DayZ Standalone guide for new and experienced players (No longer being updated)

This guide will teach new players how to play dayz standalone and give a few good tips for experienced dayz players.

This guide is almost updated to the latest version of DayZ!
I am no longer updating this guide, Sorry. Most of the information in here is still fairly relevant though :D

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Starting Off

So you will start off as a survivor that has arrived from a sunken ship and ended up on the coast of Chernarus with nothing but the clothes on your back, a road flare and a rag. Now to use your inventoy you can remove the road flare from your inventory. (the road flare will just advertise your position and probably get you killed, how ever it can be useful to light fires with) To do that press (tab by default) and drag and drop the road flare to the box that says vicinity then once you have done that close your inventory and go look for these items: bag, food, drink, weapon, ammo, medical supplies, better clothing.

To pick items up you can either look at them and scroll then press (F by default) or (middle mouse button) to pick a item up. Or open your inventory near the item then drag it to a empty slot in your inventory.

Make your own story as you go along maybe do a little bit of roleplay and have some fun!



The first few steps as a fresh-spawn should be:

1. When you spawn craft a stone-knife.

2. Get hydrated and energized from a apple tree. (See links below)

3. Then cut a stick from a tree using the stone-knife (sharp stick is great against infected, also you can craft a spear long stick + bones = spear) Bones from chickens and other animals. As a fresh-spawn the chicken is you best bet at getting bone.

4. Then make a rope by collecting and crafting 6+6 rags.

5. Craft a bow and loot some feathers from a chicken coop and craft some arrows by cutting sticks (silent way for taking out infected).

6. Find a backpack or craft an improvised bag, Burlap sack + rope (6+6 rags = one rope).

7. Stone knife - tree - bark + stick = hand drill kit (Good to have just incase you need a fire going)

Apple trees on the outshirts of all Villages, Towns and Cities (Even in some backyards): As a fresh-spawn the first thing you should eat (10 plus)

http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Apple_Tree

Water-pumps Villages, Towns and Cities:

http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Water_Pumps

Crafting a bow, backpack, food and water no more than 40 mins to an hour even less (fresh-spawn gear or bambi-gear if you are a new player)

Also all your crafting answered in the Wiki:

http://dayz.gamepedia.com/DayZ_Standalone_Wiki
There is one objective: do anything necessary to keep your self alive whether that be killing some one who is a possible theat or finding that one can of food that will save your life!


Special thanks to Maca for providing information to the guide.

Important things to know

#1 rule in dayz: Do not get attached to your gear!

Use 3rd person so you can peek over fences or around corners and things like that.

Never trust anyone they will just about always kill you.

If caught off guard and told to stop by another player do as they say it may just save your life. If you run you probably wont survive. They may want to hold you up or give you supplies. In most cases its to hold you up.

The word "Friendly" means nothing in most cases, players use it to make you stop and trust them so they can shoot you.

Always listen to players when talking to you, for example if they say "we" then they have a mate so be careful.

When you kill a player check there name for clan tags if they have a clan tag check the player list for other clan tags the same because it can tell you if he/she has buddys or if he/she is in a group.

Try not to walk out in the open go from cover to cover.

Do not bandage in the open (unless there's no other choice for instance no cover).

Never ever bandage in the middle of the airfield unless you have no other choice.

If you get zombies punch them in the head. Better option is to trap them.

Use bushes and tree as cover.

Always close the door behind you so you can hear if a player walks in so you can be prepared.

Try not to kill on sight (or use this: No mic kill on sight).

If your wearing a ghillie suit with a ghillie hood do not move your head when prone! It will catch some ones eye very easily!

Always take the long route (It's safer). (Unless you have balls of steel!)

Never run in the middle of the airfield you will mostlikly get sniped.

Always check your surroundings.

If you start getting fired upon zigzag and find cover and do not just go side to side mix it up a bit.

Zombie's can save your life some times, if a zombie is aggro at something and not you it can mean it is chasing a player so keep an eye out for running zombie's.

Never stay still always keep moving, it makes it harder to aim at you, for example do not stay still when checking your inventory always move side to side and stuff like that, if you dont snipers get a easy kill.

Use helmets like these: motorbike helmet, gorka helmet, great helmet. (can prevent you from being punched out via fists and may save your life)(not garrenteed)

Before you just run into a barracks or a military area peek over the fence in 3rd person to check for players.

When being shot at try not to panic and look for the shooter!

When you shoot a puff of smoke will apear each time you shoot making it easier for enemies to spot you!

You can shoot through most materials.
doors, wood, tin, etc remember that it will come in handy.

