In the newer versions, iron spikes are the new wooden spikes. Back in 16.4, wooden spikes were all you need. I personally don't see how any beginning player or experienced player can 'easily' make it through the first 7 days with the new 'stone age'. The game progress TOO fast on 60 minute days for me. I personally play on 90 minute days, air drops every day, mark air drops, loot 200%, xp 150%, zombies ALWAYS walk, and Nomad difficulty. In fact we've already sort of been eyeing 20 minute days. It's an entirely different game and while I can definitely appreciate why people like the longer days, I think now that I've switched over to quicker days and more frequent Blood Moons it will be hard to go back the other direction.

We now run with 30 minute days, 16 hours of daylight (mostly just because 6am just feels like a more 'classic' safe time than 4am to us), Blood Moons every 3 days, Insane difficulty, feral + Blood Moon zombies on Nightmare speed, and air drops changed to every 7 days (no markers). However in our current Alpha 19 session we've completely flipped that on its head due to some time/life constraints and a desire for a more fast-paced experience that doles out chaos in short but frequent bursts. Had we not been playing on 120 minute days with a Blood Moon every 7th day, there is no way we'd have been able to keep the base up, progress in the game, and explore the world. The Blood Moon Hordes always did significant damage to our base as it was more of a basic 'brute resistance' type base that just ate the damage of even large hordes but then required extensive repairs. The friend I play with most of the time and I liked the slow pace, it allowed us to learn more about the game and the lengthy nights let us experiment more with the crafting system, etc.

At that time I was almost exclusively playing 120 minute days with 18 hours of daylight. I started playing in late 2014 but really didn't devote a lot of the time to the game until 16.4.

Extreme do you wanna play