You need to find enough frames and concrete in the first week, which usually is not that hard, as concrete bags are in almost every PoI. I usually build this simple bunker for first horde night. As for the high block damage I don't see it, not in vanilla anyway, the spawn numbers on default settings are kinda small and you'll kill all the horde zombies a bit after midnight most likely for the first few hordes, at least thats how it always goes for me. As you said, you basically can't really make a effictive base without exploiting the AI. No matter what you do, the AI will always generally funnel the same way, due to how the ai works now. Its basically funnels them into a kill zone. Make it about 5 blocks off the ground as well. But for the first few horde nights, a 15 block long 2 block wide kill corridor with walls 2-3 high on the sides with barbed wire on them, should be sufficent. Gets a bit more complicated once the puking cops show up though. Could have made this same base out of wood upgraded once and I bet it would have worked just as well. They never even got to the iron bars to start on them.
I made one of these out of cobblestone and finished hordenight without having a single block destroyed. zombies come up stairs, get slowed by the barbed wire enough that you can usually dispatch most of them before they even get to the iron bars. Make a elevated kill corridor, 2 wide, line both sides of the walls with barbed wire, make a cage of iron bars at the far end to sit in to shoot at them. Nonetheless, all the bases I've tried making with said materials were useless against the hordes I've fought against in this update. If not, then it might be that I simply suck as an architect, in which case may I ask for the design of your base? May I ask if the poles messed with the zombie's AI? I've seen a couple of them do that. There's no progression at all, since all materials except concrete or steel are either useless against them (just like early game traps), too expensive or both. So anyways, TL DR: Base defense is extremely unbalanced, unless your base tricks the zombie's AI. They eat through spikes like they're nothing, and the other traps are for mid-endgame too. Traps are quite not worth the resources either. Concrete and steel seem to be the only options, except they aren't options till mid-endgame. Too bad an iron base is so incredibly expensive, it's out of the question too. Cobblestone and bricks, as I have tested, are like paper to them too. Back in other alphas, I believe wood bases weren't the best, but they were ok for the first horde.
Wood is simply out of the question, which makes wood blocks pretty much useless.
I wouldn't say that's too extreme to justify what happened). Now, after this immense failure, I thought about it for a while and found out that, unless your base is built to take advantage of the AI, it's pretty much impossible or extremely hard to make a decent base to fight off the hordes in default settings (I was playing warrior difficulty, with 8 zombie horde nights. Literally, in a couple of seconds, they were through. Welp, not only it wasn't enough, apparently it was a simple joke. I even had more cobblestones and tools to repair as they did damage. As we all know, making a decent base at the start is very hard, because of the stamina penalty and crap tools, but I still think the base I made should've been more than enough for the 1st horde. I made a small base out of cobblestone blocks, with arrow slits to shoot the zombies from within and a couple rows of wood spikes. That's when I realised that base building and base defense is extremely unbalanced, especially compared to older alphas. Now that I'm back I thought it would be great to stop using cheap tactics and face the hordes the fun way, which is to actually make a base for each horde. I'll have to finally admit that I used to sort of "skip" horde nights by staying on top of rooftops until I had a strong base. After a long hiatus, I'm back at playing the game again, only to realise that base defense currently is not balanced in any way at all.
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