Tents...how exactly do they work?

[ambient 0]

Are they server dependent?

What happens when i die and my tent is deployed somewhere?

[SensenmanN (DayZ) 5]

There is a lot of tent info here

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

Tents are saved to one server, when you die the tent stays around for 2 days after.

[salty (DayZ) 39]

Regarding tents:

- a tent requires 3 inventory slots to be carried

- it can be put into a backpack when you have it in your inventory

- it is movable after you set it up however you can't pick up someone's tent

- you can have as many tents as you like

- if you move a tent without taking the items they will appear in a big pile of loot nearby where the tent originally was

- tents can hold 50 items and 10 weapons in them (Binoculars and other tools count as weapons as well) and up to 5 backpacks

- for now you have to use the "Save" command from the mouse wheel menu in order to properly save a tent although there still is a 50% chance that a server will eat your tent no matter what

- tents are tied to servers and survive server restarts

- EVERYONE can take items out of your tent

- tents actually require a bit of space to be placed at (around 3x3m)

- tents disappear after 2 days when you died - you can make a new tent after your death or reclaim items from the existing one - you can't pack it up even if you are the owner

taken from http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1362

Hope this helps. Try using the search function next time. ;)