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Let It Die and 7 Days To Die Game Guides: Mastering Survival in Harsh Worlds

This article provides comprehensive guides for two challenging survival games: "Let It Die" and "7 Days to Die." Whether you're a newcomer or a seasoned player, this information will equip you with the knowledge to navigate these unforgiving environments.

Let It Die: A Beginner's Guide to the Tower of Barbs

"Let It Die" plunges you into a brutal world where death is commonplace. This guide will cover the fundamentals, controls, and key aspects of the game to help you survive and conquer the Tower of Barbs.

Getting Started

Upon launching "Let It Die," you'll encounter the standard company and developer logos, followed by a news and events screen. Press the Escape key or B button (controller) to dismiss the pop-up, or use the Insert key or Y button (controller) to open the Steam overlay and access the official game page for news and events.

The main menu offers the following options:

  1. Start Game: Begins your journey into the Tower of Barbs.

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  2. Voice Selection: Allows you to choose your preferred voice.

  3. Options: Provides access to various settings:

    • Death Bag: View the items your current Fighter is carrying.
    • Underworld Rolodex: Access important information and expand your Storage Chest space.
    • DH Service: Shows if you have an active Direct Hell Express pass, its duration, and type (Silver for 1-day, Gold for 1-month).
    • Config: Customize gameplay, graphics, and control settings.
    • Back to Title: Returns to the title screen.
    • Quit the Game: Exits the game.

Understanding the Controls

While "Let It Die" is playable with a keyboard and mouse, the controls are optimized for controller use. Here's a breakdown of the default control schemes:

Controller (Xbox One):

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Keyboard & Mouse:

  • General/Combat:
    • Forward: W
    • Backward: S
    • Move Left: A
    • Move Right: D
    • Walk: Left Alt
    • Crouch/Dash (moving): Left Ctrl
    • Jump: Space
    • Guard/Dodge (moving): Q
    • Rage: E
    • Change Left Arm: 1
    • Change Right Arm: 2
    • Change Item Left: , (comma)
    • Change Item Right: . (period)
    • Left Hand Attack: Y / Left Mouse Button (LMB)
    • Left Hand Sub Attack: U / Shift+LMB
    • Right Hand Attack: O / Right Mouse Button (RMB)
    • Right Hand Sub Attack: I / Shift+RMB
    • Interact: E / Side Mouse Button Down (SMBD)
    • Eat: C
    • Throw: Tab / Side Mouse Button Up (SMBU)
    • Taunt: Page Up
    • Switch Target: G
    • Lock-on/Camera Reset: T
    • Options: R
    • Map: M
  • Menus:
    • Camera: Move the mouse
    • Confirm: Enter / LMB
    • Cancel: Escape / RMB
    • Control 1: Backspace / SMBD
    • Control 2: Insert / SMBU
    • Select: Arrow Keys
    • Scroll: Move the mouse
    • Change Tab Left: 2
    • Change Tab Right: 3
    • Sort: 4
    • Switch Display: 5

Notes:

  • Lock-on can be useful in certain situations, but free running is generally preferable.
  • The Sort option (4/X Button) simplifies inventory management.
  • The Switch Display option (5/Depress Right Stick) will be explained later.

Understanding Your Fighter

The Fighter card displays crucial information about your character:

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  • Fighter Name, Grade (Stars), Class (Type), and Power Rating.
  • Level and EXP: Shows your current level and experience points needed to level up.
  • Death Bag Size, Skill Slots (for Decals), and Maximum Rage Gauge.
  • Stats:
    • HP: Total health points.
    • STM: Affects actions in the Tower, such as rolling, attacking, and running. Depletion leads to Hunger, requiring you to eat a Beast to recover.
    • STR: Damage multiplier for weapons scaling with Strength.
    • DEX: Damage multiplier for weapons scaling with Dexterity.
    • VIT: Determines damage reduction from attacks, combined with your Armor stat.
    • LUK: Increases Kill Coin gain and Critical Hit chance.
  • Attack Values: Displays attack values for the current weapons in your right (R) and left (L) hands, along with damage types (physical and elemental).
  • Defenses: Shows your total defense from armor and resistances/weaknesses to different damage types:
    • Slash Damage
    • Blunt Damage
    • Piercing Damage
    • Fire Damage
    • Electric Damage
    • Poison Damage
  • Equipment Durability: Green bars indicate the condition of your equipped items.
  • Currencies: Displays currencies you have on you while in the Tower, which are "banked" upon returning to the Waiting Room or spending them at the Wandering Shop.