If your weapon jams press (R by default) to eject the damaged/ruined round from the chamber!

Try not to team up with a player that you have just met they will tag along for a bit then shoot you for your stuff.

Do not loot the body's until you know it is safe to do so. (If you are out of ammo or need a bandage desperately try and loot the bodys QUICKLY and grab the things you NEED).

Have a map on standby. That includes experienced players too, it is always good to have a map on standby just incase.

If you put ammo/magazines in your hotbar then select it in your hotbar to reload your gun.

Remember to always press (R by default) to recock certain weapons, Repeater, shotguns, trunpet, etc.

To get a player up from being unconscious fast spam CPR! Or use a epinephrine.

Remeber be patient. this game requires lots and lots of time and patients.

The game is alot more fun with teammates!

How to get more fps in Dayz Standalone

Fps guide by Reaper:
DayZ: Increase your FPS/Performance efficiently. (20-30 fps boost)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=216291078

Finding you and your friends locations. Where the $#@! am I??????

Here is a map on how to find you and your friends locations

DayZ central (Android app) Click Here[play.google.com]
DayZ Central pro unlocker (Android app) Click here[play.google.com]

The DayZ Central Pro Unlocker is free on their Website[skunkfu.net] It would be greatly appreciated if you support the developers of DayZ Central by buying the pro unlocker from the google playstore. (I Bought it knowing that there is a free one on the website and im not kidding, i would deffinetly buy it again if i had to)

Dayz Central has a higher resolution map, Alot more information and is the best guide iv ever used in my life. I recommend DayZ Central more then Izurvive. Only thing is DayZ Central is an app and cannot be used on a pc how ever izurvive can be used on pc but is not as good as DayZ Central.

Here is Izurvive[www.izurvive.com]

Here is a map for desktop really good map for the steam overlay while ingame:

Dayzdb map[www.dayzdb.com]

Looting Guide (Updating In Progress)

Looting guide for 0.61 by Pitstop head:

Guide on How loot works by Wobo:

The Hunting backpack spawns in the following locations; deer stands, deer huts and shacks:

Characters

Bandits:

Bandits are not very nice they will torture you and kill you in the most terrible ways they can think of. Or they will just kos you. If you encounter a bandit do what you are told or take them on and try and kill them(high risk of death). If you encounter bandits your best way out of that situation is to do as your told and you may suvive and be as nice as possible and maby try and make a joke or two not about them though.

Choices:
1. Avoid them. (not easy to do without being spotted)

2. Try and kill them. (You will most likely end up dead unless your Frankie)

3. Just do as your told. (Slight chance you might survive but your most likely as good as dead)

Hero's:

Hero's are very nice people who risk there own lives to help you and hero's are incredibly rare but if you do encounter one ask them for advice or supplies and ask them if you can tag along and do not shoot them.

Choices:
1. Be nice accept what they have to offer.

2. Ask for advice and supplies.

3. Do as they say.

4. Do not kill them it is really annoying for them to end up dead when they have risked there lives to help you. It makes there day to help you.

Survivor's:

That's everyone in general.

Choices:
1. Be friendly(high chance of death)

2. Kill them (you will probably end up dead. Good luck!)

3. Try and avoid them (not easy to do without being spotted)

Infected:

Infected are not real players they are a.i.

Infected aka Zombies.

Your best options for the infected are these:

1. Avoid them.

2. If they start chasing you try and trap them in buildings.

3. Kill them (only shoot them if you have a lot on you) if you have a melee weapon and only one or two chasing you, or punch them in the head with your fists

4. Out run them then shoot them or just run away.

5. You can crouch and sneak past them if your lucky, this will not always work though.

6. Rocky balboa them!!! (Fist fight them)

your play style

You can pick your playstyle but most of the time the playstyle picks you.
These will help you to figure out your play style:

Bandit

Kill anything that moves.
Torture anything that moves.
Handcuff and hold hostages.
Force feed your hostages poison, rotten food, uncooked food, cleaning fluid, fuel, etc.
Put em in a dress and take there stuff.
Cut em up and eat em.
Cuffem take all there stuff leave em with a can of beans, run away.
Etc.

hero

Give advice to new players.
Help players out.
Risk your life for strangers.
Help out newspawns give them food and supplies.
Give out food & drinks to others.
Give medical supplies to others in need.
Do anything in your power to help others.
Protect players.
Etc.

30 Tips for 0.62 by Wobo

30 Tips for 0.62 by Wobo

Your Health

Health is a measurement of the player's overall physical well being in DayZ, survivors start with full health (5000). They lose health when they get shot, bit, punched, starved, dehydrated, overheated, sick, etc. And need to maintain/deal with a score of stats and status Effects to Survive. When you lose health, your vision will start to blur, the blurrier it is, the lower your health likely is[2]. Losing all health results in permanent death.

