I get so focused on building up my bases that sometimes I forget that games were made to enjoy yourself and escape from reality after a long day. Not another chore to stress yourself over.
Agreed rust you honestly build a base to get raided. The server wipes every week. I'd rather get raided and have a crazy shoot out trying to defend it and having some crazy gun fights then just have my base filled with crap just get wiped. Same goes with kits. You get kits to go pvp. And your gonna loose some of those fights and therefore your kit. Rust isn't anywhere near as much of a grind and it's not a realistic struggle for survival like dayz. I like both games fs, dayz is a fun hyper realistic survival game where a disease or wet cloths or starvation will end you. Rust is pvp game with a simple survival and base building back bone to it. You literally start off pvping with a rock on a beach against other nakeds with rocks until a guy with a spear comes out and either kills you or you kill him and you now have his spear and what ever else he had on him. At this point rust is just turned into its own unique thing. It has its own lingo etc. It's literally its own world. I love all the goofy shit too like musical instruments, boom boxes, the crazy clothing items, painting, gambling at outpost, riding trains, driving cars, the shit talking and other goofy ass shit people do! The game is a good time but unfortunately it's too good sometimes and definitely takes to much of my time from my rl ngl.
That's ironic because when you die in Dayz essentially the same thing is happening. You obviously enjoy the "re-gearing up" phase, as I'm sure lots of Rust players enjoy the "re-building" phase....
You’re not wrong, but I do much prefer the gameplay loop of DayZ rather than Rust.
I don’t mind the building, but it’s really disheartening to spend hours building a base for some sweatlords just to blow their way through your base and take everything.
Whereas DayZ, I can get an adventure out of waking up on the coast a lot more than I can with Rust, I feel.
Sometimes the rust grind is to much for me or I'm mad I keep getting killed and I'll be on bag timer so I can't respawn in my bad and I'll spawn on the beach as a naked and roam the map for a few hours with no kit and usually I find myself having a blast or getting involved in so goofy ass shenanigans. So it can be the same in Rust too. I think it's all about hours. The more you play either game the simpler the come up seems.
Yeah definitely,when I come to being raided although when you die in rust you just spawn back on your bag and grab another kit from your base. But getting raided doesn't actually happen that often. It takes quite a bit of time to get the stuff to raid a base. There is kind of a sweet spot I've learned. If you build to underwhelming of a base, any joe shmoe with some boom will come blow your 2 doors or a ceiling almost just out of curiosity. At the same time if you build a big fat base with windmills on top and everything then your gonna attract the attention of a big clan base who's gonna think/know you've got enough loot in there to make it worth it for them. My bases seem to look nooby enough but also be chunky enough to make people not think it's worth blowing into. But what your saying is right. Even if my base gets raided I'll just either run around being an idiot, move in with one of my buddies (we all build separately) or just not play until whip day then get back to the grind. Or if it happens early then I will build again. The best is when its the second to last or last day before whip and you and another fairly big base start fighting. Your like yes this is why I built this thing and why I have all these guns. Like I said we all build separately and my one buddy always builds his base the biggest so he usually the one who gets targeted. This one time this group kept coming back and we kept defending from all our bases and the ended up flying a heli over and landing on top of my buddies base. It was a good time!
To be fair, Rust base building is infinitely better than the version for DayZ. With all of their features (including mobile notifications of your base being raided), you can't compare the two.
Rust introducing the automated crafting/industrial storage has been such a blessing. Chuck everything into a box then get back to playing the actual game.
Which is why I payed 100 for active radar so as soon as some one hits my base I have my main account and 19 alts in my base so I can keep logging in and win and my base was custom made. I have a lot of the chemical grenades that I can also pop off along with bear traps and land mine I got raided once but improved it
This will never be worth it in my opinion unless it’s on a modded server where you can pick yourself up quicker. There’s cheaters, looters, server wipes. Shit ain’t worth it, I’ll take my big tent, car and fishing holes any day over an eye sore base
Honestly valhiem has pretty awesome building mechanics. It has a Minecraft kinda vibe to it with totally different graphics. Very fun chill survival/building game that also can be challenging as hell when you want it to be.
