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Alexander the Great achievement in 7 Days to Die

Alexander the Great

Kill 2500 other players

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How to unlock the Alexander the Great achievement

  • lfcjohnlfcjohn
    12 Jul 2016 07 Jul 2016 13 Jul 2016
    Rewrite the solution for detail step to unlock fast without attention for both players

    Prerequisite
    1. A boosting partner (both can get by below method)
    2. Stone Axe (Wood, Stone, Plant fibre)
    3. 500 wood
    4. Lots of Wooden Club
    5. Some food (you may look for the center of the map with greenfield area)

    Step-by-step guideline
    1. Create a private game

    2. Change the option: No zombie, minimum hardness (such that you craft much faster), any other option doesn't really matter

    3. Invite your boosting partner

    4. Once both join the game, click "Menu" > Player then click "+" from one player and accept for another player. Check the box to show the coordinate

    5. Craft a stone axe, collect some plant fibre (it's everywhere) to craft some bedroll and place it regularly (in case you die suddenly, you can respawn on your bed), craft around 500 wood (use stone axe to craft a tree which should take no more than 30 seconds if you set the hardness to 25)

    6. Find some foods (I found it's easy for some corn at center area near 950N, 530E which has a house as well)

    7. Find each other and stay inside a house

    8. Place bedroll nearby for both player

    9. Player 1 start use the wood collected and craft maximum of wooden club (it take 5 wood for 1 wooden club, you should get 100 in this case)

    10. Player 1 wait until all wooden club filled up you backpack and belt (which you can bring along with you), the crafting will stop as there's no available space

    11. Player 1 select the wooden club and aim at player 2 head

    12. Note: You may need to press "Menu" > Player and click "-" to mark both players not ally anymore as default setting avoid you hurt ally

    13. Player 1 kill Player 2 (if you use wooden club and aim at head, it take around 30-35 damage per hit which make it 3-4 hits for 1st kill and the maximum health become 70 which take only 2-3 kills)

    14. Player 2 press A to re-spawn on bed, IMPORTANT: Once respawn, long press Xbox button and disconnect controller (as now Player 2 can go take a nap), if you plan to grind it for 2500 kills in one go, make sure the console is not auto turn off by going to setting > Power section

    15. Player 1 move and aim at Player 2 head

    16. Player 1 use the rubber band to hold RT, connect your controller to Xbox to avoid auto-sleep for controller, it should kill Player 2 in 3-4 hits.

    17. Once player 1 wooden club is used, as it will empty one available space, the crafting will start again and automatically create another wooden club so the process will keep looping

    18. Per my experience the process on two console, it take around 20 secs for each kill and i.e. 3 kills per minutes, 180 kills per hours, so for all killing achievement, it will take 33 mins for 100 kills, 2 hrs 46 mins for 500 kills, around 14 hrs for 2500 kills.

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    HALOfreak70im down to doing some boosting
    Posted by HALOfreak70 on 03 Aug 23 at 20:55
    Speed Freak JakI'm game
    Posted by Speed Freak Jak on 16 Oct 23 at 20:53
    TheDARKChieftanAnyone looking to boost this? Message TheDARKChieftan
    Posted by TheDARKChieftan on 01 Feb at 11:38
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  • MegaJAFmanEXEMegaJAFmanEXE
    16 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2016
    For people who don't have somebody to grind with online I've figured out a solution.

    When you play split screen, you are automatically made allies with your partner and can't remove them. Being allies means you can see where they are on the map, but it also means you can't damage each other from weapons. Me, being frustrated with this, I tried all sorts of ally killing tactics and finally found one that works.

    All you need is a few crossbows and a whole lot of exploding bolts.


    First you should build a wall and floor preferably out of steel or reinforced concrete. Place the players bed who you want to kill (over and over) a few blocks away from the wall. This is done so the bed won't be destroyed quickly when you shoot the wall but you can still 1 shot your Player 2. Make sure you up the block durability in the world settings. Then all you do is find a good spot and keep shooting the wall with the exploding bolts and pressing "A" to respawn.

    A few notes:

    Instead of destroying the bed completely with splash damage, I found it good to pick the bed up and place it back down every 50ish kills to save on materials and the long walk back to where you have you setup at.

    Don't trust the Xbox achievement tracker at all for this. I was stuck at 61% for most of the time I was grinding. Instead make player 2 leave and look at the players tab in the menu. It will show your level, zombie kills, and most importantly, the correct amount of player kills you have.

