I know I'm breaking into a campfire plotting moment here, but if you all know when we do this 'reset' maybe the last few hours we can set up something proper and protected outside the... I don't know. Affected radius?
Might help to keep a few of the supplies in case we're pitched into another hell-pit, but we could set up something the locals can use after we're gone. Without risking them shooting us with those gun things, or whatever. The shamblers don't seem to notice anything not moving.
And it could double as a project for anybody with injuries or who just don't want to or can't head out too far from the base camp. Keep them preoccupied so despair doesn't start being a real distraction.
Just thoughts. But hands busy are minds not creating more problems. Like, I don't know. A bunch of young humans running off into the Wilds to find something else to distract them.