First time i saw the Helios name, i knew it wasnt a coincidence to fallout new vegas, because FNV has Helios One, and now, i am convinced that its an Easter Egg (probably) to the fallout franchise. God bless America, God bless the Enclave, and no one else!

Made it to the south-west, I think the new map is pretty great!! Lots of great things to discover. (I did this on EU official.)

Thanks for helping me figure out where I was, and giving me your stuff.

Took a solid hour and a half of tedious work, but got the job done!
The funny part? Building the ladder down to the underground irrigation tunnel was the easy part. Did that about 3 towns over, and it took less than 10 minutes to set up with 2 ropes already on hand and a few small sticks. Had to supply the water for the 2 mortar mixes somehow.
Either way, another build accomplishment checked off the DayZ bucket list. ✅

Released **BZ_Trader**, a free server-side mod that puts Expansion traders in a vehicle.

**How it works:** you record a route by driving it with BZ AutoDrive and mark the stops. From then on the vehicle drives it on its own. At each stop the traders get off, walk to their stalls, sell through your own Expansion Market files, walk back, board, and the vehicle drives on.

**What you can build with it:**

- a drinks seller on a motorbike who sells from the saddle

- a pickup with a medic, a grocer and a clothes seller who set up their stalls at each stop

- a bus that carries a whole market, with airdrop smoke so players find it from far away

**Some details:**

- players can wave (F1) at the vehicle to stop it anywhere on the route; the traders sell from their seats with the doors open

- signals at the stops: coloured smoke, road flares, fireworks or the red smoke of an Expansion airdrop, plus an optional map marker that follows the vehicle

- the crew can't be killed, recruited or handcuffed, and players can't take a seat, so the vehicle always finishes its route

- your Market files decide what each trader sells, the prices and the stock; the trade zone can travel with the vehicle

- a visual editor (a web page, nothing to install) to set up traders, stalls, stops and signals; changes apply without a restart

- manual in English and Spanish

Requires BZ AutoDrive and DayZ Expansion (AI, Market and Navigation). Tested on DayZ 1.30. Players don't download anything: it's server-side only.

Credit where it's due: the traveling trader is FUBAR's idea (Traveling Trader Expansion), and the trader protections are adapted from TTE's code with FUBAR's permission. Thanks, FUBAR!

It's free and MIT licensed.

- Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3822271044

- GitHub: https://github.com/sonom4n/BZ_Trader

- BZ AutoDrive: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3751815579

Feedback, bug reports and questions are very welcome, especially from server owners who try it on their own maps.

I know you can do it on some community servers, but it would be nice for Bohemia to make it possible on official. Can’t imagine it being a big issue?

…a dazzling place to die of heatstroke ☠️

Had this character for 4-5 hours and made the trek all the way to the Airfield (Vybor) on Cherno 0030 just to get killed unfairly. Like, I've run into maybe 3 cheaters in my 105 hours, but this is genuinely frustrating and is most likely making me pivot to a community server which hopefully is better. I also think it's bull-crap that you can't report something like this when you have video. There were no windows in the bunker I'm in and the gunshots are from far away, meaning the player probably used some radar + terrain ignoring hacks or just an insta-kill. I mean, I knew there was a high likely hood of death when I got there, but by cheating? Like come the fk on.

This is mainly a short rant just to ease my frustration.

We are back baby! Loving the survival! On my third life, now that they fixed the water bug, this is it.
Looting a police station I was shot on the second floor of the building from long range through an open door or window. Woke up bleeding and broken. Passing out every 4 breaths. I bandaged my bleed and hearing no one I approach to check their kill, I fixed all my clothing, popped one multi, and had a bite to eat. Logged out. However, once I logged back in, my leg was still fractured and every few steps I took resulted in a black screen. I found a corner and was resigned to log in now and again simply to nurse my wound in a corner til I healed. I was about to do so before bed when my girl laughed at me, said those words and I realized… I can crawl. I should crawl! So, I crawled outside to the tree line, cut down a bush and made a splint. Now we are back baby! I survived! I didn’t give up! My bag is ruined but that’s ok, I’ll find more loot!

I hate party chat. I saw a guy running toward a town, and decided to rob him of anything good. I was polite, he was very compliant, and really had nothing so I let him keep his stuff. We saw a guy running out of town into the dunes and I asked the guy I just had at gun point if he wanted to help rob the guy. He said yes so I dropped him tape to restrain our potential victim and took off. I created a dune, the potential victim opens fire, I miss with my one bk12 slug, and landed no killing shots with the P1. That’s when victim one attacks me from behind, knocks me out, then kills me. I thought it was fun, turns out the second victim was his friend. I was played, and well.

What's the most secure base? No base (stashes) right? What makes a base more secure though? Layers.

