If you die on 7 day horde are you dead?

[LordyMatsuo]

So i'm enjoying this game so far about 8 hours in and i keep restarting as i'm learning and trying to make sure i'm ready for the 7 day horde.

I'm wondering though, whilst the 7 day horde is a great "reason" to play and upgrade as you want to survive it how does respawning work? I mean when i die normally, i respawn, go get my bag and have lost nothing.

I am hoping there are harder consequences on the 7th days. I was thinking the challenge of the game was to survive and maybe a perma death feature where each play through i'm trying to top my previously number of days survived. Now i see it's more about the RPG elements of increasing ranks and surviving etc which is a nice mix.

Just wondering how the 7th days scale in diffilculty and does there ever become a point where it gets so hard and your under prepared that there is nothing else to do but quit and start again?

I just feel the the 7 day thing, whilst im not there yet could just be something i either hide from or if i die what have I lost ill just respawn over and over again until that night is done, is there more to it than this?

[xRimuruTx]

after 7days u still survive
7 days easy horde... 14th days harder hord... every 7 days the horde become harder

[Moonear]

I feel the game each time died only means can't survive in zombie's world and end world's environment.

^^

[Brassqund]

Actually, when you die you always lose wellness which reduce
your maximum health and stamina.

Also, on the setting you can make you drop items...
or even make them be deleted. Personnally I erase the world
on death but I am pretty hardcore.

For night 7 and all other hordes, there is no extra
consequences. Just what you had set + lose of welness.

Also, here things you should know abou the hordes.
- They know where you are. Always.
- They are spawning all the night.
- The more days pass, the more the kind of zombies which spawn is powerful.
- The more you are doing good, the harder the horde
- Zombies hate doors. Be sure this is not on their reach or
they will destroy it in a couple of second... or put some blocks.

Finally, can you die over and over in hordes?
Of course you can. This is to you to make sure that doesn't
happen. Not dying is of course the best but you have to be ready
in case you do. For example, you can make a cheap tower
and put your sleeping bag there with some equipment.
This way, even if your base is invaded, you will be save
on respawn... or simply putting it on your roof or something.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by lordymatsuo:

I am hoping there are harder consequences on the 7th days.

Nope. Dying to the day 7 horde has the same consequences as dying any other time. You respawn at your bedroll with -10 wellness.
The main reason to survive the 7 day horde is to see how far you can get. Like already mentioned, every 7 days the horde becomes stronger. Later you have hundreds of zombies in each horde.
Most longtime players try to survive as long as possible and start a new game when they die.
But a permadeath mode is planned for the next update.
In the end, the game is just a giant sandbox and every player should be able to play it as they want.
Some want harsher punishments for death, thats fine. Other players dont, thats fine too.

[LordyMatsuo]

all good comments thanks guys, now back to some zombie bashign for me and try and get to that 7th day without resetting haha

[Grimfang50]

I used to do the restart as well, because I just wasn't comfortable with or even had my base finished enough to even try. Now, I try to find a town with an outskirting area for my base, and then use a POI for a base. Two that work really well when you are pinched is the Shotgun Messiah and the Bank.

[Skine]

never tried this but the Prison seems like a really good place to build at the start. most of the walls are reinforced concrete.

[Nimbull]

I use a prison POI for my 7th day horde nights. I tend to fix it up with wood to see how long it'll be before the zombies fully crumble the place. Day 112 horde coming up for me. Place is still standing and I use the towers as a filter to slow the zombies ladder and stair climbs and kill them on the roof. Left overs I go down and beat with a club after beating the roof ones melee.

The outer walls make a great place to kite zombies and/or pick em off with a bow. Just be sure to have the railings in place so they can't get around as easy.