The 5 Best Weapons in 7 Days to Die

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The post-apocalyptic landscape of 7 Days to Die is filled with dangers. Fortunately, there are plenty of weapons to either find or craft that can help you fight off the impending hoards that threaten to overrun your base. While some weapons can be found, others, like the Pipe Baton, aren’t reliably found in the wastelands of Arizona and need to be crafted.

Here are some of the best weapons to keep you safe in 7 Days to Die and the crafting recipe needed for them.

This isn’t the most precise weapon in 7 Days to Die, but it does allow you to do some very fun things with a little bit of planning. Building a pit and luring zombies into it makes them an easy target for this weapon, which damages everything within its blast radius. It will damage both creatures and blocks within its radius, so don’t get caught and try not to use them inside your base.

Crafting a Contact Grenade is fairly simple. The recipe can be learned by finding Schematics or by reaching Level 5 in Demolitions Expert. Once you’ve learned how to make it, you just go to a Workbench and craft it using the following materials:

The SMG-5 doesn’t have quite the same stopping power as the M60, but it has several advantages that make it a better gun to focus your materials on. It uses 9mm ammo, which is more common in the game, making it less likely that you’ll end up without bullets to fire. It also has high accuracy, a faster reload speed, and good accuracy in short and medium ranged combat.

To craft one, you’ll need to find the Schematics for the SMG-5 by wandering the wasteland. Once you find one, you can build one at a workbench with: