7 days to Die Ultimate Beginners Guide: Getting Started 389 Tips Tricks and Facts Ver 1.3 2025
My Attempt at compiling every piece of information I could think of that would be helpful to beginners. I started with 100 and it rapidly went out of control. Stay tuned as I'll be making an advanced tips and tricks video next. Let me know in the comments if you learned anything from the video.
I don't play on console and Googled the various controls and couldn't find them all. If you know any missing ones let me know and I'll add them to the video when I update for Version 2.0
Content of Video:
00:00 Intro
00:20 Game Settings
00:34 Before Joining a Game
00:44 Hud & Toolbars
01:01 Hunger & Thirst Mechanics
01:51 Status Effects
02:02 Broken Bones & Sprains & Using Injured Limbs
02:29 Catching Fire
02:39 First Aid Treatments
02:59 Accessing the Tutorial + Earn 4 Skill Points
03:31 Gathering Resources
03:43 Crafting Axe + the Tutorial Items
04:03 Craft Primitive Armor
04:15 Redeeming Skill Points
04:30 5 Major Skills/Traits + Unlocking Skills
05:05 Specializing & Effects on Loot
05:20 Skills Effects on Weapons
05:31 Head to Trader
05:41 Building Blocks + Changing Block Shapes
06:03 Advanced Rotation + Cloning Shapes
06:23 Combat Tips + Look for the XP
06:43 Regular vs Power Attack + Delayed Stamina Regeneration
07:07 Headshots vs Body shots + Dismemberment
07:30 Hit em while they're down
07:40 Sneaking + Sneak Attacks
08:17 Bow is Silent
08:27 Retrieve Arrows & Switch Ammo types
08:38 Using Doors as barricades
08:54 Block w/ Cubes and Hatches
09:14 Zombie Jump Height
09:28 3 Block Hop + 2 Block Hop
10:06 Upgrade to Cobblestone
10:16 Nerdpole & Forged Steel
10:26 Parkour Level 2 & 3
10:52 Infection & Treatments
11:13 Bird Nests, eggs and Feathers
11:23 Dehydrating Foods
11:32 Garbage Man
11:41 Encumbrance + Pack Mule & Pocket Mods
12:20 Harvest Corpses & Knife + Farm Plot Blocks
12:40 Food to Seeds & Living off the Land + Hunting
13:00 Vehicle Adventures & Cop Cars
13:12 Bedroll & Storage Box
13:28 Inventory Controls + Container Buttons
14:07 Locking Inventory Slots
14:17 Inventory Shortcuts & Spam Clicking
14:33 Loot Traders' Property & Workstations
14:47 Lockpicking & Forge Ahead Books
14:59 Workstations & Dew Collector & Mod Upgrades
15:28 Where to Get Water
15:38 Dirty Water & Dysentery + Dysentery Cures
16:12 Cooking & The Campfire + Boiling Water & Cooking Pot
16:38 Grill & Grilled Food
16:49 Animal Tracker
16:59 Cookbooks & Recipes & Master Chef
17:09 Drink Tea
17:23 Duct Tape & Glue & Smelting
17:35 Scrapping Items, Armor & Weapon Parts
17:47 Out of Cash? + Vendor Restock
18:01 Cloth Sources & Uses + Leather Sources
18:17 Crafting Skill Magazines & Recipes
18:31 Perk Books & Bonus Perks
18:44 Where to Find Books & Magazines
18:56 Read or Unread Books + Spike Traps
19:11 Food, Water & Stamina Mechanics
19:33 First Quest & Buried Supplies
19:49 Quest Reward & First Firearm
20:09 Trader Hours & Saving Ammo
20:23 Horde Day
20:39 Build a Base or Repurpose a P.O.I.
20:50 Land Claim Blocks & Resetting a P.O.I.
21:10 Quest Limit & Failing Quests
21:20 The Bicycle
21:37 Mission Tiers & Points
21:50 Special Jobs & Mission Progression
22:09 View Quest Progression & Controls
22:25 The Different Traders + Trader Specialties
22:45 Red Skulls & Tiers & Loot Stage + Skull Bonus Equation
23:10 Boost Your Loot Stage & Biome Multipliers
23:32 Hidden Compartments & Trash Piles
23:44 Each P.O.I. Has a Path
24:07 Toilets, Handguns and Knives
24:17 Maps, Waypoints, Resource Identification
24:37 Ore Veins, Marking Digs, Compass Clutter
24:50 Airdrops
25:03 Installing Mods & Mod Slots
25:15 Feral Zombies +Nighttime Dangers & Safety
25:43 Base Building + Leave a Path +Building Physics
26:11 Structural Integrity + Stat Breakdown & Building Collapse
26:42 Zombies Can Dig
26:52 Building Gives XP & Game Stage
27:02 Classes of Armor + Unique Sets of Armor & Bonus Abilities
27:24 Top Armor Picks + Nerd Armor
27:35 Legendary Parts + Savage Country
27:45 Wrench, Mechanical Parts & Salvaging
27:56 Repairing Items + Repair Kits
28:08 Heat Explained + Screamers
28:35 Fall Damage & Rage Mode
28:51 Rage Mode Limit, Base Design
29:07 Outro / Wasteland Only Preview + Like & Subscribe
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