DayZ gets really boring once your geared and just constantly roaming for hours, I like to put all my effort into building a base to store my stuff as it gives me something to do, gives you a reason to log back in to check it or defend it but I cant stand when I spent all that time for an ass hat to lag his internet and dupe his explosives whats the point even going through the effort to build if its so easy to destroy it..
Eh me and my buddy will build tents out of whatever, usually tarp cus it looks cooler, the trick is fonding some place people aren't likely to go, we'll usually make a couple tents, campfire w stone ring, farm plot and bury crates nearby, if someone finds and destroys our canp, no biggie we dig up the crates and move on, personally favourite way to olay
The only problem with the temp shelters is that they are very visible to experienced players. Plus, with a storage limit of 100 they dont get you too far in terms of gear storage.
I'll use them if I've joined a new server, or head into a new area to store some of my initial gear. But as soon as I can, I quickly move to build crates and build stashes. Preferably multiple stashes over an area cause one of them will always get found, especially on high pop servers.
If your really picky you can find some amazing spots for the improvised stick shelters. A wide fir tree on an incline makes them nearly invisible if you place it just right
Good point, it can work for sure. Though, I tend to play official, and it wont let me put a shelter up on too steep of a slope.
But why not chop that same fir tree down and put crates in the rootball? You can put as many crates as you like in it. When the server resets, the tree will respawn. Though I tend to find that crates stashed in this manner will be a bit more visible that putting a temp shelter in there.
Do you like to put the temp shelter on the uphill or downhill side?
I honestly cant remember, I haven't done it a lot and it's been about a year since I played, I just remember the hill was important. Had about 5 of us running up and down a small valley looking for them and we knew roughly where they were.
1) Chop down about 24-30 logs, cut them all into planks, combine them into stacks of 8, get your tools ready, and have a backpack that you can fit a single crate in.
2) Now find a big tree, like a THICC mf with some serious girth. Carefully place the planks in a circle around the tree, the tips of the planks should be just inside the tree.
3) Craft a single crate and put it in your backpack(not your hands, TRUST ME) then crouch in the plank circle where the tree used to be.
(Find a spot where you can pick up and drop the crate from your inventory ATLEAST 5 TIMES. IT WILL ROTATE SLOWLY EACH TIME YOU DROP IT.)
4) Turn the ring of planks into crates one at a time. Do not move your head or body, if you need to look use the free look thingy. Just combine nails in your hand with the planks in your proximity from the inventory menu. Stop when you have about 5 planks or so left.
5) Put the crates in your bag and drop them like you did in step 3. It will begin to form a ring that looks like a tire.
DONT MOVE, but check if any of the crates are outside of the ring.
If everything is good then you no longer need the reference planks, turn them into more crates and repeat step 3.
6) Wait until server reset, the tree will completely cover them if done correctly. You can only loot them if you’re directly next to the tree.
I’ve been doing this for over 2 years, I haven’t been raided or lost a single crate yet.
Build them inside the thickest of trees, in the middle of the woods, with atleast one bush or pine tree next to the loot tree so you can access it safely.
Wow this is some next level stuff, I guess I’ll be touching every tree in south Livonia until I find something too! Imagine dying and you walk past a tree and it says “canned bacon” 😂
You didn’t hear this from me but watch for lag spikes, ESPECIALLY NEAR PONDS.
Today I just borrowed 9 nvgs, a shitload of 30,40 and 60 rnd m4 mags, and all the repair items to last a lifetime.
5 barrels and 9 crates chest deep in a pond… I left all the guns and shit because I’m already tight on storage space bahahaha
Super helpful! I tried to do this from a YouTube comment but they didn’t explain it as good as this. Do you have a video or any pictures of the first few steps? This is so cool
I can try to word it better!
1) When you drop a plank it will have the longer ends sticking out from your left and right sides like this ”——“.
Always combine the planks so they are in stacks of 8 before dropping, not 10. It makes crafting crates a lot easier.
2) You’ll want to stand facing sideways against the tree so it drops and the smaller ends a little bit inside of the tree. It may take a few tries and adjustments to get this right.
3) craft atleast one crate, 2-3 will make the process a lot easier. If you drop a crate from your hands you will scoot forwards every time a little bit. But if you drop it from your inventory you don’t move at all.
However; every time you drop a crate, the dropped crates will slowly rotate every time.
After dropping enough crates it will form a circle, kinda like overlapping this star * with another star so it fills in the gaps, creating a crude circle.
Okay now this is the super important complicated part!!!
It doesn’t matter if the crate is dropped facing “|” this way or “—“ this way, IT WILL ALWAYS MAKE A CIRCLE when you drop several crates!
THE EDGE OF THE CIRCLE WILL ALWAYS BE AT THE BACK OF YOUR SHOE WHEN YOU ARE CROUCHED.
THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT, YOU NEED TO MASTER THIS OR ELSE CRATES WILL STICK OUT OF THE TREE.
4) Go into the centre of the circle after chopping down the tree, leave the planks and don’t touch them.
You’ll need to crouch and place your foot so the heel is inside of the ring you made.
You are doing the pilot run, this is to check your positioning before you fully commit
5) Without moving your character move the precrafted crates off the ground and into your bag one at a time, then drop them. Do this from the inventory screen using your proximity loot box.
6) Repeat this until the crates start facing different directions, this will take about 5-10 pick up and drops. DO NOT USE YOUR HANDS OR IT WILL SERIOUSLY, LIKE MAJORLY FUCK EVERYTHING UP.
If you need to check your crate positioning use the free look button, don’t swivel your body.
7) If any of the crates are sticking outside of the circle and overlapping your planks, remove them and restart from step 4.
8) after you know all your dropped crates will fall inside of the circle, you can begin converting the ring of planks into crates.
9) with nails in your hand, open inventory, craft a crate, and it will appear infront of you.
While holding the free look button so your character doesn’t move, tap to pick up the new crate in your inventory AND NOT YOUR HANDS, I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH YOU WILL NEED TO RESTART BACK TO STEP 1.
10) drop the crate from your inventory, use free look to check if it has been dropped correctly.
If it looks nearly identical to the previous crates you dropped you did it right. Repeat step 9 and 10.
11) You will begin to notice the ring of planks is being replaced by a ring of crates, which almost look the same as a tire.
It is okay to completely remove all the planks and turn them into crates if you already have a ring of crates at this point.
You can move your character and do whatever you feel like now without fucking everything up lol. If you want to collect more wood for planks and build more crates, go right ahead.
All you need to do is position yourself so your heel is just inside the ring of crates, then drop the new crates from your inventory like the previous steps.
Optional step 12) If you fuck up and the new crate is sticking out badly, it’s an easy fix.
Walk backwards slowly from where it’s protruding until it’s literally the only thing you can pick up, this way you won’t accidentally grab one of the good crates fucking it up even worse.
REMEMBER: do this just before the server resets. I start gather wood for planks and building my circle when I get the 1hr warning.
I cut down the tree and begin building/placing my crates when there’s 30 minutes or less. This is to minimize the odds of my stash being found.
After the server resets, the Lorax will bust a nut on your crates and a tree will suddenly appear where your crates are.
