How Loot has Changed in Alpha 21 - 7 Days to Die

A deep-dive into everything you need to know about loot and lootstage, including the new changes in Alpha 21 surrounding the introduction of crafting skill magazines!

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:20 What is Lootstage?
0:31 Biome Modifiers
0:59 POI Modifiers
1:36 Item Modifiers
1:50 Lucky Looter Skill
2:44 The Maximum Lootstage
3:01 The Loot Table
3:58 How Skills Influence Loot
4:49 Container Lootstage Modifiers
5:10 Lucky Looter Books
5:22 Other Loot Items
5:45 Master Chef Loot
5:52 Multiplayer Lootstage
6:14 The Lootstage Calculator

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[GunsNerdsandSteel]

If you're trying to use the calculator, you need to DOWNLOAD the spreadsheet.

Last updated 6/29/23 to include a few missing columns.

[MichaelArlt]

You're crushing it with your skills and expertise. I love your explanations and more importantly your video creating/editing skills. Looks like you sat couple of hours for this one looking up xml contents, building your helper platform and editing everything. Your passion is something else Tem 👌

[woahhbro]

One of my favorite YouTubers. Tons of great info, doesn't waste your time, no BS. Great content.

[pewheretic]

I'm use to saying "thanks" for all the editing work you do, but this is a whole new level of detail and effort. So....THANKS! :)

[j-p]

Wow! You did so much work on this video! That spreadsheet is impressive! It really does validate how much you know about the game and how you're able to translate all of that for us! Thank you!

[Ambiguousakira]

I absolutely love these deep dives with explicit number breakdowns. So helpful in teaching exactly how these mechanics are working during play!

[cyan_b]

Sometimes I feel like GNS is not a 24x7 youtuber, he is a 3600x24x7 youtuber. The efforts made in the spreadsheet blew my mind. Great Man!!!

[itssuzii]

Just started watching you today.... This video is beyond amazing with the amount of detail and work you put into it. Love the thumbnail too. The icing of the cake was the grenades at the end. I got the feeling you were tired of looking at all that because you had worked on it so long. Which was cool.

[kirkland]

The amount of time you put into these videos is incredible. A "like" didn't do your work justice. Another comment for the YT algorithm!

[MrMurdock]

Thanks for doing the hard sciency research on stuff like this. It helps a lot!

[simonspoke]

Hi Guns.
On the Excel document you linked... If you click on Column H, and Select View > Freeze Panes > Freeze Panes. You can keep Columns A-G static so you can still see the Tools and weapons column whilst you scroll. (Much easier to see what's what) 😉
If you save it after that, I think it will keep those settings in the document for all people viewing it, so they don't have to download it and do it themselves as it's currently "view only". 👍

[Lenape_Lady]

Spreadsheets for 7D2D? You are such a Nerd! And I LOOOVE it! You and Glock are my 2 absolute FAVORITE creators on YT! Keep it up!

[PatriotPaulUSA]

Wow! Amazing amount of work you have done. Incredible, I have played the game off and on for 7 yrs now, and your videos and info always blow me away. Thanks for all your hard work.

[connorprice]

the only 7dtd youtuber i watch thank you for so informative and nice design to watch too alot of useful info i have 2k+ hours and somehow without fail everytime i still learn new things when i watch your vids

[nooooooooope]

I love how you do all this hard work for us, explain how this works and how full auto mods are rare, and then I get 2 full auto mods in the first 7 days, and not magazines for half the stuff I specialized in, lol. Fun pimps put some rubbing alcohol in their special sauce.

[Gingeresk]

Great info! Definitely going to look at the spreadsheet

[zephyrusthedemon]

The thing I hate about the loot in 7 Days is the fact that all other tiers of loot will mostly disappear, except for primitive. That is 10000% something they need to address. no one should be finding stone tools, bone knives, and pipe weapons after a certain lootstage threshold.

[Eskywolf]

impressive. love the time and effort you put in to explain the functionality of this game

[shadowdragon]

I thought I knew a lot about 7D2D but seeing this video made me realize I know absolutely nothing with how the game works now, Please, please, please do more videos explaining game mechanics like this, it was extremely helpful!

[cmcpheet]

I didn't realize that items simply could not drop until you reach a certain loot stage, and that biome and tier difficulty had such a big effect. I would always avoid high tier poi early on, reasoning that I should wait until I get some decent weapons first. However, the only way to get those "decent" weapons early on is apparently by doing those higher tier poi, possibly even in more difficult biomes, since those items simply won't spawn early on otherwise.