Navigating the Waiting Room

The Waiting Room is your central hub. Here's what you'll find:

  1. Immediate Messages: Notifications about expeditions, Waiting Room attacks, etc.
  2. Fighter Information: Level, name, HP, and Rage Meter.
  3. Equipped Weapons: Icons in the lower left and right corners.
  4. Current Decals: Equipped decals on your current Fighter.

The Tower Entry Hub contains:

  1. Mingo Head: Used for leveling up your Fighters.
  2. Elevator: Transports you to previously unlocked floors.
  3. Escalator: Takes you to the initial floor of the Tower of Barbs (Floor 1).
  4. Uncle Prime Box: A daily login reward containing various items. Resets after leaving and returning to the Waiting Room.
  5. Royal Elevator: Available for Express Pass holders, offering free access to floors.

Leveling Up Your Fighter

The Mingo Head allows you to increase your Fighter's stats, Skill Slots, and Death Bag space. Leveling up requires Experience, Deathroids, and Bloodnium (obtained in the end-game floors).

Elevators

The Elevator listings display the cost (Kill Coins) for traveling to different floors. The Royal Elevator is free for Express Pass holders.

Shops

Kommodore Suzuki runs the shop, where you can buy, sell, and research equipment.

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  1. Shop Menu Options: Buy, Sell, or R&D.
  2. Currency Details: Shows Death Metals (DMs), Bloodnium, Kill Coins (KC), and SPLithium (SPL).
  3. Funshots: Passive bonuses gained from researching gear at certain levels.

Buy Menu

  • Filters the store list by All, Weapons, Headgear, Body Armor, and Leg Armor.
  • Displays all researched weapons and armors, showing different tiers and research levels (+#).

Sell Menu

  • Allows you to sell items from your Death Bag or Storage Chest.
  • Items sell for a fraction of their purchase price.

Research & Development (R&D)

  • Upgrades your armor and weapons.
  • Filters items for research.
  • Displays a list of blueprints you have access to. Blueprints are found in the Tower marked as "??????????".
  • Shows the material and SPLithium cost for the selected item.
  • Displays the stat gains for upgrading the item.

Research time varies, starting in minutes and eventually extending to days in the end game.

Funshots

Passive bonuses that enhance your Fighter's abilities. They are earned through:

  • Initial Research: When you first research a new blueprint.
  • Tier Upgrade: When you upgrade an item from +4 to the next Tier.
  • Uncapping: When you take an item from T4 +4 to T4+5.

Funshot categories include Sharp, Pierce, Blunt, Head, Body, and Legs.

Currencies

  • Death Metals (DMs): Purchased with real money or earned through quests, Team Fights, login rewards, and events.
  • Bloodnium: Earned from Splattershrooms and defeating Haters in Tengoku.
  • Kill Coins (KC): Obtained from chests, selling items, quests, Team Fights, TDM, Expeditions, and killing enemies.
  • SPLithium (SPL): Obtained through quests, killing haters, Team Fights, TDM, Expeditions, and recycling Fighters.
  • R-Points: Gained from recycling Blueprints and Decals at the Vending Machine Hernia.

The Hernia Machine

Located next to the Shop, the Hernia machine offers:

  1. Today's Lineup: A rotating list of items, with weekly blueprints and daily items.
  2. Bloodnium Exchange: Exchange Bloodnium for various items and blueprints (end-game).
  3. R-Point Exchange: Use R-Points to purchase blueprints and items.
  4. Recycle Decals: Recycle Decals for R-Points.
  5. Recycle Blueprints: Recycle Blueprints for R-Points.
  6. Daily Rotating Item Pool: A complete list of all possible items that can appear in the Today's Lineup menu.

