Last time: 4 deaths, constant starvation, wandering hordes, and we never even started building a horde base. We finally have a bicycle and some bacon. So... here we are. Day 5. Horde night incoming. The Smorgasbord modpack doesn't give you time to breathe. Stream Plan: • Build SOME kind of defenses before the horde arrives (anything counts at this point) • Keep testing the buffed bow — is it actually viable or did we commit to the wrong build? • Explore and start mapping the biomes around us • Scout a location for a permanent base — the desert is calling • Survive horde night with whatever we can throw together No promises. No guarantees. This is 300+ mods doing whatever they want. What is the Smorgasbord Modpack? Smorgasbord is a massive 7 Days to Die modpack featuring more than 300 mods that players can mix and match to create their ideal experience. You choose which mods to enable, allowing you to customize everything from progression and crafting to zombies, weapons, vehicles, and quality-of-life features. Rather than a single overhaul, Smorgasbord offers a huge collection of community-created mods that can be combined in countless ways, making every playthrough feel fresh and unique. 📦 Download Smorgasbord (Nexus Mods): https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/6764 See my Mod Selection List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lq0PWqEmw0axwH4Ij3C2Bqh6WwYhyMdfoL0ljzs5ThU/edit?usp=sharing Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Building & Horde Base Tutorials: ⚒ https://youtu.be/H-v0oR6b1Rk ⚒ https://youtu.be/jEMnP7sHEzo ⚒ https://youtu.be/Bv4Lk7UkkV4 ⚒ https://youtu.be/D3K_oTpq3BI Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #7daystodie #tfpcreator #7daystodie2.5 #ZombieSurvival #HordeBase #SurvivalGames #BaseBuilding #TipsAndTricks
Day 5 Survival Test: Bacon, Bow, and Incoming Hordes | 7 Days to Die
300+ mods. No plan. Let's find out if that was a mistake. The Smorgasbord modpack throws over 300 mods into 7 Days to Die — new zombies, new weapons, new progression systems, new biomes — and completely rewrites how the game plays. This isn't a lightly modded run. This is controlled chaos. EP1 goal: survive, learn the new systems, and figure out how 300+ mods change everything about early game. The Plan (loosely): • Bow-focused build — bows got a serious buff in Smorgasbord and I want to test end-game viability • Strength + Agility combo — bows for combat, Strength for resource gathering efficiency • No horde base yet — targeting a POI takeover first so we can push multiple biomes before committing to a forever base • Desert biome is calling... 📦 Download Smorgasbord (Nexus Mods): https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/6764 See my Mod Selection List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Lq0PWqEmw0axwH4Ij3C2Bqh6WwYhyMdfoL0ljzs5ThU/edit?usp=sharing Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Building & Horde Base Tutorials: ⚒ https://youtu.be/H-v0oR6b1Rk ⚒ https://youtu.be/jEMnP7sHEzo ⚒ https://youtu.be/Bv4Lk7UkkV4 ⚒ https://youtu.be/D3K_oTpq3BI Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #7daystodie #tfpcreator #7daystodie2.5 #ZombieSurvival #HordeBase #SurvivalGames #BaseBuilding #TipsAndTricks
The Most Chaotic 7 Days to Die I've Ever Played (300+ Mods)
Last stream the harbor entrance started looking like something real. We pushed the building system to its limits designing a stone archway tall enough for the Saucy Wench to clear — the vision of a full pirate city carved into the cliffs around the cove is actually taking shape. On top of that we wrapped up several Tortuga questlines, took down another of Blackbeard's captains, uncovered new clues about the artifact tied to the Drown, and unlocked the next stage of the main story. The night finished in the Cursed Swamp — new region, ancient altars, plague creatures, rare resources, and the Rapier of Destruction. A full session. This stream we show progress on the gate. The massive entrance to the forever base gets its reveal — and then we keep building. The pirate city isn't done. While that's happening, the main story isn't waiting. New clues from last stream lead us to a new island, and the curse that's been following us the entire playthrough is running out of patience. Building and surviving, same stream. What we're doing this stream: • Showing off the harbor gate progress and continuing construction • Building out the pirate city in the cliffs • Following the story to a new island • Racing to deal with the curse before it deals with us Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Building & Horde Base Tutorials: ⚒ https://youtu.be/H-v0oR6b1Rk ⚒ https://youtu.be/jEMnP7sHEzo ⚒ https://youtu.be/Bv4Lk7UkkV4 ⚒ https://youtu.be/D3K_oTpq3BI Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #windrose #firstplaythrough
Windrose - The Pirate City Has a Gate. The Curse Has a New Island.
