7 Days to Die is anunusual game, famous for its strong enemy AI and a unique set of rules for survival. It uncovers the murky world full of zombies, and you may find it hard to make your way through it in the very beginning.
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This beginner's guide will give you all the necessary information on how to survive at the initial stages of 7 Days to Die. You will learn how to defend yourself, how to build and reinforce various structures, and how to level up your character.
How to Find and Craft Weapons in 7 Days to Die
Melee weapons
On your first day of survival you will be able to find your first melee weapon -- a Spiked Club. It's really easy to upgrade with the simplest of materials, such as wood and stone, and will serve you well for a few days.
Later you will be able to find or craft a Sledgehammer -- a much better melee weapon although a bit heavier. It can be found in crates inside the Working Stiffs Hardware Stores that are usually located in towns and cities. Crafting a Sledgehammer is a bit trickier, since it requires a forged iron.
In the latter part of the game try to find a Machete -- it’s fast and strong, and it chops zombies like salad. You will not be able to craft it, so don’t bother with the materials.
Guns
The other type of weapon you can’t craft in 7 Days to Die is guns. However, you will be able to find gun parts and special knowledge books. As soon as you have all the parts and the book, let’s say for an AK47, you will be able to assemble the actual AK47.
You can also just find guns in special gun safes that are usually located inside houses behind the iron bars.
How to Use Tools to Reinforce Your Base
Besides weapons you need to craft tools that will help you build and reinforce your structures. One of your first tools will be a simple Stone Axe. It’s not very strong, but it will serve you well in the initial parts of the game.
Later on you will be able to upgrade it to a Fireaxe and eventually a Steel Fireaxe. They are all essential tools for gathering wood, stone and metal that will be used to build spikes, wood log spikes and barbed wire fence.
As you find a building you will need to reinforce it with the help of your tools. First, destroy all the stairs and build ladders instead -- this will prevent zombies from getting inside your house. After that, build spikes all around the house, and then put wood log spikes on the perimeter.
Finally, destroy all the doors in the building and build new ones with metal reinforcement; also, do the same with windows.
How to Stay Hydrated and Preserve Your Food
Finding and purifying water
Water and food are essential for survival in 7 Days to Die. You can find water in any natural water source, such as river. However, this water may be dirty, and although you could drink it as it is, you should be aware of the dangers of dysentery.
The best would be to purify the water by boiling it on a campfire using a simple cooking pot. You can also stay hydrated by eating some canned and fresh foods, such as mushrooms.
Farming and cooking food
There are several ways you can get food in 7 Days to Die. First, you can kill wild animals and cook meat on a campfire. But you should not eat rotten flesh; otherwise you will get food poisoning.
Another way to have some extra food is to farm it. You will need a farming hoe and seeds, which you will be able to find while traveling around, such as coffee, corn, potatoes and blueberries.
Use the gardening hoe to till the dirt and then plant the seeds into the fertile soil. The seeds will soon turn into consumables which you can harvest, though corn takes twice as long to ripe as the rest of the foods in the game.
Howto Upgrade Your Character and Progress through 7 Days to Die
Leveling up in 7 Days to Die is quite easy to do because every action gives you experience points. For example, if you repair or upgrade something, your Construction Tools skill will level up automatically; if you kill zombies with your club, then you will get experience in the Blunt Weapons section; etc.
Best perks
You can also invest your experience points into perks. The best perk for early game is Quality Joe -- it will allow you to find tools and weapons of higher quality, meaning that they will last longer and require less repairing.
Another great perk to start with is Quicker Crafting -- which allows you to craft items much faster. Here are a few other perks you should consider upgrading: Concrete Mixing, Steel Smithing, and Workbench.
Wellness
One of the most important attributes of your character is Wellness. This attribute significantly impacts your progress in the game, so the higher your Wellness is the better chance of surviving you have.
You mostly gain Wellness points by eating good food, so it is important to know what types of foods give you the highest amount of Wellness points. Here is the complete breakdown of all available foods in the game.
Also, every time you die you will lose 10 points of Wellness, so remember to refill them after each death.
You should also keep in mind that when you die, the game will automatically respawn you in a random place on the map -- so it would be wise to either craft or find a Bedroll that serves as a checkpoint. This will allow you to respawn at the exact spot where you’ve left your Bedroll on the map.
Early Game Essential Items:
- Building materials: Wood Frames, Log Cabin Wood, Stone.
