Haven't played 1.30 much yet, but did not see anyone without arms, and they were rampant in console.

At the same time, I shot a random dude point blank twice with a bk today and hit nothing... so maybe godmode doesn't remove arms anymore, which would be even worse.

You're all wellcome to quench your thirst and plant some tomatoes and peppers in my town, way down south.

I understand and accept that you'll probably kill me on sight, wall off the well and raid my house but that doesn't mean you need to do so with a partched throat and headache.

🥵

There was only enough room in the truck for two of us, our buddy was running along side us on the way back to base but couldn’t out run the evil bear

Side not he survived the attack and we ran the bear over. Needles to say he rode shotgun the rest of the trip

Knowledge is power and I was just curious

On Nasdara atm and had a huge queue, so I lockpicked an industrial shed and parkoured my way to the office roof thing so I'd be safe to Afk for five mins. I came back to a server restart and someone banging on the doors, and I waited like 2 mins, and they left, so I used my lock pick, and it took durability but didn't unlock. Tried other doors, but now I'm pretty sure I'm cooked and need to server hop.. (im laying on the floor of the shed and i hear them outside rn lmfaoo)

I own both add ons, but when i go to the server list, it says i dont own them. This happened maybe a day or so after the badlands update and has not gone away. I also have played both frostline and badlands before this happened, so i 100% do have them both installed and should be working. Thinking maybe could be a bug caused by the big update and everything, but if anyone knows why this is happening, if Theres anything i can do, or if anyone else is having this problem lmk. Also should clarify just incase, im on xbox series x.

i am into game, like playing survival but the thing i am worried about is player number. i play rust last year and was looking new game i also play tarkov i dont look for pvp any minute but 60 people in big forest i dont know also saw some issues about fake server pops like happening in rust. waiting for opinions

Hackers in nasdara officiall. Was excited and jammed up to rock out on official, its a good experience, other than the hackers. What was i thinking.. wasted some time . Server suggestions?

Lost it last week when I went too steep, too fast, span 360 and died.

Was in the mountain ranges way down south and only knew that I was somewhere around Shana Kuh heading North when I got yeeted.

Too 2 separate trips and about 4 hours to find the little guy and when I did he was all looking at me like " what took you so long? "

Had zero gas in the tank ( was 2 thirds full ) which I guess is a bug. I always carry a half bottle of gasoline for times like these.

😀

I suppose he combat logged, or lagged out, then logged back in only to find he couldn't move. Happens to me sometimes when I load in and I have to alt+tab and open the DayZ window again to fix it. Rip bro but I suppose he was about to fuck my whole world up if I hadn't spotted him.

This is really winding me up. I like the mechanic but dial it down a notch I’m playing right now, I’m inside naked as the day I was born. I’m sitting at temp yellow and rising and I’ve drunk 3 cans and 1 and half water bottles. I’ve not seen white temp and water at the same time. I don’t know what else I can do. Going south water is super hard to find I’m having to dip back and forth it’s a nightmare. I’ve have 4-5 4+hour runs now and each time I’ve died of heatstroke or been killed while trying to find water. 🤦🏻‍♂️

* locked doors can only be opens whit lock pin
*code locks has to be manually opened after u put in the right code
*when you get smacked by a zombie the screen goes red
*fall damage is stronger

Probably missed something but these things really bugs me out.

What are your thoughts?

Was on Nasdara with a relatively geared char. Was looking to f11 so I can play on Chernarus anyways but some things happened that were really shit. Zombie hit me and just kept cutting me. No big deal. Then 3 more aggro'd. I couldn't climb onto anything. Then I fell through the edge of a house, got cut a 4th time. So zombie pauses, I shoot her in the head, nothing. 5th cut. Still can't climb onto anything. Now there's like 7 zombies as i'm running around from one climb-up-able object to the other not being able to climb, I'm on a 2nd floor ledge and the zombies are running up one after the other and launching straight out the doorway into the air, except for one of them that finally didn't. Cut. Finally can get up onto the roof in the middle of the day and my temp starts to plummet for some reason and I f11'd.