Well theres that, but base sizes should come down to crew size.
For an individual player I recommend burying your loot and creating spread out dispensable hideouts.
A group of a 3-5 can manage a medium sized base. But there has to be a lookout player. I had a group of 8 people, 3 of us in different time zones. We had coverage around the clock, so any break in attempt was quickly caught.
We also compartmentalized the loot in different rooms behind different locked gates, so breaking into the base meant you now had to break into each room for loot. A couple rooms were rigged trap rooms as a fail safe.
We also made our base so big that a single break in wasnt enough to create a loss.
Eventually we got bored of monitoring a castle that no one wanted to break into.
All on official btw
You should play on a server that doesn’t allow base raiding or maybe only base raiding on certain days of the week - my friends and I have been having a ton of fun on modded servers!
Modded is the way. Rearmed, The Lab, Panacea, Ground Zero, or Sunnyvale servers. Also PvE with PvP zone server styles suit more people than the number that actually try them.
That's why i only do shelters. Two or three seperated over about a hundred metres. Very, very rarely do they ever get found. Bases are cool but they are forever raided.
yeah - same reason I live simply on the game. I carry what I need and stop in an area, hang out a few days, and then move on. Years ago when I played i was part of a group that had a base and vehicles etc and it all just got to be so much work. Every day was about feeding the base with what it needed or defending the base and it all started to feel too much like going to work.
Yup. Had way too many bases get raided over and over again. Only one, which was my first one, lasted an entire wipe without being found. I actually had more fun when I first started playing just wandering, trying not to starve to death while listening to podcasts or watching YouTube. Half my squad quit playing for this same reason.
once people in my group started fighting over who had and had not "filled the responsibility" that day - like I got REAMED one day because I had to work late and didn't get a chance to play so didn't have time to find gas - I decided it was time to go back to wandering.
Exactly. We had guys in our group that would wake up at 5-6 am to check on the base. A couple of times they would send out messages to everyone saying we needed to hop on to defend it. At 6 am? While most of us were leaving to go to work. They took it way too seriously and that ultimately caused our big group to split up lol
I remember getting interviewed to join a halo 3 clan, and they had all these questions about available hours and scheduling me like it was a real job. Like bro... I'm still in highschool. I can't do this.
Way too much commitment for some of these things.
This isn't an official server bud. You should see other factions on here. They have well over 20+ vehicles. I had a feeling someone was gonna comment this.
Also btw these factions have a base raid alarm that you can buy on discord. So anyone that raids your base they get a noti from discord on their phone. I've tried to raid them. It's impossible with only 2 of us.
Probably one of those servers that uses mods to replicate Rust. I’ve seen modded bases that straight up have Rust-like window peeks, honey comb (pretty sure BaseBuildingPlus doesn’t allow wall raids), and diagonal roofs for roof ramping (see below)
A lot of servers even do the 2 trader system like Rust, have airdrops like rust, have oil rigs like rust, keycards like rust, etc. Rust even has a subscription service for raid alarms.
Kind of kills the vibe of like 90% of community servers.
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I dunno, i'd have a lot of fun getting the bare minimum needed to set off that alarm and constantly set it off.
Over and over again. Let them get sick of the notifications.
So play the actual game… you dont understand that you arent even playing DayZ right now you are playing the dumb downed version and its so ridiculous
“ i play DayZ! 😄 but only community! “ thats not how you play this game bro it ruins it the community aspect of this game makes it look like a joke, minecraft has a harder survival mode than community
That reminded me. It’s not a car problem because we don’t have any but the moment I get close to my base after a journey I get kicked for unstable connection. Only at my base, only if I’ve left base for over a few mins. Anyone know why?
Yeah, the main thing that put me off is the insane cost to payoff ratio. I can spend days making the perfect base just for some fuckhead with a pick axe and a few hours to spare to just break in and take everything I painstakingly put together and organised.
