Building Traps for Zombies. Any creative ways to kill zombies around your Base?

[TankGoodness]

I never really used trapping to capture imaginary animals, but can you use trapping to kill zombies or creatively use traps in a way that was not intended to kill zombies?

[Armagenesis]

None of that in vanilla, I think. Unless you don't count campfires as a weapon. Because they most definitely are.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

None of that in vanilla, I think. Unless you don't count campfires as a weapon. Because they most definitely are.

I have an absolutely gorgeous idea for a trap...Just takes immense time and planning to execute.:(

[Water gargle CHAMPION 2011 🏆]

I just uhhhh go outside and run around ummm smacking uhh zombies and stuff uhh with my handy pipe wrench cause uhhh its red and i like the color red and also when the water uhhh shuts off and like stuff ummm i can like use like the pipe wrench uhhh to like plumb and stuff like uhh the sink and ummm other stuff like that and stuff

[nbkx]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

None of that in vanilla, I think. Unless you don't count campfires as a weapon. Because they most definitely are.

I have an absolutely gorgeous idea for a trap...Just takes immense time and planning to execute.:(

now im curios

[nbkx]

i tried to lure them in a house and put metalthings in the microwave-oven.
worked only two times for me. but if it works, you will have a nice fire with dead zeds an one house less in the game.

[DrLamp]

Punji sticks, tiger traps, sharpened stake barricades all seem like good ideas to me.

If you have electricity then a sharp metal spinning death machine sounds cool, but I don't think it's really fitting. I mean it IS, but it just doesn't feel "Project Zomboid"-ey, at least not to me. Maybe an electrical zappy thing that they step on and it slows them down or stops them entirely for a short time, but honestly that doesn't really feel right either. This isn't horde defense. That's a different game by a different company.

[Ivan]

Originally posted by DrLamp:

Punji sticks, tiger traps, sharpened stake barricades all seem like good ideas to me.

If you have electricity then a sharp metal spinning death machine sounds cool, but I don't think it's really fitting. I mean it IS, but it just doesn't feel "Project Zomboid"-ey, at least not to me. Maybe an electrical zappy thing that they step on and it slows them down or stops them entirely for a short time, but honestly that doesn't really feel right either. This isn't horde defense. That's a different game by a different company.

honestly spinning saw traps would be a great thing for zomboid. I just wish zombies would converge on your base and slowly accumulate over time

[elvendualwielder]

Zombies can't break down certain things.
One of them is building Wooden Fence/Wooden Crate/Wooden Fence.
They'll try to vault the fence, but the crate's in the way, and the fence stops them from crawling over the crate.
This takes a lot of logs, but I use it around my fishing spots, along with an alternate way to access it, like stairs to a Sheet Rope.

[LIMP BISQUICK]

Unfortunately nothing in the game yet. "What would you do in a zombie apocalypse?" I would definitely be making traps, manipulating the environment around me before bashing hundreds of zombies.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

I had this idea of using a Gigamart or a tavern as a base and turning it into a fortress/D-Day hellscape by using the open floor plan to my advantage; building walls and creating a maze out of it, forcing them into a kill-box. As one person pointed out zombies vault fences so you can do some nifty things like this.

You could also do this with vehicles and arrange vehicles in a certain pattern like walls themselves.

I love smaller vehicles for reasons like these, you can drive them inside buildings.

[LostSoul]

Originally posted by SgtEmissary Kane's Will:

I had this idea of using a Gigamart or a tavern as a base and turning it into a fortress/D-Day hellscape by using the open floor plan to my advantage; building walls and creating a maze out of it, forcing them into a kill-box. As one person pointed out zombies vault fences so you can do some nifty things like this.

You could also do this with vehicles and arrange vehicles in a certain pattern like walls themselves.

I love smaller vehicles for reasons like these, you can drive them inside buildings.

Zombies can easily get hung up on destructible obstacles, even when there's a clear path between you and them. I've watched one stop a couple cells away from me, nothing between us, just so it could smack around a propane grill beside it. And this was a lone zombie with, like I said, nothing obstructing its path to me.

Trying to create an obstacle course for zombies to follow would most likely result in them just mindlessly tearing it all down instead.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by LostSoul:

Originally posted by SgtEmissary Kane's Will:

I had this idea of using a Gigamart or a tavern as a base and turning it into a fortress/D-Day hellscape by using the open floor plan to my advantage; building walls and creating a maze out of it, forcing them into a kill-box. As one person pointed out zombies vault fences so you can do some nifty things like this.

You could also do this with vehicles and arrange vehicles in a certain pattern like walls themselves.

I love smaller vehicles for reasons like these, you can drive them inside buildings.

Zombies can easily get hung up on destructible obstacles, even when there's a clear path between you and them. I've watched one stop a couple cells away from me, nothing between us, just so it could smack around a propane grill beside it. And this was a lone zombie with, like I said, nothing obstructing its path to me.

Trying to create an obstacle course for zombies to follow would most likely result in them just mindlessly tearing it all down instead.

Sometimes but not always and theres a benefit to this; they'll be focused on destroying those obstacles where you can take free shots at them.

Fence cheesing is a thing.

That and they dont attack cars. So those are still a option.

[LostSoul]

Originally posted by SgtEmissary Kane's Will:

Originally posted by LostSoul:

Zombies can easily get hung up on destructible obstacles, even when there's a clear path between you and them. I've watched one stop a couple cells away from me, nothing between us, just so it could smack around a propane grill beside it. And this was a lone zombie with, like I said, nothing obstructing its path to me.

Trying to create an obstacle course for zombies to follow would most likely result in them just mindlessly tearing it all down instead.

Sometimes but not always and theres a benefit to this; they'll be focused on destroying those obstacles where you can take free shots at them.

Fence cheesing is a thing.

That and they dont attack cars. So those are still a option.

Yeah, I'm not saying it can't be done. Just that the results are likely to be disappointing. Particularly given the time and resources that would go into such an effort.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by LostSoul:

Originally posted by SgtEmissary Kane's Will:

Sometimes but not always and theres a benefit to this; they'll be focused on destroying those obstacles where you can take free shots at them.

Fence cheesing is a thing.

That and they dont attack cars. So those are still a option.

Yeah, I'm not saying it can't be done. Just that the results are likely to be disappointing. Particularly given the time and resources that would go into such an effort.

Thats fair, in my experience I've had some good moments where I've done similar things to that.

[Kaldrak]

Ambulance, Multiple campfires around it with decent amounts of fuel in each. Light campfires. Turn on siren. RUN.

Edit: You probably do NOT want to do this around your base though, lol.