PROJECTILE PROOF? ~ 7 Days To Die 2.6 ~ Sure, But Not Zombie Proof!

Can you build a Horde Base that forces projectile zombies into melee range? That's exactly what we're testing today in 7 Days To Die 2.6. After seeing a Horde Base design from subscriber TheRaniSmitesZombies, I started wondering if it would be possible to build an entire Blood Moon base around zombie projectile behavior. Projectile zombies only attack from certain distances, but if you get close enough, they stop using ranged attacks and switch back to melee. So today's challenge is simple: build a Horde Base that keeps zombies inside that "butter zone" and find out if the design can survive a real Blood Moon Horde. We start by building a reinforced 5x5x3 foundation, create a dedicated fighting position, and construct a zombie pathway designed to keep the horde exactly where we want them. Along the way, we head to the testing grounds to verify the actual attack range of projectile zombies before returning to finish the build. After pathing tests, paint, a blade trap, and an electric fence post, there's only one question left... Did we build enough to survive Horde Night? Or am I about to meet my maker? Blocks Used: Pole Side Centered, Cube, Wedge 60, Wedge 60 Tip, Wedge 60 Tip Corner, Wedge 60 Tip Corner Base, Cube 1/2 Ramp Tip, Cube 1/2, Cube 1/2 Ramp, Wedge Narrow Low Corner, Wedge Narrow Tip Corner, Cube Corner, Cube 1/2 Pole Centered, Pole Centered, Ramp, Stairs Filled, Pole Double, Gazebo Roof V1 03, Plate, Plate Triangle. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Intro 00:36 The Plan 01:13 Starting The Build 06:36 Building The Fighting Position 08:41 Starting To Build The Pathway 09:24 Testing Zombie Range 15:37 Back To Base Building 19:34 Pathway Test 1 24:09 Projectile Test 2 27:12 Painting The Completed Base 30:41 HORDE NIGHT!!! 42:43 The Outcome 43:09 Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MUSIC ATTRIBUTION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Music Provided By YouTube Audio Library: Once Was — Kwon Subway Dreams — Dan Henig Built To Last — NEFFEX Demon — JVNA Missing Persons — Jeremy Blake Nightmares Inn — RKVC Music Provided By Melodie: All The Vibes Are High — Ian Jones Crafty Moves — Greg Carrozza Last Minute Panic — Chris Raggatt Training Montage — Patrick Middleton Devious Plan — Chris Raggatt Caught At A Disadvantage — Josef Falkenskoeld Rockstar Hero — Sam Morrison A Place To Call Home — Simon Jomphe Lepine Deals With El Diablo — Ian Jones Dirt Stain — Rory Chenoweth Iron Fist — Stefano Vita Night Stalker — Travis A. King ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE HORDE BASE DESIGNS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Looking for your next Horde Base design? I've tested more than 80 different Horde Bases on this channel, ranging from beginner-friendly Blood Moon bases to advanced pathing experiments, melee builds, trap bases, and late-game horde killers. 🧱 Base Building Playlist:    • 7D2D Horde Base Survival Builds   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ LINKS & COMMUNITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 New Episodes Every Monday and Friday at 3PM (CST) Channel:    / @rebelontheriver   Ashes To Empire Playlist:    • 7 Days To Die 2.0 ~ Ashes To Empire!   7 Days To Die 1.4 Playlist:    • 7D2D Solo Season 2   Discord:   / discord   Merch: https://rebelontheriver-shop.fourthwa... Thanks For Watching! I'll See You In The Next Episode!! PEACE, I'M OUTTA HERE!!!