Last stream we took the Saucy Wench out for a proper shakedown cruise and she delivered. Tore through freighters, boarded transports, farmed resources, and pushed further into the Cursed Swamp continuing the Senkamati tablet storyline — uncovering more lore about the priestess, the curse, and the fall of the mountain city. The swamp threw everything at us: level 15 encounters, plague hunters, warriors, witches, crocodiles. We came out the other side with more progression materials and a location locked in for our permanent home base in the Iron Foothills. The Saucy Wench earned her reputation. Now she needs a home worth coming back to. This stream that home starts getting built. We're taking over an entire island — and the vision is massive. A fully walled cove entrance, tall enough for the Saucy Wench to sail straight through without ducking. Sounds straightforward until you realize the game's structural integrity limits have opinions about how tall you're allowed to dream. We're right on the edge of what's physically possible in Windrose, and we're going to find out which gives first — the build or the builder. Meanwhile the curse storyline keeps pushing forward. The tablet hunt continues. The priestess lore is getting darker. What we're doing this stream: • Building the forever home — island takeover begins • Engineering a cove entrance tall enough for the Saucy Wench • Testing Windrose's structural integrity limits (and our patience) • Continuing the Senkamati tablet storyline and the curse arc Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Building & Horde Base Tutorials: ⚒ https://youtu.be/H-v0oR6b1Rk ⚒ https://youtu.be/jEMnP7sHEzo ⚒ https://youtu.be/Bv4Lk7UkkV4 ⚒ https://youtu.be/D3K_oTpq3BI Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #windrose #firstplaythrough
Windrose - This Island Is Ours. Now We Just Have to Build On It.
Last time we crash-landed, barely survived the night, and built our first underwater base on Proteus. This time we go deeper — and the answers we find are worse than the questions. In this episode of our Subnautica 2 Early Access gameplay series, we're chasing the mysteries at the heart of this ocean world. What really happened to the missing Proteus colony? What is Macefield Syndrome — and why are survivors hearing voices? Who is Noah, why does he keep encouraging us to die, and what does reprinting ourselves actually mean? There's a mysterious tree everyone warns us not to approach. We're approaching it. The Subnautica 2 story is getting darker by the dive. The lore runs deep, the ocean runs deeper, and something down there wiped these people out. The deeper we go, the clearer it becomes — this planet is alive, it's watching, and it is not done with us yet. Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #firstplaythrough #Subnautica2 #Subnautica2EarlyAccess #Subnautica2Gameplay #Subnautica2BaseBuilding
Subnautica 2 — Something Is Very Wrong With This Planet
Last stream we graduated. Built the Blackbeard Frigate — the Saucy Wench — and immediately found out what she was capable of. Enemy ships got shredded. Transports got boarded. The Saucy Wench is basically a floating apocalypse and she knows it. On the way back we wrapped up older Tortuga quests, dug deeper into some unsettling cult activity tied to the Children of the Ark, and pushed back into the Cursed Swamp to set up our next foothold — hunting quagmire powder, ancient debris, and materials for the next upgrade tier. The Saucy Wench earned her reputation. Now she's got more work to do.This stream we're taking her back out while continuing the hunt for the Senkamati tablets — the key to understanding the ritual that's been hanging over this whole swamp arc. We're also starting to seriously scout for a forever home base location. A ship this size needs a proper port. And somewhere out there, the Children of the Ark and their corrupted fleet are still a problem waiting to get worse. What we're doing this stream: • Taking the Saucy Wench out for more naval action • Hunting the remaining Senkamati tablets • Scouting locations for our permanent base • Continuing to unravel the Children of the Ark storyline Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Building & Horde Base Tutorials: ⚒ https://youtu.be/H-v0oR6b1Rk ⚒ https://youtu.be/jEMnP7sHEzo ⚒ https://youtu.be/Bv4Lk7UkkV4 ⚒ https://youtu.be/D3K_oTpq3BI Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #windrose #firstplaythrough
Windrose - The Saucy Wench Is the Most Dangerous Thing Out Here. For Now.