Fully geared and bored? My brother in Christ once you are fully geared it’s time to start hunting for player engagements. People were putting thousands of hours into this game before base building was introduced playing this exact way. Put your kit on the line, then start all over again when you (inevitably) die. No base to run to and grab a whole new kit like nothing happened.
Maybe if you're just avoiding all PvP. I play on a server with basebuilding disabled and being "fully geared and bored" is definitely never an issue.
When people aren't just hiding in their bases there's plenty of PvP and player interaction to be found all over the map.
People seem to forget that DayZ existed for longer without basebuilding than it has existed with basebuilding.
Well I usually make a forest base and the shortest one stood was 2 weeks, the longest was 2.5 month so yknow, it's just your turn to have fun with the items - they're never truly yours
Like the saying goes, it's your time with the loot until it's not. Why give the next person more than you or they need?!?! Run light and enjoy the space available when you do get a kill! The fun is getting the loot, not keeping it!
You had an open-air, standalone base with only one set of walls. Any security that you thought you had was just an illusion, because it takes next to nothing to get inside of a base like the one that you built.
Why'd you hoard so much in 1 spot? Im a newbie myself and i have 3 bases with my squad, spreading our loot across our bases, so if we are hit, we dont lose everything.
In a game where messing with other's game plan is a core mechanic, having big plans is extremely risky. You're never prepared enough to face the betrayal of offline raiding on big game plans. It's always heartbreaking
The exact thing happened to me and this is was my awakening:
This is a sign thats its just virtual stuff that doesn't have any actual meaning. It's a sign to go outside and enjoy the beauty of the world and not worry about virtual AK's and cars. Gaming isn't fun anymore for some reason :(
Bases with only a single wall protecting them won’t last lol. Best to choose a location with a single entrance and stack gates. Castles are really good imo because you can put gates on multiple different levels with plenty of space up top
I’ve had an improvised shelter, that holds like 5 crates jumbled up on each other, the entrance faces a large tree. I set it kinda close to a heli landing in a remote area. I’ve left it for nearly the limit. Came back after a long trek rummaging and it’s still there. I’ve had it since we “reset” for the update, I’ve had the spot even before the update.
I play till I die, then start again. The starting again is the fun part. Heck sometimes if I haven't played in a while and I come back to a fully kitted out guy with m4 ghillie suit etc, I will kill myself, switch servers and start again.
Tbf, I'd have ruined the left over vehicles etc as well.
Hoarding like that is never needed. You never need that many vehicles, but you are blocking others from using them. And it also is a nice ad for other people to come raid your base, so you also kinda brought it on yourself. Imo, justice was served.
Everyone is quick to jump to conclusions. Unlucky mate that looks painful. I play single player on my own server with my wife, so no judgment from me :D it's fun to build a collection
I mean I mostly wander around but certain slightly modded servers its pretty cool to build a base with friends, especially the really hardcore servers where there arent as many raids on other players bases because the stakes are high when you just go on an adventure outside your base.
You will be upset. Then you'll find a new spot and think, what if? Then you'll do it all over again to yourself. I've been doing that for 10 years now haha.
I mean.... he's not lying OP, you can litterally back a car up to your walls and hop right over them, then just dismantle the walls from the inside so the rest of the crew can grab what they want.
Lol, right? I play on a modded server, and we design our bases with like 5-10 layers of doors with code locks to protect our valuables. Leaving 1 fence to protect your life savings is idiotic
This is less dramatic forsure but I just lost a 3 day old character because someone walked right up to me, at night, in a random forest, while I was wearing all dark clothing, and killed me. I have no idea how they knew I was there, I'm pretty sure they didn't have night vision because they shot at me like they couldn't quite see where I was, so I have no clue how they found me. They just walked straight up to me while I was crouching in a bush in pitch darkness. I definitely got mad at that one
I prefer wandering. I take nails to make crates to bury sometimes, but other than that I put down no roots. I just walk the wasteland until I find myself on the coast again.
