Keeping fed and hydrated is an important part of staying alive in DayZ. Canina berries are red and will restore hunger and health, but in very small increments. You'll be eating a lot of canned food in the game, unless you forage for fresh stuff. Be careful, though: if the compass is ‘ruined’ (hover over it in your inventory to find out) the reading will be inaccurate and you’ll get even more lost than before. To use it, drag it to your toolbar, equip it, then press space and enter first-person mode to see the dial. Of course, you won’t have to worry about any of this if you find a compass, which is a fairly common loot drop. Combine these methods with a map and town signs and you’ll never get lost again. Electricity pylons are also useful they’ll always connect up with towns. Another way to figure out which direction you’re going in is to look at where the clouds are moving, because, handily, the wind in Chernarus always blows east. Head in that direction and you’ll be moving north. Look for the Big Dipper constellation (you might know it as the Plough) and draw an imaginary line from the bottom two stars up till you see one that’s brighter than the others. At night, as in real life, you can use the pole star to find out where north is.
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Photograph: Bohemia Interactiveīecause of the DayZ engine’s roots in hardcore military simulator Arma, there are a number of realistic ways to find your way around Chernarus. Head back the way you came and look for signs of civilisation. You’ll know when you’re heading outside of the map when the environment shifts to flat, grassy plain. Chernarus is big, but it does have boundaries. Navigationĭon’t heard too far north or west, though. If your spawn has placed you miles apart, commit suicide by throwing yourself off a building and hope for a better one. If you’ve spawned at, say, Kamyshovo on the south coast and your friend is in Nizhnoye on the east coast, run along the coastal road with the ocean to your right and you’ll bump into them. Since everyone will have spawned on the coast, you can now use the water to guide you towards your buddies. Once you’ve figured out the name of the town, pull up a map of Chernarus in your Steam overlay’s web browser (try /map) and use it to pinpoint your location. Every group of buildings, whether it’s a sprawling city or a remote village, will have a sign on the road running through it telling you what its name is.
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Then get everyone to locate the nearest town to where they spawned and find out its name. First, set up a voice call with Skype, or use a program like TeamSpeak or Ventrilo, to talk to the player(s) you’re trying to meet up with. Instead, you’re going to have to do some orienteering. The problem is, there’s no in-game contacts list or ability to teleport to another player. You can play DayZ as a lone wolf, but it’s a totally different – and in many ways better – experience with a group of friends. Finding your friendsĭiscovering where friends have spawned will be frustrating at first, but as you become more familiar with the map it gets much easier Photograph: Bohemia Interactive With a backpack containing something to eat and drink and an axe, you’re ready to head inland. If you’re lucky, the server you’re on will have recently reset, which refreshes all the loot drops on the map. If there’s nothing to be found, try the next town. If a veteran player comes through town they’ll leave a lot of items that are useless to them, but valuable to you at this early stage. If you enter a town and all the doors are open, chances are the place has already been cleaned out by other survivors. They’ll both take a zombie down with one clean swing to the head and deal significant damage to another player if you’re forced to defend yourself. Find an axe – either a red firefighter axe, or a wood-handled splitting axe. Forget about crowbars, fire extinguishers, and other blunt weapons, as they do very little damage. When you get there you need to prioritise food, drink, a backpack, and a melee weapon. There’s always one nearby just follow the nearest road or railway.
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Your first port of call should be a town. All you have to survive is a flashlight and a battery.
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When you start a new life, you spawn randomly along the coast of Chernarus. Get out of there fast Photograph: Bohemia Interactive The coast is the most populated and therefore the most dangerous part of the map – especially for new players.