Ive gotten heat sickness and the sickness never went away, even if I strip down and get the temp icon to white, the bug is still there.

Is this essentially a permanent condition one just manages? Ive even half jokingly considered logging into sakhal for a few minutes to see if that will get rid of it.

I'm on chernarus (official servers) and sticking to the woods for a bit. There's small streams and small ponds away from built up areas.

Are they safe to drink?

I’ve seen a lot of confusion about heat stroke and whether it’s actually curable. Yes, the heat stroke sickness icon is bugged. Yes, heat stroke is completely recoverable, even in the later stages. The most important things to understand are hydration, temperature, and how the hidden heat stroke mechanic works.

1. Hydration Is the Key to Prevention
There’s a major difference between having a white water icon and a completely full white water icon.
DayZ has a maximum hydration value of 5,000.
Yellow water: 300–999 hydration.
Mostly white water: 1,000–3,499 hydration (20–69.9%).
Full white water: 3,500–5,000 hydration (70–100%).

Why does this matter?

When your temperature indicator is yellow:
Below 1,000 hydration: Heat stroke continues accumulating through all stages.
1,000–3,499 hydration: Heat stroke can accumulate, but only up to stage 1.
3,500–5,000 hydration: Heat stroke stops accumulating entirely while your temperature remains yellow.
This means you can survive in yellow temperatures indefinitely without accumulating additional heat stroke, provided you maintain at least 3,500 hydration.
IMPORTANT: If your temperature indicator turns red, heat stroke accumulates regardless of hydration. Being fully hydrated does NOT protect you from red temperatures.
2. Understanding the Four Stages of Heat Stroke
Heat stroke operates using a hidden accumulation value called thermal bias.

Stage 1 (Above 0)
Increased water consumption.
No noticeable symptoms.
Easily overlooked.

Stage 2 (Above 0.40)
Blurred vision.
Slower stamina regeneration.
Faster stamina depletion.
Overheating animations and sounds.

Stage 3 (Above 0.60)
All previous symptoms.
Periodic vomiting.
Additional hydration and energy loss from vomiting.
Significant difficulty maintaining hydration.

Stage 4 (Above 0.85)
All previous symptoms.
Health damage.
Possible unconsciousness.
Can eventually kill your character if left untreated.

3. How to Actually Recover From Heat Stroke
Heat stroke is NOT permanent. You can recover from stage 3 and even stage 4.

Here’s what you need to do:

Get fully hydrated. Bring your water indicator to full white (3,500+ hydration). This prevents further accumulation while your temperature is yellow.

Lower your temperature to white or light blue. Light blue is a useful target because it provides a cooling buffer. Your hidden heat stroke accumulation gradually decreases once your temperature is back in the normal white range.
Find shade or shelter. Avoid direct sunlight, remove heavily insulated clothing, and wet your clothes if necessary.
Wash your face/head. This directly reduces accumulated thermal bias by approximately 0.175 and provides 30 seconds of temporary resistance to further accumulation.

Be patient. If you’re already in stage 3, recovery can take time. Getting hydrated doesn’t instantly cure the sickness. Your accumulated thermal bias still needs to decrease.

Maintain your hydration throughout recovery. Vomiting can make this difficult in stage 3, so replenish fluids carefully rather than drinking excessively at once.
You should eventually notice symptoms becoming less frequent before disappearing entirely.

4. The Heat Stroke Sickness Icon Is Bugged
This is important because it’s causing a lot of players to believe heat stroke is permanent or impossible to cure.
Players have reported two separate issues with the sickness indicator:

The icon may never appear: You can have heat stroke symptoms such as blurred vision, sweating, and vomiting without the sickness icon showing up.

The icon may not disappear: Even after recovering and no longer experiencing symptoms, the sickness icon can remain on your screen.

The sickness icon is NOT a reliable way to determine whether you currently have heat stroke or whether you’ve recovered.