- Tools: Stone Axe, Wooden Club, Stone Shovel, Wooden Bow.
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- Consumables: Bottled Water, Canned Food.
- Resources: Food, Bottled Water, Medicine, Scrap Iron.
- Items: Ammo, Bandages, Bottled Water, Arrows.
This should be enough for you to survive the first few days in 7 Days to Die. Later you will be able to find other players and join them on one of many multiplayer survival servers.
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7 Days to Die | |
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Developer(s) | The Fun Pimps |
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Engine | Unity |
Platform(s) | Linux Microsoft Windows Mac OS X PlayStation 4 Xbox One |
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Genre(s) | Survival horror |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
7 Days to Die is a survival horrorvideo game set in an open world developed by The Fun Pimps. It was released through Early Access on Steam for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on December 13, 2013, and for Linux on November 22, 2014. Versions for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released in 2016 through Telltale Publishing.
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Story[edit]
The game's events happen after a nuclear Third World War that destroyed an extremely large part of the world, except for some areas such as the fictional county of Navezgane, Arizona. The player is a survivor of the war who must survive by finding shelter, food and water, as well as scavenging supplies to fend off the numerous zombies (hinted to be the consequence of nuclear fallout) that populate Navezgane. Though there is no real objective except surviving at this moment, the developers hinted at a possible storyline that will be added in future updates.[citation needed]
Gameplay[edit]
In 7 Days to Die, the player spawns into a randomly-generated world or the preset world of Navezgane, Arizona, with the objective of surviving for as long as possible against the elements and the zombie hordes. As a survival game, the player character is in constant need of water and food for sustenance, as well as being vulnerable to injury and illness. The game is voxel-based (similar in some aspects to Minecraft), allowing for simple building, and destruction of objects in a physics-simulated environment (for example, building a structure with no support such as pillars and walls can lead to its collapse).[1][2] Objects in the world degrade through use, so the player has to search for or make new tools as the game progresses. The player can also gather and create materials—from nature and the remnants of human civilization—to construct these necessary items.[3][4]
While the game includes wildlife that can be hunted for food or will hunt the player, the main hazard is zombies, which are affected by the game's day/night cycle—during the day they are relatively slow-moving and easy targets that can only detect the player at relatively close ranges, but at night they become feral, which makes them move much faster and thus greatly increases their threat. As the in-game days progress, tougher and more aggressive variants begin to appear.[5] Stealth and distraction can be used to avoid unnecessary conflict, while carrying foods that have a smell (such as raw meat) will attract zombies. They are also drawn to areas of human (i.e. player) activity, and will relentlessly attack anything that impedes their movement until they are killed or the obstacle is destroyed—this includes player fortifications. Should they detect the player, zombies will apply the same single-minded pursuit until the player is either dead, or leaves the immediate area.
The game's title is a reference to an important event that occurs every seventh day of in-game time, whereby hordes of zombies attack the player's current location en masse—unless sufficient preparation has been made and defences constructed, the player will quickly be overwhelmed.
Multiplayer[edit]
Multiplayer is available through player-hosted servers and enables multiple players to interact and communicate with each other on a single world. Interactions can be cooperative or hostile depending on the used server options. Players can run their own servers or use a hosting provider. Single player worlds have local area network support, allowing players to join worlds on locally interconnected computers without a server setup. Players are also able to provide Wide Area Network support via single player worlds. 7 Days to Die servers can run on consoles, Windows and Linux.[6] There are two supported game modes for multiplayer: Survival (both randomly generated and standard) and Creative.
Development[edit]
The Windows alpha version of the game was released on August 16, 2013, for people who pre-ordered the game on either Kickstarter or PayPal. As of August 11, 2013, development of the game is ongoing with a Kickstarter campaign ending on August 15.[7] The estimated release date was May 2014 for Microsoft Windows; Macintosh and Linux versions were planned for later in the year.[8]
The game was also greenlit on Steam[9] after 23 days getting over 75,000 yes votes, 8,340 followers, and 8,700 favorites. It was number one on Steam Greenlight, after only 16 days with over 56,000 votes.[10] The Mac version was released on September 13, 2013 at the same time as update Alpha 1.1.[11]
PC[edit]
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7 Days To Die was released to the public on Alpha 1.0. Only users who had backed the game via the Kickstarter Campaign or who bought it via PayPal had access to the Alpha until Alpha 5.0 which was released on Steam as an Early Access game on December 13, 2013.[12]
Since the Alpha release of 7 Days To Die there were multiple game changing updates that contained features such as a new snow biome, forging systems, new weapons, general graphical changes and smoother terrains which would be completed by Alpha 8.
