¶ Rules
- No trolling, griefing, or retaliating.
- No PvP. (Reminder: even with PvP disabled, 7 Days still allows indirect player damage, e.g. via explosions and other AoE damage. Intentionally hurting another player this way will get you banned.)
- Do not create an obstruction in a road, either by building or destroying--roads are community assets and obstructions could kill another player.
- Do not leave a pit in the ground outside of your land claim for other players to fall in and potentially die. You must take proactive action. Do not rely on automated resets to fill in holes for you--they are infrequent, imprecise, and this game is buggy.
- Put a land claim down before you build. If the game does not allow you to place a land claim or returns it when you do, you may not build there.
- Do not claim a quest POI (those with red skulls).
- Do not place a land claim in or overlapping a road.
- Do not leave vehicles, drones, or robotic turrets out when you log out. Placed entities are removed during maintenances.
- Items reset during standard maintenance (see schedule below) will not be replaced by admins.
- Do not log out outside of a land claim, trader, or Stronghold. If you do, the area around you will not reset. This is especially important for community horde bases and POIs.
- Do not build within 100 m of:
- Stronghold
- A trader
- A stranger's land claim
- You must take everything from every loot container you open. You may immediately drop what you don't want on the ground for it to despawn, but you must not leave it for someone else to spend their time cleaning up.
¶ What's New in Hades Season 5
Season 5 introduces a fresh world, new progression goals tied to Stronghold, and new transportation and vehicle options to help survivors explore it.
¶ New World
- A brand new randomly generated 10k world
- Fresh trader locations, POIs, and exploration opportunities
- Be the first to explore!
¶ Stronghold Challenges
Season 5 introduces custom Stronghold challenges designed specifically for Hades.
- Located on the last tab in the Challenges menu
- Completing the first row/group of challenges earns the title StrongSworn
- We will be adding additional challenge tiers throughout the season
¶ Trader Transporters
We have overhauled the fast travel system for Season 5. Rather than finding and repairing broken portals and hoping that they are near a trader or town, players now unlock direct travel to trader compounds.
- Transporters travel directly into the trader compound
- Traders unlock in biome progression order
- Unlocking a transporter requires:
- Find all traders in that biome
- Donate Opals of Ophelia toward the Stronghold project
- The server tracks all community donations
- Players can check progress with the
/transporters statuschat command
¶ New Vehicles
Season 5 adds a number of new craftable vehicles with TMO's ServerSide Vehicles, significantly increasing the variety of transportation options available beyond the vanilla minibike, motorcycle, truck, and gyrocopter.
New vehicles include a mix of civilian cars, off-road vehicles, military transports, and utility vehicles, each offering different speeds, storage capacities, and handling.
Examples include:
- Buggy / Dirt Bike – fast, lightweight vehicles ideal for early exploration and rough terrain.
- Pickup Truck – a practical all-purpose vehicle with good storage and durability.
- Box Truck – slower but offers significantly increased cargo capacity for hauling loot or supplies.
- Humvee and MRAP – heavy military vehicles with strong durability and good off-road capability.
- LMTV and Marauder trucks – large transport vehicles designed for heavy hauling.
- Golf Cart and Cruiser – lighter civilian vehicles that are easy to obtain and useful for short-distance travel.
- Sports and muscle cars such as the Charger, GNX, Nova, and Duster, offering faster road travel with moderate storage.
- MD-500 helicopter – an advanced late-game vehicle that allows aerial travel across the map.
These vehicles provide more specialization than the vanilla lineup, allowing players to choose between speed, cargo capacity, durability, or off-road performance depending on their needs.
¶ Daily schedule
| Morning | Mid-day | Evening | Resets? | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server Maintenance | 3 AM (convert) | noon (convert) | 7 PM (convert) | Yes | |
| Blood Rain | 4 AM (convert) | 1 PM (convert) | 8 PM (convert) | No | Will not trigger before game day 7 |
| Server Restart | 4:50 AM (convert) | 1:50 PM (convert) | 8:50 PM (convert) | No |
All times Eastern. Click convert to see the time in your local time.
¶ Maintenance
¶ Region Reset
In a very real sense, the whole world is a reset region. Every maintenance (first row in the schedule) we run the rr command with no arguments, which will reset all chunks in the entire world that aren't protected.
Protected areas are:
- land claims and some of the chunks around them
- traders and some of the chunks around them
- the special Stronghold claim
- online and offline players and some of the chunks around them
- entities (vehicles, drones, and turrets) placed by online and offline players
Anything left outside of the protected areas may be lost. Admins will not restore lost items or builds.
Also note that the protection area is larger than the claim and hard to precisely determine. So if you want something you to be reset, e.g. a mining node, don't do it close to a protected area. 50 m is a safe distance.
¶ Entity Reset
Any vehicles, drones, and robotic turrets (not the turrets/traps you wire up to electricity) anywhere will be lost. Admins will not restore lost entities or their contents.
