Difficulty Settings.

[Stumpelwurz]

Hey there guys!

I tried a higher difficulty but all it does is making zombies more tanky.
Is there any setting which just raises zombie numbers outside of bloodmoon?

[Ensign Toby]

In Vanilla, no.
You could mess with the .xml files for this, but you'll run into performance issues quickly.

I have noticed that in v1.2 there are many more Zombies wandering around without Hordes.
This may just be due to my higher game stage, but I used to see hardly any all day/biomes.

Now, it seems they are everywhere (Nearly every other chunk or so).
There is a lot more wildlife spawning around as well.

I like it, but constantly leaving my vehicle to "say hi" makes trips take a lot longer.

If you really want some fun, try to purposefully summon 1 (or more) Screamer Hordes.
Ignore the Screamers, so they constantly summon more Screamers...

BTW: You'll probably want to be near (or already in) your Horde Base, but you do you.

[Boomski]

Turn on zombie feral sense. Set zeds to run in the daytime
You will definitely notice a difference in the attention you get
Both settings are in the load menu details