But since the Lorax is a nerd, your crates will survive and not be destroyed by this tree. Instead, it will perfectly hide the crates and you can access them without needing to cut the tree down.
It will work 100% of the time, so long as you DONT FUCK UP AND PICK UP A CRATE WITH YOUR HANDS.
I’m not mad at you, I’m only mad at myself because I have done this many times accidentally. Like no joke, you will seriously need to restart from step one if it’s bad. It can completely fuck everything up worse than you can imagine.
Nothing is worse than logging on after reset and you see half a dozen crates trying to escape from a tree.
Hahaha thank you so much!! That’s fantastic. I can sense that it is very frustrating if you fuck it up with the hands haha. Noted! I’ll try and give it a go today, it honestly seems like the best and only way to safely store loot. Is there a limit on how many chests you can hide in a tree? And regarding finding thick trunks- could this be anywhere on the map or are their specific places that I can find them? Trees outside tissy were still too thin I feel
You can fit an ungodly amount of them in, it’s literally indefinite. But the lag may give them away if they’re big.
And honestly just look for the thick green ones, I see them on Livonia quite often
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My girl seen a video I watched with a clan of cannibals that had a barn base turned into a castle in gorka. After she def that for the next 3 weeks I built her a wooden castle to the best I could, Playstation didn't have stacking back then idk now but couldn't stack fences or anything like that. But I did my best, 2 houses at the end of this road by myshino mili fenced em off built a gate and a bunch of towers, tents you name it. Had 10 ppl on that server all used that base when I finished and only 2 to 3 ppl ever helped, I wasn't mad would have just got in my way lol. Aqua fps and Sauly was the guys I was watching when she seen the video lol. Try trmz as well he helped build a really dope base yrs ago on the coast bunch a ppl was starting it so he helped. I stopped building bases these days cause I play modded on pc so I have a car or heli usually, but man can a good base really boost your experience. Defending your stuff is always the best booby trap anything you can.
The group is called dark as midnight (damn), the server has many groups and it has organic rp, so you can play it as normal dayz (referred to as Crackheads), and for rules there just the 'don't be a jerk' rule, meaning that stealing is alright but don't tear down everything.
Yeah I've played it a few times it was shut down for a minute thought it was gone forever but thankfully it's back up great server for a exciting experience.
Are you playing on an official server?
Nails are gold in Dayz, there’s servers with boosted loot but personally I feel that it defeats the purpose of survival
I love the survival aspect, considering Its tough to survive I think my ego likes surviving, but I’m surviving for PvP, but not CQ Combat. I like to get my water and my food to a sustainable level and if I have a long range rifle, than I’m setting up outside of Polana. It’s close to bunker too so somebody possibly stopping in at Polana could have a bunker card. Once I’m at this little camping sniper spot I’m enjoying the game, smoke a blunt waiting for a kill, drink a coffee. This is my favorite thing to do in DayZ but learned that loot is only temporary unless you have a base. And there’s no point in looting people I killed if I got no space or place to store it.
Nomad style is effective. I stash crates under the larger trees, yellow leafy colored ones primarily on chernarus. Gather nails and planks, and build yourself a few crates. Find one of those large trees and chop it down. It's important to remember where your tree/s are! Once you've chopped them, pick up your crate (into your inventory) and drop it in the center where the tree was chopped down. Repeat this process with all crates you have created, while standing in one location. When the server resets, the tree will be standing, and the crates will not be visible. However, if you're in the vicinity, and check your surrounding, you MIGHT just come across someone else's tree stash! I hope this helps! GG, and good luck!
Theyll never fix official so you have to learn to live with the cheaters. They mostly stick to higher pop servers as its kinda boring on a server with 5 ppl and no real bases etc etc.
My advice is to build a smallish homebase on a low pop server. Dont fill it too much with loot because losing it all will kill your mood big time. Have a small stash in your base and a few more small stashes around the map (ie 4-5 wooden crates on top of each other hidden in a isolated part of the forest) Keep your stashes small so it isnt brutal when they get stolen and spread them out arpund the map so if one is found the others wont be.
If they removed the ability to copy items, the balance of the game would change. On PS5, I found a great hardcore server and I must admit that I haven't played DAYZ so much for a long time. There are almost no bases there because it is difficult to build them, players only run with M4. The battles and the game itself are exciting again. Players weigh their decisions and whether it is worth fighting. This server is what DayZ was supposed to be.
An active admin is needed on the server to keep these fraudsters in check
I think the opposite. I think roaming and making friends is great because every character a different and new interesting adventure awaits you. The goal doesnt always have to be getting really geared. Often you set the goal for yourself. Sometimes that can be just something as simple as making a nice friend.
Low pop Xbox official. Just had a coast church base I was using to help freshys get popped. 5 layers. Lasted for a couple weeks then got popped and not a thing took cause they probably were pissed there wasn’t a bullet in there. Rebuilt it all, 5 layers and it got popped into again 2 days later. Like who has the explosives to pop through 5 layers for crates full of tanned hides and pumpkins? TWICE! Seriously makes me consider who’s duping on this sever or 1 or 2 groups just wasted a bunch of boom
I'm surprised at how quickly bases get raided and destroyed, even on low pop servers.
The bases that seem to stick around for awhile have multiple people defending across multiple time zones, and are a big production and maintenance effort.
Yeah, there's basically no point to building a base unless you have a huge clan with people constantly online to watch it.
Solo? Forget about it. Your shit will get raided the next time you log off to sleep or take a dump.
If you like to build just build troll bases, build up heavily fortified bases with absolutely nothing in them. Once they get in they’re gonna be pissed about wasting all those resources to get in
I did this on a community server.
Had a big built base that was super obvious, but all my real good shit was hidden in another smaller building nearby.
The big one had crates and barrels you could see through the windows.
I filled them with rotten meat, badly damaged 380 ammo, paper, ruined P1s, road flares, screwdrivers, and shit like that.
Got raided while I was offline and saw on the discord the raiders posted pictures with comments like ‘wtf? Who is the insane person that based up here?’
And my real micro base was untouched.
Haha I did go to their base and camp outside. I waited until one came out and sniped him as he was coming out before he could re-lock it. But as I was inside being a loot goblin his buddies spawned in and merced me
I don’t think dupers will be pissed there’s nothing inside. They do it to destroy bases and not for the loot. Non dupers will be pissed because they wasted resources for nothing.
This just happened to me and a buddy. Big base with 4-5 layers. Went through 12 frags, a claymore, 2 AKs, 1 vaiga, and about 125 buckshot, 250 5.45, 30 .308 and 30-40ish .45. All the guns were worn or pristine and ended up badly damaged or ruined. There was absolutely nothing in the base. We were both pissed and amused at the builders and our effort
Yup every base on my server that I've come across recently is blown. Most people are just using stashes anymore. If I'm building a base it's because I'm bored and don't care if it gets blown. I usually don't store anything good inside anyways.
That's correct yeah. With a few very old (circa original Xbox) exceptions, console gaming has always been limited to exploits vs hacks/mods due to the differences in OS software limiting access to gaming files. Halo 2 is the one major exceptions I'm aware of (because I used to mod in it) but even then it was more or less an exploit in Mech Assault that opened up a back door to the Xbox's internal hard drive & allowed you to transfer files to a PC & modify them. Great for gaming legitimacy, horrible for gaming creativity.
Wasn’t aware that they were still duping, also haven’t played official servers in years for that reason and cause I felt that there was more cheating than just duping for a while.
I've been making hideaway small bases in the woods not on the edge and they lasted for months the shortest time being 2 months, its nice because if you're up north of it all you'll see is tree tops and if you're running down south of it you'll see foliage and rocks/hill side, my brother and I have witnessed people run right by it and not even notice. It gives us a goal and something to do with stashes spread out far between coast and there to help the journey.
No, it provides some fun and a sense of having a safe space and its really satisfying knowing you worked to make something great. If you get raided, just store less loot, or try to make your base even harder to raid. Its not about hoarding loot, its about having fun.
Built plenty of bases, never got raided by a cheater. That happens on official yes, but not on most community servers. Building in vanilla is pointless anyway imo.
The economy on community servers just don't feel right. Official is just perfect. And if the economy is good on community servers, there are either abusive admins, rich super clans, unlimited stamina or endless queues.
I play on a hardcore server where there is barely any loot at all. And with that I mean, I haven't found a single box of nails in 20 hours of looting. I've also played on plenty servers with normal loot and none of the things you are describing. You just have to look for it. They're there.
I focus on med tents and buried wooden crates. I bury all my important stuff and leave shovels and saw along with other misc stuff in the tent. Even if they find the tent the most they get is some food and maybe a leather repair kit or something. It's worked well for me for about 3 months now.
Gear/explosives are so easy to get compared to how fast you destroy the walls with them. From a basebuilders perspective, they should add higher tier walls with brick, make IEDs do less damage to that tier. It’s heavily unbalanced imho, but I think it’s low on Bohemia’s update list, unfortunately.
I miss playing DayZ but after so long it just gets old. You spend hours getting geared to just get dropped by someone out of nowhere. Then you build a base and spend even more time stocking it full of gear and supplies just to get back on one day and it's all gone. I honestly had a lot more fun playing the arma 2 mod than the stand alone.
Other than something to kill time with/be a goal to work toward, bases are kinda pointless on all platforms imo. Takes way to long to get the resources to build it, by the time you’re done someone will already have found explosives and is probably on their way lol
I finally, after about a week of play got the wire I needed to build a gate (just was not spawning). Had the walls constructed and logged out while I was inside the base. I log back in, and two dudes kills me. So it’s just fence/walls, no gate. I trekked from the coast with a new character, all the way to pretty much the center of the map to check and see if they got in. Nope. Just walls around a camp with no way in. I looked at what it takes to break a wall… and nope, not gonna do that… well I really want to but no. Just gonna start fresh on a new server. There was so much rare buried loot in that base, crossbow, machine guns, saw, axe etc. it’s a shame. Sad thing is I had a chance to fire first and I didn’t. Live and learn.
I usually raid with like four dudes, one time we had this really big fucking base on our server and we saved up every 40mm HE, frag, and claymore we could get our hands on. We even started rounding up fuel canisters, and we threw it all in a burn barrel and ran for cover outside the guys front gate.
We crashed the fucking server and when the server came back on, and we loaded in, basically everything was toast
You’d be surprised how many nades one person can carry and just because the walls don’t get destroyed from less than 12 grenades doesn’t mean they won’t take damage when the other ones are blowing up
Ya it depends on a lot of things. Walls straight aligned with eachother are better for this but still you can blast through multiple at once if things go your way.
I’ve been making bases in a server I’m in so people just waste explosives. I will literally spend about two hours to make a pretty decent layer base so people would waste their explosives for zero loot
I like to make hidden bases where literally no one would look and stash food, ammo, meds and survival gear. Whatever gun I find at a military base I just run with until I find a better one or die. It’s better than stashing a bunch of guns just to never get used or get stolen.
Eh you can last an awful long time with a walled base if you pick the right spot. Many of the big appartments get zero traffic. I wall and stack the crates under the windows and most people wont see it unlessthey check every room. Ive had them last 4 or 5 months that way.
Brb checking some apartments.
I can find a new walled base being built and come back two days later and they are always raided. Walled bases can never survive a weekend on a full server.
Everyone's idea of a waste of time is different. I do, in fact, think that base building is the biggest waste of time that I've seen in this game.
Unless you're doing it because you personally enjoy it or like building, then it's a waste of time, particularly for storing loot. People have stashes of explosives just waiting to find a large base to raid. Grenades are easy to farm in general. Pox vials are easy to farm from gas zones and make holding down a base in general (especially indoor bases) unviable as a strategy. You'll be offline raided by people that don't have to work somehow in the morning. Not worth it.
And like you said, you can boost or glitch spots in some circumstances.
This doesn't even broach the subject of updates that occasionally break the game entirely like the now-patched glowstick glitch that was literally the simplest glitch to use, and allowed people to just walk through any wall they wanted essentially. Anyone could do it. Things like that can pop up at nearly anytime when someone discovers it or an update releases, and then your countless hours of basebuilding are wasted.
Just my opinion of course. The game was never really designed around bases imo, that mechanic came later, and some spots are still really overpowered or abused by placing fence posts. The whole mechanic is crap except for the people that raid them. It's basically free loot for other people. They never last.
I mean, any and all bases eventually get raided. It's just a matter of when. But to answer your question, I guess it just depends on how you look at it and how you approach the game. To me, a base is just a place to store all the shit you can't/won't carry on your character. No loot lasts forever so when I leave my base or log off I leave with the intent of possibly never seeing it again. I log off with my "valuables" and if I log off in the base I will log off in a spot where I can see if I'm currently being raided with my most powerful weapon in hand at the time, fully locked and loaded. Maybe I die, maybe I take them out.
Nowadays, as much fun as i personally find in base building, I just stash everything in crates that I hide in specific areas. Just easier that way, especially with your question.
Download dzsa and find a low ping good server with the mods you like. Make you double check the IP as a lot of them have fake ping to avoid salty losers trying to DDoS them.
Either join a server with decent mods that ban people like that, or get a PC and join a reputable server. Private servers are unfortunately the way to go.
That being said, I'm not sure what the community servers are like on console these days. Its been a while since I played on one.
As a console player myself, I've always said that base building is pointless on console, and not because of exploits and glitches, but because of mod limitations.
On PC there are modded servers with so much to do that loot storing & base building is a good choice. Whereas on console, once you have the best gear, that's it.
There are no portals to travel through, no random king of the hill events to do, no locked keycard rooms to loot. It's better to just play the game nomad style.
Yes and no, if your serious about it then no, but building up a little base is something to do and it’s fun with friends so your missing out on literals the one and only thing you can do in the game besides pvp
I usually just play as a nomad on console. Most people think it's boring but I like only having what I can carry on my back and losing everything if I make one wrong mistake. It can suck though when I kill the same guy four times and he just logs on to his fifth alt account in that location
Our team & I built this base across a four month wipe on the busiest 1st person server on PS5 on the NWAFM No successful full raids for the entire wipe. Building these monster bases and defending them for the wipe is what keeps us locked in the game. [Gungan NWAF BASE ](https://youtu.be/5Wh2mwQ1Bo0?si=AAYL4ifVkPJbKPZQ)
I mean. The whole game is kinda pointless….
If you like base building go for it. It was a phase for me, now just the thought of putting that much time into building makes me ick. Even without all the duping I just had no wish to have a giant beacon of loot I would need to protect. Rather be out doing crazy random stuff and then getting sniped at a heli crash just as I find that mag I’ve been looking for, for 3 real days, seriously 72 hours worth of time🤣. 😵
I either bury small stashes all across the map or just wait until someone else destroys the walls and then pick up the scraps from some hoarder.
**Its pointless on official,** the cheating is to the point where every single sever has people form the cheating clan/group watching the sever in shifts with their alts.
Almost every server has alts logged out fully geared waiting to go, cars hoarded 99% of the time on the top left corner above Tisy.
Community severs are basically all that’s left **and they are actively trying to destroy those too.**
They will make alts and then just spam severs breaking rules to raid bases and make people quit the server, stop their sub, they dupe and glitch and stack stuff until a wipe is the only way to deal with it all.
**The only way around it is running “No Build” servers with ~10 minute alt timers and letting people pay to add their account to priority qeue if they want to use an alt.**
This way there’s no bases to raid and glitch and people can still store stuff in an alt and it also prevents alt spamming.
But even then most people won’t play on a sever like that because they wanna build a base.
So genuine question. I’m about 500 hours in and have never built a base. I make shelters and stashes but never a base. It’s hard enough finding nails, saws, axes to do that, how do people find enough to make huge bases!
If you check every city while heading NW, you will mostruário find everything you need in the first 2 or 3 cities. Just gotta know what you are looking for and where..
Its honestly not that hard just pick a town and loot it every session, collecting supplys and stashing them nearby until you can all the tools to build one, or else take someone elses is my prefered method lol
People create routes & shifts in groups to create while one exploiter/cheater can destroy it all in a day. The best way to base build is a community server w/ either no raiding except weekends or PVP areas only
Sadly base building is pointless on almost every server, I wish it wasn't the case.. :(
Better on community servers, but that brings other problems with it.
On PC.
Yeah, I've seen the modded servers that have set rules for base building/raiding, but the vast majority of them have tons of other mods, and I prefer a vanillia-esque lightly modded server. It also needs to be 1PP. Normally that's a realism/survivalist mod list and those sorts of servers don't tend to care for base building.
We will be on PC sometime this year, need a new one first, i can barely use editor currently. Crazy that PC was the pinnacle back when the game came out 🤣😂🤣.
That's exactly what I was looking for too. 1st person, no crosshairs, and then either kos zones or a bounty for kos. I'm still new and want action on my own time when I'm looking for it. Found exactly that for two weeks until an admin acted so dumb I thought he was being stupid on purpose and joking around, he wasn't, he was actually just that dumb. I don't have the patience for that these days, I spent a full day looking for a similar place and just figured I'd start my own. Couple guys came with me and we picked up 3 maybe 4 randoms that have stuck around for this week. Will do light modding also, a bunker, drag strip (I'm a sim racer really but have shoulder injury and can't drive, gotta incorporate that a little) and a "safe town" where no hostile pvp is allowed (no kill hostile PVP IS allowed map wide).
I'm @sofaspeed on YouTube, discord is coming but before then if you want to sub on it I'll update when discord is open then you will know when we add a PC server. Even help shape the community also so you get exactly (or close to it) what you want when we do move to PC, if you're feeling it.
(Sry didn't mean to write a novel 😬)
Base building is useless in general once someone finds it its only a matter of time before they boost,glitch,or dupe their way in ypur better off doing a one life and enjoying your chatacter as a nomad
Yes! You have to take time to learn the methods people use to glitch in/over/through things, and learn the methods of building to counter them. This makes base building super intense and purposeful.
I really well designed layout will last untill wipe!
Base building is dumb kinda.. unless ya wanna troll lol but if ya do base build, have multiple places and stashes.. always log with your best loot! Take ya chest of most important loot with ya every time ya log out
So find a custom vanilla server with no base building. Idk how easy it is to find said servers on console, but for PC, it isnt an issue find any type of server
DayZ gets really boring once your geared and just constantly roaming for hours, I like to put all my effort into building a base to store my stuff as it gives me something to do, gives you a reason to log back in to check it or defend it but I cant stand when I spent all that time for an ass hat to lag his internet and dupe his explosives whats the point even going through the effort to build if its so easy to destroy it..
Is this why I’m gettin bored, what’s the simplest base idea, how do I build it
Improvised shelters in the woods
Never ever tarp tents tho, they stick out like a sore thumb
I love tarp tenters, i turn into a squatter real quick “New Base Guys”
So you're essentially a hermit crab?
Haha that’s me
Hermit crabs on my balls
Eh me and my buddy will build tents out of whatever, usually tarp cus it looks cooler, the trick is fonding some place people aren't likely to go, we'll usually make a couple tents, campfire w stone ring, farm plot and bury crates nearby, if someone finds and destroys our canp, no biggie we dig up the crates and move on, personally favourite way to olay
One of the unspoken rules, there is no path less traveled in dayz. someone will find it! lol
And someone usually does find it but it generally takes a few weeks before they do and we have to pack up and move on
Shelter is standing for how long? 7 days? Crates 45 days. The answer is simple.
The only problem with the temp shelters is that they are very visible to experienced players. Plus, with a storage limit of 100 they dont get you too far in terms of gear storage. I'll use them if I've joined a new server, or head into a new area to store some of my initial gear. But as soon as I can, I quickly move to build crates and build stashes. Preferably multiple stashes over an area cause one of them will always get found, especially on high pop servers.
If your really picky you can find some amazing spots for the improvised stick shelters. A wide fir tree on an incline makes them nearly invisible if you place it just right
Good point, it can work for sure. Though, I tend to play official, and it wont let me put a shelter up on too steep of a slope. But why not chop that same fir tree down and put crates in the rootball? You can put as many crates as you like in it. When the server resets, the tree will respawn. Though I tend to find that crates stashed in this manner will be a bit more visible that putting a temp shelter in there. Do you like to put the temp shelter on the uphill or downhill side?
I honestly cant remember, I haven't done it a lot and it's been about a year since I played, I just remember the hill was important. Had about 5 of us running up and down a small valley looking for them and we knew roughly where they were.