Health can only be regained through Natural Regeneration under the right conditions. For regeneration to occur, the character needs to be energized (bright green), hydrated (at leastdark green) and have a full Blood level. At which point the status indicator "Healing" will show at the inventory screen. When regeneration has completed and a player has returned to full health, they will see the "Healthy" status indicator instead, as long as the player is not ill or infected. Being healthy means you can sustain more punishment.

Blood

Blood is one of the bodily stats of the player in DayZ. The major stat that affects a survivors ability to survive is now Health.

Bleeding
Bleeding commonly occurs when a player is injured by zombies but can also happen due to gunshot wounds or other forms of inflicted injury. When bleeding, a player will receive various warning messages indicating that he/she is bleeding, the point of injury or bleeding is usually visible when examining the body.

When bleeding, immediate treatment using a bandage or a rag must be done to prevent further blood loss, its side-effects, unconsciousness and a lastly death. Longer term treatment should include the player staying well feed and hydrated, to naturally regenerate blood. One may still receive a saline bag or a transfusion from a donor to boost their blood levels more rapidly.

Loss of blood may vary depending on the type of injury, the following are a list of inflicted injuries in order of most severe to the least in terms of blood loss.

Projectile or gunshot wounds, larger caliber bullets inflict heavier damage plus severe bleeding
Slice wounds or that caused by hatchets or knives
Blunt force
Zombie attacks
Poisoning, Thirst, Hunger
Blood Levels and Effects
Unlike in the DayZ mod, there is no indication of the actual blood values in standalone, so the following blood levels are assumed with explained symptoms.

High - Clear and well saturated vision.
Moderate - Will see slightly less saturated colors, may experience blurry vision but may still see at far distances.
Low - May randomly fall unconscious, will see an obvious amount of de-saturation of colors, may experience blurry vision but with reduced ability to distinguish at short distances.
Severe - May easily and often fall in and out of consciousness, little to no saturation of colors, may experience significant amount of blurred vision such that distinguishing objects at more than 50m may be extremely difficult.
Stop Bleeding
Before using a bandage, an injured player must first determine if they are bleeding or not. Bleeding may be indicated by a blinking white medical cross symbol over a player's blood icon in the HUD. Bleeding may also be shown as a stream of blood gushing from a player, although this is not always present, as in the case of broken bones. A low level of blood, which may be indicative of bleeding, may be shown by a general desaturation of a player's screen.

Bandaging oneself

A player may use a bandage either on themselves or on another player. Before applying a bandage, it is recommended to clear the area of threats or allow for enough time to administer a bandage safely, for obvious reasons. To apply a bandage to oneself, the inventory must be opened [Tab] and there must be a bandage present. By right-clicking a bandage and selecting "Bandage Myself" from the menu that appears. Bandaging takes approximately ten seconds, during which the players is vulnerable to attack and cannot move without 'breaking' the animation which means having to bandage again.

Bandaging others

To bandage another player, one must be within range for the context option "Apply Bandage" to appear when using the context menu (middle mouse button for default action, scroll for context menu, backspace to cancel). To bandage others, the bandage must be placed in the hand slot.

Regaining Blood
Blood can be regained through various methods:

Naturally
Eating
Donor blood transfusions
Saline injection (Revives unconscious player; go to the bottom of the Guide for more information)
Natural Regeneration

A player will naturally regenerate blood if he is kept well-energized and hydrated. As a result, his blood will increase as soon as the following requierements are met:

Slow Regeneration (1 blood/second):

Energy > 3500
Water > 3000
Full Regeneration (3 blood/second):

Energy > 5000
Water > 2500
The values are not yet confirmed by the developers, but appear to be correct so far.

Eating

Eating can help in blood regeneration, however controlled amounts of food must be consumed over a period of time as over-eating may result in illness.
Blood Transfusions
Substantial amounts of blood can be regained in very short time by administering blood transfusions, this can be given by donation or blood bag, although performing a donor transfusion requires the following:

A second player with blood type compatible with that of the receiver, if the receiver is transfused with blood of an incompatible type, he/she may die.
Blood Bag Kit (To avoid incident, ensure that the kit is in decent, if not perfect condition).
Warning: There is immediate risk in receiving blood which has been contaminated or infected with disease (Contamination from handling or donor transmission). A blood test kit can be used to determine if the players blood is infected or contaminated.

You can Test your blood with the blood tester. You first need to find out what type of blood you and your potential reciever/donator has.