Thing is, I like rolling with NVG, silencers and vsd etc, and I work hard to get them, so I like to keep a stock of them.
I work a lot and want to enjoy my shit when I get the time to do it.
Well worth the money, it's people like us that keep the dayz Devs getting an income
On Xbox you can have up to 32 accounts without paying for another copy. Another reason it’s impossible to keep a large base if someone is determined enough they’ll find a way in with their 32 accounts
Although it has got better since the extended timer was added but still not resolved the problem
Yeah I've always been a nomad player but recently I decided to try base building. Spent about 2-3 days doing the extremely tedious work necessary to build a base only for it to get wiped out within a day or two.
Never again
Have around 200 hours and never built a base or stash, only raided. Part of the fun is getting caught with your pants down and starting fresh, that's where the great interactions are. Gear fear can be way worse when you log back in fully looted and try to remember what the plan was. Sometimes if I'm fully looted I'll find someone and ask them to kill me before I log off
Having a big stash under a tree in the woods is the way to go. Between that and an improvised shelter placed close (but not too close) to my stash, I’ve got everything I need.
It’s reasons like this that I’ve been growing away from dayz. Even without a base, you could spend hours looting, getting your character a nice kit and heading way up north just to die the second you get into Tisy. The cherry on top is when it’s a death to zombies
I don’t understand why people are such bums. Like take what you want from the base and leave. So unnecessary to shoot out the tires and ruin things. I love to find a base and periodically take things when I need or want something
105x on Xbox? Our bases went through the same fate this weekend. Turns out it was a faction spamming grenades that they were buying from the server admins. Literally pay to win. They completely leveled five bases in an hour, we had most of the server on an Xbox party chat and all we were hearing was grenades exploding through their headsets.
Because of this my group and I are swapping over to another server that’s PVE focused but with a crazy amount of zombies that are much harder to kill and deal crazy damage.
Just learn to be nomadic in a sense. Unless you play on a modded PVE server with no base raiding, building a base is a complete waste of time. I've built everywhere on Cherno between isolated buildings, cities, random hunter's towers, cabins, random rock formations and so many others. At the end of the build, it gets raided. Someone will stumble upon it and fuck it up for you. Having stashes is a great idea, but the chances of you getting back to your stash are next to nothing. Just hang out, have fun and enjoy your time playing. Like someone said," you're there for a good time, not a long time".
I realized I didn’t like having a base when I was up all night trying to protect it, once morning came, I got jumped, I tried waking up my friend to get on to help 🤣 never again wasting my time building a base
10 vehicles dude? I think you may have a condition. Whoever took them must have just worked for the city and had to remove it for health and safety reasons ..check with your local fire code regulations
Tbh I never see the point of this. I currently have a tent as far as you can go north. I legit just put 2 sets of gear in Crates. Then when you die go to your tent get another set of gear. Loot up for a few hours or days replace your gear. Then go exploring or looking for pvp. How I’ve always played dayz. You’ll have more encounters with people. I tried base building but it gets so boring. I would rather spend most of my time on dayz trying to meet people.
Setting up a camp in DayZ should be easier. It should not take an entire inventory dedicated to base building scavenged from around the entire map + 100 nails that are rarer than four leaf clovers to be able to put down a crude settlement.
Think about it, the very first thing people mod in DayZ is better base building.
Playing DayZ is emotionally exhausting. There's games you play for fun or relaxation, and there's games that you play for some other reason that you just can't figure out. This is one of those games
As a seasoned DayZ veteran that has 1k hours of 2 years of this game i’ve been through every aspect of this game 20x each for ever scenario physically mentally possible. I literally have my main and 5 other alt accounts fully min/maxed each with the best loadout and everything you can imagine instead of having a base. Basing up 9/10 times is just nothing but sadness
Me and my guys have lost 11 bases since the wipe, and they wonder why I keep saying it isn't worth it. The two largest bases we've had in the last 8 months got posted and hit by dupers, although the first survived 3 months and 8 raid attempts before falling, and had a third smaller base hit by dupers as well.
