Your Choice for a Day 7 Horde Base? - The Eko Box - 7 Days to Die
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Block by block tutorial on my early gamestage horde base for Alpha 21 using a lot of the new block shapes. I'll compare this between a basic box on stilts and a much more aesthetically pleasing base that can hold up to a mid game horde. I'll toss a horde at it to show you how it performs as well!
Abyss Episodes using this base:
Build Day 5 : • First Horde Base Build...
Horde Day 7: • Base Under Siege ... W...
Downloadable as POI via Patreon:
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Someone asked about the paint textures used, so I figured I would share:
(123) Metal Rusty Green - exterior green
(98) Concrete Trim 2 - exterior and interior trim
(24) Pillcase Side - black exterior parts
(113) Medicine Cabinet - ladder sides
(42) Carpet 6 - Interior carpet
(115) Chalkboard - interior green walls
(183) Rusted Metal Roof - interior roof
(136) Green Metal Roof - roof top
(143) Metal Tread Plate 1 - area around fighting position
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Chapters:
0:00 Base Overview
1:15 Eko Box Build
15:05 Horde Battle
20:05 Results
#7daystodie #alpha21 #letsplay 
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One missed item in the tutorial that I forget to explain:
• *Safety Bar* - On the underside on each side of the opening with the door, place GableWedge60s with the flat side facing in. Then connect two Pillar '0.025m Middle' to create your safety bar!
u could put plates on the underside of the base so you could use 2 sets of double doors for the grenade shoot....prolly give you a bigger window for mollys. dope build as usual way
ps....i like the subtle changes to the thumbnails. gj. the "eko" backgrounds changing depending on theme is a nice touch.......nerd.
Can't wait to try this as a reward to making it to my first Day 100 in A21. Thank You for sharing
#StolenDesign
Tell me more how it's stolen and site a reference.
I really appreciate how easy you make it to follow these builds
Quite welcome -- that's a lot of what takes time ... the planning to make sure they are logical to follow!
its survivalist difficulty - its meant to be easy. I am surviving with the same parameters but in insane. Thats where skill is required
You’ve inspired me to build more aesthetically than my simple concrete boxes. Would definitely have more traps by day 49.
More traps would have made this sooo much easier.
This has to be one of the most detailed base building tutorials I've seen for any game. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for that!!
Except, a new person needs a week just to figure out where they want their base to be.
I always just go with as close to the trader as possible!
Not really at all. Find somewhere that you like the look of? Build there. Find somewhere that’s convenient, like by a trader? Build there.
This was an awesome tutorial! I just built it in my single player world and it took me less than 30mins!
I can’t wait to paint/decorate it.
Thank you for making these videos so easy to follow!!
When you get it done, drop a picture in my discord! I love to see the little changes each person makes!
You and Temreki build the most gorgeous bases, even for something as basic as box & ramp. You have way more patience than I do. I’m lucky to get something functional sometimes, and not a fragile death trap. This, though, this is straightforward, effective, and surprisingly elegant.
I love the grenade behind the doors trick. Will be integrating that into future builds.
Thanks so much for that susskins! Always appreciate your support! I had a lot of fun with this one and really wanted to make use of the new toys in A21! Play around in the prefab editor! Let's you think through builds without any stress!
I like painting ladders (scaffolding ladders specifically) yellow because it actually looks decent and it pops which makes it easier to see if you're coming in late or take a trip outside.🙂
I do that a lot as well! For this build I wanted to ladders to match the overall design! I completely agree though, yellow looks awesome on the ladders
Amazing video! The production quality with step by steps and grid measurements is incredible!
Thanks so much!! Planning on doing more of these as the response has been great!
Thank so much for this video, thank you for making it so easy to follow. This is my favorite horde base to date, it looks good and its effective
Appreciate he feedback and glad it's working for you!!!
Met you on GNS, happy to subscribe after seeing this video. I love building tutorials and building in general and you do such a great job of explaining and showing how everything works.
