I got attached.

[Disgraced 1123]

I got attached to something.

I know I'm not supposed to, but I did.

I figure that someone will find my van some time, but no one has yet.

My question, though, I'd about taking the vehicle out looting as a solo player.

What advice can you give me about doing this?

Ive already noticed that loot doesn't spawn when you approach in a vehicle. So what do you do, risk your vehicle by parking it nearby and try to hustle back with loot as soon as possible?

[leodimas 31]

keep the vehicle as your mobile stash somewhere "safe" and get yourself a smaller faster vehicle with good offroad speed, for example motorbike, bicycle, atv

[Drogur (DayZ) 169]

Get a team mate?

[Disgraced 1123]

keep the vehicle as your mobile stash somewhere "safe" and get yourself a smaller faster vehicle with good offroad speed, for example motorbike, bicycle, atv

Ah good idea. I just need an engine for a wrecked atv I know of somewhere.

[Disgraced 1123]

Get a team mate?

I'm not the most social guy, but I've thought about it I also play weird hours (weekdays from 3-8ish GMT-7)

[ratfever 27]

Wait loot doesn't spawn when you're close to it with a vehicle? What crap is this?

[Sticky (DayZ) 38]

I got attached to something.

I know I'm not supposed to, but I did.

I figure that someone will find my van some time, but no one has yet.

My question, though, I'd about taking the vehicle out looting as a solo player.

What advice can you give me about doing this?

Ive already noticed that loot doesn't spawn when you approach in a vehicle. So what do you do, risk your vehicle by parking it nearby and try to hustle back with loot as soon as possible?

Wouldnt hurt to have a team mate to hold down the vehicle or loot the towns for you, but if solo is the only option, park it in the woods somewhere not visable from town and make the loot run as quick as possible. Bout all I can think of, good luck!

[NoRegrets 495]

Wait loot doesn't spawn when you're close to it with a vehicle? What crap is this?

Zombies dont spawn aswell ... this is to prevent the server from an overload .. if someone would drive around the whole map zombies would be everywhere and no player around ...

i guess no loot spawning is to prevent groups from driving to the front door of a building ... hopping in and loot ... so its a good thing ... you can park your car within 40-50 m and loot will spawn + zombies as you approach the building ... its easier if you are at least 2 ... one can hop out of the car from further away and let the loot spawn and the other one can drive next to it ...

[Izziee 128]

I got attached to something.

I know I'm not supposed to, but I did.

I figure that someone will find my van some time, but no one has yet.

My question, though, I'd about taking the vehicle out looting as a solo player.

What advice can you give me about doing this?

Ive already noticed that loot doesn't spawn when you approach in a vehicle. So what do you do, risk your vehicle by parking it nearby and try to hustle back with loot as soon as possible?

Not sure about that, unless it was changed in a recent update.

Every time I've had a vehicle I've driven right up to barns, ran in and ran out.

My advice? Save often. Carry as many jerry cans as you possible can. Make sure that you keep ALL valuables on person and keep the crap stocked up in the vehicle.

Also, make sure you have inventory space in the plenty, so that when you run to grab something, you can be in and out as fast as possible.

Obvious one, don't hit high population zones.

If you need decent medical supplies and such, drive to a forest, get inside the trees and go to the supermarkets on foot. Try to hit the towns like zelenorsk that's further north from the coast and further inland (west). Make sure it's a good distance from the towns and not on any specific path that someone could walk through.

When you hit a hospital make sure you rearm the box (if the option isn't there then clear all the junk away from the box, at least that's how I personally do it, it's worked every time but I've never seen another post on the subject, but I spent ages looking for the rearm and noticed every box had crap around them, so I cleared it then rearmed and it worked). Also, make sure you have as much space as possible and take the 10 morphine and 10 pain killers. I like to keep 3 of each on me, the rest you can store in the truck. Maybe 2 pain killers 3 morphine. Also, bandages, they are important.

Once you've got those supplies sorted, then it's time for food, since taking blood bags would be dumb (why risk someone helping you?) clear your inventory and go look for some animals. Get as much meat as humanly possible, go to the truck, make a fire, light it, cook the meat and drive off ASAP.

I had the ATV once and I found that great for quick runs. Make sure that if you're going to check a barn and you don't want to stash your ATV/car whatever, turn the engine off (move to side seat then back since you can't start it right away) and just look around for a bit. Especially if you have the army truck, that's a big painted neon sign. It's LOUD and it leaves a trail of dust for miles, so you need to be patient.

Watch out for walls! I let my idiot friend drive my truck when I had it for so long and went through so much with it, and I went to fill up some water and some people drove up in a hippy-mobile and started shooting at him. I ran back from the lake and shot at them and noticed there were quite a few and they had snipers, I told him to drive off and I ran with them shooting. After some running he picked me up, but was bleeding, he drove it over a wall and got it stuck. I got in and tried to reverse it but it was t aking ages (4 of the 8 wheels over the front of the wall, 4 behind it) and as I was doing so, I saw his head explode, and I jumped out (couldn't drive off) and someone was shooting at me and I couldn't pin point the location and I died. So moral of the story? Don't drive while bleeding. Lucky for me, the server went down about 20 seconds after I got shot so no one got the truck in the end and then there was a patch which reset everything.

Personally, I hate vehicles, they are too much pressure to keep. their never safe, they are an attraction, people will chase you, shoot at you, want your stuff and go out of their way to make sure they get it. No where is safe to stash it, so make sure when you log off you have everything decent in your bags.

I'd also suggest putting as many weapons as possible in there, just crappy ones like the WC or LE along with whatever ammo you find. That way, if you die and the truck is safe, you can go pick it up.

[Izziee 128]

Zombies dont spawn aswell ... this is to prevent the server from an overload .. if someone would drive around the whole map zombies would be everywhere and no player around ...

i guess no loot spawning is to prevent groups from driving to the front door of a building ... hopping in and loot ... so its a good thing ... you can park your car within 40-50 m and loot will spawn + zombies as you approach the building ... its easier if you are at least 2 ... one can hop out of the car from further away and let the loot spawn and the other one can drive next to it ...

Like I said, unless that was changed recently, that's not true at all. Firstly, I used it for quick in and out jobs, and secondly, I spent ages having fun running over zombies (and a player who I thought was a zombie, ending up breaking his head and trying to run the bitch over as he was crawling between trees going nonononononono. Man, he sure looked like a zed though, some where even walking NEXT to him. His face looked like one also, it's just until I heard him yelling no I realised it wasn't)

The only thing I've noticed is that zombie kills don't show up on the scoreboard, but they sure as hell do (or did) spawn as of a couple of weeks ago.

[*=LP=*Cpt.Kawa 57]

If you decide to use the car to loot, then park it about 500m away from your objective and then move in on foot. And save the vehicle all the time. If you want to keep it as a stash and get a smaller vehicle motorbike is the way i guess, as the ATV is a fuel eating monster and you can't put anything into the bicycle.

[Disgraced 1123]

Great advice.. Thanks, all.

Speaking of the motorcycle... Any advice on acquiring one? I assume that they are supremely easy to hide, so where are people often stashing them, maybe?