Important Tips for Beginners

  • You Lose Items When You Die: Store valuable items in the Safe Box.
  • The Game Is Designed Around Dying: Learn from your mistakes and keep exploring.
  • Prioritize Upgrading Storage: Expand your Storage Chest with Kill Coins.
  • Defeat Enemies One by One: Avoid getting surrounded.
  • Crouch in Bushes to Escape: Use bushes to break line of sight with enemies.
  • Run if You Find a Raider: Prioritize survival over fighting if you have valuable items.
  • Pick Up Items Quickly: Be aware of your surroundings when looting.
  • Be Aware of Your Surroundings When Escaping: Check for enemies before activating the Escape Pod.

7 Days to Die: A Comprehensive Survival Guide

This guide provides an extensive overview of "7 Days to Die," covering everything from initial setup to late-game strategies.

Starting Your Game

  1. Create a Profile/Survivor: The options are self-explanatory.
  2. Choose a Map: Navezgane is recommended for beginners.
  3. Gather Starting Resources:
    • 5 Small Stones
    • 2 Wood
    • 2 Plant Fibers
  4. Craft a Stone Axe: Use the crafting interface (TAB key).
  5. Craft a Wooden Bow: (6 wood and 3 plant fibers)
  6. Craft Stone Arrows: (1 feather, 1 wood and 1 stone per arrow). Aim for about 100 arrows to start.
  7. Find Shelter: Locate a 2-story house or a small shack.
  8. Set a Respawn Point: Craft a Bedroll (20 plant fibers) and place it in your shelter.
  9. Create Storage: Craft Secure Storage Chests (10 wood each).
  10. Defend Your Shelter: Dig a moat and fill it with Wood Log Spikes (20 wood each). Craft Wood Spikes (100 wood each) to place around your walls.

Food and Water

  1. Hunt Animals: Use your Wooden Bow and Stone Arrows to hunt pigs or deer.
  2. Butcher Animals: Use your Stone Axe or a Bone Knife to harvest Raw Meat, Bones, and Leather.
  3. Cook Meat: Build a Campfire (8 small stones) and cook the Raw Meat to avoid food poisoning. A Cooking Pot allows you to make Boiled Meat, which has a low smell range.
  4. Gather Water: Fill Cans or Bottles with Murky Water from a water source.
  5. Purify Water: Boil Murky Water in a Cooking Pot to create clean Water.

Temperature Management

  • Core Temperature: Affected by the environment and clothing.
  • Craft Plant Fiber clothing for heat/cold resistance.

Improving Gear

  1. Craft a Forge: Requires Bellows (8 wood, 12 animal hides, 1 Short Iron Pipe) and 50 Clay, 50 Small Stones, Bellows and 1 more short iron pipe.
  2. Gather Clay: Dig in darkish brown spots on the map.
  3. Smelt Forged Iron: Use the Forge to smelt Forged Iron, which is used to craft better weapons, tools, and armor.

Scavenging and Looting

  • Explore Points of Interest (POIs):
    • Shamway Foods: Good for beginners.
    • Towns: Smaller than cities, with fewer zombies.
    • Cities: Larger than towns, with more zombies and damaged buildings.
  • Look for Air Drops: Contain medical supplies and weapon parts.
  • Locate Supply Crates: Use the console command (tilde key `) to find the coordinates of spawned supply crates.

Surviving the Night

  • Fortify Your Shelter: Upgrade Building Blocks using a Stone Axe.
  • Gather Resources: Use the night to craft ammunition, medical supplies, and other necessities.
  • Crouch to Avoid Detection: Remain crouched inside your shelter to minimize the risk of being detected by zombies.

Base Building

  • Choose a Location: Flat areas are best. Consider building near a water source.
  • Start Small: Begin with a small base and expand as needed.
  • Dig a Moat: Create a trench around your base to slow down zombies.
  • Fortify Walls: Upgrade your walls to withstand zombie attacks.
  • Reinforce Damaged Blocks: Repair damaged blocks using a Stone Axe, Claw Hammer, or Nailgun.
  • Consider an Underground Base: Underground bases are easy to defend but take longer to build.

Combat Strategies

  • Stealth: Use the stealth option to avoid detection while scavenging.
  • Headshots: Aim for the head to maximize damage.
  • Dodge and Weave: Dodge toward and back from zombies to minimize the risk of being hit.
  • Utilize Ranged Weapons: Firearms and bows are effective for killing zombies from a distance.
  • Conserve Ammunition: Use melee weapons when appropriate to save ammunition.