Last stream we pushed into the Cursed Swamp and immediately learned it doesn't ease you in. Plague hunters, crocodiles, new ranged enemies, brutal difficulty spike. We fought through ancient debris mines, gathered quagmire powder and ancient scraps, hunted crocs for hides, and slowly unlocked swamp progression — plaguewood, mire metal, new crafting materials, new crops. Multiple relic sites cleared. A foothold established. The swamp let us stay. For now. But surviving it isn't enough. Something in this place is tied to a ritual — a summoning. The Senkamati tablets hold the answer, and if I don't find them fast, whatever the swamp does to people who linger too long might not be reversible. I'm also hunting down Charon's Obols — relics of an ancient being who ferries souls to the realm of the dead. That sentence alone should tell you what kind of stream this is going to be. Oh, and we might build our final ship. Assuming we survive. What we're doing this stream: • Exploring a new Cursed Swamp island • Hunting the Senkamati tablets and uncovering the ritual of summoning • Collecting Charon's Obols before something worse finds us first • Possibly building our final ship Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Building & Horde Base Tutorials: ⚒ https://youtu.be/H-v0oR6b1Rk ⚒ https://youtu.be/jEMnP7sHEzo ⚒ https://youtu.be/Bv4Lk7UkkV4 ⚒ https://youtu.be/D3K_oTpq3BI Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #windrose #firstplaythrough
Windrose - Hunting Ancient Tablets Before This Curse Turns Me Into Something Worse
Subnautica 2 is LIVE in Early Access and I'm diving straight in. This is day one — no guides, no prep, just me, the ocean, and whatever's lurking in the deep. If you're looking for an honest first look at Subnautica 2 gameplay, base building, creatures, and survival mechanics before you buy, this is it. In this stream we're covering everything the Early Access build has to offer — from the new underwater vehicles and Subnautica 2 leviathan encounters, to base building tools and how survival has evolved since the original Subnautica. Whether you're a veteran of Below Zero or picking up the franchise for the first time, I'll walk you through what works, what doesn't, and what genuinely surprised me. Subnautica 2 brings deeper biomes, darker waters, and creatures that make the Reaper Leviathan look friendly. I'm already not ready for this — but that's never stopped me before. Help Support Me! ✨ Patreon || https://www.patreon.com/waywardeko 💀 Merch || https://waywardeko-shop.fourthwall.com 🚨10% off G-PORTAL Servers || https://g-portal.com/?ref=waywardeko Community: 🎮 Discord || https://discord.gg/YhQwdtWW5p 📱 Twitter || https://twitter.com/WaywardEko 🟣 Twitch || https://www.twitch.tv/waywardeko Charity: 💙 ExtraLife || https://www.extra-life.org/participant/Eko Music & Graphics 🎵 Music & SFX from Storyblocks.com 🎵 Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio 🎨 Design & Art Support | Mumpfy | mumpfy.myportfolio.com/ ________________________________________ #firstplaythrough #Subnautica2 #Subnautica2EarlyAccess #Subnautica2Gameplay #Subnautica2BaseBuilding
Subnautica 2 Early Access First Look — Deeper, Darker, Deadlier
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