Keeping vehicles when changing servers?

[josh1803 2]

Recently I have found a push bike, motor bike and a bus but none of which have saved when I have joined new servers, even when I disconnected to have a break and when I came back it was gone. So to save a vehicle do you have to be in it or within, say 100m too it?

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Vehicles don't save cross-server.

[Seelenschnitter 13]

Per server there is only one huey. Now think about it you're paying for a server somebody gets the huey and remove it there...you will never have a chance to get it back.

[Kerwyn 77]

Vehicles will respawn at the location they were last saved at upon each server restart, in order to save a vehicle, use your scroll menu and select the "Save" option. This also works for tents.

Apparently, though I have not personally confirmed this, a vehicle will also despawn after seven days of not being used, but again, I cannot confirm this.

As for crossing servers, vehicles and all placed items (Tents, barbed wire, etc.) are saved to each server, not your account, so they do not transfer when switching servers.

Edited August 29, 2012 by Kerwyn

[josh1803 2]

Vehicles will respawn at the location they were last saved at upon each server restart, in order to save a vehicle, use your scroll menu and select the "Save" option. This also works for tents.

Apparently, though I have not personally confirmed this, a vehicle will also despawn after seven days of not being used, but again, I cannot confirm this.

As for crossing servers, vehicles and all placed items (Tents, barbed wire, etc.) are saved to each server, not your account, so they do not transfer when switching servers.

Thanks, this is more helpful than the other too -,-

[Blakbewwy 8]

Yeah what Kerwyn said. About saving vehicles, I'd recommend you only settle down in a server with very rare server restarts, or none at all. Despite the fact I have saved my UAZ several times, on my server's monthly restart I find it about 5m to the left of its previous location (sometimes it ends up inside trees and getting it out is a pain in the neck) and with all the loot inside it reset to the default UAZ loot; smoke grenades, water bottle, tent, 20 AK rounds, 10 SVD rounds.

Even though having to stick to one server can seem a nuisance, if vehicles were saved cross-server then there would only be one person/group with a huey in the entire of DayZ. And if they were in the same position in each server, and the person flying it was in one server, then anyone in other servers would see a huey flying without a pilot. Now that'd be a sight.