Players holding onto spare meat can lure a dog into becoming a pet, and then use it to track zombies, other players or other possible threats. Hall also talked about the presence of pets in the game, which will take the form of the pre-existing dogs. You could dig things out, Red Faction style, and expand that structure over time, maybe build a hydroponics lab, have a generator, air conditioning, concrete it, have it collapse, those kinds of things.'

Also, having the construction occur in a separate world to the battleground is a good idea because it allows us to be a lot more creative. That instanced-style construction offers us maximum flexibility without too many strings. So you would go up to the grate in the ground, go up to this hole, and you’d dig out that hole yourself. 'So in Skyrim you walk up to a dungeon entrance, you look at the door, hit the button, and it transports you to that instance, that’s kind of what we are looking at for underground construction. Hall explained, in an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun, that the game will feature a Minecraft-like construction mechanic, as well as a Red Faction-like destruction mechanic, saying, Creator of the massively popular Arma 2 mod DayZ, Dean 'Rocket' Hall, has announced some of the features we can expect to see in the standalone release of the zombie survival game.