VodkaFish

Wrong, Being spoon-fed is not entertaining. Oh really, do tell. You won't change what you do to be successful, you expect them to change the game for you. Millennials. You ever try fireman's gear?

You can delete this thread please. I made a mistake.

They didn't wipe bases, they have locked me into my base. see my thread in the general discussion.

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omg I apologize. My base is fine. I have more than one apartment base and I could have sworn I was in a different one. They unfortunately look nearly identical besides the things I've put in them.

Why do people call public servers a hive?

Thanks, I thought there might be a time too... like 0100 or something. I managed to find two locks today looting. The last thing I need is a pickaxe. I usually find them all over. I don't think people pick them up because of the weight. I have not seen any in two days. I got lost in the dark earlier, got two more mosins w/ scopes now 🙂

Hi, I play xbox on an official server. People always seem to beat me to the loot. I get lucky every once in a while, particularly if I go randomly about out of town. However, most of the time it seems like the garages/sheds have been picked over. In Cherno I struggled with finding nails. I moved to Berezino and found a lot of nails but could not find any 4 barrel padlocks. I expanded my search to the city more north/east. I found some nice stuff, gun cleaning kits, an MP5 which I later threw away lol, and lastly someone's camouflaged base in the woods which I looted for sniper rifle/night vision. BUT no locks. Is there a set schedule for garages and sheds to respawn loot? I've noticed if you leave spawned loot in there it can stay in there for a while. I've been trying to take everything out of the loot area to encourage it to spawn new stuff. Thanks

So no one knows how many times a day, or week, loot refreshes? or at what exact time? I get the feeling the people who are out-looting me know the schedule.

So I've been told, a few times. hehe. My thought on this is: We respawn there so it would be nice to have a base there for when I die. I building bases along the coast to store basic gear. I am sure a lot of others do the same.

Sea Chests are great, but like barrels they're hard to move. I set my original base up near Chernogorsk. I've never seen a chest around there. I have seen them in Svetlojarsk and maybe Berezino if memory serves me correctly.

Hi, I have a base with a flag. Is there any benefit to building crates vs using dry sacks for storage at my base? Crates are associated with persistence and can be buried. Crates hold 50, Dry Sacks hold 63. Both can be buried. Crates have to be built, nails are like gold. I have had an assault backpack, mountain backpacks, and numerous dry sacks, on the floor of my base for more than a week. I am using them to organize things and they seem to help reduce lag. I like barrels a lot but they're hard to come by close to the base. Dry sacks come in different colors. If you equip a colored glow stick and radio they appear on the outside of the dry bag. The colors of the sack/glow stick allow me to identify the contents of a sack without having to look inside. am I missing something?

apparently there is an exploit for finding buried treasure. perhaps someone used that and took the crates apart? I have never buried a crate but I used to bury a lot of bags. I lost a few of them.

What he said ^^

agreed, it should be harder (or we should be allowed to make it harder through upgrading the base with additional materials) to break into a base. It takes a week to secure a decent sized building, like an apartment. It takes one day to break in.

I did not find the stone knife to be that useful/realistic of an item. 1. In the beginning, when you are struggling with surviving good luck finding 2 small stones. If you can make them with a pick axe you probably don't need them anymore. 2. it has a very short life expectancy. The Hobo Sack, on the other hand, is decent if you don't have a backpack.

Not sure what you meant by this? I have played games for decades on both platforms and know Mice, Keyboards, Macros, etc, and often times superior hardware, offer a huge advantage over console players. I am playing Dayz on a console currently. I do not want PC players on my server.

I have not been burying anything since I built the base. It seems like both containers survive in the base without despawning. If you want dry sacks go to any of the shipping container areas. You can find them in the containers and on the zombies there.

Why stop there? Semi Trucks, Tanks, Armed Drones, Cyborgs, a Star Trek food replicator, would all come in handy too. The devs would be rolling in the dough.

You need to have a hammer or hatchet equipped to build the fence. The components need to be in the component slots. Then you cycle through the prompts to build the portions of the fence you want. If you build something you don't want equip an axe and you will get prompts to disassemble portions of the fence. To remove the posts you need to dig them up with a shovel.

yes, burn all your loot! 😛

There are a ton of tutorials on base building on Youtube. There are also tutorials on cooking, pvp, etc. As for how to use duct tape: Place it in your hands then search for the item you want to repair in your inventory. If the item is damaged, and its able to be repaired with duct tape, you will see the option to repair the item. There are several repair kits in the game. I believe all repairable items can be repaired two different ways except for firearms. Duct tape repairs most of the commonly used items. Clothing, boots, and the tools that can be repaired.

One of the reasons this happens more often is because there is a great deal of anonymity in this world. Your character is not identifiable by his name, account, or appearance, so no one can develop a reputation (good or bad). If our characters had names associated with our user accounts I think this might improve a little. If we had a workable player generated economy (combined with players being able to identify one another by name) I think you'd see another improvement in player civility. Being able to operate a store/barter would improve interactions. The ability to server hop with no real restrictions also kills any feeling of attachment to one server/community. If a reputation system were created with good, neutral, and evil, color system maybe we'd see some improvement. People who attack others who have not caused them damage would get negative reputation points. I could go into detail, but then evil people don't have I'm evil tattooed on their foreheads in real life... well most of them anyway. lol.

update: I was able to place the bathroom gate today after the old fireplace disappeared. You can delete this is you like, thanks.

I am having issues placing two fence/gates in my base. The base is an apartment building. I want to place a gate over the bathroom. It is only letting me build the upper wall. The lower wall can not pass through the sink? The other wall is supposed to cover one of the front windows in the stairwell. There do not appear to be any obstructions. I have already placed multiple walls similar to what I want on the other floors. I know have spent a huge amount of time and resources on this building to end up with something I don't want if I can't patch that hole. help pls. Thanks.