FishGuts4Lunch

Since the update today (dec 13th 2018) I cannot get the game to open. I have deleted it and reinstalled the game without success. I tried verifying the files as well but it does not help. I downloaded the Beta op-out. Could this be the problem? I want to play the new 1.0 Beta and not the experimental or legacy version. When trying to play, steam opens and then Dayz pops up in the taskbar but then disappears.

Indeed I have heard both 7 days and 45 days. That is thexreason I asked. I tend to believe 45 days as I have left barrels for a week without looking at them and still found them where I left them. Perhaps the 7 day limit is for cars and trucks. I once wrecked a car along a road and it was still there 2 weeks later. A bit long I think but if people kept going over for a look it would persist. I was hoping it would respawn. Fish.

I enjoy gathering loot and storing it away so that should I die, I have a ready source of supply when respawning. My favorite medium is barrels as they are so much easier to stash compared to camping and military tents. The latter two as always high visibility and with the new foliage in .62 there is no place you can hide them and hope people will walk past and not see them. Anyway... Barrels... I was wondering about the spawn mechanics of the barrels themselves. Are there a fixed number of barrels that will spawn on a private, persistent server? Does a barrel need to become abandoned for a new one to spawn of do barrels just keep spawning in sheds at a fixed probability ratio no matter how many are in the game? In the former case, there would be an abundance of barrels after a server wipe but at some point, the only time a new barrel would appear, would be after a barrel is taken out of play due to it no longer have had interaction for a set number of days (how long is this exactly). This would mean looking for them would be more or less fruitless as the time after to last server wipe past.

My mrs would be having my guts for garters if I invested that much time in something she feels is trivial... Kudos kid... keep it up! Fish

I have the feeling someone has a little too much time on his hands and quite possibly no girl-friend/wife!

My goal is completely dependent on the game. If I can get onto an experimental server where food and inventory in hard to come by, my goal is to get kitted out, and then collect as much food as I can. I then open the food and place it in vests, cargo pants of military shirts and head for the coast. Any bambis I come across get a free bit of clothing full of food and advice to head inland ASAP. When I run run out, I head back north and stock up again. Killing those who get greedy or make it their goal to take out bambis is an added bonus. But in general most of those I come across on the coast are quite greatful for both the food and a piece of high capacity clothing to store their meager finds in. HOWEVER If I and stuck on stable where the food is literally everywhere and ammo is too plentiful to take it all, I get bored very fast and end up taking up a strategic position with my mosin and shooting those raidig high loot places. Hell on these kind of servers you will be fully geared again in an hour or so anyway so what is the big loss? Sinds the last 0.52 update the difference between stable and experimental has becomed rather blurred for me. I find it hard to know exactly what kind of server I am on by anything other than the charator that spawns. I have one guy who is completely geared and with enough food for an entire clan while the other one has next to nothing and is living on berries and apples. Sadly when a server resets there is no way to find out which server you were last playing on. My history list is so full as to be useless. If only there was a button to sort it chronologically or better yet wipe it clean from time to time. Fish

Ah I didn't realise you could only repair the axe once uit reached "Badly Damaged". I was assuming I worked like the sewing kits and would improve up to a status of "Worn". Thx mate.

One of the reasons I perfer experimental is that the attitude is so different. To start out with, everyone is struggling. Players with full kit, automatic weapons, loads of ammo and food are a rare sight indeed. With luck you make it off the coast, find some food, an axe and a gun with a few rounds of ammo to go with it. Then you are sitting pretty indeed. Never been helped more often or helped so many other as I do on experimental. I'd rather have a kitchen knife and matches so I can skin a animal and cook it than have an M4 instead. We have even resorted to taking a truck and running over the cows to get food because we had no weapon to shoot with. Resoursefulness pays off big time! Being nice doesn't always work and you do get killed now and then but in general I feel it works out The difference is that the experimental servers have occupancy of about 85% in the course of 24 hours. There are less of them so people crowd onto whatever is available. The coast gets depleted with a couple of hour of all the look respawning. Thank goodness for Red Berries, Wells and Apples. So nice to play a real survival game instead of some strange version of Battlefield III with zombies.

One of the servers I play on lost the persistant clump spawn but in the mean time it is now reappeared someplace (better) else. I just filled up with 4 high capacity backpacks, an AK74 with ywo clips and a bunch of ammo for my M4. :D.

Did your friend eat them afterwards? How so. Can't wait to try it out next time I kill a bandit!

Lol I guess you are right Mookie. A bit down in the dumps right now. The tent I found and placed on our low population clanserver has been nicked along with 5 others spread across the map in less than an hour. My guess is an esp hack.

Well it looks like the tents are not yet safe to use. On the server I frequent we had 5 tents among us. In the space of 30 minutes they were all suddenly gone. My buddy found a couple of them moved 200 meters from where they had been but they were gone 10 minutes later. I went back to my tent and it was gone as well. No server reset had taken place and there was just one clan member, myself and a single stranger on the server. My guess is it was an esp hack and they just stole all the tents. There is no way someone could find all the tents on a low population server in such a short time. Most likely dissapeared onto a password locked server where we will never see them again. Hackers win again

Sadly Mookie, this happened after the 0.50 update >:(

I have found myself a tent and now have a little camp with all the comforts of home. I hunt, fish and cook on a fire as much as I can. I avoid the hot spots and only venture into town when I really need to. The only down side is now that I am chopping wood, the condition of my axe is going down hill fast. My axe is my primary weapon when going into the town. I would rather be without my gun than my axe. Other players you can avoid but Zeds are inevitable. I like the fire axe but if I want a new one it is going to mean returning to a fire station. God I hate going there! The place is one big death trap. So, in game we can repair our clothing, backpacks, vests, shoes and guns... Why can't we repair the axe? How hard could it be to sharpen it on a stone or replace the handle with a bit of ash wood. We have stones and we have ash wood sticks. No new items need be added, just the process of crafting the repair? What do you say? Is it do-able?

I just want to add that I have infact met one of the guys doing this. It was NOT an exploit but a scripted hack. He was able to give me 6 MP5 clips and everyone else and weapon they wished at a moments notice. I declined, but i saw the items appear on the ground. It was tempting though! ;)