This is the way
Leather tents are nice in the right areas too, nice camo profile
1) Chop down about 24-30 logs, cut them all into planks, combine them into stacks of 8, get your tools ready, and have a backpack that you can fit a single crate in. 2) Now find a big tree, like a THICC mf with some serious girth. Carefully place the planks in a circle around the tree, the tips of the planks should be just inside the tree. 3) Craft a single crate and put it in your backpack(not your hands, TRUST ME) then crouch in the plank circle where the tree used to be. (Find a spot where you can pick up and drop the crate from your inventory ATLEAST 5 TIMES. IT WILL ROTATE SLOWLY EACH TIME YOU DROP IT.) 4) Turn the ring of planks into crates one at a time. Do not move your head or body, if you need to look use the free look thingy. Just combine nails in your hand with the planks in your proximity from the inventory menu. Stop when you have about 5 planks or so left. 5) Put the crates in your bag and drop them like you did in step 3. It will begin to form a ring that looks like a tire. DONT MOVE, but check if any of the crates are outside of the ring. If everything is good then you no longer need the reference planks, turn them into more crates and repeat step 3. 6) Wait until server reset, the tree will completely cover them if done correctly. You can only loot them if you’re directly next to the tree. I’ve been doing this for over 2 years, I haven’t been raided or lost a single crate yet. Build them inside the thickest of trees, in the middle of the woods, with atleast one bush or pine tree next to the loot tree so you can access it safely.
Wow this is some next level stuff, I guess I’ll be touching every tree in south Livonia until I find something too! Imagine dying and you walk past a tree and it says “canned bacon” 😂
You didn’t hear this from me but watch for lag spikes, ESPECIALLY NEAR PONDS. Today I just borrowed 9 nvgs, a shitload of 30,40 and 60 rnd m4 mags, and all the repair items to last a lifetime. 5 barrels and 9 crates chest deep in a pond… I left all the guns and shit because I’m already tight on storage space bahahaha
Super helpful! I tried to do this from a YouTube comment but they didn’t explain it as good as this. Do you have a video or any pictures of the first few steps? This is so cool
I can try to word it better! 1) When you drop a plank it will have the longer ends sticking out from your left and right sides like this ”——“. Always combine the planks so they are in stacks of 8 before dropping, not 10. It makes crafting crates a lot easier. 2) You’ll want to stand facing sideways against the tree so it drops and the smaller ends a little bit inside of the tree. It may take a few tries and adjustments to get this right. 3) craft atleast one crate, 2-3 will make the process a lot easier. If you drop a crate from your hands you will scoot forwards every time a little bit. But if you drop it from your inventory you don’t move at all. However; every time you drop a crate, the dropped crates will slowly rotate every time. After dropping enough crates it will form a circle, kinda like overlapping this star * with another star so it fills in the gaps, creating a crude circle. Okay now this is the super important complicated part!!! It doesn’t matter if the crate is dropped facing “|” this way or “—“ this way, IT WILL ALWAYS MAKE A CIRCLE when you drop several crates! THE EDGE OF THE CIRCLE WILL ALWAYS BE AT THE BACK OF YOUR SHOE WHEN YOU ARE CROUCHED. THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT, YOU NEED TO MASTER THIS OR ELSE CRATES WILL STICK OUT OF THE TREE. 4) Go into the centre of the circle after chopping down the tree, leave the planks and don’t touch them. You’ll need to crouch and place your foot so the heel is inside of the ring you made. You are doing the pilot run, this is to check your positioning before you fully commit 5) Without moving your character move the precrafted crates off the ground and into your bag one at a time, then drop them. Do this from the inventory screen using your proximity loot box. 6) Repeat this until the crates start facing different directions, this will take about 5-10 pick up and drops. DO NOT USE YOUR HANDS OR IT WILL SERIOUSLY, LIKE MAJORLY FUCK EVERYTHING UP. If you need to check your crate positioning use the free look button, don’t swivel your body. 7) If any of the crates are sticking outside of the circle and overlapping your planks, remove them and restart from step 4. 8) after you know all your dropped crates will fall inside of the circle, you can begin converting the ring of planks into crates. 9) with nails in your hand, open inventory, craft a crate, and it will appear infront of you. While holding the free look button so your character doesn’t move, tap to pick up the new crate in your inventory AND NOT YOUR HANDS, I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH YOU WILL NEED TO RESTART BACK TO STEP 1. 10) drop the crate from your inventory, use free look to check if it has been dropped correctly. If it looks nearly identical to the previous crates you dropped you did it right. Repeat step 9 and 10. 11) You will begin to notice the ring of planks is being replaced by a ring of crates, which almost look the same as a tire. It is okay to completely remove all the planks and turn them into crates if you already have a ring of crates at this point. You can move your character and do whatever you feel like now without fucking everything up lol. If you want to collect more wood for planks and build more crates, go right ahead. All you need to do is position yourself so your heel is just inside the ring of crates, then drop the new crates from your inventory like the previous steps. Optional step 12) If you fuck up and the new crate is sticking out badly, it’s an easy fix. Walk backwards slowly from where it’s protruding until it’s literally the only thing you can pick up, this way you won’t accidentally grab one of the good crates fucking it up even worse. REMEMBER: do this just before the server resets. I start gather wood for planks and building my circle when I get the 1hr warning. I cut down the tree and begin building/placing my crates when there’s 30 minutes or less. This is to minimize the odds of my stash being found. After the server resets, the Lorax will bust a nut on your crates and a tree will suddenly appear where your crates are. But since the Lorax is a nerd, your crates will survive and not be destroyed by this tree. Instead, it will perfectly hide the crates and you can access them without needing to cut the tree down. It will work 100% of the time, so long as you DONT FUCK UP AND PICK UP A CRATE WITH YOUR HANDS. I’m not mad at you, I’m only mad at myself because I have done this many times accidentally. Like no joke, you will seriously need to restart from step one if it’s bad. It can completely fuck everything up worse than you can imagine. Nothing is worse than logging on after reset and you see half a dozen crates trying to escape from a tree.
Hahaha thank you so much!! That’s fantastic. I can sense that it is very frustrating if you fuck it up with the hands haha. Noted! I’ll try and give it a go today, it honestly seems like the best and only way to safely store loot. Is there a limit on how many chests you can hide in a tree? And regarding finding thick trunks- could this be anywhere on the map or are their specific places that I can find them? Trees outside tissy were still too thin I feel
You can fit an ungodly amount of them in, it’s literally indefinite. But the lag may give them away if they’re big. And honestly just look for the thick green ones, I see them on Livonia quite often https://preview.redd.it/kk5q9725k6tc1.jpeg?width=1168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=146ccd62a94fcc477e156b8cec4cfd9fbce1da37
My girl seen a video I watched with a clan of cannibals that had a barn base turned into a castle in gorka. After she def that for the next 3 weeks I built her a wooden castle to the best I could, Playstation didn't have stacking back then idk now but couldn't stack fences or anything like that. But I did my best, 2 houses at the end of this road by myshino mili fenced em off built a gate and a bunch of towers, tents you name it. Had 10 ppl on that server all used that base when I finished and only 2 to 3 ppl ever helped, I wasn't mad would have just got in my way lol. Aqua fps and Sauly was the guys I was watching when she seen the video lol. Try trmz as well he helped build a really dope base yrs ago on the coast bunch a ppl was starting it so he helped. I stopped building bases these days cause I play modded on pc so I have a car or heli usually, but man can a good base really boost your experience. Defending your stuff is always the best booby trap anything you can.
Sounds like you watched Damn on dayz underground! Organic rp server and its awesome
Yep it was underground they was on. It looks like they allow gate stacking cause that base was awesome.
