Limit Red Zombie Attacks!

[Tony VN]

I Like a little challange so I enable attacks at night. But as you reach a population of 90+, the red zombies come in too large of attack waves to handle.

[Deniro]

you need more guards, you can get like 3 dudes for every berry farmer and like 6 per wheat farmer
so you gotta be about 30-50% guards if you enabled spawning during the day and double the monsters

if you're having trouble with just the normal monsters at night (not double or daytime) then you gotta add some walls around your colony if you haven't already!

[Tony VN]

That's Fine. I have Plenty of Gaurds.

[Vuld_Edone]

With a 100 pop colony, even with double the zombis and no maze you only need ~25 guards. 21 if you squeeze it a bit. Of course that assumes bows and crossbows. And walls, with a single entrance, etc...

As a side note though, I do wish there was another difficulty mode, where the zombis would spawn, but they wouldn't attack. They would just err around your safe radius, blindly, until you get in their radius, at which point they try and get you.
That would be incredibly easy to deal with but still give you something to shoot at. If anything it would help for when you travel alone, away from your flag, and zombis don't even bother you. There you could have them spawn at night on a 300 blocks radius...

Double/daylight zombis only mean guards and production, so it only slows down everything, but it's not really harder otherwise.

[Smemegod]

At a population of 100 you should definitely be around crossbows, at least. Make sure you have enough guards (I recommend about a third of your colonists be guards) and they're properly equipped with a mix of bows and crossbows. It shouldn't be overwhelming at only 100 colonists unless you have daytime zombies or double turned on, in which case you should turn them off :)

[Tony VN]

Great tips, people. This should be pinned.

[llldiver]

another great tip is to have the monsters funnelled in 1 place or opening after a maze path so u can pick some off from a safe distance