Base building is my jam! Glad you enjoyed. I have another one coming out next week on a horde base design!
Excellent and fun base design. Thank you for the video.
I am super excited to try this!!! Thanks so much for this, you make it so easy to understand 🥰
You are so welcome!
You make the most beautiful bases in all of 7dtd on RUclips. Well done man.
Thanks so much!!!
That's a superb looking little starter base and you made it very easy to follow along. You have definitely inspired me to be more creative with my base builds!
Thanks so much and glad it provided some ideas!
I am all about the 'look' of things and absolutely love this one, now I have to write it all down as a step by step and try it in a test world
Most of my bases trend toward form over function! It's what keeps me coming back to 7dtd!
Cleanest tutorial I've ever seen. I wouldn't use this as a storage base per say, but I will use a variation of this in the future, though not quite as fancy. The whole grid set up to illustrate block placement made my OCD very happy.
Thanks so much for that! You'll see this base evolve over the next few weeks as I build it to expand and have a new modular base structure! Hope it brings new ideas!
I will definitely build this monster of a base!
I love being able to create visually appealing bases but get overwhelmed trying to find the right shapes. Thank you for sharing this as it gives me a better idea of what blocks work where. Thanks Eko!
I always tell folks ... pick a few new blocks in each new build and use them as the base theme ... then next time pick a few more. Over time they start to become second nature.
You are excellent at explaining things and showing how to build.
That makes my heart sing! Definitely will be doing more of these!
you deserve so many more subs! you're amazing at base building!!!
Thanks so much for that! I'll get there in time! Appreciate the love!
Spectacular video, great attention to detail, incredibly professional too great job!
Thanks kindly!!
Nice base! I am trying it out myself now. Only on day 2 or 3. looking forward to seeing how it will hold up on hoard night. Thanks for the inspiration! :)
Good luck!
its always nice seeing what blocks people like to use now, i dont build bases like this, but the choice you make, make me consider how to "fix" my usual ones, its fun for inspiration, thanks!
Over time it becomes easier if you just try tossing in a new block or two as a theme to play with ... it starts to build new ideas!
It's like a new game when you have a base like this. Thank you for this step-by-step video. Amazing!
I'm a huge fan of making the apocalypse feel more homy.
@@WaywardEko I used to build like a giant cube on pillars - it was effective but it was not looking good. And I realised after like 500 hours of playing that you can actually have fun building bases and design them to your liking... It's not just a "chore" that I have to do to survive the horde night anymore. And videos like this give me so many new ideas on what I can build.
This base is savage gotta try this out at some stage
OOO I like this! I was going to just build my usual super box (modded) but I like this way more. Appreciate the tutorial.
That's the fun part - once you learn the parts, it takes about the same amount of time!
I love the the doors in front of the fighting position!
Thanks!
I just started the game , and this video was by far the easiest for a total noob like myself to follow . Much appreciated buddy
Thanks so much for that! I have another vid I dropped on an expanded version for crafting only with an attached horde base that will come out next week!
I love this, thank you for posting! New subscriber, can't wait to see what else you come up with!
Thanks so much! I used to do these all the time, but they didn't get much response. This one has done great so expect more!
Amazing design and well presented. But, more importantly, it was nice to see someone else set themselves on fire during horde night, considering the sheer number of times I've done it myself XD
I do it ... all the damn time!
I waited so long for this video without even knowing that you existed
Thank you
ahahaha glad you enjoyed!
Thank you very much for this tutorial! I started 7 days to die only 2 weeks ago with my boyfriend, and I am the builder of us, so I started building this one for our second horde night! Hopefully it'll hold up!
I have faith!!
Really like this, thanks for the effort it's appreciated!
Quite welcome!
Thank you for the build guide, i play some days in 7d2d and was looking for a horde night guide
ENjoy!
Very nice! Great tutorial.
Thanks so much!
Very fun design, loving this!
Thanks so much Greg!!
Great tutorial. Thank u! Loved and subbed!
