Dayz Noob Survival Guide

[Smashpaw 11]

Just gonna compose a short list of places, things, etc. that new people should know about. If I miss something feel free to chime in and ill add it to the original post.

 

First things first, you need to figure out where you are.  There are many ways of doing this.  If you have been playing more than a week, odds are you know where you are right away, if not well this map will help tons.  Another thing that helps, is the sun is always a southern direction. Pending on time of day, it may be SW, SE, or dead south. But if you are facing the sun, you are facing in a southern direction.

 

http://dayzdb.com/map/chernarusplus#4.047.084

 

Once you spawn, your best bet is to get outta that town fast. Lots of players like to camp newspawn towns for easy kills, and this will frustrate you. Figure out where you are, and where you wanna go.  Ill go more into this later on.  Next, you need water.  The map shows locations of all the water pumps in the games. You can also drink from ponds and swamps by going into first person mode, and crouching down to look at the water. As of now, there is no need to purify water, so drink until you are full.

 

Once you know where you are, your best bet is to head towards the middle of the map, away from the coast.  The coast is a hotspot, and you will more than likely end up dead.  Once full on water, you can run for a long time. It's up to you to decide when and where you wanna stop for food, but your best bet is little towns, out in the woods.  Some good buildings to look for in big towns are:

Firehouses: 4 Big red garage doors, filled with various loot. Odds are you wont encounter these unless you are in a dangerous area. They are a hot spot, best to avoid on a populated server.

TEC buildings: Buildings will have TEC written on them somewhere.  They offer some good loot sometimes, but again, can be a a dangerous spot.

Office/schoolhouse: These look like they had double glass front doors, are 3 stories tall, grey in color,with the third story being smaller in size than the first 2. These have some pretty great loot as well, but again, extremely dangerous.

 

Since these are extreme hotspots, and have a high risk of dying, I recommend only hitting them if you are still a new spawn, and have minimul gear, with nothing to lose so to speak.  Odds are, once geared, these will offer nothing you need, except an untimely death. An important thing to watch for is zombies. Most servers are on a 4 hour reset. If you hit a town, and there are zombies everywhere, odds are no one has been through it yet, and it may be safe to scout around. Just stay outta windows, and dont stop moving, cause there could always be that sniper on the hill somewhere.

Now onto the small towns, where you should be searching.

gas stations/convienience stores: Pretty easy to recognize, inside the little store area, you can sometimes find water bottles, or canned food, and the occasional hat.

Log cabin looking homes are mostly junk. I wouldnt waste my time looking in them.

2 story green houses, with double white doors: These should always be looked in when in search of food. Once inside, you can only go up the stairs, into the one little room. Over on the desk is a hot spot for food spawns.

houses that look like they have 2 front doors: The one door actually goes to a porch. Again, a great spawn point for water and food.

The rest will come to you. After a few hours of play time, you will know what buildings warrant a search, and what can be skipped.

 

Now if you are still with me, you should be full on water, maybe hit a house or 2 for some food, and if not you are fine. Your best bet, head west, far far west.  On the map you will see a town on the left called Zelenogorsk. This is the place to get to for various reasons.  Even on full servers, very very rarely do I run into another player up here. This place is great for many reasons.  First one being, it's huge. There are water supplies, and tons of houses/stores to search. You should have no problem filling your water/food supply here. There is also a mini military base in the city. It's very rarely looted, has a jail cell building, and 2 barracks. You can pick up military gear, backpacks, axes, even pistols and M4's here.

 

And if not, you can head just SW of there to pavlovo. It's only a 2-3 minute run away.  Again, very rarely looted, pretty safe town, and decent food/water loots.  Just outside of that town, you can see another military base. This is a goldmine. Again, very rarely do you run into another player, and you can literally get everything you need here.  There are 3 barracks, which all spawn great gear and guns. Two are inside the compound, the 3rd is outside between the fence lines if you enter off the road headed south from Pavlovo. There is a hospital, and an TEC style building in the back. The TEC building can spawn fireaxes, mosins and shotguns on the staircases.  So literally any of the 5 guns in game can be found at this base.

 

If you still need supplies, you can head NW of Zelenogork, to green mountain. It's a huge white/red stripped tower, you cant miss it. There is a military jailhouse here, and again, it spawns military loot.

 

My ideal loadout: While the M4 is a great gun, and with an ACOG it can be a mid range (200-300 meters) sniper style gun, unless you plan on going into cities doing close quarter combat, it should be over looked.  I carry the same loadout everytime I play, and it has served me quite well. It consists of a Mosin, preferably with a compensator if you get lucky, and a bipod.  I carry a long range and a PU scope at all times. The long range is great when out in the fields running so you can scout out. But that PU is untouchable inside cities window sniping under 300 meters. I also grab a shotgun, and saw it off. The accuracy goes to shit, but it fits in your backpack, ammos everywhere, and its devastating inside buildings. And the pistol is your choice. If you listen to this guide, you should find a .45 and a magnum. I prefer the magnum. It has better range, accuracy, and more power than the .45.  I use the mosin outside of cities, and when in a high vantage point inside a city to scout around. The shotgun when I am inside a building clearing it out, and the magnum for my carry all while moving building to building.

 

I have 3 major servers I play on, the TBG clans 2 servers, and the CQF clans server. They are all almost always full, and even so, in this part of the map, i hardly ever see other players, and I am able to gear out, and do as I wish from there, whether it be head to Balota, or the NW airfield for some PVP action.

 

Ill add more to this later, quite frankly I am tired of typing. Ill try to get some pics up of each building type I described, and more as I add buildings that are good for loot spawns.  Ill also keep this updated with any info added by other forum members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TedZ 424]

Just so you know, they is many guides out there, the key thing is using the Search Function, i know many new people here think it's invisible, but if you check, it's actually there!

 

Anyhow, good effort though.