Horde spawned on the roof of my tower...

[Oberst Klink]

In the middle of the lake I constructed a 12x12 tower (with access to mining-tunnels, crafting, farming, crafting, etc.). There never any Zombies appeared, so it seemed quite safe.
I knew I would become a magnet for hordes anyway, but usually 2-3 SMG magazines in combination with headshots were enough to deal with them.
But one day, when I was mining, I heard a rumble from above. A horde spawned on the roof of my building and while I fought them back, even more Zombies spawned. My tower became a mess....
I like the threat and danger of wandering/hording Zombies, but this spawning-behavior is annoying.
I wonder if a horde could spawn in an underground-base....

[El Zamuro]

Wait until wildlife (deer, rabbits, pigs) magically teleports into your "secure" garden, be it encircled by reinforced concrete walls or atop a 3 story building's rooftop, and trashes the place. Little hoofs and paws climbing up ladders, defeating your "secure" door, or simply ninja-ing up a blank wall to get to your tasty produce.

[Oberst Klink]

Oh, I have no problems with my farm-buildings, the plants are safe and no animal/zombie spawns inside. The problem are the roofs.

[nitnoid2002]

How tall is your tower and where is your sleeping bag?

[Drake Whitewolf]

I too had problems with hordes of zombies spawning on top of my look out tower that is 4 stories tall and the only way up there is a boxed in ladder. I'm always shooting zombies off the top of my towers with no way of looting them. And with the wild life, yeah I have had an elk and rabbits spawn in my two tall barbed wire tall fence and destory almost half of my crops before I can shoot the freakers. I think the spawning is just compleat random becaise the strangests spawns I have seen is when a zombie and a dog will spawn inside my fort's double block thick walls. I can hear them but cant see them until they break a block and there they are, stuck inside the blocks, easy pickings then but I would like to wast them before they destory my work for some materials are hard to come by.

[Humpenstilzchen]

That´s in fact the main reason i don´t play it anymore atm.. I build a fort to be save, but when zombies spawn inside of your house, it´s pointless and extremely annoying..
Btw i also build my fort in the middle of a lake, because normaly there aren´t any zombies spawning.. So you build a whole day to see, that the zombies just spawn right in front of you, or on the rooftop..sorry but thats ridiculous´..
I´m gonna wait for the next patch hoping that this mess gets fixed..

Sorry, if there are mistakes, english is not my mother´s language.. ;)

[Zirael]

the current entitiy spawn is hopefully only a placeholder and will change when the new zombie KI is finished
the random spawn works like "rain". they drop out of thin air and land on the first block below them no matter if this is the natural ground, the roof of your tower or farmland

for the farms, you have to build a greenhouse. put a roof on the farm and no animal or zombie will spawn in there

[Oberst Klink]

OK, I found a solution for the roof-spawns. The PLANE SURFACES are like SPAWN-POINTS. Put some sticks or other stuff on the surfaces and the spawn-point is gone. In this clip you can also see my construction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hium3WmOV_c

To deal the problem with the "magical gps hordes" I don't stay in my tower, when it becomes dark. I'm building a defense-post in some distance to my keep...

[Daniel]

ummm, it's good to know, but it's more hard to make inside to stop horde they appear inside our house...

[Zirael]

you are sure that they spawned inside?

only prefabs POI have spawnpoints inside, best example is the police officer in the police station, and those spawns are bound to the prefab or listed in the entity spawn file

i never had to take out an zombie inside of my closed buildings

[nitnoid2002]

I usually hole up in a prefab house until I gather enough resources to build where I want. I never have an issue of z's spawning inside. They might break some outside blocks and get in, but they don't spawn inside.

Like I asked before, how tall / wide are you building and where is your sleeping bag?

[Oberst Klink]

Inside of my buildings I never had a spawn.

[Daniel]

yes, i have begin to build a small castle, i have finished to build the square of my trench and the square of the wall of my building, the wall inside make 21 x 21 and in this time they have 4 block hight, even me i am not able to go in because under construction and they have no stair, but i have listening noise on the other side of the block, and when i have succest to put thing to go up to go look what is happening, they have zombie they bashed the wall...,

so i have need to jump in the place to stop her destroying my wall from the inside, they have no door no windows nothing they can give her access to the place, and the wall have be made in reenforced concrete and have no hole in it, so when i view this i have understand captain Spok have again teleported zombie inside the place,

for the sleeping bag, i am not sure but i think they protect only 7 square of your sleeping bag, i have trying in a house already build, with two door locked to protect the house and in this too they appear and destroy all from the inside...

[Zirael]

@daniel
so long you have no roof on your castle and i mean on the hole structure there will ever be random spawn behind your walls

this need to be fixed, maybe by raising the range of the sleeping bag

if you only build walls, with no way out, you force the zombies to smash your walls

[Red Eagle LXIX]

I had the same feeling last night. I secured a building. Set my bed and keystone. All was good. The next day I went to loot the building right across the street. While I was looting that building the daily spawn must have occurred, 7 zombies all inside my secured building that housed my bed and keystone. All inside the building. They tore out the wall facing the street to try and cross the street to get at me (all because when Zombies spawn, they spawn knowing where you are). They essentially wrecked the building I was using as a base. Makes playing somewhat less fun when you can't actually clear anything properly.

[patgal5492]

I had a zombie spawn in a locked cave, 10 feet from my active sleeping bag.
I guess they are the new creepers.