How to Give a Blood Transfusion

Required materials: x1 Blood Bag Kit and x1 IV Starter Kit

Take a blood sample from the patient to determine his/her bloodtype (required materials: x1 IV Starter Kit x1, Syringe x1 and Blood Testing Kit)
To draw blood, place the Blood Bag Kit in your hand, and draw blood from another person by using the scroll wheel to produce the corresponding menu options for application.
To create a Blood Bag IV drag the IV starter Kit on top of the Blood Bag.
This process will create x1 Blood Bag IV.
To administer a Blood Bag IV, place the Blood Bag IV in your hand, and either apply to the patient by using the scroll wheel to produce the corresponding menu options for application.
Restores 1,000 blood
WARNING: Hemolytic Reaction occurs when blood types are incompatible.
Refer to the following table for your Blood Transfusion:
Blood Compatibility Chart:


If a patient is in dire need of a blood transfusion, and if the time to process the recipient’s blood would cause a detriment delay, O Negative blood can be issued. They are known as universal donors.
If a patient has AB+ blood type, he/she can receive donor blood of any type.
Saline Injection
A saline injection will increase the blood level of the recipient by 500 blood. Combine a Saline Bag with an IV Start kit to create a Saline Bag IV, then put the result into your hands and use it on another player.

Required materials: x1 Saline bag x1 IV Starter Kit

A person must be administered Saline Bag IV by a medic.
To create a Saline IV drag the IV Starter Kit on top of the Saline Bag.
This process will create x1 Saline Bag IV.
To administer a Saline Bag IV, place the Saline Bag IV in your hand, and apply to the patient by using the scroll wheel to produce the corresponding menu options for application.
Increases blood level by 500
Source - DayZ Wiki & Medical Field Manual (Reddit Rescue Rangers)

HeliCrash Sites (Updating In Progress)

There are two types of Helicopter Crash Sites in Chernarus; UH-1Y-Venom crashes and Mi-8 crashes.The crash sites can be found in random locations throughout the map. It spawns the following gear; smarsh vests, high capacity vests, plate carrier, mags, ammo, general military ans other gear and corresponding attachments. every 30 minutes the crashsites will despawn and respawn in a different location, up to three (3), helicopter crash sites of the random variety will spawn throughout Chernarus.The Mi-8 crashes don't produce smoke, making them harder to spot at a distance. Both types spawn 1000m apart.

UH-1Y "Venom" (NATO)

Mil Mi-8 (Russian)

Here is a video on Dynamic Events in DayZ | Police/Boat/Heli Loot Route by Wobo:

Persistence (Outdated - Updating In Progress)

Please keep in mind this information may not be up to date. If anyone has the correct information about persistence please leave a comment down below.

PERSISTENCE (Some servers may have persistance disabled)

Persistence is defined as an object's ability to remain ingame despite server restarts.

The time info below indicates an object's lifetime (timeout until it despawns) regardless
of server restarts. By the way, interacting with an object will reset its lifetime.


Weapons & items - 30 minutes

Tents - 8 days
Cars - 8 days
Small Protector Case - 8 days
Ammo Canister - 8 days
Oil Barrel - 8 days
Barrel with holes - Same as the "Oil Barrel" it seems

Default Backpacks - 4 hours
Courier Bag - 1 hour
Improvised Backpack - 1 hour
Improvised Leather Backpack (boar pelt) - 1 hour

Fireplace - No Persistence
Waterproof Bag - No Persistence

Natural (and dyed black) Leather Sack - 1 hour
Gasoline Canister - 30 minutes


Give a special thanks to Shiney Squirrels for providing information to this guide!

Finding Netting in 0.60 (Works for 0.62)

Here is a video on were to find netting in 0.59 by Pitstop Head:

Go to the Helicrash sites section, that will tell you how the boat spawning works.

Works almost if not the same in 0.61.

Building a base

Building camps by DeadlySlob:

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Isador's comprehensive guide to survival in DayZ
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Crafting Guide 0.62 By WaffleChip
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Alright. Iv updated as much as i can right now. The content that is not yet up to date may take some time while i do some research on the topics to update them. But for the most part, its as up to date as its gonna get right now. It will be fully up to date soon.

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Since 0.63 is now on stable, I will be updating this guide. There is alot of information i need to go through and sort out so please be patient. It will take me a while to update it.

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There is no way of getting notified when i update this guide. But when 0.63 is on stable i will update the guide as best i can.

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If you have razer try this as this works for me:

https://i.imgur.com/mXjSMAg.png

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Do you have a device such as a razer keyboard, mouse or a Logitech device? Anything that supports macros?

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