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Starting a thread to give some basic hints and tips for new players, any and all info added is welcome. HERE you will find a handy interactive map, if you wish to use one. Generally, to use items in DayZ you will need to put them in your hands. If the item is usable you should notice a prompt to hold or press the RT when an item is in your hands. There is also a lot of context sensitive actions, where you have to have the correct item in your hands to perform a specific action. Some items will need to be combined with others to use them effectively. You combine items by having one item in your hands, and then pressing B on the relevant item in your inventory. I will run through some basic tips below to help new players. How to load a gun You will need 3 separate items. A gun, a magazine, and ammunition. Ammunition can rarely be found loose, but mostly you will find a box of rounds. Take ammo box in hands RT to unbox. Take Magazine in hands Hover over rounds in inventory Press B to combine RT to load mag Take Gun in hands Hover over mag in inventory Press B to combine How to place items in a smaller container ie. First Aid Kit Take container in hands Hover over item you want to place in container in inventory Press B to combine How to open canned food Take canned food in hands Hover over knife or can opener in inventory B to combine RT to open How to cut clothing into rags Not all clothing can be cut up, but a lot can. Rags are useful for bandaging wounds and stopping blood loss. Clothing on ground Take knife or axe or other sharp object in hands Hold RT to tear into rags How to skin an animal Kill animal Take knife or other sharp object into hands RT to skin animal There is also a large amount of crafting options to create new items out of basic materials. There are too many to list here, but I suggest looking into these recipes on the DayZ wiki. Hopefully these tips can help with the basics, feel free to ask about how to do anything else here and I will do my best to answer :) See you in Chernarus!

Reposting this here now the forums have sub-categories and this is a more appropriate spot for it. I will no longer be updating the previous thread. Going to add some general info here, for those that need it. If anyone has any questions about how to do something in game, ask here :) First up, here is an excellent interactive map. Generally, to use items in DayZ you will need to put them in your hands. If the item is usable you should notice a prompt to hold or press the RT when an item is in your hands. There is also a lot of context sensitive actions, where you have to have the correct item in your hands to perform a specific action. Some items will need to be combined with others to use them effectively. You combine items by having one item in your hands, and then pressing B on the relevant item in your inventory. I will run through some basic tips below to help new players. How to load a gun You will need 3 separate items. A gun, a magazine, and ammunition. Ammunition can rarely be found loose, but mostly you will find a box of rounds. Take ammo box in hands RT to unbox. Take Magazine in hands Hover over rounds in inventory Press B to combine RT to load mag Take Gun in hands Hover over mag in inventory Press B to combine How to place items in a smaller container ie. First Aid Kit Take container in hands Hover over item you want to place in container in inventory Press B to combine How to open canned food Take canned food in hands Hover over knife, can opener it other sharp object in inventory B to combine RT to open How to cut clothing into rags Not all clothing can be cut up, but a lot can. Rags are useful for bandaging wounds and stopping blood loss. Clothing on ground Take knife or axe or other sharp object in hands Hold RT to tear into rags How to skin an animal Kill animal Take knife or other sharp object into hands RT to skin animal There is also a large amount of crafting options to create new items out of basic materials. There are too many to list here, but I suggest looking into these recipes on the DayZ wiki. Hopefully these tips can help with the basics, feel free to ask about how to do anything else here and I will do my best to answer :) See you in Chernarus!

No worries at all, glad to help! I am only fairly new to the game myself, buy when I have those "aha!" moments and learn something new I like to post here so others can benefit from it as well. I think it is good for the community to help each other out as best we can and share our knowledge, so we can all have the best experience in game as possible :)

I am in Australia, and I play with other people in Australia just fine. The best servers for people in Aus and NZ that are available at the moment is the SG (Singapore) servers. Yes Australian servers would be nice, but the game is far from being unplayable.

Blood type compatibility chart;

Posted by Marco Aurelio123; Hello everyone. So, i want to make a tiny guide, showing how the micromanagment function works, i feel here in the ''new player'' section i a good place to post this, since new players to the game will come here first wanting to know how the game works and such. Let's not waste time and get started. - Go to your inventory and highlight the iten you want to manage. - Hold A in the iten. - Now use LT or RT to manage your inventory colunms (vest, backpack, etc) - After you choosed the colunm just release A, if it has space left the iten will transfer to that column - Done A lot of people think this feature doesn't work, it does, but the developers forgot to add a tutorial of how to use it, and yesterday's (depending on the time you reading) they fixed this feature.

If your screen bounds are incorrect, you may need to change your aspect ratio, or your display mode on your TV. Try adjusting the aspect ratio to 16:9, or turning your TV display mode to PC mode, if applicable. This can be found in the settings menu of most TVs.

If your screen bounds are incorrect, you may need to change your aspect ratio, or your display mode on your TV. Try adjusting the aspect ratio to 16:9, or turning your TV display mode to PC mode, if applicable. This can be found in the settings menu of most TVs.