If you’ve cooled down, maintained hydration, and your symptoms have stopped, you may have recovered even if the sickness icon remains visible.

Try logging out and back in. Players have reported that relogging can fix the sickness indicator, both when it fails to appear and when it remains after recovery. However, this doesn’t work for everyone.

Keep in mind that relogging is a potential fix for the UI bug, not a cure for actual heat stroke.
If you’re still vomiting, experiencing blurred vision, or suffering other symptoms, don’t assume you’re cured just because the icon disappears.

5. The Biggest Misconception
Having a white water icon does NOT necessarily mean you’re fully hydrated.
You might have 2,000 hydration and think you’re fine because the icon is white, but you’re still below the 3,500 threshold required to completely prevent heat stroke accumulation at yellow temperatures.
The difference between mostly white and full white water is extremely important.
Also, hydration prevents accumulation under the right conditions; it doesn’t instantly cure existing heat stroke. You still need to cool down to reduce the hidden accumulated value.

TL;DR
3,500–5,000 hydration: Prevents heat stroke accumulation while temperature is yellow.
1,000–3,499 hydration: Heat stroke can accumulate up to stage 1 while yellow.
Below 1,000 hydration: Heat stroke can continue progressing through all stages.
Red temperature: Heat stroke accumulates regardless of hydration.
White/light blue temperature: Allows accumulated heat stroke to decrease.
Stage 3 and 4: Recoverable, but cooling down and maintaining hydration are essential.
Washing your head: Directly reduces accumulated heat stroke.
Sickness icon missing: You can still have heat stroke without the icon.
Sickness icon stuck: It may remain visible even after recovery.
Relogging: Can fix the bugged indicator, but does not cure the actual sickness.

Stay hydrated, stay out of the red, and don’t trust the sickness icon alone. Pay attention to your actual symptoms.

Just so people don't need to write down the beeps and boops and then run to a computer and enter them into a decoder, I thought I'd put together a really simple guide to listening and deciphering morse code numbers on the go.

For the Nasdara bunkers, the morse code sequences will always come after a long pause, called a "break." Listen for this long, three-second pause before you start writing down your numbers.

Once the sequence starts, you're listening for up to 10 digits. The first six will be your coordinates, and the last four will be your keypad code. Each of these digits will be made up of five units, either a dot (short beep) or a dash (long beep.)

Morse code numbers are very easy to decode upon listening:

If you hear a dot (short beep) first, it's a number between 1 and 5. Count how many dots you hear BEFORE the dash, and that's your digit. If you hear dot-dot-dot-DASH-DASH it's a three, if you hear dot-dot-dot-dot-dot, it's a five, etc.

If you hear a dash (long beep) first, it's a number between 6 and 0. Same thing, count the dashes you hear before the dot, starting at six. If you hear DASH-DASH-DASH-dot dot, it's eight. If you hear DASH-DASH-DASH-DASH-DASH, it's zero, etc.

Using this guide you should be able to write down around 10 numbers before the break which indicates the end of the sequence. Separate the first 6 numbers from the last numbers. Use the first 6 numbers to locate the bunker. The remaining numbers are your keypad code.

Good luck!

Seems shooting at zombies as they run at you crashes your game. Was playing the other night and was in a decent place for what loot I had. I had a double barrel shotgun which is one of my favorite weapons. Had a zombie chasing me, I brought him out to the middle of no other zombies just me and him but as I shot him my game crashed.

Loaded back in a day later and was standing in the same spot it crashed. I figured my shot killed the zombie. Finally made it to the Missile Base. Had the .22 pistol out. A zombie ran at me, I fired and the game crashed again. I load in and I’m a fresh spawn all loot gone. The game crashed and the zombie killed me before my player was off the server and I lost everything. And I’m on the other side of the map from the Missile Base. How am I supposed to play a zombie game if the game crashes everytime I shoot at one???