Thanks so much!
That was a sweet pillar construction.
Thanks!
Lovely looking base. I will try this next run. Thanks
Enjoy!
No chance trying to get it finished before the horde@@WaywardEko Its very fiddly getting the right shape. I guess I should have saved the shapes you were using and that might have speeded the process up. You did not end up showing the adding of the safety pole under the door. I watched the rest of the video and guessed what you probably did. At least I got it finished (I had to cheat in extra time) and I will see how it goes with the day 7 horde.
Yeah - I realized that after someone commented! Basically you can either use the low gable blocks or even the narrow ramp blocks and a couple 0.25m pillars.
I love how you can see the zombies through the stairs as they are running up. I built one of these on Day 1 ignoring doing trader stuff and just building it out of, mostly, wood. I don't have a picture of my base as I built it in Halmod, and....had a horde of mutated attack me on day 2. Yeah, they disintegrated it. I am building a multi-story one with my brother (also in halmod) but I might shift and add-on your new crafting base, as we are worried about projectiles hitting storage and crafting.
The new version will feel less cramped for sure for multiple people. Also the follow on horde base has two fighting positions if you want to split the horde.
Great base idea 💪
Thanks Sir! Good to see you back on the scene!
@@WaywardEko 💙
I really love the base because i suck at building a base so thank you very much for making this video.
Just snag a few new blocks to incorporate in each new build and it gets easier! Glad this helped!!
Congrats! Very smart design and similar to my current project (actually I have two ideas, the other one is the old A16 death corridor but it's going to demand some time due to digging a large area soil to bedrock), the only difference my goal is to end the horde night as soon as possible so I always have an electrified pit and turrets on top are mandatory to kill vultures otherwise new waves can't spawn.
Plenty of room to add more traps and such!!!
My compliments on a very nice build.. thats something I do for increased durability / stability issues with the four sided pillars.. 4 x as strong or at least would take 4 times the chewing. Nice job.
Thanks kindly!!
I'm very eager to see more build videos from you
Noted and planned!
This is great! I love tutorials like this. I can’t wait to try it!
Enjoy!
Like this tutorial!) Need more and more
Thanks much for that! Based on the response on this one, there is clearly a need so I'm targeting another for nexrt week!
To be honest I forgot about you until i started clearing out my subscriptions, Glad i did because you still make great videos.
Glad to have you stick around! thanks kindly!
Jolie tuto
Thanks so much!
You have been create a really lovely anti horde aesthetic house, I love it❤
Thank you so much for that!
Today I'll finish the house, I hope show u
I've turned something like this into a multiplayer base, with multiple overlapping fields of fire and a couple of levels. The upper level has a sniper post with a grenade chute, since explosives are in the Agility tree. The left and right flanks can provide overlapping fields of fire without risking friendly fire. There is a second grenade chute to chuck grenades down into the bottom of the pit.
Also, I surround the pillars with barbed wire so if zombies try to go into 'destroy area' mode, the barbed wire will knock them out of it. I use barbed wire instead of spiked traps because a) they can't climb on it, and b) they take more uses before expiring.
I've done a lot of what you mentioned on larger bases. You can absolutely expand from here! In fact my whole concept for this was to make it modular so I can add new cubes to this for redundancy.
I like this base, gonna try this
Enjoy!
awesome base design
Thanks so much!
I built this and was actually surprised with how well it performed. Simply reinforcing the feet of everything could be done for sure. With spikes, or even more concrete. In my case I just used more concrete
Awesome!! Glad it worked for you!
I love the intro and the explanation! - Subbed! Please point me in the direction of what you recommend to build post day 49
Thanks so much! I didn't include in the video due to length, but I might do a small add-on video. Basically you want to upgrade the entire structure to concrete over time and then make sure you get the pit and the first 3 blocks all the way around and the fighting front to steel. The pit can follow any design but needs ladders and ramps to allow the zombies an easy method to get out. I have the day 49 version available as a download on my Patreaon as well.
