Dayz is too complicated for a single player.

[Stillness]

I am a single player. I don'l like pvp. And I don't have time or friends for multiplayer.

I made a private lan server with some mods and it was so complicated to make.
All I want (and I'm sure many players want) is:
A simple Single player option.
Easy install mods.
A vanilla with npc AI, quests, trader

[1337Dude]

You bought the wrong game. Running a private server and installing mods just to play singleplayer is going to be a lot more work than actual fun.

And really, no amount of mods you can install can distract from the fact that it's a PvP-centric game with poor PvE compared to other online games you could've purchased.

For example, ever hear of Dying Light? It's open world. Has singleplayer. Has zombies. You don't have to spend hours figuring out how to host it. Check it out. It's on Steam. You might like it.

[baddoggs]

That's not what DayZ is.
Dayz , at it's heart is a brutal survival game where you must
overcome the environment, infected and players as you compete
for minimal supplies in a dog eat dog world.
Respectfully suggest, try some community PvP servers.
There are tons of them. a lot of them water it right down
to CSGO type of gameplay some just play shopping and dressup.
Some have A/I some have Dino's. There is literally something for everyone..

[Sim]

You can probably find a PvE server with what your looking for, or pretty close to it. An awful lot of them have traders.

Setting up a lan server is not hard, but I found it is a bit more work to install mods than a rental with a good UI. Also you probably chose one of the harder things to set up in AI npcs. It needs a bit of work to set up the waypoints, loadouts and triggers for each group you add.

It might be easier on a lan to ditch the AI npcs and toughen up the zombies a bit instead, by increasing their numbers, spawn points and adding door opening, using something like zombies everywhere & zens doorkickers, just a thought.

Dayz does actually make a decent single player / solo survival game, it just needs a bit of tweaking to up the challenge with no PvP.
I've got a few other survival games (Dying Light included) but my solo Dayz servers are the ones I play most, It just does a good job, of the basic survival, weather, temperatures (set colder), stamina (mod), wear and tear on items (I have reduced loot), and of course tougher and wider spawning zds.

[Time Killer]

You can play single player offline mode

It's easy to install and works with all 30 maps and you can spawn in anything

[Idaho]

Originally posted by Stillness:

I am a single player. I don'l like pvp. And I don't have time or friends for multiplayer.

I made a private lan server with some mods and it was so complicated to make.
All I want (and I'm sure many players want) is:
A simple Single player option.
Easy install mods.
A vanilla with npc AI, quests, trader

There's a free program that helps a lot with running dayz servers from home, it's called Omega Manager. Grab that and watch a few videos from scalespeeder and you'll be set.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Pve servers are your best option. You´ll rarely run into people and it plays like a singleplayer game.

[_KC76_]

Private DayZ server is very simple, UNTIL you start adding Mods .. Modding is not the responsibility of Bohemia (the Game) .. That said, once you have it set up, you are done, and all you do is start the server and play .. If you continue to have "problems" it is likely due to not having the mods installed correctly, or from changing mods after you try them for a while and decide you don't like them.

If you have specific issues, you can always ask for help. There are quite a few of us that run Servers and would be willing to offer assistance.

[shedora]

next let's go after the CoD devs for not adding enough basebuilding and npc relationships like stardew, huh?

[Slurmcanpushers2]

Find a no pop server. Lots of them out there. Chances of running into one or two other players is slim.

[user44]

bro straight up 100% PVE servers are everywhere. just launch the game from steam
from the launchers main page click servers on the left, then the community tab at the top right

type PVE into the filter and BAM

endless enjoyment for you of varying difficulties.

[valdhans]

Originally posted by user44:

bro straight up 100% PVE servers are everywhere. just launch the game from steam
from the launchers main page click servers on the left, then the community tab at the top right

type PVE into the filter and BAM

endless enjoyment for you of varying difficulties.

It’s simply incomprehensible that the addition of a single player function was ignored. I would immediately buy the game if there was single player. I'm not interested in multiplayer.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

Originally posted by valdhans:

Originally posted by user44:

bro straight up 100% PVE servers are everywhere. just launch the game from steam
from the launchers main page click servers on the left, then the community tab at the top right

type PVE into the filter and BAM

endless enjoyment for you of varying difficulties.

It’s simply incomprehensible that the addition of a single player function was ignored. I would immediately buy the game if there was single player. I'm not interested in multiplayer.

it's not incomprehensible at all.

the primary game loop of the game from its inception was based around player to player interaction.

now, would/is a SP mode wanted by some? Yes, absolutely. Including me.

But the game was never intended to be a pure SP experience and we cannot expect devs to shoehorn an SP mode into a primarily MP game.

We do, however, have ways to play SP, like playing on hosted or local LAN servers, thanks to the devs.

Whenever I play, it's almost always on my own hosted LAN server.

The issue is that although playable as SP the game looses some of its appeal as it can feel very "dead". Now, if that's fine with you, great! The tools are there to let us have our SP fun, but there's zero onus on the devs to provide an SP "part" for us

[Idaho]

Originally posted by valdhans:

Originally posted by user44:

bro straight up 100% PVE servers are everywhere. just launch the game from steam
from the launchers main page click servers on the left, then the community tab at the top right

type PVE into the filter and BAM

endless enjoyment for you of varying difficulties.

It’s simply incomprehensible that the addition of a single player function was ignored. I would immediately buy the game if there was single player. I'm not interested in multiplayer.

I have a 60 person pure vanilla server that nobody ever plays that you could try. It's the equivalent of single player.

DayZ US - West 0014 | No Mods | 100% Vanilla

[Stillness]

I know about PVE servers. But I come from games like Ark, 7dtd, where there is a single player option. Servers are hosted and have rules (like no build zones) . Many servers I played stoped or wiped.

[76561199390204486]

Not all games are designed with singleplayer in mind,. Some of the best multiplayer games have weak, non-existing, or completely different singleplayer components.