¶ 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.
- 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.
- Items reset during standard maintenance (see schedule below) will not be replaced by admins.
- Don't build within 100 m of:
- Stronghold
- A portal
- 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.
¶ Changes in Hades Season 4
Season 4 of Hades is running on 7 Days to Die Version 2.5 with Project Z 2.5, bringing deeper survival systems, slower progression, and significantly higher overall danger.
¶ Vanilla 7 Days to Die — Version 2.5
- Empty jar water system restored; water must be scavenged and boiled again
- Smell mechanics expanded; food, eating, corpses, and illness attract zombies
- Temperature and clothing matter more; exposure has a stronger survival impact
- Storms and weather updated visually and mechanically
- Vehicle storage increased and new storage mods added
- UI and HUD improvements for food, water, character status, and quests
- Quest selection expanded for better pacing and variety
- Enemy model refreshes and additional workstation content and recipes
¶ Project Z — Version 2.5
- Major rebalance focused on harsher survival and longer progression
- New elite zombie tiers:
- Charged Elites: very fast, resistant to firearms
- Hellish Elites: extremely durable, resistant to melee, high block damage
- Bosses deal significantly more damage; new bosses added to Red Night and wandering hordes
- Elite zombies now have distinct visual effects tied to their damage types
- Backpack size increased to 98 slots
- Extensive personal trait rework:
- Progression and removal requirements adjusted across most traits
- Many traits now reward good play (avoiding damage, correct environments)
- Several penalties are now situational rather than constant
- Perfection and Transcendence skills expanded to 10 levels, unlocking over time
- New skills add risk, sustain, and escalation mechanics
- Temperature, frostbite, heatstroke, and wet clothing mechanics restored
- Armor now provides meaningful temperature resistance by type and tier
- Storms are far more dangerous, especially in the Wasteland
- Odor system expanded:
- Food, spices, mutation samples, and meals emit smell at different ranges
- Mutation Samples can be packaged to suppress odor
- Loot and economy tightened:
- Loot bonuses and mutation sample gains reduced
- Precious metals and unique parts drop rarely, mainly from elites and bosses
- Lockpicking reworked with more levels and reduced base safe damage
- Turrets restructured into clear tiers with stricter ammo rules
- Crafting speed bonuses reduced to prevent instant crafting
- Large number of fixes across expeditions, bosses, radiation, skills, armor, and crafting
¶ Server Configuration Notes
Reminder: You can see most of these settings at any time with the ggs console command.
- Jar refund chance set to 90% (default is 0%) for more realistic water gameplay
- Zombies sprint when they smell you
- Storms are re-enabled so we can experience the updated mechanics
- Holiday bonuses reverted
- XP and loot multipliers set back to 100%
- Big heads and confetti disabled
- Holiday-themed weapons and cooking recipes removed
- The snow biome in the new world is normal-sized
- Advanced horde base removed; only the beginner horde base remains
- Permadeath can be enabled per-player; open a ticket in city hall with your Steam ID if you'd like to try this out
¶ 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. |
/pzdiscord |
Join the Project Z Discord. |
/pznexus |
Open the Projet Z Nexus page 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- Portals to and from Stronghold
- Community market, hotel, garden, and crafting @ Stronghold
- Online Strongcoin shop
¶ The Oath
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.
¶ Becoming StrongSworn
To become StrongSworn, join our Discord and talk to the Ferryman in the #hades-info channel. When you push the StrongSworn button in his message, he'll give you a command to copy-paste into game chat.
¶ 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.
¶ Repairing Portals
There are roughly 40 broken portals hidden across the world. Unlocking them is a community-driven effort: players must find, select, and fund the locations, while admins handle the repair.
¶ The Repair Process
- Find: Explore the world and find broken portals! Share them with the community. This could be even be a fun mini-event like, "Let's find all the portals in the Burnt Forest!" Admins will not disclose portal locations, however, we can tell you the number of portals in a particular biome.
- Select: Inolve the whole community in your decision. While you might have enough funds to pay for a portal on your own or with your slaygroup, we value inclusivity. Reach out to those you don't normally interact with to make them aware of the efforts to open a portal and solicit their input.
- Fund: Collect the Strongcoin and buy the Opals of Ophelia.
- Repair: Open a ticket in
#portal-repairwith the coordinates of the portal to be repaired. An admin will work with you to find a time to meet up, take payment, and repair the portal, wiring it up to the central hub at Stronghold.
¶ The Cost of Repairing
Portals are repaired with Opals of Ophelia, available at the Takaro shop for 5,000 Strongcoin each. Be aware: while the first repair is affordable, the cost doubles for every successive unlock.
| Portal # | Opals Required | Strongcoin Equivalent |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 5,000 |
| 2 | 2 | 10,000 |
| 3 | 4 | 20,000 |
| 4 | 8 | 40,000 |
| 5 | 16 | 80,000 |
| 6 | 32 | 160,000 |
| 7 | 64 | 320,000 |
| 8 | 128 | 640,000 |
| n | 2n-1 | 5,000 * 2n-1 |
What if two groups are trying to open two different portals? Whichever group opens their ticket first will be considered the first one. The second group will have to pay the higher price for their repair.
However, in the spirit of community, we would strongly prefer these groups work together rather than compete. For example, you could request both portals at the same time and split the added cost of the second portal.
¶ Recommendations
Because this decision impacts the whole server, it's important to work with other players to pick which portals to invest in repairing. To coordinate effectively:
- Move to Discord: Start a thread in
#portal-repair. Offline players are unlikely to notice in-game chat about portals and their locations. - Centralize Data: Use your thread to track discovered portal coordinates, location preferences, and funding commitments.
- Appoint a Lead: Designate one trusted player to collect the payment and perform the final turn-in.
- Vote with Polls: You can create Discord polls in
#portal-repair. Remember that not everyone will see these, so be sure to advertise. Admins can help with advertising if you open a ticket in#city-hallwith a link to the post.
If you are sending Strongcoin to other players, remember the /transfer command.
¶ 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
We will post a survey every other Sunday to see how the community feels about a wipe. This is not a straight wipe / don't wipe vote, but rather an important input for the admins to consider. The admins will read the feedback, consider other things like ongoing server issues, then announce a decision on Monday as to whether we'll wipe. If / when we wipe, it will happen the following weekend.
| 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.