# Defense mode tips?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202 "2019-03-13T23:02:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Krisu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/krisu/32/11683_2.png) [@Krisu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Krisu)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202/1 "2019-03-13T23:02:15Z")

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I know it doesn’t get talked about a lot but I want to try defense mode. Anyone know a good build or good strategies to use?

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**Author:** ![Mantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mantar/32/42_2.png) [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202/2 "2019-03-14T01:08:08Z")

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Trap guy in the bar used to be mega OP way back when, but blade traps are more expensive, and harder to build now.  
I eventually had a row of blade traps backed by turrets, with walls built partly around them to prevent them shooting me or each other, because they would gladly do so at the time. I don’t know what my record for kill count was back then, I dropped so many the game crashed after several hours. This was before zombies would get back up, too.

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**Author:** ![Leviathan21](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/leviathan21/32/3625_2.png) [@Leviathan21](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Leviathan21)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202/3 "2019-03-14T01:08:36Z")

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dunno if def mode still functions

you might want to make line of barbed wire or nail planks

guns are kinda off range because of their cost

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**Author:** ![farawayparadise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/farawayparadise/32/11382_2.png) [@farawayparadise](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/farawayparadise)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202/4 "2019-03-14T01:13:03Z")

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wait theres a defense mode

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**Author:** ![Mantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mantar/32/42_2.png) [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202/5 "2019-03-14T01:14:37Z")

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> [@Leviathan21](#):
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> dunno if def mode still functions

I last played it about six months back, it still works okay.

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**Author:** ![Leviathan21](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/leviathan21/32/3625_2.png) [@Leviathan21](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Leviathan21)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/defense-mode-tips/19202/6 "2019-03-14T06:51:30Z")

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my 2015 plays in def mode mainly were about speedy boy dispatching otherwordly corruption and hulks with fists of steel