Top 5 Beginner Bases in 7 Days to Die

These 5 POIs are easy to convert into functional Horde Bases using minimal time and materials and can carry you into the mid-late game, giving you plenty of time to construct a base of your own!

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:25 El Chapo's Mansion Base
6:23 Horde Fight
7:44 Bob's Boars Base
12:16 Horde Fight at Bob's
14:40 Grocery Store Base
19:26 Horde Fight at Grocery Store
22:11 Grain Silo Base
26:04 Horde Fight at the Silos
29:40 Drive-In Base
34:30 Horde Fight at Drive-In
37:53 Final Rankings

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[GunsNerdsandSteel]

Any other ideas for great starter bases?

[austinrankin]

My man actually taking the time to destroy blocks. We all know every other content creator would have short cut with dev tools. Indicative of Tem's almost refreshing authenticity he brings to 7 day content, and incomparable patience with his videos to bring a fully fleshed out video. I wish you the best of luck in your channel growth!

[FarmerVarmox]

Can we all appreciate him because he made horde bases in survival especially with the stone tools! SUBSCRIBED MATE!

[sunrisenein]

One thing that stops me from using POIs as horde bases even though I would really love to: constant paranoia that I missed some sort of block, path etc that would cause the zombies to go haywire and beat through random blocks. I still remember getting ambushed from behind because I missed that one possible path. But in terms of flair this looks like so much fun, especially the mansion tower at the start. Thanks for taking all this time to test it out.

[entithicc]

9:03
Tem: "lets make a couple of doors"
Searchbar: "drool"

[insanityplea]

One thing you forgot to take into account for your choices was the baseline difficulty in taking over one of these places for a newbie.

[mammajamma]

I'm surprised at how large all these POIs are that you chose. I would be interested in seeing a video on Undead Legacy horde bases in particular because of how hard early game it is to get blocks

[drhenceforth]

The silo farm is such a good place to makes a base, so much strength in the concrete and redundant design. It was my base for my first undead legacy playthrough, I recommend it 100%

The supermarket is intriguing me now, I'm going to give that a look in the near future.

[AndrewEddie]

Really enjoyed this one. I think a part 2 looking at temporary hoard bases in lower tier structures would be interesting. As is "ah, that building there is very cheap to hoard base for day 7 or 14". The ones in this video, while doable in the first week, one is still trying to get a foothold looting and doing a bit of levelling.

[elevown]

I LOVE the silo's they are friggin indestructable and take almost no modification. Not how you used it.
For theSilos, knock out the bottom few ladders at both ends and a bit of the escalator so they cant get up. reinforce some of the floor of the top corridor thing and put spikes on the roof where you stand. put bars along the tops of the silos joining them all.

Now just stay up there and shoot down all horde night- from outside atop the silos and on your bars, and also from inside through the grates - and throw pipe bombs and mollys. you can put spikes and blade traps on the floor below too if you like - tho they will require maintenace.
Those silos are just indestructible. The Zs will occationally knock out a block or 2 and tunnel inside the sand in a silo- after they do that, replace the inner blocks and outer with more concrete so the silos will bve even stronger.
I never had even a single silo significantly damaged but if one is, you have 8 silos you can easily shift them to by moving about up top. No way the whole thing will ever collapse.

You do need ammo and/or bombs mollys ofcourse for this style - at least if you want any XP. The silos are so strong tho you could easily stay up there and just wait out horde night without fighting till you get the means to do so and it will need not much repairs after.

[michaelzephyros]

I did Uninhabited Mansion in the wasteland and I absolutely love the fact it's mostly made of concreate already and doesn't require a whole lot of demolition to make work.

[wessweat]

Great video! I'm so glad to finally know about the railing block. I always thought you used bars and wondered how the hell you were working through them like that.

[SuperBeast]

I think the really nice thing about these fighting position designs is that you can basically attach it to any building. So it mostly comes down to what else is the POI giving you?

[Irishhawk]

1:25 is no longer El Chapo It’s called Don Vittorio Spagetto Residence for anyone wondering.

I had the hardest time finding this POI in 8K PreGen until I did a POI Teleport. Finally can turn off Creative Mode

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[WaddedBliss]

I'm not a player myself but I love creators talking through the technical aspects/their thought processes when creating.

[GamingAfter]

Thanks! I like how little time is needed to get a functional horde base. It's not like we don't have any warning, vanilla gives you a week to get prepared. I am a bit surprised by the "calibre" of some of the POI's you chose, but I supposed one doesn't need to clear the whole POI to proceed with building a base. OK, you've sold me on security railings... 🤣🤣😃

[keithnoll]

I have used a couple of these. Great video please keep them coming. One of my favorites was the large fire department with the red walls. It gad 2 working vending machines as well as a very strong defensive position upstairs over looking the vehicle bay that can be tweaked to handle hordes

[amyminty]

I love using the Box Factory as an early game horde base. Easy to knock out the wood planks on the third floor to make a fighting position in the office. And I don't bother with knocking out the security grate on the stairs.. I just add to the rubble on the far side for a nice long ramp.

[CaullyD]

All I could think about is Michael from the office yelling "Parkour!"

[zlatanmorrison]

Barn_02....it is so good and very easy to make into a horde base (even comes with some free piggies for early food and excellent farming areas as well). Used it up to day 59 in a recent play-through without issue (assuming you do not use Glock9 style 300% block damage crazy settings or anything!). Excellent video by the way, some really useful stuff in there. More content like this please:)