¶ Commands
¶ Chat
Chat commands are typed directly into chat and start with a slash (/). Some chat commands take some time to process, so you may see a Processing command: {command} message before you get the actual response.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
/rules |
Open this page in your browser. |
/guide |
Open this page in your browser. |
/map |
Open the interactive map in your browser. |
/discord |
Join the Stronghold Discord. |
/ferryman |
Open #hades-info (The Ferryman's channel) in Discord. |
/stronghold or /sh |
Teleport to Stronghold. Unlocked with The Ferryman. |
/horde |
Teleport to the community horde base. |
/bed |
Teleport to your active bedroll. |
/vote |
Upvote the server daily and receive rewards. |
/votelink |
Open the 7DtD Servers voting page for this server in your browser. |
/daily |
Claim your daily login reward. Available again 24 hours from last use. |
/link |
Link your 7DtD and Takaro users. Allows you to create a Takaro user if needed. |
/shop or /store |
Browse the rewards shop from inside the game. |
/shoplink or /storelink |
Open the rewards shop in your browser. |
/balance |
Show your available rewards currency. |
/claim |
Moves shop purchases to your inventory in game. |
/transfer <playername> <amount> |
Transfer your Strongcoin to another player. |
/buyticket <amount> |
Purchase 1 Lottery Ticket for 10 strongcoin. |
/viewtickets |
lets you see how many tickets already purchased for that week. |
/nextdraw |
tells you how long until the next lottery drawing. |
/claims |
See how many landclaims you have available. You start with 2 and get one more for each biome challenge group you complete. |
/pzdocs |
Open the Projet Z docs in your browser. |
/resetme |
Reset your player à la permadeath. Everything except what's placed in the world or in storage in the world will be reset. |
¶ Console
Console commands are run from the 7DtD console, which on PC you can access by pressing F1.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
ggs or getgamestats |
List all game stats (settings), e.g. difficulty and loot abundance. |
¶ StrongSworn
¶ Privileges
The Unclaimed--those who have not taken the StrongSworn Oath--can play through the entire game. But taking the oath confers valuable privileges that will make the grind easier and more fun.
- Portal and teleportation network, including:
/stronghold/bed- Unlockable transporter pads that will teleport you to traders from Stronghold
- Community market, hotel, garden, and crafting @ Stronghold
- Online Strongcoin shop
¶ Becoming StrongSworn
You become StrongSworn by completing all the challenges in the first row of the Stronghold Challenges tab, the last of which is to take the StrongSworn Oath.
¶ The StrongSworn Oath
The last challenge is to take the StrongSworn Oath. This is perhaps the most complicated to complete, but is important as a way to show that you have joined the Discord as a full member of our community. While Discord is not required, our goal is to build a robust and supportive community there. Plus, knowing our StrongSworn are in Discord provides a layer of protection for other players--hackers are unlikely to go through the effort.
You can take the Oath by finding to the Ferryman in Discord (he's always at the top of the #hades-info channel, clicking on the button labeled The StrongSworn Oath and then copy-pasting the command found there into game chat.
By becoming StrongSworn you pledge to:
- Read and follow the rules of Stronghold [Discord rules, 7DtD rules].
- Foster a sense of community for StrongSworn and Unclaimed alike.
- Invest in the future of Stronghold with thoughtful feedback on how we can improve.
¶ Stronghold Rules
- To claim a hotel room: place and lock a door on both the front and back entrances
- To claim a market stall: put your name on the outside of the stall
- Limit of one hotel room and one market stall per player
- No personal builds outside your hotel room or market stall
- It's okay to label your hotel room
- It's okay to put a single dropbox outside your hotel room for others to leave things for you
- Some requests we've allowed in the past that should be avoided going forward:
- Don't build on the roof of the market or hotel--this makes expansion trickier should we need it
- The kiosks outside the market are not stalls to be claimed
- Community-benefit builds elsewhere in Stronghold are encouraged!
- Build a gym with exercise equipment!
- Build a spa with healing beds!
- Repair the walls!
- Expand the garden!
- Add more crafting benches!
- Build a lookout tower (not on top of the market or hotel, though)!
- Community garden
- Harvest the whole garden when you see it ready for harvest
- Put what you don't need in the chest
¶ Trader Transporters
There are six transporter pads that can be unlocked from Stronghold to the traders in each biome. These must be unlocked in order. Unlocking them requires the community donate enough Opals of Ophelia and uncover all traders in the relevant biome. Admins can tell you how many traders there are, but not where they are. The trader compound must be completely visibile on the interactive map to count as uncovered.
| Transporter | Marginal Cost | Cumulative Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Pine Forest | 100 | 100 |
| Burnt Forest | 500 | 600 |
| Desert | 1,000 | 1,600 |
| Snow | 2,000 | 3,600 |
| Wasteland | 4,000 | 7,600 |
| Bonus | 8,000 | 15,600 |
All costs are in Opals of Ophelia. We will be giving out Opals as rewards for community participation (stay tuned!) but you can also craft them from Resource Kits, for which there are many recipes craftable on the Workbench (no Radio Station required!).