Man - that build guide layout was awesome (as is the base)! New series idea - "Pimp by Base" where you take boring block designs and make em good looking! 😀
hahaha - funny thing is that I've had that idea in my hopper for a while -- with literally that title. I just need a good method for intake and base selection.
@@WaywardEko I should have know you would!
I'm not a builder so this step by step guide is awesome might take me a few days to make it in survival game but l can always rewind time thanks from a builder noob❤❤❤❤❤
Glad it helped out! Should give you some fun shapes to play with as well.
1st time seeing your stuff, you have more than earned a sub from me and will 1000% be using this design in my own worlds :D thank you sir
Thanks so much and welcome in!! If you want to see a tour of some of my crazy alpha 20 builds -- check this one ruclips.net/video/Z9sWRmp0L2o/видео.html
@@WaywardEko That I shall sir, that I shall. :D
Wayward, you should be an architect. You got the talent just listening to you. For you it wouldn't be a job as you love doing it. I was an engineer (electrical) and I loved it all my working life. You won't want to sleep for the fun you will have. Really.
Hahaha - I help lead a team of software architects for my day job and woodworking is one of my hobbies, so I have a lot of contributing factors! Also I genuinely love teaching, so I try to think from the perspective of the person learning where I am able.
best base bro thanks
Quite welcome!!
By far this is my favorite horde base yet since the night train
Thanks so much!! Appreciate it!!
very nice design I replicated it....kind of. had a lot of fun :)
Awesome!!! Hope it treats you well!
Wait, what? How do you secure yourself from falling down the hole???? Love the base building vids ❤ Thank you so much! Inspiring!!!! OMG, closing the door to help healing 😮 love it!!!!
Thanks for asking! I answered in the comments and forgot to pin it ... corrected now, but for ease:
One missed item in the tutorial that I forget to explain:
• Safety Bar - On the underside on each side of the opening with the door, place GableWedge60s with the flat side facing in. Then connect two Pillar '0.025m Middle' to create your safety bar!
I use this form of base (nowhere near how good this one looks) and this will last much longer than 50'ish days. It's a simple idea and it works really really good. Especially once you get explosive bolts/arrows. One thing I do differently is I make the beam they use to walk to you a little longer, add a few turns to it and then add a standing "Bars" block in 2 or 3 different spots just to break up the crowd that can gather as the bars will make some of them fall. Always give the zombies a viable path to get to you or they'll just bring you to them by breaking blocks to bring you down. Great job Eko, I wish I had even a little artistic blood in my veins to do something like this. Thank God for the standard square block lol
Completely agree -- once you start adding traps you can take it beyond, but it needs more for sure!
Longer beam is mixed ... can sometimes trigger rage because the path to you falls outside their max block range, but I get that for thinning them out!
Pick a few new blocks in your next build to mix things up! Each time add more!
Thanks for the feedback!!
@@WaywardEko will do thankyou good sir
Lots of comments already, but I'm here to appreciate the music choice and volume levels when using it throughout the video. It's a shame the algorithm doesn't put you in my feed as much as some of the others. Hopefully commenting helps change it and helps you too.
Thanks so much for that! Music is REALLY hard to balance ... especially considering headphones vs speakers. I still get it wrong sometimes, but I try to listen on multiple output types before posting!
Built this base with my own modifications, and I had trouble with the zoms not wanting to cross the poles. I changed to different types of walkways, and they simply don't use that block. Also they for some reason, did not like taking the stairs. I'm planning to alter it agai to try for better results.
Out of curiosity ... is there any chance you used the 0.025 corner instead of side centered? I as as they WILL NOT path on those. Tried that first and they wouldn't go near them.
Im definitely gonna have to practice making this a lot so I can build easily, as jawoodle says aesthetics matter
Once you learn the parts it goes really quick!
just building this great design and fantastic build instructions easy to follow new subscriber here
Welcome aboard and thanks so much!!
up! pra lembrete lol vou fazer uma dessa, vlw
Look forward to seeing it!