I have seen a lot of people having issues with their screen borders, so here is a tip for that. If your screen bounds are incorrect, you may need to change your aspect ratio, or your display mode on your TV. Try adjusting the aspect ratio to 16:9, or turning your TV display mode to PC mode, if applicable. This can be found in the settings menu of most TVs. This is not the only game on Xbox that requires this, and if you want it set to always have your screen bounds correct, go into Xbox display settings and check in "Calibrate HDTV". You should be able to see both a green and blue border on the first screen of this calibration walkthrough. If you can't see both boxes you will need to adjust your TV settings.

It's a known issue as far as I am aware. When I get this bug I go prone then stand back up and it usually fixes it.

Posted by Baroni88; Finding loot when spawning Spawn on coast: Head inland. Buildings tend to be more looted near the coastal areas. Move inland and you should start finding more loot. Spawn Inland: Head uphill. General Geography suggests this is the best way to move away from coastal areas and find more loot-ful areas. PS: Found a castle last night (pretty sick) fell off the wall, knocked myself out, broke a leg and died of dehydration. Was pretty depressing looking but a blast to be apart of. Posted by jedimfp; if you found stone,find another and combine. stone+stone-imrpovised knife (2slots) fire place - sticks + bark/rags/paper improvised backpack - wooden sticks 3x + impovised courier bag (must be empty) imrovised supressor - pet bottle + duck tape blood bag now can use self,no need another player.take blood from your body if you are healty and combine with starter kit.you can refill some blood without another player.saline bag + starter kit also refill some blood

Food & Drink We all need it to survive, and there are a bunch of ways to obtain it. You can find canned food in various places, but if you are struggling to find enough along the coast you will need to head inland. We survivors have an iron gut, and can eat things that would make a normal person deathly ill. Sickness and food poisoning isn't really part of the game yet as far as I can tell. It will hopefully be added in the future, but for now staying well fed and hydrated is almost a non issue once you get the hang of finding stuff. I have eaten raw chicken, poisonous mushrooms, drank what was probably sewage water, and am still here to tell the tale. I could be completely wrong about the sickness stuff, and maybe I am just one sip of sewage water away from death haha. It could be smarter to be safe rather than sorry. But if you are dying of thirst you need to weigh up your options and should probably take the risk. The forests are a great source of mushrooms, and you can even find apple trees that have apples on the ground around them. Chicken is another option, and if you hear one clucking see if you can find it for a quick feed. Cattle are much better though, you will get so much steak out of a cow you probably won't even be able to carry it all! As for water, you want to try and find a well or any water source. You can sip it for quick hydration, but your best bet is to find a water bottle, canteen or cooking pot so you can fill it and take it with you, to drink when you need. I like to travel fairly light, and try to take as little food with me as possible, just one or two items at a time plus a canteen for water, and then just eat and drink what I find as I go to stay fueled.

Here is a great reference for which guns need which ammo;

Another handy tip, Posted by Tylerall5;

I think I have finally figured out the inventory system on DayZ, with help from PureMarksman on the DayZ forums. It is kind of complicated, but only because it isn't properly explained in the game. I am glad what I originally thought was a bug was actually just me not understanding the system though! A thorough explanation follows; A backpack has a carry capacity, indicated by a number in the top right of it's line in the inventory screen. For example, an empty "Mountain Backpack" shows 0/100. Every container has a similar capacity indicator, whether it is a backpack, a jacket, a pair of pants or whatever. Every item has a size, indicated by the number in the top right of the items icon. For example, a "Matchbox" shows 1. Simple so far. The next part is where it gets confusing. Each backpack has a predetermined number of slots, and each slot holds one item. For example a "Mountain Backpack" has 8(? I am not exactly sure, can't remember) slots. There is no visual indicator for this currently in the game. Hopefully they add something like a square outline on each available slot to indicate slots in the future. But I digress. So, a Mountain Backpack could hold 8 separate items, but the total size of all these items can not exceed 100. Now 8 items seems like a low amount, and that's because it is. You would be hard pressed to reach your capacity with only 8 items, unless they all have a large size, which generally they do not. How do we carry all the smaller bits and pieces we need for survival then? Im glad you asked Jimmy! We do this by using smaller containers, such as a "First Aid Kit" or an "Ammo Box" or a "Waterproof Bag". Each one of these smaller containers will take up one slot, so you can have 8 containers in the Mountain Backpack. They have their own number of slots to store items in, and a capacity, so you can only store so many items in each container. But even if each container only has 2 slots, that's twice as many individual items you can carry. They also have a size like every other item, so you need to make sure the total size of all your containers, plus the total size of the items in them, does not exceed the total capacity of the backpack. This isn't as complicated as it sounds, because of the aforementioned capacity number on your backpack. So, in short; I need to organise my loot into containers, and stop being such a messy slob if I want to carry as much as possible in DayZ :)

AU & NZ servers would bd nice, but it isn't too bad using Singapore. I tested them all, and generally speaking Singapore servers are the best for Aussies and New Zealanders. From memory, SG is about 4000kms away from Aus. RU is around 10,000 kms, and US and NL are both about 14,000 kms away.