Hi, I'm fairly new to building bases and camps so I'm hoping someone can shed some light on what's happened, I've just come back to my tent to find some items missing(cooking stoves with pots and ammo and mags missing from guns) I don't think I've been raided as they left a nearly full mag that was loose in the tent inventory and actually taken it off the gun, and the round in the chamber.

I also lost my handgun when I swapped from it, to a rifle on the hot keys (I made sure it hadn't been dropped on the floor or on top of the NBC tent I was standing in)

I'm playing on a community server with fairly few mods, and was away for 24hrs, logged off far from the camp

Thanks 👍

After 9 YouTube videos, 40 hours, and countless Reddit posts, comments, and discussions. I've FINALLY got a run where I don't get absolutely obliterated by the heat. Walking into Tier 2 a wilted mess.

I cannot help with what to do when you're already sick. But I can give you the goods on not getting sick in the first place.

The Strat

Spawn in. Find a water truck immediately.

You need a the hydration level to be White-Full, once that is achieved. Your Heat Stroke Bar stops accumulating while it's at White-Full.

Hydration Values

Yellow: 300 - 1000
White-Low: 1000 - 3500
White-Full: 3500 - 5000

Trust me, you need White-Full-Full. A full 5000 before setting off.

While staving off a full belly of water, about roughly ~4 or more of them until you get White-Full. Wash your face.

1 cycle of hand washing at the spout or .5 ml of water will trigger a 30-sec cycle. In this time, your heat stroke meter will be lowered. Set a stop watch on your phone, because triggering it too soon will only extend the cooldown with no effects otherwise.

After you've achieved White-Full, you can start to move around like normal DayZ.

There's 2 caveats though:

(1) If you're already sick, you'll have to take additional actions. You're already compromised, and the heat stroke meter will continue to append.

(2) If your temp gauge goes in the red, you start taking heat stroke accumulation again.

That's it! I'll give some additional commentary below, buts it's definitely going to be A LOT of extra's. It's a long read to an already long post - you've been warned.

Additional information

With that, I recommend you walk up to the spout and wash your face first thing.

Get your drinks in between, and hit the wash face every 30 sec. You'll be here for a long time. You'll be dealing with waiting out the full belly sign, this is where you can loot around. Maybe catch some shade.

Come to realize that the Heat Stroke Meter is unlike ANY DayZ experience. Get the idea out of your head this is "Hot Sakhal" if you haven't already, which I assume you have lol.

This map is far gnarlier. Especially for DayZ vets.

Historically speaking, we have come to depend on reliable guages and systems in the past.

Food and Water above red? - we're happy.

Hands covered / blood washed? - happy.

Wet and Cold? - catch a heat buff, ring em out - solid.

Sakhal comes along. We soon realize that you spawn in, and you've got about 20 mins before even chopping that first piece of bark. Added insulation and clothing status into the mix.. things are starting to accumulate but hey? You're a certified Sakhal Master now, with honors!

Nasdara

Catch a fully belly of water. Drench the threads. Sit in the shade until temp gauge is white - certified Sultan..

Right?

Absolutely not.

First and foremost, there is no handy dandy gauge on the fill em up to full bar for this thing. Even the temp gauge, which was supposed to be the A+ go to thing in all of this.. just like Sakhal, but Opposite Day.. has such little impact, it's almost confusing as hell.

Temp gauge isn't worthless, but it's pretty much just an indicator of your internal temp. Lets you know which areas catch you heat stroke faster, lets you know when your water is not being retained as good, and most usefully maybe - shows you when it's red.

One important thing, and albeit confusing - just know, that while the Temp gauge and invisible Heat Stroke Meter are two very different things. They seem to both accumulate / decline in similar areas, the rates at which the Heat Stroke Meter do are a mystery to me though. I have no idea how many times a guy should wash their face or how long to sit in the shade.

But from what I assume.. it's an absolute ton.

But with that, just know that a guy with red temperature values can be absolutely the furthest away from catching heat sickness. While a guy in nothing but white temperature gauge values can be on the brink of it.

Character wiping sweat = you're accumulating heat stroke meter is going up fast asf boi. And you don't want to be sitting in that zone for too long.

