Base Building

Designing a base that survives horde night, not just looks nice

Location matters as much as design

• Elevated or water-adjacent terrain reduces how much building you need to do to be defensible.
• A base near the edge of a biome you like (e.g. Forest/Desert border) can give access to two resource sets without constant travel — see World & Biomes.
• Leave yourself an escape route. A base that traps you in with the horde if defenses fail is worse than no base at all.

Core design principle: the kill lane

A single, narrow, obvious entrance that funnels zombies into a corridor you control beats a sprawling open structure every time. Zombies path toward the shortest route to you — use that against them by making the "shortest route" run through a corridor lined with traps, turrets, or a fighting position, not through your storage room.

Material progression

Tier	Material	Notes
Early	Wood frames	Cheap and fast, but won't hold past the first few horde nights. Fine as a stopgap.
Mid	Cobblestone	Meaningful durability jump once you're mining regularly.
Late	Concrete / Steel	What a permanent horde base should be built from. Requires a forge and cement mixer.

Defensive layers

• Traps (spikes, electric fences, blade traps) thin the horde before it reaches you — cheap early, more elaborate later with electricity.
• Turrets (once unlocked) can hold a lane on their own but need ammo and power — don't rely on them exclusively.
• Fall damage traps (drops onto spikes, moats) are a low-maintenance way to damage zombies passively.

If you're playing multiplayer

A Land Claim Block (LCB) protects a radius around your base — durability bonus, offline protection, and the ability to pick up workstations. See Multiplayer & Servers for how claims work and how many you're allowed on our server.