ps. don't put the bike into the boat

Meth lab in the middle of nowhere I found on official

Took me a second to realize they were power line wire markers

I am a D1 dayz dev hater but they seriously knocked it out of the park with this one. The map is beautiful, the new items are great, new heat mechanic is clever, dynamic bunkers are really clever, new building format is insane, very cool sandstorm effect.

Amazing job devs. Like seriously.

Now fix the cheating issues please

Wanted a way to hide stuff but the survival way: plant trees and bushes, wait. You find seeds, dig them in with a shovel, and over time they grow into a tree or bush. Plant some around your base, give it some time and it´s part of the forest.

Uses the vanilla models and sits in the ground like the map's own trees, so it doesn't look "modded in".

What's in already

• 6 bushes and 16 trees - Some trees also come as a forest version, tall and thin with a bare trunk
• Planting works like base building: hologram, place it, done. You need something to dig with, and if a spot doesn't work it actually tells you why
• Trees grow from a little sapling → young tree → full tree. It's real time, keeps growing while offline (bushes ~1h, trees ~12h by default)
• Cut a bush and it grows back. Dig it up if you want it gone for good
• Trees can be chopped with an axe → logs, sticks and a stump. Takes a while, so nobody clears your cover in 5 seconds
• Some rules so it doesn't get silly: needs proper soil, not on roads, not glued to buildings, trees need a bit of space between them, plus a plant limit per player/server
• Server owners can tweak pretty much everything in a config file (grow times, chances, distances, limits)

Seeds:

• loot in farms and villages
• chopping wild bushes sometimes drops a seed
• search wild trees for seeds (forest trees give the forest version)
• apples/pears/plums: cut them up, get seeds

Ideas / what's next

• Make planting more work: dig a hole, fertilize, water it, then put the seed in
• Super old trees as a final stage (the huge 30m ones), but only after a looong time
• Trees actually falling over when you chop them
• Different seed models (acorns, cones…) so you can tell them apart (it wont show the seed name, so you must memorize the model :)
• Harvest fruit from your own apple/pear/plum trees
• Test it on Livonia, Sakhal and some community maps

I want this to be a bit of a grind, not something you spam on day one. Bush seeds are fairly easy to come by, so a quick hedge is doable. Tree seeds are rare and hard to find. A proper wall of trees should feel like an achievement.

Let me know what you think. Ideas? Anything missing? Does such a mod already exists?

Not on the Workshop yet but beta version coming soon

Update:

- You can't plant anything within 60 m of someone else's territory flag

- Your own base is fine: if you built the flag pole, raised the flag, or built anything near it (walls, gates, towers…), it counts as yours. So clans work automatically, no member lists needed

- Everywhere else in the world you can still plant. Want to hide a stash in the woods and put a bush on top? Go for it. Trees on top of stashes are blocked though, a trunk sitting on your stash would make it basically un-raidable

- And the game won't tell you why you can't plant somewhere, so you can't use a seed to sniff out hidden bases or stashes

- Load tested with 1500 planted trees and bushes on one server: no measurable impact on server performance

You can drink clean water from the back spigot area of the truck and fill your water bottle. They spawn dynamically in random locations across most towns.

I've noticed a strange sound while exploring Nasdara that sounds almost identical to the noise an infected makes when it spots a survivor and is triggered (sounds like the infected is roaring/shouting enraged).

I've heard it a few times now, and I'm starting to wonder if it's part of the new ambient soundscape or possibly an audio bug.

Has anyone else noticed this since Nasdara launched? Curious if it's intentional or if I'm just hearing things!

Date: October 15, 2026
PC/Xbox/PS/NS2 | 1.30 Stable Build
Ammo, weapons, mags & optics chart

There I was in the middle of a dusty wasteland when an unexpected traveler named Deer approached and asked for water.

Now, I had a cantine of cholera water on me but contemplated passing it off as clean water and so I did..

Deer took 4 big swigs and my evil grin grew across my face only to be met with thanks and a group proposal and well honestly, after a quick chat - Deer was a great guy and I couldn’t bear the guilt nor the shame in what I’ve done at this point. I agreed to an alliance, I wanted to save Deer’s life before I eventually took his.

We made it to Dashtabad before the serious affects set in. He died of cholera in a beautiful flower bush.

Sin confessed.

Found this in a town somewhat west along the highway from the capital. Seems like a reference to the stealth Blackhawk that crashed during the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound. I love all the little details the devs added to this map.