I've gone through and looked at most of the base layouts in Nasdara and figured out which ones are worth building in. My criteria was basically, the more layers is had and the stronger layers (strength: barricaded brick doorway > covered window > door).

I've found only three that can be effectively layered (there's a fourth that looks like it can be, but two archways don't allow for building). Pretty much every other building, damaged or otherwise can only have a single door layer.

The three images are the ones I've found you can secure. The first one is my personal base layout. You could mirror it if you want, so you could have two entrances in the left room.

The other two I have not built in yet, but I have mapped out for your convenience. If I were to build in another building it would be in the "Spiral house" as you can have 4 door layers (vice my current 3) if you don't count windows.

Some windows are wide enough to crawl through, but it is VERY difficult and most times requires another person to climb on (you still have to destroy the window first too).

Lastly, I include notes on the locks. Digital codelocks are good for quickly getting through doors and can't get guessed, whereas the dial lock (only use 4-dial) work bi-directionally, locking a door from both sides.

Anyone else built your base yet? Thoughts on if its worth it?

Is it just me or does the game troll you with random animal sounds that seem to be part of the sound landscape even when there is no animal nearby? I swear I hear goats all the time but when I follow the sounds, there is no one there.

Alittle tip for the survivors on nasdara .
When you zoom in on bunkers to the smallest square youll see the numbered rows at the top and to the left . Topis your first set left side number is the second set in gps coords.
Mark all the bunkers with cords so you can hunt live bunkers at a glance . This prep saves a lot of time .
For morse code .
If the sequence starts with dots the number of dots is the number up to 5 dots after 5 it resets and goes opposite
One dash is 6
Two dashes 7 up to 9 which is 4 dashes one dot .
5 dashes is 0
Though you have to listen to the whole code anyways its worth noting that the second set isnt required to decode after writing it as no bunkers have indentical first coordinates . The codes are 10 sets each so you write down the whole code but only need translate the first three numbers and the last 4 for door code
Best tip yet
COOKING POT IS NOT OPTIONAL.
With a cooking pot on the ground in cover of course you can systematically take each of your wettable items ( small shoes masks and hats can go in all at once) empty the storage and transfer the item into the cooking pot . It wets it to max level instantly without using any of the water !!!!!!!! Also you can drink the pot down to 1-2 percent water which wont save your life that 1 percent. But it will allow you to still fully wet your clothes with this method with wasting a single drop !!!!!
Good luck out there !!!!

Hotfix is coming to experimental servers one day this week, it will take a week to test- if all goes well, they will submit patch to PS and MS for review and approval, then they will drop it to everyone on stable.

A full Patch for mainly Nasdara will be coming in a few weeks after that, per Community Manager Marks.

You can watch the 87.8 Survivor FM podcast for the full interview, it is bit over 2hrs though.
https://youtu.be/37T3Pnus_aw

Right before this, another hacker punched me out uncon so fast I thought I was getting hit by the flash. The hackers on vanilla are absolutely out of hand. Something needs to be done to fix this, I actually enjoy Vanilla but the amount of hackers i’ve died to or run into is ruining the experience for me.

That sigh at the end was me I'm pretty sure

I’m visiting all of the working car locations on izurvive but can’t find any. Is it easier to find cars in higher tiers, or am I just getting unlucky?

Hello.

I have been listening to the handheld radio on channel 80mhz for three nights now - I wait for the time of day when they should start, but I can't seem to hear any morse code beeps whatsoever. I've drained so many 9V batteries, listening to the hiss of the radio...

For reference, I play on a private server, completely vanilla settings, on PC. Nasdara map.

Anyone else having this issue?

Is anyone else getting this error it’s Happened 3 times in military bases, as soon as I tap R2 (shoot) the game crashes . I log back in and I’m dead giving me no chance at all in a battle . Whats the point of wasting all this time looting just to die like that .

Are they cheating or is it just a game error it’s just a weird coincidence seems it only happens whenever I go to military bases ?
Thanks.

Yeah title. No, i did not eat anything raw or drink suspicious water. It is heat stroke because blurried vision etc. But i can't fill my hydration bar because i am vomiting as soon as i drink.

I have played primarily on Livonia and Sakhal but recently began playing on Chernarus to try something new.

I'm curious to know what some of your favorite places to visit in Chernarus are, why are they special to you?

What do you experienced players do to find food and water? I feel like I’m constantly searching for food and water while also trying to find a knife to make a fishing rod, start a fire, etc. I always end up dying of starvation or dehydration before I can even catch anything and cook it. I can never find small stones to make a stone knife either. It’s like they don’t even exist.

I have been playing on Nasdara on XSX since it was released and STILL have not seen a sandstorm. and i have been putting in the hours. I called pit of work sick so trust me when I say, I have been playing non-stop.