Finding Vehicles

[Mr Zee 30]

Does anyone know the respawn times for vehicles in servers? I think it was mentioned at six hours though this was speculation from a post I read aaaggeess ago.

Also, do cars always need to be repaired before you can drive them away? or are there some that need a fix up but can stil be driven.

Sorry for the nooby questions, I'm just needing to move onto end game stuff now, already lived up north off the land etc so need somthing new to do.

[Kiro (DayZ) 57]

If you don't know this map already, check it out : http://dayzdb.com/map

There are also a spawn locations here : http://dayzwiki.com/...?title=Vehicles

No, you don't need to repair the vehicles when you find them. I found a car at a spawn point that was perfectly fine.

I don't know how much time you have to wait for the respawn, but I know that if a player saves the vehicles somewhere, it will stay there even if there's a server restart. Players hoard all the vehicles they can in the forests, and I don't think they move unless destroyed. The only time I found a car at his spawn point was when the server had just opened and I was one of the first player.

Edited July 18, 2012 by Kiro

[Steins 86]

I read it was a seven day respawn timer.

[redsh1rt 24]

I don't understand why people hoard vehicles the way they do. You'll have situations where a small group of players have a fleet of 5-10 vehicles. In servers where that is happening you will never really find any vehicles, because they do not respawn unless they have been destroyed (afaik).

Defeats the purpose of death in this game for me. If you die just run back to your truck and restock on some gear you've been hoarding. Half the fun and excitement is because dying is a painful experience and trying to avoid the inevitable gives such a rush!

Edited July 18, 2012 by redsh1rt

[ChiefMasterKush 321]

I don't understand why people hoard vehicles the way they do. You'll have situations where a small group of players have a fleet of 5-10 vehicles. In servers where that is happening you will never really find any vehicles, because they do not respawn unless they have been destroyed (afaik).

Defeats the purpose of death in this game for me. If you die just run back to your truck and restock on some gear you've been hoarding. Half the fun and excitement is because dying is a painful experience and trying to avoid the inevitable gives such a rush!

So if you had a vehicle and you came across another one.. you'd just leave it right?

[Kiro (DayZ) 57]

I don't understand why people hoard vehicles the way they do.

Because if a player finds your camp where you park your vehicles, he can only take one of them. So if you have a lot of cars he can't take them all, but if you only have one, you're screwed.

[daze23 549]

the only thing I found besides bicycles was a car... at Stary Sobor. no way in hell I was making solo return trips to fix that

[fatal (DayZ) 13]

My group and I find vehicles on a daily basis. We also lose vehicles every other day. Vehicles exchange hands alot more frequently than you think.