    This will take a long time to do. I did it in 500 kill chunks which took about 2 and a half hours each.

    Exploding bolts are somewhat a pain to make. I suggest following this video by B_for_L Gaming on how to duplicate them

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    Old ZengunnerPipe bombs also kill your split-screen companion. I haven't tried the duplicator yet but hopefully it still works, otherwise I doubt if I can come up with 25,000+ gunpowder to make 2,500+ pipe bombs.
    Posted by Old Zengunner on 09 Oct 16 at 15:14
    z RagnaroK zIf you can't find a boosting partner to do this with then you are either unwilling to use the sites resources, or you don't know how.

    The other method for idle boosting this (with a second person) is far easier and far superior to this one. The time that it's would take to harvest and make all those pipe bombs and crossbows is a bit ridiculous.
    Posted by z RagnaroK z on 28 Sep 18 at 18:48
    Bazingatorz RagnaroK z, "For people who don't have somebody to grind with online I've figured out a solution." This solution is not supposed to be "easier" or "far superior" then the idle boosting method. It is simply a way to do it by yourself if you want to. So unless you have a better way to do it offline, this solution is the easiest way for that prefer to play offline.
    Posted by Bazingator on 19 Oct 19 at 15:04
  • Monkeyman1188Monkeyman1188
    02 Sep 2022 28 Aug 2022 31 Aug 2022
    This solution is best equipped to a built up world with all weapons available.
    (This was done on xbox one, results could vary on other consoles)
    rubber banding your trigger is prolly the easiest and least effort way of racking up kills, but for those who wish to do it themselves, have a read.

    NOTE--This solution works best with only one person being killed.
    If killing multiple people, just go at it since you'll be moving around and making this solution void.


    Extra Things you will need:

    1) A Phone that has stopwatch on, Preferably with a lap button.
    2) A weapon that one hit kills, preferably an iron sledgehammer.

    how it works:
    1) Have the player being killed turn his controller off for his auto spawn to work.
    2) Have your phone ready to start the stopwatch, this will be needed for the whole time, watch it carefully.
    3) Stand in front of the player, aiming the curser at his head, Headshots are one hit kill, we want that always. No one will be moving at all.
    4) As soon as you swing the Iron sledgehammer and it HITS his head, START the stopwatch
    NOTE:
    *The player re-spawn takes 16 seconds to work
    **The sledgehammer swing is about 1 second.
    ***We will be aiming to press the trigger button to swing our sledgehammer every 16 seconds, using the lap button on the stopwatch to guide us.
    6) When the timer gets to 16 seconds, click the attack button, swinging the sledgehammer, the player should have spawned by the time it hits the player, if this doesnt, re-adjust your timing a bit.
    7) when the swung sledgehammer hits the players head, press LAP on the stopwatch at the exact same time.
    Then repeat every 16 seconds
    **You dont really need to watch the tv screen at all, just your stop watch, player spawns on 16 seconds which is when you press the attack button and then press lap upon hitting their head, the time lapped should be 17.10 or 17.29 seconds or something similar.
    8) using the lap button can also keep track of how many kills you have, lap 35 means 35 kills unless you have some accidental laps, then it might be out of sync a bit.

    *quoting ifcJohn from his solution*
    It takes around 20 secs for each kill and i.e. 3 kills per minutes, 180 kills per hours, so for all killing achievement, it will take 33 mins for 100 kills, 2 hrs 46 mins for 500 kills, around 14 hrs for 2500 kills.
    This timing has now been altered with use of a stopwatch (Once you get into a good rhythm)
    It is now:
    4 kills per 1 minute 8 seconds.
    40 kills per 11 mins 30 seconds.
    50 kills every 14 mins 15 sec
    100 kills per 28 mins 30 sec
    105 kills per 30 mins 10 seconds
    210 kills in 1 hour
    500 kills in 2 hr 22 mins
    2100 kills in 10 hours
    2500 kills in 11 hrs 50 mins - 12 hours

    You might not get these figures to start off with but with getting used to the spawning and swinging of the sledgehammer, you can pretty much get a kill every 17 seconds, give or take some milliseconds.
    *I did get some issues from the actual game, i was killing the guy so fast, there was some lagging delays in respawning him, up to 5 seconds infact, then there are small lags in the game that add 1 second every now and then, plus the dashboarding every few hours.

    I hope this helps people in the future, we can definitely see the improvement ourselves. Good luck everyone.
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