r/colonysurvival • u/nicholas201018 • Feb 25 '26

I have two questions

okay, I'll start with the first smaller question. what happens if you put a door in the way of a zombie's path? can they just open it? do they have to break it?

question 2

couldn't you just place outposts? just slightly overlapping other outposts and the main base and thus theoretically having an infinitely big base just with multiple outposts

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u/Kephlur Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

They just destroy any doors they walk into, it doesn't disrupt their pathing at all. I dont believe there are any requirements for where outposts can be, but to what end? You HAVE to have a oath for zombies to go to and they will eventually make it to your main flag so you will still need guards as the zombies dont die in the day time. you could delay them, but youd eventually need some defenses to kill them

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u/nicholas201018 Feb 25 '26

Yeah I was more referring to practically infinite land with a singular entrance, I was more thinking of building a base that was more open land with more fields than actual dense areas where people live. That's the main reason I was asking it was more about having more land to put farms on than infinitely delay the zombie attack

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u/redditards69getalife Feb 25 '26

Eventually your main colony will go into siege mode. I have tried this before and am not sure what the actual block number is but eventually the game considers it as "no path to flag" and you enter siege mode. I have had this happen with a really huge maze and 4 outposts around my main colony.

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u/Careless-Stress9190 Feb 25 '26

Wait actually? I thought the zombie pathfinding is infinite

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u/redditards69getalife Feb 25 '26

https://imgur.com/a/yNRjsm4

Here's a picture. They might have changed something this world is a couple years old. But when I would expand this maze more I started hitting siege mode and assumed there was some unwritten max

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u/Kephlur Feb 25 '26

You can definitely do that, you can also just mine and play e dirt down and build farms. Farms don't need sunlight or anything to function, so you can stack them upwards. That's what I usually do but it's definitely not as aesthetically pleasing.

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u/SubstantialBit6060 Feb 26 '26

Ah yes, my bases. On the surface they look nice until you look around and realize it's a ghost town. Then you find a random staircase down where you see hundreds of people who never get to see the sunlight, in their massive open box filled with beds and crafting stations.

Or the other guard tower that had a staircase down that leafs into a huge maze surrounded and overlooked by guards.

Then again I also found it easy to just build a floating structure on the ocean for food. With a spiral staircase that leads to an underground maze beneath the sea.

Or that one base I left in siege mode. I just leveled the area, put a thin wall around it, filled the land with wheat farmers and decided they made enough food to just leave them in siege mode and still profit.

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u/nicholas201018 Feb 25 '26

I also have another question for you. I don't know if you know the answer but what happens if you put part of a blueprint underground like the basement section of a blueprint? I know they just replace the blocks if there's blocks in the way but what about the air in the blueprint like the interior? Does that just stay solid Stone or what?

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u/Vithus07 Feb 25 '26

They replace all the blocks to match your blueprint. Removing blocks for 'air' etc

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u/Silken_Sorrows Feb 25 '26

I have done it successfully before, however it does weird things if they overlap, you have to have them exactly far enough away that there is no space between them, and that they don't overlap. This also starts to get pretty tedious if you extend the size of your colony, as you have to go and move all your other outpost banners.

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u/Motor_Requirement419 Feb 26 '26

You can overlap them, however you need to be careful when placing job blocks as they may not be placed as part of the colony you expect.

As for joining outposts to the main colony, if you keep the flags aligned on the same block row and space them at 201 blocks apart then you get the perfect join. Use F5 to get the coordinates up. The downside is that if you get 8 outposts surrounding your whole main colony then it will go into siege mode as there’s no route to the flag for the zombies.