Love this and built it myself! I know this video is older but it would be awesome to have the list of names for the blocks used.
Glad you enjoyed! I don't have a list handy - sorry!
I definitely don't have the patience or mental fortitude to build that, but it was fun watching. 😁
Thanks for watching!
im watch now, my friend show me today this video, i build a some bases in a longe jorney in 7days, and this base, i like very much, i never see a base like this.
good to know and thank to make this video, i like. +1 sub.
sorry my bad english, im brazilian.
Don't apologize! Your English is much better than my Portuguese! Thanks for the sub!
I am totally trying this build in my game.
Let me know how it turns out and come drop a picture in my discord!
Hey bro I had fun watching your video and the ingenious shape of the base. would have withstood a second horde. Greetings from Panama. I will try to make a version like yours.
Glad you enjoyed and thanks so much!! Really appreciate the comment!
I don't care for the overall base design but there are a lot of elements I never considered before that I'd definitely use so thanks for that. I especially like the step-by-step guide.
Same
Fair enough!
I'd definitely want some sledge turrets to thin them out. Nice base.
I think that made a huge difference! About to fight day 14 on my Abyss series so will see how that goes as I'm playing an INT build.
which pole was used for the hole to prevent falling through? you never showed it unless I missed that part.
Safety Bar - On the underside on each side of the opening with the door, place GableWedge60s with the flat side facing in. Then connect two Pillar '0.025m Middle' to create your safety bar!
A slight improvement is that in the advanced base, you might want to move your crafting stuff into a new floor above the horde area, or build another Eko Box 13-15 blocks away using concrete / cobblestone that you can connect to the horde area with a bridge. Having your building stuff right next to your combat zone is very risky where cops are concerned
Completely agree -- my preference is having a connected crafting base!
@@WaywardEko I tried using the normal bars for the tightrope. Forgot that for some reason they can path on the centered ones, but not the normal bars. Which is really strange. But I'm pretty sure Centered bars would work to, not to mention easier to repair. Those small poles are so picky on their repair box.
Thanks very inspiring. I tried to make a more aesthetic base, foolishly made it out of construction blocks first, when i was happy with the design, i moved all my stuff in, and started to upgrade the blocks but must have done something wrong. it was a complete collapse and total loss of everything, i cant remember what day it was, but i was at tier 4.... i haven't played since 2 weeks now. ultimate rage quit.
building with frame shapes can be dangerous ... always upgrade from the ground up to make sure you don't increase the mass of the blocks beyond their support limit!
The Scaffolding Ladders, **placed sideways**, are easy to shoot/stab through and also (currently) block cop vomit. They are also full strength blocks. I'd suggest making your front fighting position doubled up with those.
You and JaWoodle should compare notes and collab on base designs.
Several people have mentioned that! Will have to use them in my next build. I'll be meeting Josh in person out at TwitchCon so will be sure to talk then!
I really like your tutorial and your design. But what do you think about a shaft or slide for the grenades? Does it even make sens or how do you feel about that idea. Love to here from you.
I love grenade chutes -- there is one on this! Did you see that?
It's... It's beautiful. ♥
Thanks so much!
Hey bro I’m not that new to the game but I want to ask you can I do the same but with normal blocks ? Because I have the Xbox version 1.2 I think and it doesn’t have those blocks you add to your house.
Also I have a question if I use circle blocks for the bridge do you think zombies will fall??
They concept of stairs + bridge + base area can absolutely be replicated back on console w/ simplified blocks. You'll have to play a little bit with distances as that is on a much earlier version and zombie pathing has changed over time.
Do you happen to have a series where you build the base with all the upgrades to the one you do the hoard night like in this video?
I used this base in the Abyss series, but didn't stay long enough at this base for the full evolution. I do have this base in both formats on my Patreon for download.
My favorite blocks to use are the ones that look like scrap and make shift messingness. I like have that "raider" looking style :3
Also I would love to see how to make things like creature statues. I tried to make a cat for me and a dragon for my hun, but shortly gave up cause I had no idea what I was doing >.