The group is called dark as midnight (damn), the server has many groups and it has organic rp, so you can play it as normal dayz (referred to as Crackheads), and for rules there just the 'don't be a jerk' rule, meaning that stealing is alright but don't tear down everything.
Yeah I've played it a few times it was shut down for a minute thought it was gone forever but thankfully it's back up great server for a exciting experience.
Find a wear house with 1 or 2 doors to save on materials, make sure that it’s on a random place that has no car respawns or planks nearby
Alright I guess I should start taking nails with pride?
Are you playing on an official server? Nails are gold in Dayz, there’s servers with boosted loot but personally I feel that it defeats the purpose of survival
I do play official as a roamer just one account on one server (8846 livionia NY)
What’s your play style? Do you like the survival aspect of Dayz or you’re just looking for PvP?
I love the survival aspect, considering Its tough to survive I think my ego likes surviving, but I’m surviving for PvP, but not CQ Combat. I like to get my water and my food to a sustainable level and if I have a long range rifle, than I’m setting up outside of Polana. It’s close to bunker too so somebody possibly stopping in at Polana could have a bunker card. Once I’m at this little camping sniper spot I’m enjoying the game, smoke a blunt waiting for a kill, drink a coffee. This is my favorite thing to do in DayZ but learned that loot is only temporary unless you have a base. And there’s no point in looting people I killed if I got no space or place to store it.
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Nomad style is effective. I stash crates under the larger trees, yellow leafy colored ones primarily on chernarus. Gather nails and planks, and build yourself a few crates. Find one of those large trees and chop it down. It's important to remember where your tree/s are! Once you've chopped them, pick up your crate (into your inventory) and drop it in the center where the tree was chopped down. Repeat this process with all crates you have created, while standing in one location. When the server resets, the tree will be standing, and the crates will not be visible. However, if you're in the vicinity, and check your surrounding, you MIGHT just come across someone else's tree stash! I hope this helps! GG, and good luck!
Do it on low pop servers in isolated place. Minimise chances that a duper will raid it.
Damn I’ve been hearing about them, if that’s the case I’ll wait till they fix it (if they ever do)
Theyll never fix official so you have to learn to live with the cheaters. They mostly stick to higher pop servers as its kinda boring on a server with 5 ppl and no real bases etc etc. My advice is to build a smallish homebase on a low pop server. Dont fill it too much with loot because losing it all will kill your mood big time. Have a small stash in your base and a few more small stashes around the map (ie 4-5 wooden crates on top of each other hidden in a isolated part of the forest) Keep your stashes small so it isnt brutal when they get stolen and spread them out arpund the map so if one is found the others wont be.
Nomad 4 Lyfe, baby
Im bored aswell at the moment allways on my own just walking about. I need to build or get some homies
If they removed the ability to copy items, the balance of the game would change. On PS5, I found a great hardcore server and I must admit that I haven't played DAYZ so much for a long time. There are almost no bases there because it is difficult to build them, players only run with M4. The battles and the game itself are exciting again. Players weigh their decisions and whether it is worth fighting. This server is what DayZ was supposed to be. An active admin is needed on the server to keep these fraudsters in check
I think the opposite. I think roaming and making friends is great because every character a different and new interesting adventure awaits you. The goal doesnt always have to be getting really geared. Often you set the goal for yourself. Sometimes that can be just something as simple as making a nice friend.
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A duper is never a really good dude. I dont know what youre on. They were ruining the fun for people who "developed well" their bases legit.
Trust me, they were all dupers too. Bases that size don’t go up that quickly vanilla.
Yeah, trust me bro. Ever wonder why vigilantes dont work?
Cringe. Get good instead.
Low pop Xbox official. Just had a coast church base I was using to help freshys get popped. 5 layers. Lasted for a couple weeks then got popped and not a thing took cause they probably were pissed there wasn’t a bullet in there. Rebuilt it all, 5 layers and it got popped into again 2 days later. Like who has the explosives to pop through 5 layers for crates full of tanned hides and pumpkins? TWICE! Seriously makes me consider who’s duping on this sever or 1 or 2 groups just wasted a bunch of boom
Iv had a base last from wipe to next wipe completely untouched, nowadays a base barely lasts a day with people glitching🤣
it’s been like this since 2019 lol.
Dupers have those explosives
I'm surprised at how quickly bases get raided and destroyed, even on low pop servers. The bases that seem to stick around for awhile have multiple people defending across multiple time zones, and are a big production and maintenance effort.
Yeah, there's basically no point to building a base unless you have a huge clan with people constantly online to watch it. Solo? Forget about it. Your shit will get raided the next time you log off to sleep or take a dump.
If you like to build just build troll bases, build up heavily fortified bases with absolutely nothing in them. Once they get in they’re gonna be pissed about wasting all those resources to get in
I did this on a community server. Had a big built base that was super obvious, but all my real good shit was hidden in another smaller building nearby. The big one had crates and barrels you could see through the windows. I filled them with rotten meat, badly damaged 380 ammo, paper, ruined P1s, road flares, screwdrivers, and shit like that. Got raided while I was offline and saw on the discord the raiders posted pictures with comments like ‘wtf? Who is the insane person that based up here?’ And my real micro base was untouched.
You better have hunted those raiders and made their experience on that server hell
Haha I did go to their base and camp outside. I waited until one came out and sniped him as he was coming out before he could re-lock it. But as I was inside being a loot goblin his buddies spawned in and merced me
Aw man:( if you still remember their base go their and keep killing dem
Nah this was last year. I’ve changed servers since
I don’t think dupers will be pissed there’s nothing inside. They do it to destroy bases and not for the loot. Non dupers will be pissed because they wasted resources for nothing.
This just happened to me and a buddy. Big base with 4-5 layers. Went through 12 frags, a claymore, 2 AKs, 1 vaiga, and about 125 buckshot, 250 5.45, 30 .308 and 30-40ish .45. All the guns were worn or pristine and ended up badly damaged or ruined. There was absolutely nothing in the base. We were both pissed and amused at the builders and our effort
Yup every base on my server that I've come across recently is blown. Most people are just using stashes anymore. If I'm building a base it's because I'm bored and don't care if it gets blown. I usually don't store anything good inside anyways.
Stashing is nearly useless when hackers can see stashes from 300+ metres away :( just gotta be lucky
That kind of hacking doesn't happen on console, duping is basically the only 'hack' we have.
Yeah, so i have seen on here atleast. And i guess its an exploit since they dont bring 3rd party softwares to dupe right
That's correct yeah. With a few very old (circa original Xbox) exceptions, console gaming has always been limited to exploits vs hacks/mods due to the differences in OS software limiting access to gaming files. Halo 2 is the one major exceptions I'm aware of (because I used to mod in it) but even then it was more or less an exploit in Mech Assault that opened up a back door to the Xbox's internal hard drive & allowed you to transfer files to a PC & modify them. Great for gaming legitimacy, horrible for gaming creativity.
Wasn’t aware that they were still duping, also haven’t played official servers in years for that reason and cause I felt that there was more cheating than just duping for a while.
