From Water and Lava Floods to Orbital Strikes and Zombies, a lot of things want you dead in Build Defense. I’m here to guide you through each Disaster event so that you can come out alive and earn some coins. Here’s how to survive all Disasters in Build Defense.
Surviving all Disaster events in Build Defense is crucial because each one grants you a Win, Coins, and possibly a gem. You’ll easily be able to prepare for Disasters with our guides below and you even get notified of them with 130 seconds to prepare. Up to two can occur each day and the Zombie swarm comes at night. Here are all of them listed and then let’s dive into each one separately:
Surviving the nighttime Monster Event is all about a good shelter. You’ll have a kickass shelter and tons of expensive guns and turrets as you play but this is what you should do for your first few nights:
This will easily get you past the first Zombie event and its multiple waves for an easy Win and Coins for better gear next night. From here, simply buy better guns, turrets, and traps and you’re good to go.
This is the easiest Disaster event to survive. Just be ready when the water starts rising and then mash jump on the water as it rises. It will reach its peak at 30 Blocks high and you just have to keep jumping so as not to lose oxygen and you’ll be carried all the way up then all the way down and get a win. Alternatively, you can build a one block pillar with ladders or buy Scuba Gear from Blocks (Defense) but it’s not mandatory since you can just jump.
Now Lava Flood is much more dangerous than Water Flood because it kills you instantly. I would buy a Lava Suit from the Defense tab in Blocks that allows you to swim inside of it and just keep jumping to stay on top of the flood. Otherwise, build a pillar of at least one block upwards and place ladder blocks so that you can climb up to high ground. It’s important to start climbing before the Lava starts since it might catch you as you climb and kill you.
Once this event appears and the timer runs out, a massive tidal wave will spawn and rush forward from the sea and Merchant to the plots. There are two ways to survive it:
This is the same event as with the Tsunami but the lava kills you instantly. Use the same methods to survive it as with the Tsunami. I would just have a pillar with ladders to climb above 30 Blocks just to be safe.
The Tornado is another Disaster that instantly kills you but there are two ways to survive it:
Meteor Strikes are similar to the Tornado but they fall randomly killing anything in the explosion radius. To survive Meteors just hide in an area with a roof of some sort. It doesn’t have to be an enclosed space as long as you have a layer of blocks above you that are wide enough so that you don’t get clipped by the explosion.
The Watcher event spawns a massive eye in the sky from the hills area opposite the sea. Any player in the line of sight will lose health gradually, so all you have to do is block the line of sight. You can either have a prepared wall or shelter, or you can build one on the spot. As long as the eye doesn’t have a line of sight, you won’t take damage and you’ll survive the event when it ends.
The Survive Bombs event is similar to the Meteor Strike where a plane will circle the island, dropping bombs that fall and explode after a while. Simply take shelter below a layer of blocks or an enclosed space to survive. You can even just dodge them out in the open since they have a delayed explosion. I would just be careful since they can sometimes roll away or to you when they hit the ground.
The UFO Invasion is a special Disaster because it acts like an enemy that can be killed. A bunch of UFOs will appear in the sky and start shooting players outside of cover. You have two options:
The Orbital Cannon is one of the trickier ones where a red laser will appear somewhere as the event starts. This thin laser tracks players and then, after a delay, an Orbital Cannon will shoot a laser beam killing any players in its path. Note that you cannot hide inside buildings or any shelter since the Orbital Cannon penetrates blocks. I highly recommend to just keep moving and trying to dodge it horizontally with the easiest method being the two conveyor belts between the Plots. Unlike other Disasters, your reward will include more Coins and even Gems.
That’s it for my guide on how to survive all Disasters in Build Defense. Stay tuned to site for more Build Defense guides.
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