Holy cow. I can't imagine how long this would take to build outside of god mode but this is a badass base design.

Thanks a lot for this.

I sent you a message on Discord about something Reguarding 1.0 Modding

Yeah building higher or better supports would make it hold up throughout the night. Thanks for the input and catch you in the next build :)

Sometimes a bad joke is so bad, it becomes good 😁. But yeah, the copy block and rotation is a godsend!! I long wished for that capability.

Believe it hahaha 😆

That makes a few of us 😂

Most certainly :D

That may have been exactly how it worked in alpha 21 :D

No problem, enjoy the base!

Me too! It didn't make sense how it worked in alpha 21.

Glad you enjoyed it and liked the additions for the newer players! Taco thanks you for your compliments to her editing ☺️.

It just makes sense :D

Very awesome, sounds like you've worked through the kinks in your design!

We appreciate that, thank you! I was pleasantly surprised about the iron hatches as well 😊

You're welcome! Glad to know that your single thumbs up has the power of one million ☺️

It was a lot of work, thanks for watching!

And I spent several hours carefully testing spit. We are all students of the green slime :D

Well this should help, good luck!!

Glad you think so! Cop spit is a bit janky but it has more or less been the same for a while, and actually has gotten a bit better since last alpha.

Such is the power of full cubes! They'll definitely do the job :)

Taco picks out all the music, she's happy you like it :)

It really is which limits the cube type blocks that are usable. At least more non cube variety of blocks are safe.

Like you said, a facade over the safe blocks would work, to dress up the horde base a bit 😁 just to get demo'ed on bloodmoons

I'm happy you like the base designs! I do love me some effective mousetraps :)

Muwhahahaha

Got to give yourself a dose of adrenaline I suppose :D

Absolutely, you're welcome :)

You could certainly add more electric traps to help you out throughout the horde! Spikes on the roof are more than enough to take care of vultures but certainly darts or blade traps can also do the trick. Blade traps when placed along a zombie path can be risky as they are very fragile. I usually like to keep them within repairable range.

Glad it was helpful! Best of luck with your design!

@@pseudoposse definitely helpful. I was thinking of a building three type of base in 1. I specially like your gauntlet type of base just like when after the horde night is over you let the leftover zombies inside your base in purpose for them to be sent to the dart room which I find very clever. Also since I play with two of my friends I have been designing for the longest time to combine melee area in front for my melee friend, rhis area will be the front line where the zombies will mainly path. Then, a pit with explosive shoots for my precision type friend, this will be where the falling zombies will be collected and I like the idea of having light bulbs connected to a trip wire or pressure plates to know which shoot to place the grenades or any explosives. Lastly, a gaunlet/trap area for my int build to finish off some of the zombies that got through the melee qnd pit areas. This way we will each have our own stations and really need to communicate with each other on what's happening in each area. I just need to design escape points or fall back area in case one of the areas have been breached. Though I am not a gonna build a cheese base since I enjoy the thrill when the horde has a chance to breach the base. Also, when will you have another series? I really enjoyed your duo with Taco. The last series you made which was unfortunately cut short since v 1.0 was coming and I have been wanting to watch more.

@@paulodiaz5774 I'm very happy I could inspire your build, it sounds like it is coming along nicely! I can totally understand not wanting to do a cheese base while you play. Taco and I don't like to cheese too hard while we play. Speaking of which, we are thinking to start recording a new series of sorts within the next week or so. We have a massive video coming out sometime over the weekend that we have been busy on for awhile so pretty excited about that one :)

Welcome aboard!! Stay tuned for the next one :)

Sounds really awesome, you're welcome! Another adjustment you can make for some more action is to replace (some or all) the vertical pillar 0.0125m centered shapes just outside of the fighting platform with a regular cube or equivalent shape. This way all zombies that make it past the ramps will reach you.

@@pseudoposse Yeh i will do that also i had place a sammy the sledge by the bunker entrance so i will take him away also for some action

Happy to hear that!

It is fantastic you've gotten plenty of use from these ideas! You can absolutely use shapes to control the flow of zombies. Even just using the pilar 0.0125 meter centered shapes, making it shorter will allow more zombies to path by. For more ideas, you should check out our recent tips video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l96eraVeqMq6doU.html

Taco the artist! Glad you are enjoying the videos and the science:)

I like to provide options for people with different levels of building interest. The basic path and fighting position for those who just want something simple. And the more complex trap setup for those with a different mindset :D

@@pseudoposse I hope you don't think I mean overengineering as a pejorative! However, I do think videos may overwhelm the novice builders even with your timestamps and current video structure! Either way, loving what you're doing!

@@SBChaevok No you are not alone, Taco disapproves my overengineering before she started editing and refused editing from the beginning Lol. Thanks for the comments and we are glad you still enjoy it!

That is correct :)

Our pleasure!

Glad you enjoyed it

Haha noted :D

Lol thanks 😆

That is awesome!

Glad it was calm and enjoyable! Thanks for stopping by :)

Most certainly is!

Why I miss Rebar frames. Whole wasting wood and cobblestone is silly if you are a spaz like me and place blocks wrong all time so have to use the ones can pick up.

@@gwhitty12 Now that we can copy a block's shape and rotation in one action, just laying everything out using frames and then replacing the frames with the actual final blocks has become feasible. Optimal would be upgrading using blocks and giving you back the block you upgraded. But it's certainly better than in A21.

The hole idea is really great! The version I showed was definitely a later game design. But as I did mention multiple times, the dart trap kill zone is optional and is simply meant to be a post horde cleanup apparatus. All you really need is the path and a much smaller tower with your fighting position which would save a ton of materials and still work in the lategame as the dart traps aren't even used for the horde itself (just post horde). But absolutely agreed, if you want a simple design to employ during the horde to help with cops, a hole would do quite nicely! Thanks for sharing :) EDIT: The organic base idea is an interesting idea!!

