Search the Community

2 quick questions: How fixed is the spawn location of vehicles? Is it always the exact same spot/orientation or can it spawn randomly somewhere near the area it usually spawns? And do they make noise when they spawn? Like engine noise that shuts off quite quickly?

nvm delete this, apparently vehicles are now spawning after 4 days of nothing heh

In a 225km2 island you would think there would be way more things to drive or ride. I think that the cars are maybe just a BIT too rare, the clans/ groups of people are usually the ones who have their hands on them and leave the newer players and smaller groups with nothing. Considering this map is gigantic, why not increase the spawns of some of the crappier (slower) cars maybe and bicycles too, and whatever else, so you could travel around the map much easier. This will ALSO result in people being more spread out in larger servers, and add to the realism of finding one or two people out and about somewhere in the wild or in a small town. :)

I think minor loot should be spawned in and around dustbins and trash piles instead of in low priority buildings. The kind of things I'd like to see in bins are empty tins/bottles and the very occasional food tin and soft drink can. I think the shot up military vehicles, like the humvee, should occasionally have a chance to spawn a medical item or some ammo clips too. I'm not sure it's possible, as right now the only spawns seem to be under a roof of some kind(like outhouses and shacks) or inside a building. Perhaps keeping track of extra spawn points will bog down the server but I'd like to know what others thought.

I'm the server owner and we have the Ural, a Hatchback, 2 bikes and 1 motorbike. In an effort to try to find more vehicles a group of 5 of us just spent 4.5 hours on foot running through all the vehicle spawn points located on the http://dayzdb.com/map We were not able to hit all of the vehicle spawns obviously, but we did hit about 10 of them. We came up with ZERO vehicles. Cmon... this is rediculous. This is not new. This is an every day occurance. I am 90percent confident that some of the vehicles may be bugged, spawned outside of the map, or forgotten in the lost wilderness somewhere. I heard stories of server companies re-setting the vehicle spawns. But our company said they can not do that. What can I do?

If it is possible, I think something like a camo tarp could be added to make it easier to hide vehicles. I think there could be 3 sizes: Small, Medium, Large, with bigger vehicles needing bigger tarps. SMALL TARP -Hides Vehicles like ATV's and motorcycles -Three small tarps can be combined into one medium tarp MEDIUM TARP -Hides cars and jeeps like the Skoda, UAZ and Offroad Pickup -Three medium tarps combine to one large - Can be broken down into three small tarps LARGE TARP -Used to hide vehicles like Busses, URALs and Helicopters (when re-introduced) -Can be broken down into 3 medium tarps Tarps could be placed on a vehicle to increase it's ability to be hidden, make it look more like a tent possibly. Would need to be removed before vehicle can be driven. Ideas? Opinions?

What vehicles are currently in the game? I found this list online, does it seem correct? ATV_CZ_EP1 ATV_US_EP1 car_hatchback car_sedan Fishing_Boat hilux1_civil_3_open Ikarus Ikarus_TK_CIV_EP1 Old_bike_TK_CIV_EP1 Old_bike_TK_INS_EP1 PBX S1203_TK_CIV_EP1 Skoda SkodaBlue SkodaGreen Smallboat_1 SUV_TK_CIV_EP1 Tractor TT650_Ins TT650_TK_CIV_EP1 TT650_TK_EP1 UAZ_INS UAZ_RU UAZ_Unarmed_TK_CIV_EP1 UAZ_Unarmed_TK_EP1 UAZ_Unarmed_UN_EP1 UH1H_DZ UralCivil V3S_Gue Volha_1_TK_CIV_EP1 Volha_2_TK_CIV_EP1

LU239 (OMK - One more kill) - all vehicles disappeared Please, can admin restart 1-5 times server to return vehicles?

Before you start making assumptions about our camp being raided -- it was not. One of our members was near our camp waiting for a night raid about 15 minutes before said event occurred. He was kicked from game, supposedly of a server restart and then, 15 minutes later, we logged back in and all of our stuff was gone. Tents, vehicles, and items are all gone. I checked for flattened tents to make sure we weren't raided in a olympic-medal-deserving 15 minutes and there were none. We saved tents and the person who put them up did not die. The camp is several kilometers from the border of the map, it is not out of bounds. I also logged back in and had a different gun in my backpack than I did earlier. I had an M1017 in my backpack and when I logged off and I logged back in and had an M4A3 CCO. Now again, before assuming, I did not switch guns recently. I had my layout -- before logging out -- for atleast 20-30 minutes. We pretty much lost everything due to a bug/server side issue. An official response would be nice. Thank you, Walking Militia

Is there currently an issue right now with the Wire Fencing or any fortification items as of right now that prevents them from being removed permanently? I am asking cause on my server most areas are littered with this crap and it is glitched into walls and floor preventing anyone from entering the buildings. I have removed it, but every server restart it just respawns. What is the best way to deal with it for now? Also, is there a problem with vehicles being respawned? I found a massive pile up of half destroyed vehicles out side of the map, and figured it to be the graveyard, but those vehicles there do no repsawn in any other location. They just sit outside of the map for 2 weeks now. Is there something I am missing some where? I had figured it is a hive issue, but I am unsure. Any help on these 2 matters would be greatly appreciated.