To donate an Opal of Ophelia, simple click Use (or hit the A button). The Opal will be consumed and your donation will be broadcast to the community along with the latest donation totals.
Once all traders are uncovered and enough donations have been received, the Admins will create a poll for the community to vote on which trader to link up to the transporter and then wire up the pad to that trader.
¶ Economy / Strongcoin
Stronghold features a virtual currency called Strongcoin that players can earn by partipating in community activities and redeemed at our virtual Stronghold Survivor Shop.
Strongcoin is not honored by traders or vending machines in game--they take Dukes. Similarly, the Stronghold Survivor Shop doesn't take Dukes.
You can also give Strongcoin to other players to work towards common goals or to barter.
¶ Shop
You can redeem Strongcoin at the Stronghold Survivor Shop for rewards to help you on your journey through Hades.
Earning Strongcoin:
You are rewarded for being an active and positive member of our community.
- Using the
/dailychat command. - Using the
/votecommand daily. - Being part of our Discord family.
- Actively jumping into Discord channels like
#meet-the-hordewith polls, forms, and fun prompts (not just hanging in party chat). - Helping new players find their footing—whether it’s pointing to our docs, showing how the shop works, or sharing tips.
- Joining events as a participant or a cheer squad.
- Lending a hand to others in the community.
- Staying active and present in the world.
- Blood and Fortune Lottery.
- Playtime Rewards.
- Trivia Game that occurs randomly.
¶ Playtime Rewards
In addition to other activities, you are also rewarded with Strongcoin simply for being active and playing in our world. Spend your time building, exploring, and surviving, and you'll earn currency as you go.
¶ Blood and Fortune Lottery
Feeling lucky? You can buy a ticket for a chance to win a StrongCoin prize pool!
Drawing: The lottery is drawn every day at 8:30 PM EST.
**Important: When you use a lottery command, the chat may temporarily show an "invalid command" error. Please wait a moment; the command will register. **
¶ Trivia
Test your knowledge and earn rewards! Our trivia system will randomly ask multiple-choice questions in the chat throughout the day.
To Play: Type /answer "<your_answer>" Replace <your_answer> with the writen out choice you have made. Be sure to put double quotations around.
Reward: A correct answer will instantly reward you with 25 Strongcoin.
¶ Tips and tricks
¶ How to keep your stuff safe
- Lock your doors.
- Lock your storage containers.
- Lock your vehicles.
- Lock your drones.
¶ You can (but MUST not) kill another player, even with PvP disabled
Yes, it's true. While you can't directly damage another player, you can damage or even kill them via indirect methods: push them off a cliff, shoot the vehicle they are on, AoE them with explosives, or burn them with fire. Accidents happen, but killing another player is a bannable offense.
¶ How to find the tier of a POI
The tier of a POI is the number of red skulls displayed when you enter the POI.
The orange skulls do not count. The tier of the quest your on is related but not the same thing. For example, you can be on a T6 quest, but there are no T6 POIs. All T6 quests are infested and send you to a T5 POI.
A T0 POI is a POI without any red skulls.
¶ How to use a sort box
Label one of your boxes sort, all lower case.
That's it!
When you put items in the box and close it, the game will automatically sort the items to any nearby boxes that are also in a land claim block and that already have one or more of the same items in it.
Some notes based on our testing (NB: these are empirical observations, so YMMV):
- The sort logic does not care who owns the box or whether or not it is locked, so be careful with personal boxes in a shared build, especially in the Stronghold hotel!
- Boxes do not have to be in the same land claim block
- Boxes do need to be within roughly 28 blocks horizontally of the sorting box; vertical distance does not matter
- Sorting is pretty literal. Name matters, but not quality or tier.
- Multiple items can be put in the target boxes (e.g. silver nuggets, gold nuggets, and diamonds in a box labeled “ores”)
- If there is no target box for the item to go to, it stays in the sort box
¶ Server wipe policy
When it seems like server participation is winding down, we will post a survey to get community feedback on the old season and decide on a timeline for launching the new season.
It usually takes about a week to prepare a new world and we will aim to launch on the weekend, so here's a typical launch schedule:
| Sun | Mon | Tue Wed Thu | Fri Sat Sun |
|---|---|---|---|
| poll | decision | prep | wipe |
Once a wipe is announced, the mod list will be "chilled" and we will shift into world-building mode. We will try to take the latest version of each mod, but only stable mods will be chosen--especially for large mods like Project Z. World building is a big enough job on its own, we don't have the time to also test and fix issues with the mods.