I have a tutorial on making a dragon head if you want to check it out!
ruclips.net/video/8scI_BWZXx8/видео.html
Genious!
Thank you!
I did it and 64 zombies horde at day 7 was cake. Thx for the video.
That is great to hear!!
I love the design. My only concern is no opening in the roof to deal with buzzards till you can make/buy auto turrets.
I always coach people to ignore buzzards. They are irrelevant. You could certainly put bars, rails, etc. on the roof, but in general, buzzards do such insignificant block damage that you can mostly just put up a roof and ignore them. Optionally you could toss a few spikes right above your fighting position.
I do not have these shapes available to me, is there a list of mods being used here?
No mods are being used for this. These are all vanilla shapes.
What happened to digging a hole to the bedrock? Is that still a thing (console player 😅)
Zombies dig ... underground bases don't work unless it's full down to bedrock and uses some tricks.
I may have missed it but I can't seem to find where you put the rails under the door so you don't fall through on horde night. I don't know which way is best. I built this in my world and it works well so far but I've had a few close calls with the doors where my partner opens them and I back up. I tried baluster rails but it made it even harder to throw my molotovs and pipe bombs. Thanks for the build!
I completely flaked - I'll pin a comment.
On the underside on each side of the opening, place GableWedge60s with the flat side facing in. Then connect two Pillar '0.025m Middle' to create your safety bar!
SO I FINALLY FOUND IT HAHAA
your talking to the originator of the zombie muncher. This is by chance but too close to what I did. Here’s the last thing just make the ramp go into the base but pull a couple blocks just before channeled by a hallway. There you go. I date this design to 2018 is when I came up with this right here.
This has been the standard meta for bases going back many many many alphas. There is nothing here that is new or original save the design of using new blocks to create visual interest.
I cant get past the first step because the wedge60 tip 1/4 whatever piece doesn't seem to exist. Also wood cube too. I have wood box but not cube is that the same? How.do.i fi d these pieces wven when i use search they are not there
Make sure when you are searching that you don't have any of the sub categories selected. If you do it will only search within them.
@WaywardEko that helped thanks. Basic was selected I didn't realize if I clicked basic again it would unselected it. Thank you!
And what happened to the pit where the zombies fall? Would it be a good idea to set traps?
You shouldn't need it for the early game ... idea was to give a quick easy early base that you can adapt. For traps ... you could put some but don't need to. They will cycle through. The pit is mostly to create the 11 block distance to prevent rage mode.
Is there a more simplified version of this base with more simple shape?
You can apply the same basic concept and use cubes. The meta has been the same for ages ... raise the zombies up to a choke point across a beam. Basically it forced them to only hit a certain spot on your base which minimizes repairs.
What adjustments would you make for a day 700 horde?
More traps and would 100% have my crafting base separated. This is too small for a late game horde due to cop spit. And everything would need to be steel.
is there something im doing wrong? i created the base step by step in god mode as a test. entirely out of cobblestone and even with the pit. but the zombies are still attacking the pillars?
Are they pathing up at all? Or are they occasionally hitting the pillars. I'm using this in my playthrough and did a horde night here and didn't see that behavior.
@@WaywardEko they do path up but when i tested with just a day 7 horde, by the end of the wave, the pillar blocks are like…3 hits from breaking. Imagine a 14day horde 😱It was completely different than seeing your version where barely any hit the pillars.
Can you take a few screenshots and post in my discord: discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p
Just want to see if I notice anything odd.
I'm probably ignorant for asking, but is there an exact parts list we could find? Total material needed and detailed list with every component needed?
Nah -- didn't do it this time around. Should have included that.
Use a scaffolding ladder in the front box part to stop the cop spit. It won't stop your melee or projectiles.
Great idea!
@@WaywardEko Thank you! Also, really like your content! Unique designs and well presented. Looking forward to more!