Quick guide for any player that has some hours in base game, but wants to try something new with DLC.

1. Temperature
   CAN and WILL kill you pretty fast. Time of day matters - nights are cold. Stay in shadows when you can, don’t sprint everywhere - it also rises your body temperature. Make breakes during longer journeys. You can cool down using any source of water - if you have option to „wash your face” - do it.
   
2. Navigation - there is a lot of mountains, which are good navigation point. In search of better equipment you want to move south east.
   Use sun, and rare buildings. You want to move around, but not too fast. Just don’t stay long in one place - unless you have a lot of supplies. Of course you can use IZurvive map.. but where is fun in it? Getting lost is way and exploring map by yourself is way cooler.
   
3. Clothing.
   We all know that DayZ must have was always full hunting clothes or field jacket.. here it changes.
   Clothes that you can find on spawn, are one of best clothes that you can use. Of course.. there are some alternatives, but running around after 8 hours of gameplay in the shirt that you found on spawn is nothing unusual. Make sure to make your clothing „wet” whenever you can.
   
4. Water sources.
   There are FEW ways to get water on Nasdara. On other maps, most of the time you could find water only at water pumps or some lakes. But here? You will find out.. just make sure to not drink dirty water - unless you have a lot of medicine like multivitamins and tetracycline. No water? Search for food that contains water - you will survive.
   
5. Weapons
   Loot economy on Nasdara is crazy. You can find powerfull weapons pretty close to spawn area. Problem is - you won’t find ammo for them that fast. And I can see the possibility that a lot of geared players WILL come back to spawn area - beacause of some supplies, that are harder to find further.
   
6. Vehicles.
   There are much more vehicles spawning on Nasdara, and all of them are pristine. The cars are often ready to drive. Map is bigger, but seeing other player is also much easier. If you are geared and have water - try to get your hands on a car or motorbike - it makes survival MUCH easier.
   
7. Nights
   A lot of dayz players hate nights. It is harder to see and navigate - even after the update that made nights much brighter. On Nasdara you will love nights. It makes moving around the map easier - beacause the sun doesn’t laser you down, and beacause the snipers won’t see you on huge empty field that easy.
   
8. You might need to change some habits
   - Don’t craft bottle supressor afer you find 2 bottles. Water is really rare - you want to fill up every single bottle, canteen and pot that you have in your inventory.
   - Stay away from fire. Heat buff? BAD
   - Move around at night, cook during the day.
   - Less buildings with doors - attack 1 or 2 zombies at the time.
   - Don’t go out on desert area alone, and without a car. There is a pretty high chance that you will just die. How? I won’t spoil.

...they add snowmobiles; add some unique building options exclusive to it like tree houses, igloos; animals unique to it like mountain lions and polar bears, etc. Make extensive use of underground caves, etc. There's so much potential there. They also need to make the heat packs more powerful so you're not having to build fires all the time. It becomes the new currency. Add a mainland with a huge city, etc.

I don't know 💀

I was walking around Nasdara on my first life.
Came across a Car with a Living Wagon. Guarded by two sience zeds. At the point when i was taking the pictures they were already killed. Inside was a chemistry station.
Sorry for the smartphone pics, forgott about the ps5 app pictures.

So far i killed like 5zeds in total and met 3 other players. It is kinda empty on a full server

End game loot makes the game so boring to me. So much more fun when everyone is fighting for scraps of food with shotguns and rifles without scopes. I'm happy plate carriers seem rare on Nasdara. I hope it stays that way.

P.S: I'm not saying that these things shouldn't be in the game. Just that I wish they were way more rare. 90% of fights on Livonia and Chenarus are between two plate carrier players.

Just a tip for those who did not know this was a mechanic, it uses up no water and insantly soaks clothes

(Cooking pot has to have water in it, obviously)

Love the new weather patterns in Badlands, but sandstorms can last 40 minutes. I don’t have time to sit and wait for it to end. Does a dust mask or gas mask completely mitigate the effects of the sandstorm? So far I’ve only been able to try an improvised face covering and a bandana, and my character was still coughing.

Also, it feels like the storm takes up the whole map, but I’ve read online it is localized. Can you escape the storm?

Haven’t had this much fun in years in Dayz. Such a breath of fresh air. The freshie battles have been so intense one after another. As someone who loved the idea of sahkal but hated the map layout and implementation, this new lad has become my favorite.