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A couple days after I started playing, I was being an idiot and decided to run directly north 'til I reached the top of the map. Found a motorcycle next to a house in full condition, with almost no fuel. That's the only vehicle I've ever found, so I see where you're coming from about the whole "vehicles are hard to find" thing. But I think what everyone else is saying here is pretty much spot on - search for camps.

I'd like to use ied's / pipe bombs .. There allready in arma and would be fun for ambushing people and vehicles and such... Has this been suggested and what u lot think? Could be made from certain shotgun ammo and other parts scrap metal, another use for the radios as a detonator, sync em with ya watch , dunno just throwing it out there

Zil is another one I got the other nite, the cheating scumbag was server hopping and dcing all over the place till he tried to steal one of our vehicles and I opened up on him with my L85 and he still tried to alt-f4 but was too late for the fucker he was dead. Do come back Zil you cheating scumbag so we can ban your ass.

Scout/Soul, I honestly never hacked. I keep getting kicked because I don't have all the files. I'd like to see the "proof" you talk about, considering I never hacked. I didn't spawn a jet on your server, ask Lattice where I was at that time. We were in the middle of a raid. But you fucked up and banned me just on suspicion, and now your whole clan will have to pay the price. It sucks having to kill old friends, but my hate for Soul is much more persuading. Their server name is US1208, they have multiple vehicles, and most likely have a helicopter. Anybody who reads this and wants some free loot, their camp is near Lopatino. (although they might have moved it, they will now though.)

Haven't tried a chopper in dayz for a long time, but does the radar still work in them? cause last time they where active all the vehicles where shown on your radar, so it would make the nets kinda useless if it's still working.

With the helicopters making a return I think it would be great if we could get camo nets...if you have vehicles in your base camps there going to be easy to spot from the air....thats all folks

Howdy, we recently got our hands on a DayZ server and we're wondering how we get vehicles to spawn. I've read around but most of the threads don't have any replies. The server is working, loot is spawning, people can join etcetera but I don't believe vehicles (and heli crashes?) are spawning. What can I do about that?

Started out from a previous venture, down to 3,000 blood in the lootable church in Pogorevka. One of my survivor buddies came under the cover of night to the church and gave me a transfusion, as well as a spare Barrett he'd just picked up from a chopper wreck. Upon us leaving the church we heard a heli flying past towards Stary Sobor, and quickly ran out of the church, towards Stary. When we arrived, we proned on a hill overlooking the long white building across from the military tents and found up on the hill, a perfect condition Huey. Keep in mind it's a somewhat bright, but still night server. Both of us immediately opened fire on the Huey with our Barretts as there were only us, and 5 other clan members in the server. The heli then slid down the mountain next to a telephone poll, where it remained inoperable. At this point we thought the ordeal was over since some of the clan members had logged off and there were only about two left in the server. My survivor friend and I made it up the hill overlooking the tents to find that ANOTHER Huey had flown in and landed. I immediately went prone and opened fire in the general direction of the Huey with my Barrett, as to scare whoever was inside. The chopper sat dormant as the gunfire rang out, so I approached. Upon stepping inside and starting the Huey, I was greeted with some sort of .30 cal small arms fire from the tree line, apparently whoever owned the chopper was using it as bait. I was knocked unconscious, bleeding and feel out of the chopper onto the ground. As I laid there helplessly, I heard the gunfire continue. I then somehow managed to come to, and ran into the tree line gushing blood. I bandaged before losing no more than 4,000 blood, now down to 6,000+ total. In a daze, and with blurred vision I ran to the idling chopper and got in, once again greeted by gun fire, but this time I made it off the ground, and flew away. (previous Arma 2 experience ftw) One of my colleagues who was providing cover fire says he heard whoever had flown it here cry out "Nooooooooooooooo!" over direct communication as I flew away. I flew over Pogorevka and some other smaller towns until I felt it safe to land and heal. Unfortunately I was a bit too hasty in my decent and wrecked the engine and rotor. I then got out of the chopper, and ran a distance towards a cow, which I killed, cooked and consumed. I now regained all the lost blood and was back up to 12,000. However still shaky and requiring painkillers, I got back in the chopper and found it had somehow magically repaired itself, everything was green and it started up like brand new. Instead of questioning this miracle, I took off and met back up with my friends in Stary where my friend Hex took over the piloting work. The rest of this story will be shown in video as soon as it's uploaded, and a cheater report has been filed as we found these vehicles were spawned in by the clan [GSUA].

Vehicles dont spawn in for a day or 2 on a new server after they've been whitelisted.

