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If you like survival try turning off loot respawn, lowering loot abundance and avoiding the traders. You can also create a random world map with less of the Pine Forest, fewer cities (which should also lower the number of traders) and spend more time in the wilderness and more time in higher tier biomes. I've had fun playing all desert or snow maps. Not only are the enemies different but the environment is an obstacle from day 1. Playing a No Trader or just No Quest game can be fun but there are no vanilla settings to control that, you have to avoid them or limit interaction with them yourself.
If you like the tower defense aspects you can increase the zombie count, speed and damage during blood moon. Maybe also increase the duration of blood moons. Defending against a swarm of 64 nightmare speed zombies with increased block damage on Insane is a totally different experience than the default 8 zombies on Adventurer. I also like trying to build a base that looks like a real building (a simple cabin, an apartment building, a shop, whatever), not some physics defying Rub Goldberg machine although those can be fun as well.
Then there are overhaul mods if you want a totally different experience. Darkness Falls, Undead Legacy, Ravenhearst, wild west etc. I'm not sure which are A21 compatible though.
theres no other way to make vanilla fun because the devs patched it out
If you want to be terrified out of your skin play on the hardest setting. Zombies run always. No air drops. Zombies do massive damage to blocks.
Personally I like a Romero/Walking Dead vibe. So I have Zombies that can't run. I'm on mid vanilla settings. But I play death means death. So one slip up and I start again.
I seem to remember there was a guy a while back who played the game as a house flipper game. He turned off the Zs and just went around renovating the old damaged houses. That looked quite fun.
So, what makes it UN-fun for you? Whatever that un-fun thing is, go into your settings and change it. Keep changing it until you get things to a better place, then try another setting and another.
The initial game settings are very good and change many things about the game helping you to fit it to your specific idea of fun. This is different for everyone. Do a bit of research and you can change even MORE things about your game using the xml files. The developers have give us a huge amount of leeway with this game, allowing us to make it fit each person just the way we'd like.
So, to make the game fun, make it fun for YOU. Don't follow what You-Tubers or other players do. Check things out for yourself because we don't play the way you. You don't play the way others play. Most importantly, if you're not successful in changing your settings so you're having fun, if you have more questions, ask!
There are several good mods out there.
Darkness Falls
War of the Walkers
Age of Oblivion
War3zUK
Ravenhearst
Undead Legacy
and alot more. 7daystodiemods Has a ton of options for you.
Only one I know of atm that has reverted most of the changes in A21 is Darkness Falls.
If you are running a server, there are server side mods (only the Server needs the mod, not the players joining)
check out the site and see if you can find something.
After the first few hundred hours I switched to playing overhaul mods:
https://7daystodiemods.com/overhaul-mods/
Maybe some more from other sources, but I like that website for 7DTD mods and it has plenty.
The overhaul mods can be extremely different to the vanilla game. For example, some have magic. Some have a story. Some are more subtle in their big changes. For example, in the Wild West mod the apocalypse happened some time around 1870. Might not seem like a big change...until you consider what guns existed then. That significantly changes the game.
On the whole, overhaul mods are harder than vanilla. Some are far, far harder. If that's what you want, I suggest Darkness Falls or War3zUK.
If you can narrow down what you want to change, there are many other mods that change less of the game rather than being complete overhauls.
for example, i usually played hardcore but then i decided to make a fun playthrough and increased loot and xp gain without hardcore settings, then i decided to change things up and not build a typical base out of something and surround it with a thousand spikes
so i played some what recreational, and so far it's been a blast
some of these dont even exist or work with the newest version of this game.
i wish undead legacy still existed for a21. but it seems to not be available for it at all anymore. idk if its dead or still beeing worked. it was back then by far the most POLISHED and vanilla esque overhaul mod.
darkness falls and the like go way too much into the supernatural part of enemies for me.
Do these shake up the game play loop at all or is it still Fight, loot, build/craft and repeat? I know it asking a lot for anything more lol
This was a fun one in A17. A massive pillared base 20-something blocks off the ground that had 4 apartments, pool areas, 2 indoor theaters, 2 bar areas, a gyro landing strip, room for 600 crops, a bowling alley, my horde fighting area, and the drive-in theater that actually worked.
I had a mod installed that allowed you to use MP4 files that would play on an 8x5 screen and have audio. The theater only had room for 3 cars, but it could be accessed via a ramp from ground level that integrated into my landing strip.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1823414877
Nothing will ever shake up the gameplay loop as some form of that loop will always be present. You cant change this into my little ponies walk through a rainbow forest as that architecture just isnt there.
By the looks of some of the skins/screenshot, we'll have pony mods soon enough. But yeah I always knew it was a long-shot.
Its not a problem. If a mod can bring players more fun then thats a win.