There's 2 phases in this map though. And that's before the visit to the first water truck, and everything after that. Because that first White-Full-Full is the springboard to the rest of the run.

This map is so ungodly dependent on you having and retaining White-Full-Full, there is no other reason for anything else without it. Not 1 piece of loot matters otherwise, when your stomach drops to even White-Low. Because if you don't find water soon to get back, you're now running the map at a massive handicap against you.

While you're there, get rid of a lot of the heat stroke you've already built up. Just in case later down the road, if you end up at White-Low, you'll be topped as much as possible's.

I recommend avoiding even one piece of Medium insulation before the truck. Because you have to realize, that as soon as you spawn in?

You're already in a hyper-critical state, at the default level. You need water like last week. Seriously.

Understand that maybe a gun and a weapon, maybe a backpack.. and definitely a water container. Are the only things you might want to snag before finding the truck.

That truck is mission #1 though. Because if you can't find one, you're almost looking at an F11 situation the way I see it.

After you've got the credentials to start moving though? This is when shit like Wet Clothing and the Temp Gauge matter so much more I feel like.

Wet Clothing to reduce your temp to retain water, and temp gauge to shows if you're in the red, which you'll be surprised at how often that happens once you're out there moving around with a full hydration meter.

The loot on the map can usually supplement the White-Full meter in hydration. Save your water for washing your face. Do it maybe once every ~3 or so times you get caught in the red, which when I do I'm only at it for a minute tops.

Sprinting becomes a treat, because it gets you in the red almost certainly a lot of times. Hit the shade, strip down, and wait it out.

After that springboard, you really can start to roll around like old DayZ. But you're still taking shadow routes whenever you can. And sometimes having 4 water bottles isn't enough man.

I've gone hours without seeing another truck on a lot of runs. Sometimes I've seen em b2b towns. They're dynamic-static spawns. Meaning they spawn in set locations, but never at a fixed rate. And I believe there's multiple locations they can spawn per town.

Let me know your thoughts!

Is there any viable backpack options for the new map Nasdara that has worst - low insulation or a method to keep character cool during mid day sun?

The usual backpacks for high capacity storage like field backpack or mountain backpack has high - best insulation which works against you during the mid day sun even in the shade. I'm curious if anyone has found backpacks native to the map that helps against heat but has a fairly decent storage. So far only Burlap Backpack seems the best option that I have found, worst insulation and 35 slot capacity. Anyone else found different options or methods?

Timeline, for anyone who hasn't been following the Switch 2 version:

20 Aug - DayZ: Cool Edition launches on Switch 2. 60 EUR. Content up to 1.29.
2 Sep - Patch 1. Patch notes list six separate crash fixes.
15 Oct - Update 1.30 and Badlands ship to PC, Xbox and PlayStation.
Switch 2 official servers get wiped, same as everyone else.
Switch 2 gets no 1.30 content. No bikes, no inventory rework, nothing.
The version number changed. Nothing else did.
Bohemia said a patch would follow "later this month."
20 Oct - Still nothing.

Meanwhile the game still crashes every 5-10 minutes. Black screen, error, home menu. Characters and gear gone, repeatedly.

So the platform that paid full price in August got the downside of the update (full wipe) and none of the upside.

Badlands for Switch 2 is now listed for Q1 2027.

I've filed on the Feedback Tracker and I've requested a refund from Nintendo, is the only way.

I don’t know what’s going on with the half-sized crates, but I’ve seen videos of people punching them open or using lockpicks to get inside. I was looting Atlas at nighttime and I noticed several floating guns. When I saw they were DMRs I realized that they were from the locked crate, yet the crate was gone (or invisible?). Anyways I took the DMRs and one of them even had a 20 rnd mag and an Atog Scope. Should I feel guilty about this or just glad that I was lucky enough to find it?

Have players built up the wells on your main servers already? Anyone down to form a group where we rebuild wells on all servers? Love Bohemia adding cohesive elements for the community to band together for.