Those definitely work quite well!

All good suggestions, thanks for sharing with everyone!

I imagine cops will spit at it but that is good to note

Thank you!

Check out our 80+ ultimate beginner tips video which goes over wiring I'm much greater detail :)

@pseudoposse Thank you so much! I will right now and appreciate the link. I got a little overwhelmed but only because your builds are incredible and monster lol. I may have to scale my builds up once I can get closer to your level Edit: Oh snap, I've actually seen that first and then found this vid. I'll rewatch it though, thanks again Ps I noticed there a a few silent moments showing what you're doing in between explaining what you're doing which helps a lot seeing and hearing it. If you're ever looking for filler for the silent bits maybe you could include your way of thinking, like your reasoning for doing it? I'm not sure if that makes sense. Like I enjoy the steps but maybe add your own reasoning for doing it and why you prefer it but people could do such and such. I'll sub now because I'm sure I'll learn a lot more from your videos

Thanks for the suggestion! I believe you had mentioned that in a previous video but I had already recorded this one before I was able to give it a try.

@@pseudoposse Yes I did. But in this one you used the other ramp blocks. I was using the older standard V shaped ramp but now there are several others that are cop proof that may also work. I didn't know the newer ones where cop proof. It's really good news for base building. we gotta get this info over to GNS so his bases are safer then they usually are.

@@pseudoposse Oh and I found in some testing this V drop desighn works best with a switchback desighn so the cops can't look in your direction till they are at the top and at a much better headset position. The higher and wider you can make the wings (the stair part that ramps up and the back part the connects to the tightrope walkway)of the switch back the better. I do a double ramp in the front that draws the zombies in only from the front. looks like a fork from the top. it's a little slower to get them back onto the tightrope walkway but blocks more cops. I hope that all makes sense. lol

@@skyknight6467 Ah I see what you are saying. Yeah the new ramp shapes would work for that purpose. Though to be fair, the old ramp shapes are also cop spit safe :) I am not sure if I am quite following your switch back design as you described.

@@pseudoposse #stairs down to ground # fighting V+ # position V+-----ballistertightrope---- # V+ # # #stairs down to ground # is solid cubes from ground to fighting height. Usually 11 high (minimum) the V is the two rams next to each other to create a vally + is two sets of the new pole 4 way attached to each other. I usually set this up to hang off a building to save on materials and set up a crafting area safely behind it. maybe add a full block wall to block spit on the off chance it breaks enough blocks to go flying in the direction of the crafting area. with space to walk around the wall from area to area # # crafting # fighting #---- # # Not really a switch back but could be. I find this set up works really well with cops. they have no chance to see you untill they top the stairs, unless you have a large open fighting area then they can see you from the side of the stairs.

I'll have to investigate that behavior! Thank you for the suggestion

Glad you like it

Many things have changed since then :D But alas, cops are a bit harder to cheese now but not impossible.

Absolutely, you're welcome! I think they probably would still work as not much has changed with cop spit so give it a try :)

That's great to know! Thank you for the suggestion!

They will spit at a solid wall if the block shapes are not cop spit safe like the cube 1/2 for example.

​@pseudoposse they will spit at a solid cube when it is of a lower strength, if you have all cement blocks in a wall and a wooden block between your head and them. This seems to happen more often with multiple level structures.

@@itt2055 Yeah that isn't surprising since all zombies target the weakest blocks, the path of least resistance.

Orientation of the ramp sections relative to each other does matter. If they zig zag incorrectly, zombies won't reliably fall down. You could download the file for the cop base I built in the video (link in my pinned comment and description) and check how i built my ramps and compare to what you did. Good luck!

There isn't a particular reason for spawning the cops at that angle. It is likely that if a non safe block is used on a wall not between you and the cop, that they wouldn't spit.

In Alpha 21, they would spit at the hatches even if the player wasn't directly behind them. They could be on the side of the base and they would still spit. This does seem to be changed in 1.0.

@@pseudoposse why not just put a bunch of the really cheap hatches all around the outskirts of your base then so they just spit at those? like the wood or iron ones? give them so many options that the chances they get you are super low... you could put up lots of cameras too to do a reporting cops misconduct base? lol you know like those guys like the civil rights lawyer who reports illegal actions done by cops?

Most cops fall within the zig zag region. It is possible, but rare that one can make it across. Demos have a better chance to make it across. But as long as you headshot them, no explosions. Since only a handful reach you at a time, focus firing on a demo is very easy.

I don't think the rules for structural stability have changed dramatically. Keep in mind when mining, you should always support the terrain above you if you are digging horizontal tunnels that are large.

@@pseudoposse yeah true but i havent changed my mining habits and it has never occurred this much beforehand so i just thought maybe they changed how it worked since it even looks different when it drops now

My FOV should be whatever the default is. I have never tweaked that.

Unfortunately, they do not

@@pseudoposse Thank you for replying! I appreciate the information. I decided to go with scaffolding ladders :)

@@Lorri. Excellent choice!

It sure does!

@@pseudoposse i must be doing something wrong then. time to rewatch the video!

Which part of it isn't working for you?

I can incorporate that in future videos, thanks for the feedback :)

Blueprints would be an amazing feature!

The point is to find non-cube bocks to expand building options :)

@@pseudoposse Fair enough

Correct it is vomit, puke, partially digested nastiness. I prefer to call it spit :D

@@pseudoposse Yeah, either way really 😁

that sounds awesome!