be being lured by the generator noise and they tend to indeed destroy things you moved into your base so... you may want to make a base by the city outskirts

[VANGUARD]

A generator makes noise which draws zombies.
I think the noise range was about 20 tiles.
Try building another wall outside the range - if they don't hear it they don't have an incentive to attack your stuff.

[Darksurgeon]

Ok, now they are spawning inside of my base... what the ♥♥♥♥...

Does the game not stop zombie spawning around player built objects?

[Rodrigo]

Originally posted by Darksurgeon:

Ok, now they are spawning inside of my base... what the ♥♥♥♥...

Does the game not stop zombie spawning around player built objects?

inside? i mean, if its an entirely enclosed structure, with floors, ceiling, they could spawn outside but not inside...

[Von Herbst]

Zombiespawn is at the moment absolut wild. We had some onscreen spawn a few days ago in our coopgame and spawning around our base if you leave it for 5 minutes is the standard. Kind of sure thats a new phenomenon and its super anoying.

[Zorlond]

Respawning never made sense to me.

It's like the devs honestly think that 8 billion former-humans are all going to end up in rural Kentucky sooner or later.

[Itharus]

The map has thousands of zombies by default, and they migrate. Also yes, respawning does happen, but you can disable it. They may also be roving in your direction due to meta events?

As for spawning IN your base... no idea. Sounds lame. Try validating your game or checking mods?

[saurce]

Originally posted by Zorlond:

Respawning never made sense to me.

It's like the devs honestly think that 8 billion former-humans are all going to end up in rural Kentucky sooner or later.

Maybe not billions. But hundreds of thousands or millions? Plausible. It is the epicenter of the zombie outbreak, after all.

[peNumbra°]

If you want lesser zombie respawn, simply change the “respawn hours” value while creating a custom sandbox game in the menu of “advanced zombie options”. The standard value would be 72 in-game hours. You can increase the value for longer periods of respawn.

Also, you can change the value of “respawn unseen hours” – which is the main issue here, I guess. The game gives brief information on what it does in the sandbox settings.

Remember that those are standard values, altering them would make the game easy and less enjoyable.

[【🐲】Kobayashi Tohru ★]

That's why playing without respawn is good.

[Unknown Zom]

Build ever-expanding walls and gates, nothing will spawn inside an area you can't path to and open windows count as a path.

[Itharus]

Would be super creepy if a zombie just spawned right up inside your room when you woke up.

[bUrnIt]

I played MP and made a 2 story villa base in the middle of the map. not much zombies there cuz it's rural. Our base isnt swarmed by zombies at all.


EDIT: oops I wrote what peNumbra already said.
(set respawn to very slow frequency more than 720h
and some param for UNSEEN chunk before respawn set to 24h or so)
..

[Zorlond]

Originally posted by Lil Nam:

Originally posted by Zorlond:

Respawning never made sense to me.

It's like the devs honestly think that 8 billion former-humans are all going to end up in rural Kentucky sooner or later.

Maybe not billions. But hundreds of thousands or millions? Plausible. It is the epicenter of the zombie outbreak, after all.

Considering respawn -never- turns off on it's own (generally only if you turn it off before the save file is started), I stand by what I said. You could, in theory, kill ten million zombies in a single save file and they'll just keep coming. Kill ten billion, and they'll just keep coming.

That inherently makes no sense, and no, 'game logic' doesn't hold water, unless you insist that infinite magic respawn points absolutely must be included in a game that insists on detailing exactly where on your body you are injured and altering how quickly you die based on that, or includes malnutrition as a potential lethal outcome.

[Rodrigo]

Originally posted by Zorlond:

Originally posted by Lil Nam:

Maybe not billions. But hundreds of thousands or millions? Plausible. It is the epicenter of the zombie outbreak, after all.

Considering respawn -never- turns off on it's own (generally only if you turn it off before the save file is started), I stand by what I said. You could, in theory, kill ten million zombies in a single save file and they'll just keep coming. Kill ten billion, and they'll just keep coming.

That inherently makes no sense, and no, 'game logic' doesn't hold water, unless you insist that infinite magic respawn points absolutely must be included in a game that insists on detailing exactly where on your body you are injured and altering how quickly you die based on that, or includes malnutrition as a potential lethal outcome.

Well, I guess it's a simple matter of keeping the game alive, you wipe out zombies from an area, which is not really that hard and then it's becomes a cakewalk, one might say respawns could act as a way into thinking that people keep dying and becoming zombies, as you can hear screams left and right, or zombie migration but surely on a smaller scale. Regardless, I think it's a matter of keeping the game intense ans for that matter logic and reality doesn't matter, luckily you could turn it off, but it seems about right that it is on by default.