


So yes, they'd be above you, but away from the hatch, which could prove to be useful. When a horde spawns, they want to go directly to you, where you're standing at. We reached the 7th night on which, as many people may know, spawns a feral zombie horde fixate. By then, you'd be a long distance from your entrance. My brothers and I recently started a new 7 Days to Die server.

Just a quick tip, but digging at an angle until you hit bedrock is fairly effective if you can manage. So technically the hatches hit box is waist level and that's why they are able to hit it. To answer your question though,even if the hatch appears to be on the ground, it still is using that one block above ground where it is placed. Some factors you've got to keep in mind is of the feral horde's weight that may be on your hatch, as that could cause it to cave in. Similarly they can't attack up, so if for example you're suspended above iron bars over an open ground, they'll just crowd under you while you hover. The only way they should be able to "attack down" is if they were to get wedged or stuck in a hole somewhere around the hatch. In older versions of 7D2D (earlier October of last year) zombies couldn't attack/dig vertically down, and or break ground hatches even if they were present at the surface.
