Blood moon horde

Your horde

One row per player near you when the horde starts (within 80 m of each other). Days survived: whole in-game days since the player first joined.

Type a gamestage straight into the last box to skip the players (the console command gamestage shows yours). Links on any stage below fill it in.

How gamestage is worked out

Each player has a gamestage, worked out from their level, the days they have stayed alive and the biome they stand in:

gamestage = (level × (1 + biome modifier) + days alive + biome bonus) × 1.2, rounded down

• Days alive go up by one every in-game day since you first joined. Each death takes 2 days off (down to 0), and the count never goes above your level: at level 20, days alive stop at 20.
• The biome multiplies your level, not your whole gamestage, and adds a flat bonus. The game counts the biome you stand in when the horde starts, so a base in the snow or the wasteland faces a much bigger horde.
• 1.2 is a fixed multiplier in the game files (named difficultyBonus); the game difficulty setting does not change gamestage.
• An active infested clear quest (tier 2 and up) adds 60% of your level and 30 while it runs. The sandbox options Global gamestage and Biome gamestage scale the result and the biome part.

Example from the game files: level 10 with 4 days alive is (10 + 4) × 1.2 = 16.8, so gamestage 16. The same player at 25 days with 2 deaths has 21 days alive, capped to 10 by the level: gamestage 24.

Playing together

When the blood moon rises, players within 80 m of each other form one horde party (the in-game party does not matter). Their gamestages are sorted from highest to lowest; the highest counts in full, the next at 50%, the next at 25% and so on, and the total is rounded down. Three players at 120, 80, 40 make 120 × 1 + 80 × 0.5 + 40 × 0.25 = gamestage 170.

The party shares one horde: the zombie counts below do not grow with more players, but the number allowed alive at once does (the enemy count setting per player, at most 30). Players far apart get a horde each.

How the horde runs

• The horde stage is the highest stage of the table at or below the party gamestage, worked out once when the horde starts at 22:00 (with the default day length); it lasts until 04:00.
• The waves run in order. A wave ends when all its zombies have spawned and its pause is over, or when its time is up (1 or 2 game hours, 2.5 real minutes each with the default 60-minute day), whichever comes first: zombies a wave has not spawned by then are skipped, so killing fast brings more. After the waves the last line keeps sending zombies until dawn.
• At once: the table gives each wave a maximum, but the game also caps a party at the blood moon enemy count setting (default 8) per player and never more than 30. Solo on default settings that is 8, whatever the table says. The whole world is capped at 64 × 1.9 zombies with the default max spawned zombies.
• Who comes: each zombie is drawn from the wave's entity group by weight; when the draw repeats the zombie before it, the game draws again (up to three draws), so the shares shown are the long-run mix with that rule. A player in a vehicle gets a radiated vulture half the time.
• Loot: every 12th horde zombie (more apart for big hordes: the stage's total count divided by 30) has its loot bag chance multiplied by 25. Your loot stage, not your gamestage, decides what is in the bag: see loot stage.

All 322 horde stages

Waves and zombie counts per stage, the most alive at once the table allows (before the enemy count cap), and the share of feral or tougher and radiated or tougher zombies in the waves. Pick a stage to see its horde.