Tent / Vehicle Storage

[sicknessog@gmail.com 37]

Me and a few friends are new to the game, and have a few unanswered questions about tent / vehicle gear storage.

We've researched around a bit and found the following facts we would like additional info on :

"Vehicles do not save gear upon server restarts." Is this still a current problem as of the recent patch 1.7.5? There was no date of when this info was added to the page we read it on, so, just curious if its safe to leave our guns in our jeep.

"Tents despawn after 'owner' dies" We read that these stay for about 2 days after the 'owner' dies. (is owner the placer or who saved last?) And does going back to the tent and saving it again prevent it from deleting itself? OR would we have to empty it, pack it up, and replace it?

Additional questions we have and couldn't find any reasonable answers on google:

What does saving actually do? We know cars teleport back to their last save point on server restarts, anything else? and what about tents? Do they just disappear if you forget to save them?

How much inventory space do tents have? Do cars all have different inventory spaces or all they all the same? (and how much is that number)

Thanks in advance!

[{sas}stalker 108]

I personally wouldn't bother with vehicles tbh. The script kiddies are using a map hack that shows their location on their map, if you have one parked in camp expect to see a helicopter circling you shortly.

[sicknessog@gmail.com 37]

I personally wouldn't bother with vehicles tbh. The script kiddies are using a map hack that shows their location on their map' date=' if you have one parked in camp expect to see a helicopter circling you shortly.

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We personally parked our car a while away from our tents, for the very reason if someone finds one or another, the other 'camp' should be safe.

If a hacker has a car hack, I'm sure they have a tent hack or something of the sorts, if a hacker stalks us, we wouldn't know it and we would just assume another player stole our stuff.

Why give up on a function that can speed up your travel time greatly just because of the chance someone felt like messing with us?

Thanks for the tip but we will still use the car and keep having fun in the game until we get bored, if you have any of the answers to my questions in the OP, that would be great!

[LackofCertainty 2]

Me and a few friends are new to the game' date=' and have a few unanswered questions about tent / vehicle gear storage.

We've researched around a bit and found the following facts we would like additional info on :

"Vehicles do not save gear upon server restarts." Is this still a current problem as of the recent patch 1.7.5? There was no date of when this info was added to the page we read it on, so, just curious if its safe to leave our guns in our jeep.

"Tents despawn after 'owner' dies" We read that these stay for about 2 days after the 'owner' dies. (is owner the placer or who saved last?) And does going back to the tent and saving it again prevent it from deleting itself? OR would we have to empty it, pack it up, and replace it?

Additional questions we have and couldn't find any reasonable answers on google:

What does saving actually do? We know cars teleport back to their last save point on server restarts, anything else? and what about tents? Do they just disappear if you forget to save them?

How much inventory space do tents have? Do cars all have different inventory spaces or all they all the same? (and how much is that number)

Thanks in advance!

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A lot of this could just be solved by going to the DayZ wiki and reading, but I'll do my best to sum up. Anything I don't properly cover, you should just go here and read: http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Placed tents are tied to the life of the person who placed them. No one else can repack them. Infact, after the Placer dies, even if they run back to the tent with a new character they will not be able to repack it. So they last as long as one life of the character that placed them + 2 days. You are, however, free to pull everything out of them before the poof. (if you can find another tent to store it all in, or whatever)

Saving the tent is there to make sure that the server updates the info of what's stored in the tent. It's a little buggy atm, so try to save multiple times when you're done packing stuff in or pulling stuff out of your tent. However, even with saving tents are still buggy (this is an alpha after all) and sometimes gear vanishes from them. Also, on a server reset, sometimes they don't appear. (but generally the next reset will fix them)

The tent can store:

5 backpacks (in my experience they don't save anything in the packs, however)

10 weapons/tools

50 general items (ammo, food, vehicle parts etc etc)

Different vehicles have different inventories.

P.S.

Just a little nitpick from your post. The current version of DayZ is 1.7.1.5 not 1.7.5 Apparently version 1.7.2 is coming out monday though. :P

[{sas}stalker 108]

Tent owner is the person who placed it, only they can pack it.

http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tent

Vehicles are all different storage, saving saves their location. Iirc the server is restarted it will return to the last saved location iirc.

http://dayzwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vehicles

[sicknessog@gmail.com 37]

Me and a few friends are new to the game' date=' and have a few unanswered questions about tent / vehicle gear storage.

We've researched around a bit and found the following facts we would like additional info on :

"Vehicles do not save gear upon server restarts." Is this still a current problem as of the recent patch 1.7.5? There was no date of when this info was added to the page we read it on, so, just curious if its safe to leave our guns in our jeep.

"Tents despawn after 'owner' dies" We read that these stay for about 2 days after the 'owner' dies. (is owner the placer or who saved last?) And does going back to the tent and saving it again prevent it from deleting itself? OR would we have to empty it, pack it up, and replace it?

Additional questions we have and couldn't find any reasonable answers on google:

What does saving actually do? We know cars teleport back to their last save point on server restarts, anything else? and what about tents? Do they just disappear if you forget to save them?

How much inventory space do tents have? Do cars all have different inventory spaces or all they all the same? (and how much is that number)

Thanks in advance!

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The tent can store:

5 backpacks (in my experience they don't save anything in the packs, however)

10 weapons/tools

50 general items (ammo, food, vehicle parts etc etc)

Now, does that mean I could effectively store 10 weapons, 50 gen, and 5 backpacks at the same time? Or like, 1 weapon and 40 generals. Or 3 weapons, 20~ generals and a backpack? etc etc.

Thanks for all the info, explains why I suddenly couldn't pack the tent anymore in one of my previous lives.

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Bump + also, nobody answered if vehicles do indeed wipe their inventories upon server restarts.

Can anyone confirm?

[LackofCertainty 2]

You can store 5 backpacks and 10 weapons/tools and 50 general items in one tent, for a total of 65 things in one tent.