There has been a lot of communication from the Devs actually, on social media platforms, on their website, on these forums, a lot more than other games I have seen release with issues. Look around a little and you will find the answers you seek. Follow this link to the Devs latest blog post where they talk about the main issues and what we should expect from the game preview in these early days.

Food & Drink We all need it to survive, and there are a bunch of ways to obtain it. You can find canned food in various places, but if you are struggling to find enough along the coast you will need to head inland. We survivors have an iron gut, and can eat things that would make a normal person deathly ill. Sickness and food poisoning isn't really part of the game yet as far as I can tell. It will hopefully be added in the future, but for now staying well fed and hydrated is almost a non issue once you get the hang of finding stuff. I have eaten raw chicken, poisonous mushrooms, drank what was probably sewage water, and am still here to tell the tale. I could be completely wrong about the sickness stuff, and maybe I am just one sip of sewage water away from death haha. It could be smarter to be safe rather than sorry. But if you are dying of thirst you need to weigh up your options and should probably take the risk. The forests are a great source of mushrooms, and you can even find apple trees that have apples on the ground around them. Chicken is another option, and if you hear one clucking see if you can find it for a quick feed. As for water, you want to try and find a well or any water source. You can sip it for quick hydration, but your best bet is to find a water bottle, canteen or cooking pot so you can fill it and take it with you, to drink when you need. I like to travel fairly light, and try to take as little food with me as possible, just one or two items at a time plus a canteen for water, and then just eat and drink what I find as I go to stay fueled.

You can even do it with a sledgehammer, so I learned tonight! No worries mate. Thanks for your help! I owe you a Rasputin Kvass, hopefully catch ya soon :) Are you pressing RT or holding RT? You should only have to press RT once with a ring pull and it should open.

If you go into your Xbox settings, and go into display settings, there should be an option called calibrate HDTV. If you can not see both the blue and green boxes, you need to adjust you screen ratio on your TV. So go into your TV settings, and look for an option to switch to PC mode or something similar, that should fix the issue. Hope this helps :)

Posted by Tylerall5: In order to cook your food you must: A) build a fire. This can be done by chopping a tree and using the sticks with rags to make a fireplace. You then use matches or a fire starter kit to light it. B) make a pointy stick by sharpening another stick with a sharp object. C) Lastly you must attach the meat to the stick and hold it over the fire.

I think he means Rags, spellcheck probably took over :) I have started a thread here to offer some hints and tips for new players. Feel free to ask any questions you have and add any info you have discovered.

I think I have finally figured out the inventory system on DayZ, with help from another survivor; PureMarksman. It is kind of complicated, but only because it isn't properly explained in the game. I am glad what I originally thought was a bug was actually just me not understanding the system though! A thorough explanation follows; A backpack has a carry capacity, indicated by a number in the top right of it's line in the inventory screen. For example, an empty "Mountain Backpack" shows 0/100. Every container has a similar capacity indicator, whether it is a backpack, a jacket, a pair of pants or whatever. Every item has a size, indicated by the number in the top right of the items icon. For example, a "Matchbox" shows 1. Simple so far. The next part is where it gets confusing. Each backpack has a predetermined number of slots, and each slot holds one item. For example a "Mountain Backpack" has 8(? I am not exactly sure, can't remember) slots. There is no visual indicator for this currently in the game. Hopefully they add something like a square outline on each available slot to indicate slots in the future. But I digress. So, a Mountain Backpack could hold 8 separate items, but the total size of all these items can not exceed 100. Now 8 items seems like a low amount, and that's because it is. You would be hard pressed to reach your capacity with only 8 items, unless they all have a large size, which generally they do not. How do we carry all the smaller bits and pieces we need for survival then? Im glad you asked Jimmy! We do this by using smaller containers, such as a "First Aid Kit" or an "Ammo Box" or a "Waterproof Bag". Each one of these smaller containers will take up one slot, so you can have 8 containers in the Mountain Backpack. They have their own number of slots to store items in, and a capacity, so you can only store so many items in each container. But even if each container only has 2 slots, that's twice as many individual items you can carry. They also have a size like every other item, so you need to make sure the total size of all your containers, plus the total size of the items in them, does not exceed the total capacity of the backpack. This isn't as complicated as it sounds, because of the aforementioned capacity number on your backpack. So, in short; I need to organise my loot into containers, and stop being such a messy slob if I want to carry as much as possible in DayZ :)

If it won't show up when browsing for it, try using the search feature on the xbox store and search for DayZ

Nah mate, same time for everyone. 7PM CEST on the 29th is 3AM on the 30th for those of us in Australia. You should be able to use this tool here to check what time it will be available in your time zone.