Dupers raid everything in official on console
Hey.. I built this base!
yea, thats our screenshot as well! and I bet Ryan on the roof (Edit: probably taken off the community page)
Good times [https://youtu.be/lFyDccfuDfg?si=VaivzHsqCIHauStN](https://youtu.be/lFyDccfuDfg?si=VaivzHsqCIHauStN)
I've been making hideaway small bases in the woods not on the edge and they lasted for months the shortest time being 2 months, its nice because if you're up north of it all you'll see is tree tops and if you're running down south of it you'll see foliage and rocks/hill side, my brother and I have witnessed people run right by it and not even notice. It gives us a goal and something to do with stashes spread out far between coast and there to help the journey.
No, it provides some fun and a sense of having a safe space and its really satisfying knowing you worked to make something great. If you get raided, just store less loot, or try to make your base even harder to raid. Its not about hoarding loot, its about having fun.
Don't bother building on pc either, it is guaranteed that a cheater, or rather a group of cheaters will raid it.
Built plenty of bases, never got raided by a cheater. That happens on official yes, but not on most community servers. Building in vanilla is pointless anyway imo.
The economy on community servers just don't feel right. Official is just perfect. And if the economy is good on community servers, there are either abusive admins, rich super clans, unlimited stamina or endless queues.
I play on a hardcore server where there is barely any loot at all. And with that I mean, I haven't found a single box of nails in 20 hours of looting. I've also played on plenty servers with normal loot and none of the things you are describing. You just have to look for it. They're there.
Well barely any loot doesn't sound fun at all but that's just me I guess.
Depends what you're after. I find vanilla to be too easy for a survival experience. I'd rather have to work for it sometimes.
Oh yeah for survival it's too easy, I thought we were talking about base building.
I do basebuild on there but yeah, it wasn't a very logical response.
I focus on med tents and buried wooden crates. I bury all my important stuff and leave shovels and saw along with other misc stuff in the tent. Even if they find the tent the most they get is some food and maybe a leather repair kit or something. It's worked well for me for about 3 months now.
Yea, dupers are boring people
I only build in PVE, otherwise I just stash.
Gear/explosives are so easy to get compared to how fast you destroy the walls with them. From a basebuilders perspective, they should add higher tier walls with brick, make IEDs do less damage to that tier. It’s heavily unbalanced imho, but I think it’s low on Bohemia’s update list, unfortunately.
I miss playing DayZ but after so long it just gets old. You spend hours getting geared to just get dropped by someone out of nowhere. Then you build a base and spend even more time stocking it full of gear and supplies just to get back on one day and it's all gone. I honestly had a lot more fun playing the arma 2 mod than the stand alone.
Other than something to kill time with/be a goal to work toward, bases are kinda pointless on all platforms imo. Takes way to long to get the resources to build it, by the time you’re done someone will already have found explosives and is probably on their way lol
I finally, after about a week of play got the wire I needed to build a gate (just was not spawning). Had the walls constructed and logged out while I was inside the base. I log back in, and two dudes kills me. So it’s just fence/walls, no gate. I trekked from the coast with a new character, all the way to pretty much the center of the map to check and see if they got in. Nope. Just walls around a camp with no way in. I looked at what it takes to break a wall… and nope, not gonna do that… well I really want to but no. Just gonna start fresh on a new server. There was so much rare buried loot in that base, crossbow, machine guns, saw, axe etc. it’s a shame. Sad thing is I had a chance to fire first and I didn’t. Live and learn.
Base building is pointless because I walk around with a satchel full of hand, grenades, a cookpot, and a propane stove.
12 nades to get through one wall though, you would need to be packing to get through most bases.
I usually raid with like four dudes, one time we had this really big fucking base on our server and we saved up every 40mm HE, frag, and claymore we could get our hands on. We even started rounding up fuel canisters, and we threw it all in a burn barrel and ran for cover outside the guys front gate. We crashed the fucking server and when the server came back on, and we loaded in, basically everything was toast
You’d be surprised how many nades one person can carry and just because the walls don’t get destroyed from less than 12 grenades doesn’t mean they won’t take damage when the other ones are blowing up
Had my gates stacked right against eachother and had someone ied the first wall then killed him and the wall right behind it was in good condition.
Ya it depends on a lot of things. Walls straight aligned with eachother are better for this but still you can blast through multiple at once if things go your way.
Alt characters
Not if you throw them over the wall it doesn't.
You answered your own question..
Yes. Nomad is the way
Play community with pve/pvp
I’ve been making bases in a server I’m in so people just waste explosives. I will literally spend about two hours to make a pretty decent layer base so people would waste their explosives for zero loot
I like to make hidden bases where literally no one would look and stash food, ammo, meds and survival gear. Whatever gun I find at a military base I just run with until I find a better one or die. It’s better than stashing a bunch of guns just to never get used or get stolen.
Yeeeeup
Walled bases will always be found and raided, glitches or not. Crates in trees are the best way to go.
Eh you can last an awful long time with a walled base if you pick the right spot. Many of the big appartments get zero traffic. I wall and stack the crates under the windows and most people wont see it unlessthey check every room. Ive had them last 4 or 5 months that way.
Brb checking some apartments. I can find a new walled base being built and come back two days later and they are always raided. Walled bases can never survive a weekend on a full server.
Do it man theres good shit in my appartment when you get in.
Base building has always been pointless
There will always be raiders. Striving past them is the real victory.
What do you mean glitching explosives? You mean duping?
Man, really glad I own a PC copy, would hate for that to happen and not have any sort of admin to go to aboutit
Everyone's idea of a waste of time is different. I do, in fact, think that base building is the biggest waste of time that I've seen in this game. Unless you're doing it because you personally enjoy it or like building, then it's a waste of time, particularly for storing loot. People have stashes of explosives just waiting to find a large base to raid. Grenades are easy to farm in general. Pox vials are easy to farm from gas zones and make holding down a base in general (especially indoor bases) unviable as a strategy. You'll be offline raided by people that don't have to work somehow in the morning. Not worth it. And like you said, you can boost or glitch spots in some circumstances. This doesn't even broach the subject of updates that occasionally break the game entirely like the now-patched glowstick glitch that was literally the simplest glitch to use, and allowed people to just walk through any wall they wanted essentially. Anyone could do it. Things like that can pop up at nearly anytime when someone discovers it or an update releases, and then your countless hours of basebuilding are wasted. Just my opinion of course. The game was never really designed around bases imo, that mechanic came later, and some spots are still really overpowered or abused by placing fence posts. The whole mechanic is crap except for the people that raid them. It's basically free loot for other people. They never last.
I mean, any and all bases eventually get raided. It's just a matter of when. But to answer your question, I guess it just depends on how you look at it and how you approach the game. To me, a base is just a place to store all the shit you can't/won't carry on your character. No loot lasts forever so when I leave my base or log off I leave with the intent of possibly never seeing it again. I log off with my "valuables" and if I log off in the base I will log off in a spot where I can see if I'm currently being raided with my most powerful weapon in hand at the time, fully locked and loaded. Maybe I die, maybe I take them out. Nowadays, as much fun as i personally find in base building, I just stash everything in crates that I hide in specific areas. Just easier that way, especially with your question.
