4/11/2023 0 Comments 7 days to die minibike![]() ![]() It had taken no time to drive out to the edge of the map on a minibike, but running back there would take most of the (game) day. When you die, you respawn on the last sleeping bag you set down, which means I spawned waaaaay back at my base. Nothing in my backpack was irreplaceable, but far more infuriating was the fact that the minibike I’d spent forever building also got left back there where I died. If you haven’t played 7 Days To Die, maybe you don’t appreciate how much of a blunder that was, so I’ll try to explain.įirst, when you die, you drop everything you’re carrying at the spot where you die. When I realized what had happened, I turned around in a panic (bumping off the road and through a desert terrain filled with cactii, which in real life undoubtedly would have given me a flat tire and a a faceful of thorns) and drove back as fast as I could. Nope, I’d driven off the side of the map into the radiation zone, where you get killed pretty fast. What? Did I hit a spike trap? Was I starving? Was somebody shooting at me? I figured I’d be able to drive all over the map and get back before dark, because I’d gone a huge distance and it wasn’t even 9:00 AM yet. I wanted to do a big circuit around the map and try to find as many city centers as possible. I drove and drove and drove, going farther than I’d ever gone before. Which was probably a contributing factor in what happened next. ![]() You have to stop, get off the bike, then open the map. The biggest problem with the minimike is that you can’t see the map while you’re riding. There’s some graphical clunkiness that goes with the minibikes, but it’s a small price to pay for long-distance transportation. And for some reason, it switches to a third-person view while you’re driving, so you get to see yourself. ![]() Minibikes are really fast, compared to running. When morning came, I crept out of my base and around all the spike traps and hit the open road. It was night time when I finished the minibike so I had to wait patiently until morning before I could ride it. (I had gotten gasoline by scavenging from gas station pumps and cars.) It needed gasoline so I filled it about 30% full and then dropped all of my stacks of gasoline in the minibike storage so I’d have some in case I got stranded somewhere. That was how I got enough mechanical parts to make a workbench.Įventually I put the last minibike part in place (the seat) and I was able to sit on it (Ayyyyyy, says The Fonz). I had a bunch of wrenches lying around but I never thought to use them before. You get things like gasoline and springs and mechanical parts and electrical parts. I only recently learned that you can use a wrench to “take apart” items out in the world, like cars and air conditioners and refrigerators. ![]() Some of the others I scavenged from cars with a wrench. I got some of the parts by buying them from the secret stash at traders (there are two different traders in range of my base). (I built mine inside my base but I wouldn’t recommend that because once it’s complete you have to drive it out and it’s not super easy to navigate a minibike through doors and spike traps.) You need to scrounge up an engine, a battery, handlebars, tires, etc. The way it works is you plop down a “minibike frame” on the ground somewhere and then add the rest of the parts as you find them until you get a working machine. It took a long time to assemble the parts, but I put together a minibike. I had a hard time finding them because I kept hearing that you’re supposed to dig where you find gravel but it’s not actually “gravel” that comes out of the ground, it’s sand and stone (which combine to make gravel). Just in time for the bigger zombies like policemen, soldiers, and weird alien “feral” zombies. I’ve built a forge and a workbench and a cement mixer and my base is getting upgraded to concrete and reinforced steel. I’m now 56 days into my Navezgane 7 Days To Die game. ![]()
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