I had a somewhat similar experience on NL 13 server yesterday. I also do not feel like playing the Elektro/Cherno deathmatch and generally want to avoid contact with other players as most of them tend to be homicidial maniacs. Now this wasn't my very first murder - I had killed one guy at night in Cherno supermarket, basically in self-defense, several days earlier in another life but since he was a recently-spawned almost gearless guy, I doubt it was a big deal either way. Beyond that I had laid some potshots towards some players in the past (mostly to scare them off), never causing more than a small injury and allowing me to safely vacate the area. But yesterday I became an "accidental" murderer. I was doing some long range trekking along the northern woods, search for campsites and hidden vehicles. I had aquired a shiny new DMR sniper rifle from one such site a bit earlier and then... Sound of a chopper... It flies above me, south to north, then circles back towards south and hovers far above me. I'm out in the open so I bolt towards the closest forest and hide. The chopper lingers for a bit and then heads north out of view. I thought "okay, didn't seem to want to pick a fight so no harm done" and continue on my journey. I cross a hill and then a valley heading south-southeast and end up close to the deer stand slightly east of Devil's Castle. I snipe off the zombies and check it out (nothing much there) and as I get down from the deer stand, I hear the chopper again. I manage about 20m and I'm in the middle of the forest which isn't very thick and the chopper is hovering much lower, nose towards west with the side open towards me. I'm fairly sure I'm about to be shot by the gunner and hesitate for a second. Still no shots but the chopper is there, not moving. I decide to take a couple of potshots which I assume would drive the chopper away - who wants to risk their shiny new toy - so I take aim with DMR, aiming directly at the side door and fire off 3 shots. I fully expect them to miss or just ding the hull. The chopper jerks a bit and I'm instantly mugged by infected - looks like the chopper entered the range of the Deer Stand when hovering and caused the three military zombies to respawn - and they dislike the noise my DMR makes. So I bolt through the woods to shake them off - two fall behind and third one is shot to the head after a short dash. No biggy. Bandage, bit of meat, all fine... moving on. ...then I notice my Murder count is at 1. I had completely missed any "killed" message as the infected drove me to run away. Damn, my "potshots" must have killed a guy aboard that chopper. I had not killed anyone before that after the most recent coastal excursion... Well, that probably did the trick scaring them off if one of the passengers suddenly got a DMR bullet to the head :blush: Still, I felt sorry. I had no intention to kill - I was just trying to survive and with the chopper being in position to shoot at me while I was holding a shiny new sniper rifle... I acted on instinct and... fired. So whoever didn't return from that chopper flight due to the encounter... My apologies. I'm usually not that good shot but I guess DMR is pretty accurate...

How long has server been running? What version are you playing? and....how are you so sure that there are no vehicles? just spawn points on map? also....heli crash sites are completely random to my knowledge unless you're talking about the one's you can fix.

Vehicles have several spawn points. If you don't find a vehicle in one, go to its next spawn point.

Admins have no such of powers to spawn in cars, vehicles or modify inventories, unless they are hacking of course. Also those UAZ's can spawn in instead of the military UAZ that spawns. It's been confirmed by staff EDIT: ^but only at the LEGIT spawn points and not in the middle of the NWA/ NEA :D

Let me give you a counter-question. What else is there to do up North? Let me guess, build a fucking base of tents and vehicles and duplicate the shit out of them.

I thinking about opening a bad in cherno, there are lots of real state available in the area. Problem is the only bottles of alcohol available are already empty. I can sell food and drink i guess, and some morphine "under the counter"... Now more seriously, after gearing up with a bunch of friends you have te possibility of waging war on a server, gather vehicles and loot and kill/destroy other clans and their camps. I saw a video of some guys luring and ambushing another clan in devil's castle. They ended up dying by glitching with the car they used to lure the other clan after wiping them out. DayZ is class.

Our groups goal is simple: Get a vehicle, find a chopper, gear up and do random stuff. We recently found a chopper and considered using it to fly around (UNARMED!) spawnies for the lulz. Because yeah, after you got gear/ a vehicle there is not much else to do. Oh, and we still have to find a NVG :3 Sadly the server with the chopper went down and is yet to come back (and since we messed up a group of other players who tried to steal the chopper, wasting 3 vehicles of theirs over 2 days, we probably raged some admin or something XD).

tempting trade. putting vehicles in the middle of town then blowing it up as soon as someone hops into it is way too much fun

well that sucks! i heard about hackers spawning weapons/vehicles but teleporting other players is just ridiculous. makes me really wonder if I want to continue playing this mod.

I don't think you people quite understand the immense boredom involved with PvE; you have the best gear, supplies, vehicles... and now what? Are you just going to lay back on top of a tower and nick zombies with your AS50? Humans pose the greatest challenge in this game, Rocket says so himself; he has absolutely no intention of making any PvE servers. It's nonsensical, requires unnecessary time-consumption and effort from the already-overworked creator, (would be) excruciatingly boring and a deterrence for someone's play-style (bandits). If you can't stand the bandits, then you've already lost this game.

so you want to remove items placed on the map without touching the mission file? simple, if you have access to the server config, just simply change the name of the server. for example your server is de 188, simply change it to de ( <insert a unused number ) and it will remove any items off the map that players placed and saved, well of course by doing so you'll remove any saved vehicles or tents you have on there

You should provide the server number, as vehicles are server specific.