Alpha 7.8 was released on April 4, 2014 and was promptly followed by Alpha 7.9 on April 8, 2014.[13] Alpha 7.10 was later added on April 19, 2014. Alpha 8 was released on May 7, 2014 which updated the visuals to zombie animations and smoothed the terrain for a final time.[14] Alpha Version 9 was released on August 19, 2014 and added random generated worlds, new injuries, new light effects, and new graphics.[citation needed] Alpha Version 10 was released on November 22, 2014 and added a new character creation system with face/body morphing and visible clothing, a new zombie horde world heat map system and a new wellness system.[15]
Alpha Version 11 was released on April 2, 2015, where the developers updated to Unity 5, which includes many graphical improvements, a new quality range system for guns, weapons, tools and armor and a new Zombie called 'Feral'.[16] Alpha 12 was released on July 3, 2015, and added a new vehicle system with a Mini Bike, first weather system, new sound and physic systems, among other fixes and additions.[17] Alpha 13 was released on December 10, 2015, adding temperature survival elements, a skill system, and a redesigned crafting system.[18] The difficulty of the game has increased, but it continues to be popular.[19]
Alpha 14 was released on March 26, 2016, with further improvements and more features, a lot of bug fixes, as well as some performance and graphic optimizations.[20] Alpha 15 was then released on October 5, 2016 with major improvements to random generated maps, a trader system, a new difficulty scaling and several more features. The UMA-Zombies that were introduced in this Alpha would be removed in Alpha 16.[21]
On June 6, 2017, Alpha 16 was released.[22] This release added electricity to the game for the first time and introduced various traps including electric fences and spinning blades.
On November 19th, 2018, Alpha 17 was formally released[23] which added a quest system as well as new vehicles and numerous system overhauls.
PC Requirements
Before individuals decide to purchase 7 Days to Die on Steam their PCs, they must make sure that their PC specs have the minimum requirements to run the game on the lowest settings.[24]
Window Requirements | ||
Minimum Windows 7 Days to Die System Requirements | Recommended Windows 7 Days to Die Requirements | |
CPU | 2.4 GHz Dual Core CPU | 3.0 GHz Quad Core CPU or faster |
Sound Card | Direct X compatible | Direct X compatible |
RAM/Memory | 8 GB (4 GB of available space) | 12 GB / 16 GB |
OS | Windows XP (Service Pack 3) | Windows 7 or Higher |
Video Card | Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon HD 4770 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 or ATI Radeon HD 5850 |
Direct X | Version 10 | Version 10 |
Pixel & Vertex Shader | 3.0 | 5.0 |
Free Disk Space | 1 GB | 1 GB |
Dedicated Video/Graphics | 1 GB | 2 GB |
Network | Broadband internet connection | Broadband internet connection |
Hard Drive | 4 GB available space | 4 GB available space |
Console[edit]
In April 2016, the game was announced for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It was published by Telltale Publishing and released in June and July 2016.[25]
The most recent update for the console versions, Patch 13, was released on December 13, 2017. This patch updates the PlayStation 4 version of the game to version 1.18, and the Xbox One version of the game to version 1.0.18.0.[26]
Telltale's Closure[edit]
On September 21, 2018, Telltale Games abruptly laid off most of its staff due to financial problems[27][28], and on October 11, 2018, began liquidating its assets through Sherwood Partners.[29][30] A statement by The Fun Pimps on November 13, 2018, via their official online forum stated “upon hearing the news, The Fun Pimps immediately terminated its license agreement with Telltale, which only allowed publishing rights on the console ports of the 7 Days to Die game.” They went on to say that this “also severed Telltale's rights to any future updates or sequels of the 7 Days to Die franchise.”[31]
Since then, and as of June 2019, no official public information about the status of the game's publishing rights of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 has been released by The Fun Pimps or Telltale Games. The console ports have not received any updates since December 2017.
Reception[edit]
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The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of 7 Days to Die received 'unfavorable' reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[39][40]
As of June 2018 the game scored a 'very positive' review by over 46,000 reviews on Steam[41] and was one of the 'Top 100 Selling games of 2017' on Steam, despite still being in alpha stage development.[42]
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External links[edit]
- 7 Days to Die at MobyGames