A very commonly asked question that we receive is, “what is the 7 Days To Die Game Stage?” “What does it do” and “how is it calculated?”. Basically, the game stage in 7 Days To Die is what keeps the world balanced for you. It will determine the type of zombies that will spawn in the POI you just entered or what type comes knocking at your door on Horde Nights.
It also tweaks the difficulty depending on your performance. So if you’re having a hard time and dying a lot, it will lower the game stage, making life easier. If you survive for multiple days in a row, your game stage will increase, making the game and zombies harder. Other factors, such as your character’s level, are involved, that determine your game stage.So, you could have 2 people at the same level but with rather different game stages.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL & 7D2D GAMESTAGE
Before A19 your game stage was multiplied by the game difficulty settings, which you can see in the table below. If you played on “Nomad” settings your game stage would be multiplied by 1.5 or 50%. If you had the game on hardest settings, which is “Insane” settings, your game stage would be multiplied by 2.5 or 150%.
Since the release of Alpha 19, the game difficulty no longer applies to the 7D2D gamestage. Regardless of game settings, your game stage is just multiplied by 1.2 or 20%, no matter what. In Alpha 20 thats soon to be released they will add Game Stage multipliers depending on which biome your in. However, I will leave the table below for you to see the other variations that the different game difficulties offer.
