7DTD 7 Days to Die Beginners guide to making a POI from scratch with sleepers and xml

This video is intended for beginner prefab builders to have an uderstanding of keys and shortcuts used for creating a POI.
To understand the what quest objects needs and the XML changes.
In this video I take you step by step through this process.

00:12 - Explaining the concept I want to build
01:58 - Explaining the creative menu
03:11 - How to put items in your tool belt. And shortcuts for your tool belt
03:49 - Placing a block with mouse
04:05 - Using the bulk selector
05:43 - Using advanced block placement
07:03 - The build
08:40 - How to use paint brush
09:44 - How to import part objects
12:45 - Placing sleepers
14:06 - Placing sleeper volumes
16:08 - Placing quest objects
12:22 - Creating thumbnails, defining bound and updating imposter
19:42 - How to edit the XML
20:40 - Opps don't forgot to back it up
21:37 - Updating the difficulty tier & adding the quest types
22:22 - Adding the spawn parameters for the POI
24:37 - Some things I forgot - showing the thumbnail & setting the ground level.
26:05 - Running through play test

Controls used
U - open creative menu
1-0 Bottom Toolbelt
Shift 1-0 Top Toolbelt
Z to place first block, Z again to select 2 block and define the block selector
L to fill with your selection
J to clear the blocks from the selection
Backspace to remove selection
G and left mouse to move selector
Shift+G and left mouse to resize selector
CTRL + C copy contents
CTRL + V paste contents
R to bring up radial for advanced properties
K to define sleeper volume properties

Download link to Notepad ++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

The default saved POI location is %AppData%\Roaming\7DaysToDie\LocalPrefabs

Remember to update difficulty tier with the tier you want the quest to be
property name="DifficultyTier" value="0" /
Add in the quest type
property name="QuestTags" value="clear,fetch,hidden_cache,restore_power,infested" /
Use these to define and label the spawn locations
Update this one
property name="Zoning" value="countryresidential,downtown,countrytown" /
Add these 3
property name="AllowedTownships" value="city,town,rural,wilderness,countrytown" /
property name="Tags" value="wilderness,countryresidential,downtown,countrytown" /
property name="EditorGroups" value="downtown,countryresidential,countrytown" /

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