Managing Resources

  • Food and Water: Maintain a steady supply of food and water to avoid starvation and dehydration.
  • Temperature: Dress appropriately for the climate to avoid overheating or freezing.
  • Wellness: Maintain a high wellness level to improve your health and stamina.

Useful Items to Keep On Hand

  • Flashlight
  • Night Vision Goggles
  • Water
  • Clothes for each biome
  • Backup gun or knife

Additional Tips

  • Hydration: Decreases as you move around and sprint.
  • Fullness: Decreases gradually as you perform actions. Being cold decreases fullness faster.
  • Heat Map: Cooking and forging increase the heat map of your area, which attracts screamer zombies.
  • Nighttime: Zombies are more aggressive at night. Stay inside your shelter and craft or build.
  • Daytime: Use the daytime to travel, scavenge, and gather resources.

DayZ: Survival Guide

DayZ is a stat management game wrapped in a zombie-infested hellscape. Five vital stats determine whether you’ll live to see another sunrise or faceplant into the dirt at a water pump. Those stats are thirst, hunger, temperature, blood, and health. All five are interconnected like a dysfunctional family dinner, mess up one, and the others suffer.

Thirst and hunger going red will drain your health slowly, while getting cold turns your temperature icon dark blue and does the same. Here’s the good news. If you keep your thirst and hunger yellow or higher, your blood regenerates faster. The higher your blood level, the faster your health regenerates too. High stats also give you some resistance to common sicknesses, so yes, water and a can of beans are basically magic in DayZ. Food spawns in buildings like houses and stores. Some canned food needs to be opened with tools, knives, screwdrivers, crowbars, whatever sharp-ish thing you can find. Water is best taken from wells, those little blue pump things found in most towns. Walk up, hold the button on screen, and hydrate until full. Avoid rivers unless you're trying to speedrun cholera.

Controls can be found in the in-game menu to know what stuff does on Playstation, Xbox and PC. Seriously, do it, because you need to know how to open your inventory. Your pockets are your lifeline. Clothing determines your heat insulation and gives inventory slots. You’ll find food, water, and tools in towns, but you’ll also find infected. These adorable rage monsters scream like they just got the wrong order at McDonald’s and will absolutely mess you up if you don't know how to protect yourself. They rip your clothes, make you bleed, and ruin your day. Bleeds can be stopped with rags, bandages, or sewing kits, but unless they’re disinfected, you’ve got a 40% chance of getting wound infection, which is basically a death scratch. Use iodine, disinfectant, or medical alcohol to clean them or your wounds if you have wound infection.

To avoid bleeds entirely, master blocking. Hold the block buttons(L2(Playstation), LT(Xbox) or RMB(PC)) and move backwards to avoid damage. Only fists, melee weapons, or one-handed non-guns can block. After an infected attacks twice, you’ve got a small window to strike back. Heavy attacks (sprint + attack) deal more damage and can stun, but they eat stamina. Don’t get greedy though. One zombie? Sure. Two? Maybe if you're good. Three or more? Killing infected gives you loot, but it’s risky.

Crouch sprinting is your friend for stealthing passed them because infected have Metal Gear Solid-style vision cones, and they’ll chase you until they forget you exist or they KO you. Avoid guns unless it’s life or death. Gunshots are heard from thousands of meters away, and players will come for you like seagulls spotting a chip. Speaking of players, avoid them early on. Run, hide, or talk it out. “I’m friendly and learning” might just save your life… or get you shot.

Want to be a gigachad? Learn the survival skills that separate the freshies from the veterans. Never drink from ponds or rivers, cholera isn't friendly. Don’t eat rotten or burnt food, food poisoning will ruin your appetite. Every sickness in DayZ gets worse if you ignore it. Always treat it early. Water from bottles or canteens isn’t clean unless you empty it then fill it from a well. Canned food is your early game bestie, but what you use to open it matters. Sharp tools = more food saved. Blunt tools = wasting some of that cans' contents. Fruit trees (apple, pear, plum) spawn edible loot over time. Chill in the area, loot some buildings around the fruit trees, then come back and scoop up your fruit snacks. Chickens are also great food sources. Punch them out, skin them with a sharp tool, cook the meat, but use gloves or clean your hands quickly at any water source.

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