Hello! =) Me and my Friend got finally an own Day-Z Server :) Now we have 1-2 Questions; first thing is about vehicles, are we able to turn them on/off for spawning? and how much % are the spawn chances for one? The next question is about the weapons, Does it take any effect to the drop chance if u play on several difficultys? thats all.. =) would be cool if i get a answer to that thaaanks cyaa

i have a car full of loot saved in the forest , i leave the location and pass 2 hours come back to vehicle , he desapear , can someone tell me if there is a whay to prevent this from happenning or if its completly randow the fact that some vehicles vannish. ty

Should Lightly armed land/sea vehicles be added to Dayz as super rare vehicles? For example: -Technicals (civilian pickup trucks with a machinegun in the bed) -UAZ with a DSHKM (.30 cal MG) -Humvee with a M240 -Boats with MG's The way I could see it working is that armed vehicles have additional parts to be repaired, in addition to hull, wheels, fuel, and engine, it could also have "gun". Two new parts could be added in as well (both would be rare), without both of these parts applied to the vehicle, the gun won't fire. These two parts would be: 1.The gun itself. In ARMA 2, there are already mounted guns in bags as items and you could add them to Dayz as items that go into your inventory for 6 slots or more, then with a toolkit you could repair a vehicle's gun with it. For instance, a Humvee with an M240 will require a mounted M240 bag to repair its gun, and a UAZ with a DSHKM will need a DSHKM bag. 2.A special ammo box item for vehicles. For example, it would be an item that looks like the weapon boxes from vanilla arma 2 that take 6 slots of inventory space, and are titled "Vehicle Ammo Box". This would have to be applied to an armed vehicle (not needing a toolkit, its just reloading, no tools required) to give its gun a limited amount of ammo, and when the ammo runs out another box will be needed. This will make using an armed vehicle difficult due to needing a rare item to replenish ammo. I think this could work. Do you?

Hello, just wondering if it is possible for tents and vehicles to dissapear all at once? The tents where made from different characters and where all saved today, aswell as my atv. The only difference today is that it came a new beta patch.

Server: GB#00 Multiplay Bretts server When: 00:25 23/07/2012 What happened: Ok, so my 'clan' as it were, had a nice little camp hidden at skalka up in the north, we had 6 vehicles, and about 12 tents. It got raided, all the vehicles (bar one hylux with a missing wheel) gone along with all the rare weapons. We thought fair enough, lets pack the tents and move somewhere else. Well those tents were found the next day. Again, thought fair enough, someone else found it. So this evening we find a battered old hatch back, and we search for all of our old stuff, we find it and we move camp yet again. 2 hours later, a guy logs in with the damaged atv we left at the camp, drives up to our new camp (that had been there for half an hour) gets off the quad with all of us shooting him, and continues to kill 3 of us and logs off. I personally put 3 rounds into his body and 4 in his head. I had an L85, even had time to reduce the zeroing. No way in hell could any of that been legit.

Currently it is really a hassle to find a vehicle. They spawn extremely rarely and it is very frustrating to search for one. Even server hopping does not really help, since you can switch the server twenty or thirty times - in view of a vehicle spawn location - and still not have found a vehicle. It's just not fun, and you have to consider that server hopping is not even a wanted game mechanic. Imagine the hassle to find a car when you cannot switch servers like that. It's like you will never find anything. Even in a broken down societey you will find tons of cars everywhere, they will just need repair. It's just not fun. Please buff the spawn rate of vehicles. Just the vehicles. They can still be broken down as hell and need repair, as long as I am able to find a car without switching servers like a maniac... it would very much be appreciated.

I've been playing DayZ for about a week getting quite good eq and exploring whole map. My problem is that i didn't see any car or bike to take (except one car that killed me). I know there are some threads about vehicles but i couldn't find clear answers for my questions. So please, if someone knows 1. Why couldn't I find any car during my game (I played on several differend servers)? 2. If someone takes car/bike from spawn will this spot spawn a new vehicle (in what cases)? 3. After a server restart do vehicles spawn on all spots immidiately?

The Goal: Repairing a vehicle should be limited by the availability of spare parts - not by the amount of vehicles. The thought behind it: The current Mechanism is as such: you can hoard vehicle parts quite easily - find a vehicle and repair it is the difficult part. I want to change it exactly the other way around. Plus: Vehicles exploding should not be the standard behavior. A Vehicle that drives against a wall should have around a 20% chance to catch fire. Otherwise its just unusable. Why is a Vehicle standing around, broken down: the reason will mostly be out fuel or broken wheels or completely destroyed. The completely destroyed vehicles cannot be repaired of course. I dont think repairing of vehicles engines should be possible at all. This Suggestion is to be combined with my other suggestion: http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/46729-jerrycans-and-fuel-consumption-revised/ What changes do i suggest: - Remove: Scrap Metal, Fueltank parts, Engine parts - Car wheels are weapon slot size (10 Slot backpack and go in primary Weapon Slot) - Spawned vehicles are either out of fuel or missing 1-3 Wheels. (with 10 to 50% Fuel left); Hull is random from 20 to 80% durability, Engine is random from 50 to 100% durability, Fuel tank is random 20 to 100% durability. - Introduce / revise the Workshop Buildings: When driving a vehicle in/near the building you have to option to apply repairs to the vehicle (because you have the needed tools in the workshop and there are spare parts. This will repair Fueltank und Hull to 100%. - Engine can never be repaired. Broken is broken. - increase Vehicle spawns drastically: 2 vehicles per Serverslot (50 slot server will have 100 Vehicle "slots" maximum. - Drastic decrease of car wheel spawn. The result of these changes are: Finding a vehicle that could be repaired is not so difficult as bringing the parts and/or fuel to it. Finding a "good" vehicle with a better engine is still a more difficult find but finding any vehicle will be "easy". This also encourages players to cooperate as transporting vehicle parts (fuel and wheels) will render you unable to use a primary Weapon.