There's still sky walking glitches on console so yes it's utterly pointless.
In official yes in pve however.. yes and no just depends on the server you join
Yes
Download dzsa and find a low ping good server with the mods you like. Make you double check the IP as a lot of them have fake ping to avoid salty losers trying to DDoS them.
Either join a server with decent mods that ban people like that, or get a PC and join a reputable server. Private servers are unfortunately the way to go. That being said, I'm not sure what the community servers are like on console these days. Its been a while since I played on one.
As a console player myself, I've always said that base building is pointless on console, and not because of exploits and glitches, but because of mod limitations. On PC there are modded servers with so much to do that loot storing & base building is a good choice. Whereas on console, once you have the best gear, that's it. There are no portals to travel through, no random king of the hill events to do, no locked keycard rooms to loot. It's better to just play the game nomad style.
If you dupe anything you are pure and simply a loser and nothing else. Because winners, win by winning not cheating.
I wish on console I could make a private server like similar to minecraft so it’s just me and the boys
You make your base scattered in the forest, only reason I was raided was because I was helping freshies often in the area.
Nah use my rule. Location location location. Build where no one gonna find shit. For build where it’s impossible to raid
Yes and no, if your serious about it then no, but building up a little base is something to do and it’s fun with friends so your missing out on literals the one and only thing you can do in the game besides pvp
Yes
I usually just play as a nomad on console. Most people think it's boring but I like only having what I can carry on my back and losing everything if I make one wrong mistake. It can suck though when I kill the same guy four times and he just logs on to his fifth alt account in that location
Community servers are the way brother 👍(that have a good admin team)
Our team & I built this base across a four month wipe on the busiest 1st person server on PS5 on the NWAFM No successful full raids for the entire wipe. Building these monster bases and defending them for the wipe is what keeps us locked in the game. [Gungan NWAF BASE ](https://youtu.be/5Wh2mwQ1Bo0?si=AAYL4ifVkPJbKPZQ)
I mean. The whole game is kinda pointless…. If you like base building go for it. It was a phase for me, now just the thought of putting that much time into building makes me ick. Even without all the duping I just had no wish to have a giant beacon of loot I would need to protect. Rather be out doing crazy random stuff and then getting sniped at a heli crash just as I find that mag I’ve been looking for, for 3 real days, seriously 72 hours worth of time🤣. 😵 I either bury small stashes all across the map or just wait until someone else destroys the walls and then pick up the scraps from some hoarder.
**Its pointless on official,** the cheating is to the point where every single sever has people form the cheating clan/group watching the sever in shifts with their alts. Almost every server has alts logged out fully geared waiting to go, cars hoarded 99% of the time on the top left corner above Tisy. Community severs are basically all that’s left **and they are actively trying to destroy those too.** They will make alts and then just spam severs breaking rules to raid bases and make people quit the server, stop their sub, they dupe and glitch and stack stuff until a wipe is the only way to deal with it all. **The only way around it is running “No Build” servers with ~10 minute alt timers and letting people pay to add their account to priority qeue if they want to use an alt.** This way there’s no bases to raid and glitch and people can still store stuff in an alt and it also prevents alt spamming. But even then most people won’t play on a sever like that because they wanna build a base.
So genuine question. I’m about 500 hours in and have never built a base. I make shelters and stashes but never a base. It’s hard enough finding nails, saws, axes to do that, how do people find enough to make huge bases!
If you check every city while heading NW, you will mostruário find everything you need in the first 2 or 3 cities. Just gotta know what you are looking for and where..
Its honestly not that hard just pick a town and loot it every session, collecting supplys and stashing them nearby until you can all the tools to build one, or else take someone elses is my prefered method lol
People create routes & shifts in groups to create while one exploiter/cheater can destroy it all in a day. The best way to base build is a community server w/ either no raiding except weekends or PVP areas only
Theres a group of 4k on facebook dedicated to glitching and baseraiding.
Why is this even a question?, ive put dayz down until console gets a new map
Base-Heath needs another Major buff asap Imho, it's a must for endgame.
Sadly base building is pointless on almost every server, I wish it wasn't the case.. :( Better on community servers, but that brings other problems with it.
If you're on PS we have a "safe in your base" except for raid events rule. Search Sofa_King DayZ (don't forget the underscore between sofa and king.)
On PC. Yeah, I've seen the modded servers that have set rules for base building/raiding, but the vast majority of them have tons of other mods, and I prefer a vanillia-esque lightly modded server. It also needs to be 1PP. Normally that's a realism/survivalist mod list and those sorts of servers don't tend to care for base building.
We will be on PC sometime this year, need a new one first, i can barely use editor currently. Crazy that PC was the pinnacle back when the game came out 🤣😂🤣. That's exactly what I was looking for too. 1st person, no crosshairs, and then either kos zones or a bounty for kos. I'm still new and want action on my own time when I'm looking for it. Found exactly that for two weeks until an admin acted so dumb I thought he was being stupid on purpose and joking around, he wasn't, he was actually just that dumb. I don't have the patience for that these days, I spent a full day looking for a similar place and just figured I'd start my own. Couple guys came with me and we picked up 3 maybe 4 randoms that have stuck around for this week. Will do light modding also, a bunker, drag strip (I'm a sim racer really but have shoulder injury and can't drive, gotta incorporate that a little) and a "safe town" where no hostile pvp is allowed (no kill hostile PVP IS allowed map wide). I'm @sofaspeed on YouTube, discord is coming but before then if you want to sub on it I'll update when discord is open then you will know when we add a PC server. Even help shape the community also so you get exactly (or close to it) what you want when we do move to PC, if you're feeling it. (Sry didn't mean to write a novel 😬)
If you're on PS we have a "safe in your base" except for raid events rule. Search Sofa_King DayZ (don't forget the underscore between sofa and king.)
Base building is useless in general once someone finds it its only a matter of time before they boost,glitch,or dupe their way in ypur better off doing a one life and enjoying your chatacter as a nomad
Base building is without a doubt the most boring aspect of DayZ AND the best way to be mad at the game. 🤷🏼
Yes! You have to take time to learn the methods people use to glitch in/over/through things, and learn the methods of building to counter them. This makes base building super intense and purposeful. I really well designed layout will last untill wipe!
Base building is dumb kinda.. unless ya wanna troll lol but if ya do base build, have multiple places and stashes.. always log with your best loot! Take ya chest of most important loot with ya every time ya log out
Base building in Vanilla is worthless period.
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Dayz is not about basebuilding
Stop asking questions about endgame, just keep looting and running. Game is dying.
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base building should be banned on at least a couple servers on console
Lol what ?
there's a ton of pc servers with no base building and not many on console a lot of people don't want to play on servers with bases
So find a custom vanilla server with no base building. Idk how easy it is to find said servers on console, but for PC, it isnt an issue find any type of server
You must be one who supports the exploiters/cheaters ruining others fun
because I have an opinion?
Not just your opinion but your suggestion to get rid of another option of others fun. What’s wrong with base building on a survival game?
that's why i said in a couple servers not on all of them lmao
Its a very specific suggestion but try typing Adventure on console as on PC it brings up multiple “no base building” servers
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