To show your co-op friends how the trap base you built over several days held off the zombie horde on a Blood Moon night in 7 Days to Die, record with DOR, trim the stretches you need, and send a link. 7 Days to Die became a DOR 'full-play recording' game in the October 2026 app update. When you launch the game, DOR detects it and keeps everything until you quit as one video. In this game you spend the days mining, crafting and running trader quests, and the horde night tests all that preparation, so it is fairly easy to predict where the moments worth showing will be in the recording. This guide covers how to pick out, trim and join horde nights, base tours and collapse accidents.
What to decide before recording a whole horde night
A Blood Moon night runs from dusk to dawn, so the whole session you play that day becomes one long recording. The most important thing is clearing disk space beforehand so the recording does not stop halfway, and when you edit, deciding from the start that you will use only three segments saves you from watching hours of footage. For a checklist on recording long sessions smoothly to the end, see recording long gameplay without stutter.
Picking horde night and base moments and sending them
- 1Check that 7 Days to Die recording is on in settingsIf 7 Days to Die is switched on in the 'full-play recording' group in DOR settings, recording starts automatically the moment you launch the game on your Windows PC. A confirmation window appears when you turn it off, so it is unlikely to get switched off by accident right before a horde night.
- 2Mark the horde night using the in-game dateCheck the in-game day and time shown on screen and write a note such as 'Blood Moon day, dusk about 2 hours into the session'. In the recording, the sky turning red is the most noticeable landmark, so look for that color change near the time you noted.
- 3Cut the horde night into start, peak and dawnIf you send the whole night as is, friends will not watch to the end. Use the trim tool to cut 20-30 seconds of the sky going red, 1-2 minutes of the peak when your traps and turrets are busiest, and 30 seconds of dawn after the attacks stop, and keep them in the library.
- 4Record a base tour separately in daylightHorde night footage is dark and full of zombies, so the base layout is hard to see. Deliberately walk one slow lap around the base in daylight, showing the trap layout and entrances, and that one minute becomes your base explainer.
- 5Join the three parts in the studio and add the dayIn the browser-based DOR Studio, merge the start, peak and dawn in order and add text such as the survival day or 'trap layer 3'. Lay down background music and balance the game sound volume, and you have a horde night highlight video.
- 6Send it to your co-op friends as a linkThe finished video can be shared as a dor.gg link. Send it to the friends who built the base with you in the same world, or to a friend who will join for the next horde night, and they play it right away in a browser without the app.
How to edit each kind of 7 Days to Die moment
| Moment | Clue for finding it in the recording | How to edit it |
|---|---|---|
| Blood Moon begins | Dusk, when the sky turns red | 20-30 s until the horde appears, 16:9 |
| Peak of the horde defense | Zombies piling into your traps and turrets | The fiercest 1-2 minutes, 16:9 |
| The dawn you survived | The sky brightening and the attacks stopping | 30 s looking over base damage, 16:9 |
| Trap base tour | Walking slowly around the base in daylight | About 1 minute for one lap, text explaining the layout |
| Structural collapse | A building coming down after you remove the wrong support | 10-15 s starting 5 s before the fall, 9:16 |
| First gyrocopter flight | Climbing into a vehicle you built yourself | 30 s from takeoff, 16:9 |
Before you send
- 7 Days to Die is on under 'full-play recording' in settings.
- You noted the Blood Moon day and roughly what time it started.
- The horde night is trimmed into start, peak and dawn segments.
- You have a separate daytime base tour clip.
- Short moments like collapses are trimmed to 9:16.
- Before the horde night session, you had comfortably more than 20GB free.
How DOR records and edits 7 Days to Die
DOR is a free Windows desktop app. When you launch 7 Days to Die, it detects the game and records everything until you quit as one mp4 video. It does not automatically cut out horde defenses or finished bases, so you find the moment in the app library, set a start and end with the trim tool, and pick a 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 ratio. The order for combining several trimmed segments into one video is in how to merge multiple game clips. Merging happens in DOR Studio, which opens in your browser with nothing to install; it also handles length, effect templates, text, background music and volume, and you download the result as an mp4 or share it as a link. The studio layout is explained in detail in the DOR browser clip editor. Game sound and your mic are recorded together, so the callouts you traded with friends while the horde pounded the walls stay in the video.
