After what feels like an eternity in alpha, open-world zombie survival craft-’em’-up 7 Days to Die has hit its full release. While getting into a server is a bit of a struggle at the moment, once you create a game, your first choice will be an essential one.
Choosing a 7 Days to Die map to play on can mean the difference between life and death. Biomes, enemies, and essential resources are all distributed differently depending on your choice of map, meaning that knowing your terrain is essential—and this is the precise advantage that the game’s so-called “pregen maps” offer.
What are pregen maps in 7 Days to Die?
If you’ve played 7 Days to Die before, chances are you did it on the Navezgane County map. This is, for all intents and purposes, the “canon” map of the game, featuring a slice of Arizona handcrafted by the devs to guide your progression as smoothly as possible. You can, however, also stray from the beaten path and test your luck on a randomly generated map, or find a middle ground with any of the pre-generated, or “pregen,” maps.
These three maps lack official names, simply being known as Pregen 6K, 8K, and 10K after their respective sizes. That number refers to the total number of distance units you can travel from the dead center of the map before you start running into nuclear zones, which essentially serve as the map border.
That means you can choose a map that fits your ideal size of play space. Don’t fret as they’ll all contain the same resources and points of interest you need for progression. Reddit user No-Atmosphere-4145 has compiled an in-depth map of each pregen, showing these points of interest should you get bored of Arizona and decide to try them out instead.
Never again will valuable scrap metal or slightly less valuable dirty water escape you.