So does anyone have any stories of a time where you thought your base was safe and then the server restarts and then BAM! it's all gone now. This time we were hidden just north of the PBX spawn, totally on the in game map on an undisclosed server with about 8 vehicles and 4 tents, the server restarted about 20 mins ago, log back on and shit just got wiped, all that hard work for nothing. Anyone else have any feelings of injustice when it comes to matters like this? This isn't the first time this has happened and really ticks me off that not only bandits and the likes can create a threat, but so can the game itself, completely negating my survival style of play making me think that maybe i should just grab my sniper rifle and join all the noob killers in cherno till they sort it out. This isn't a bitchy thread in the least just seeing if anyone else had had this issue.

Another story from today... So I log in at... hell, where was I? I think nearby Olsha. The thing is, I was so bored that I decided I'd play a scout today. The job was simple, I'd go to every vehicle spawn I could come across while still in range of food and water and tag them on the in-game map with time-stamps and info. I started at the Airport near Olsha, nothing there. Marked it on the map with a time-stamp, hoping I'd save people some time (posted date as well, along with my name). I kept moving from there on to Black Lake, Krasnotav, Klen, Black Mountain, Novy Lug, Gvozdno, Devil's Castle and Grishino, marking every spot. There I turned north-west to a long farm house and marked a Helicopter Crash, the first find of the day. I didn't bother looting and went on scouting. I tagged Bashnya and then went into the NAF. As I was entering the server restarted and turned into full night. As soon as I logged back in I saw another Helicopter Crash by the eastern fences, tagged it and moved on. I did a bit of scavenging for ammunition at the barracks (trying to avoid the tempest of artifacts) and made another note saying that there was no helicopter (working one) or UAZ to be had there. From there I moved south-west on to Vybor to check the bus spawn, but midway there I got ambushed by a sniper. Somehow I managed to avoid his bullets and hid away at the school for a while before moving further west. I visited all the small housings by the western roads and actually spotted a Hilux on the buildings directly west of Pustoshka. I tagged it and left a note with the parts that were needed to fix it. Then, I kept moving south through Pass Sosnovy, Sosnovka, Green Mountain and Zelenogorsk. There I had a bit of a run in with an amazing amount of zombies and got my leg broken right in the middle of town when I got myself cornered against a fence. I had to quickly kill the zombies nearby and apply some morphine to myself (realizing that now it takes time to do it). I hid in the market for a while and ate everything there to bring my health back up. After I was back in shape, I continued towards Kozlovka and from there I made a bee-line to Chernogosk to loot some essentials. Luckly I had no run ins with bandits while I looted the north hospital and the appartment buildings near it. Once restocked, I moved to the Balota Airfield (pretty foolish since there's never any vehicles there, but I was trying to be thorough). The effort was, of course, futile, but I found a hidden motorcycle in working order in the forests between Cherno and the Airfield, so I tagged that and made my way to Kopyto. No heli there and no vehicles at Prigorodki either, so I kept moving along the coast to Cap Golova and then up the mountain to Pik Kozlova. No luck in either. After a small detour on Topolka Dam I scouted the hills north of Electrozavodsk and left a note about the odd lack of snipers today. From there, I moved to Drakon where I spotted a small two tent camp from the coast. I decided it was not worth the swim so I kept moving. A quick peek at Otmel (just out of curiosity) lead me to Kamyshovo, where I spotted to newly spawned survivors. I kept my distance without being seen just in case, wondering how lucky I was since there were only three people on the server and now we were all in the same area. From there, it was just a short jog to my homebase, and I was pretty tired after all the walking, so I decided it was time to pack it in. When I got myself ready to log, I saw one of those survivors got killed. Mustering all the strength I had left, I climbed on my PBX and scoured the coast to find the remaning survivor. It didn't take long, since the only direction in which he could have gone was west due to Electro. I picked him up while he was waving his flashlight at some grass. The survivor was less surprised than what I had expected, but still thankful. I helped him find his friend (who had spawned near Komarovo - luckly I had plenty of fuel -) and I was ferrying them to Cherno when the guy we picked up died from blood loss (it seems they were really new). After a second pick-up, I parked us as close to the Motorcyle I found earlier as I could and brought them there. I gave one of them my NVGs and the other my compass and map, and told them how to use waypoints. From there, they were on their own. After that much work, I went back to my PBX and sailed home, to a much deserved rest, feeling I had done some good today. One of the guys I helped said that after what I had done for them, he'd think twice before shooting people on sight. And the other said he'd do his best to help other new players as well. I can only hope they keep their words.

No such thing as, "Hidden" on a server anyone can join. I find hidden stuff all the time, usually breaking, eating or flattening anything I find. I have started to call any random band that follows me along the, "Locusts". We devour everything, then move on. It's actually really fun, finding tents and vehicles with guns and food, just to eat the food, flatten the tents with the vehicles, then take a joyride and wreck or flip our new toys... Then save them where we left them. But yeah, some servers wipe everything on some restarts. Sucks, and usually that stuff is gone forever. I've lost many trucks, tents and whatnot because of that. Infact, I'm about to lose another camp because my home server won't patch so I can get on and save my stuff. Oh well, nothing of any real value.

it should be where you landed the last time before the server restart. I think it takes 13 hours for vehicles to respawn ingame so just hang in there and maybe repair another one :P