DayZ
SHO-SHIN Apr 10, 2016 @ 4:35am
Re: Lockable storage?
I'm just back to playing the game, and only had a few hours when it was released.

Can anyone advise how I can store gear safley, i.e so bad guys can't just find it and take it?

I am not sure of the game mechanics in this respect and like to play a single server for a long time as opposed to swapping about to gear up quick etc.

Is it even possible now aside from hiding your 'camp' (tents and barrels right?).
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NathaN Apr 10, 2016 @ 4:43am 
No its not possible. Hide barrels in the woods is your best bet. They have images on the website of hidden stashes in development so im sure they'll be in some time.
SHO-SHIN Apr 10, 2016 @ 4:45am 
right, I dont mind just need to know.
Maca Apr 10, 2016 @ 4:45am 
It wouldn't be DayZ if there wasn't the risk of "permanent loss" with storage safety (global inventory). The dev's have talked about locks and other storage boxes, crates and other world items, but they will be accessible by other survivors. With the right tools of course.

I'm sure once modding support becomes available some mods will have global inventory safety without loss.
SHO-SHIN Apr 10, 2016 @ 4:48am 
I dont want totally secure and fully love the idea if they have the tools and or time then they can get your stuff - I played alot of rust and like raiding myself.............

But we work hard for our gear and a tiered system of simple secure storage is a requirement in a survival game IMO, stockpile food, differnet ammo etc needs to go somewhere otherwise people will just break gameplay to 'win'.
PiledriveTTV Apr 10, 2016 @ 4:52am 
Originally posted by ZXD_Shoshin:
I'm just back to playing the game, and only had a few hours when it was released.

Can anyone advise how I can store gear safley, i.e so bad guys can't just find it and take it?

I am not sure of the game mechanics in this respect and like to play a single server for a long time as opposed to swapping about to gear up quick etc.

Is it even possible now aside from hiding your 'camp' (tents and barrels right?).

as long as it doesnt turn into epoch.....then thats fine. ther ewas no point attacking ppls bases in that mod
Maca Apr 10, 2016 @ 5:33am 
Originally posted by ZXD_Shoshin:
I dont want totally secure and fully love the idea if they have the tools and or time then they can get your stuff - I played alot of rust and like raiding myself.............

You may need to reword "store gear safley, i.e so bad guys can't just find it and take it?" because it came across as untouchable storage. Sorry if i interrupted it differently.

But we work hard for our gear and a tiered system of simple secure storage is a requirement in a survival game IMO, stockpile food, differnet ammo etc needs to go somewhere otherwise people will just break gameplay to 'win'.

In my own personal opinion this whole basecamp idea within any title portraying a world of permanent death in survival games is fundamentally flawed, simply because you really don't loose that characters stored possessions or even a percentage of the stored possessions when that character is "permanently dead", just personal belongings on said character are lost. This leaves very little connection to a character once a basecamp is established.

Which then circumvents the permanent death which has been proven in the mods just like Epoch to have become redundant, once you've enough resources stored in your "global inventory" personal safe, locked cars that can't be broken into within a post apocalyptic era.
Death is really irrelevant and the same could be said for DayZ and all the other survial titles once there is no risk versus reward in relation to decisions you make and consequences surrounding ones character (permanent loss). The CLE will have some impact on this within the world of DayZ as loot will become rarer and hopefully some form of loss will be tied to one's character (soft-skills and rare items which are hard to come across).

Sorry for waffling on Shoshin this isn't direct at you just me venting a little about the flawed concept of harsh survival & permanent death and how easily it can be circumvented. Leaving no harsh permanent death in any survival genre titles on the market while they claim to be harsh survival games (including DayZ).
Last edited by Maca; Apr 10, 2016 @ 5:33am
bozont_svk Apr 10, 2016 @ 5:35am 
what you have is what you carry ....

well you can stack it all behind the 10th hill after the "end of world line" if you like..never reached the border when the game said no more...even in arma 2 with a jet. well i got bored flying 20minutes in straigth line lol
AtomicCaleb Apr 10, 2016 @ 5:54am 
you can put an unpinned greande inside a tent or a barrel and when sopmeone takes it they blow up. There is a russian grenade that blows up instantly. There is also a way you can block your tent with the barrel in the way with a grenade in it and if you positionn it right it can be very hard to take ot without dying
Rhod_Steel Apr 10, 2016 @ 6:10am 
Find a lockpick and you can lock most doors. Downside is a single shot will cause the door to unlock.
Tactical Gecko Apr 10, 2016 @ 7:19am 
You can search a green or heck even blue barrel and hide it in the woods/between tree's. If you pick a not-so-bright-colour, it will be hard to detect. Tents are a no-go for that unless you are really confident you found the spot. Got to say, after making 5 camps, I don't think we found it yet.

Other thing you can do is use a picklock. One of my former friends used this all the time, although he got robbed awfull lot. Got to say though, it's pretty obvious you have a camp or loot in a building if its the only one which is locked. It's very easy to just hit a door and unlock it. However with your fists it won't work, so a new spawn will not be able to get your loot that quick without a melee weapon or gun.

You can also make a tripwire with a grenade. If they step on the wire, it explodes. Downside is that you will need to know where you placed them before running into them yourself. As well as Atomic said you can place an unpinned grenade in a barrel or tent or even a backpack eventually, so when they pick it up, it will explode instantly.
SHO-SHIN Apr 10, 2016 @ 7:30am 
no worries good people, and thanks for the tips and update features as I had no idea about any of them!
Se7eN Apr 10, 2016 @ 8:31am 
Punching a locked door does the trick. I did it two days ago. Maybe it was glitched...possibly...
Tactical Gecko Apr 10, 2016 @ 8:34am 
As far as I know I have never been able to hit it open with my fists. I believe it wasn't possible. Might be a lot of desync then lately haha. I do remember I had to find a melee weapon to get the storach open, then locked it again so no one would find out :P But still. Again, probably desync then ^^
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