Been playing for about a week with a buddy of mine. After surviving multiple days and getting armed to the teeth we decided we needed a vehicle. We searched nearly every spawn point and didn't find a single vehicle, some nights we'd end up talking on skype while mindlessly running from spawn to spawn (boring) until it simply got too late. We eventually became too bored of our search/lack of action and have since been camping out on rooftops murdering people for fun (incredibly fun) . After reading some threads it appears players/clans tend to hoard the damn things in the middle of nowhere... Is this true? Will those vehicles never de/respawn for those of us searching for them? We're under the impression we'd need to run to the NW for 2 hours if we even hoped to find one.

Please make a flip vehicle option. The amount of times i've flipped vehicles which have taken me a very long time to gather the parts for. in before the bad driver comments.

The admins found a website that mapped out all vehicle locations today on the TX20. Currently if you have a vehicle on TX20 it needs to be moved NOW. Even your tents may be comprimised so we recommend you move your camps if you have vehicles at your camps as well. -Admins

and by that i mean lower their ping kick so that no one can play on the server at all just so no one can loot their camp? because right now no one can play on this server that the admins have had their base looted a few times... just wonderin

Hi there, I'm new here I searched for 'vehicle' in the forums and scanned all for possible 'same suggestions'. Didn't find one. So everyone knows, you don't find vehicles just on your way when strolling from one village to another. Thats because some guys are already hoarding them at a/mulitiple specific location(s). My suggestion: 1. restrict the vehicle save to 1 vehicle per person (on the masterserver not just on the gameserver). (PLUS one helicopter) 2. don't allow saving vehicles to close to each other. minimum distance of x meters. (gameserver) 3. if two vehicles are saved next to each other, remove one of them (random pick) and respawn it at their original spawn location. 4. (I AM AGAINST THIS:) display a message, that you can't save a vehicle 'on this location' because it's to close to another one (against it because: obviously when you try to save a vehicle unknowingly in the radius of the other vehicle, you'll be notified that there is another vehicle in a radius of x meters and could be exploited) 5. display a message, that you're about to save new vehicle and that the previous one will be RESPAWNED instantly. (not sure, if you can display a message, before actually doing something) 5.1. [i don't know how the saving of vehicles works, when exactly it is cancled (if someone drives it? if someone take a seat in it?)] 5.2. do always show the message, even if the previous vehicle was 'stolen' (the point: the person saving a vehicle doesn't know that his other vehicle was taken.) 6. add a chance of 0.01% to 0.1%, that a random vehicle type spawns at a random vehicle-spawn-location without the original one disappearing, chance of a vehicle spawning: every 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours. with a limit 7. asset stripping of burnt out car wrecks/crashed helicopters: add a very rare tool to strip assets just like 'gut animal' he starts 'digging' for parts. one out of 100 cars should have a functioning wheel or something. 8. add a very rare tool to FLIP vehicles. 9. ability to shoot out of vehicles (not the driver tho). 10. ability to get branches in forests with the hunting knife/hatchet. 11. ability to 'hide' your vehicle with branches. (a bus should need obvously more branches than a motorcycle) 11.0. at this point i'd like to suggest the ability to hide tents with branches. 11.1. the 'hidden' vehicles are still visible but only if you're in a specific radius of it. 12. we need a *CANDY* van type of vehicle. lol The point of this suggestion is, there may be people out there not beeing able to play dayZ for 4 hours per day and they never have/will seen/see a drivable vehicle. Also this makes the person finding vehicles to choose between them for the better one. (changes with the purpose/playing style). With the chance that there are more than the finite ammount of vehicles, you have also a higher chance of finding a vehicle. Players need to group up to save multiple vehicles and they need more teamwork to hoard them. The possibility of random spawning vehicles every 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours would attract 'new' players to 'old' servers. IF there are suggestions already suggested or even already ingame, I'd not know because I never had more than ONE vehicle at the time and never saw multiple vehicles in one location. Feel free to discuss. n69 out.

I have 3 vehicles and 1 to be repaired, what should I do with them though? Look for crash sites? Loot & Run? Just roaming? I have nothing to do in End-Game anymore... :(

Quick question: if I have a vehicle in one server and then log out/log into a different server, will my vehicle be in the new server?