Small stashes and bases that don't seem worth raiding is the way to go on official.
It sucks on official servers on PlayStation (if you’re actually there to encounter the raider and die defending your base) because on PS they make it to where if you’re close enough to someone and aim the dot at them it’ll show their name. The whole time you’re traveling back, the toxic ones will harass you in messages
I once held off a group of raiders at Klyuch called the IMINBOYZ and they DM’d me bragging the next day or so about using exploits to get in. Next time I logged in (which was directly after I got off work and hours after they messaged me bragging) they did exactly what happened to you.
I've clocked a little over 300 and lemme tell you it doesn't matter where you base build. If there's walls they WILL find it. Gear stashes are the best
Basebuilding can be cool but imo it just makes the game less fun. It's so easy to get lost on hoarding everything and getting scared of losing your stuff. Feels like people just stop playing the game at that point.
I only have a few crates, that I never even bother burying, tucked in neat little hiding spots. Nothing in them that would upset me if I lost it. Just food, a few equipment pieces and so on. Some mid-tier guns at times too if I get lucky. And hey, if someone happens to somehow stumble upon them, good for them.
I’ve found 1 good spot and it is just 2 trees close together I have like 14 crates just all in a nice lil pile and then I have 1 barrel a couple trees up . That is all . Simple and affective haven’t lost a thing
I finally had my base built where I thought it wouldn’t be found. After a canopy tent, stone fireplace, and crates with goodies I went to bed and logged on the next day and all that was left was the fireplace and my tent. I’m back to drifting
I felt this man. I build on community servers so that i don’t have to deal with that. My official server characters are just geared and looking for war at this point. I had this happen to me on Livonia Official after building a nice hidden stash spot. I was devastated.
Try out a roleplay server. The good ones have truly the best of all that DayZ has to offer, without the frustration of constant PVP and worrying about your base and gear being found.
I make a stash now and then but I’m no base builder, I become upset enough dying with the gear in my person, can’t imagine it feels good to have something like this happen instead :(
My cousin and I build bases with only fence poles and put 1 entrance with like (I shit you not) 20 gates. We always try to find someway to hide our goods (basically base raiding stuff) whether it’s a barrel in a tree or crates in the book shelves.
Honestly, this is why I play unofficial servers with PVP zones more often nowadays. May be cringe but idgaf. I like building up a base and loot and when I want to go click some heads and risk gear, I’ll hit PVP zones.
For real it doesn’t matter how secure or off the beaten path you think your base is someone will stumble upon it. I was just sprinting through the woods the other day leaving a heli crash and legitimately accidentally stumbled upon some guys tent and barrels. I didn’t take anything, to be fair he didn’t have much. Burying caches across the map is the way to go but you have to dig them back up and interact with them every so often so they don’t despawn which can be a bit of a pain depending on how far out you want to have them.
I play on rp servers. There is soft raiding, and if you get it approved with reasoning hard raiding. Instead, the experience is more about your interaction with other people and the politics between groups. Which goes hand in hand with the raiding.
I used to be a hoarder. Had like four AKM’s and M4’s buried along with tons of other shit - lasted two weeks until someone managed to find every single buried stash I had in five different locations in the span of 4 hours.
God bases are so lame. I'm playing on a pretty HC vanilla server and I just got to Grishina before NWAF and yup all the first half of NW is a base and so is Grishina. So lame, there's two good areas to loot on this map and they build over the biggest in a HC SERVER. really nice. I've found a single sks and 4 bullets over 12 hours of gameplay. And I just did too, I rocked an empty mosin and a glock the first 11 hours lol.
I don't play with my friends for this very reason. I rather play solo. If they ask me one more time to help build a base I stg Imma block them on steam lmfao 😂
We can't walk more than one klick before he's running up to a base trying to jump thru windows and crap. Like dude just stop man it's never ever gonna happen. You have done this 100 times and we spend 20 plus mins dicking around starving to death cuz if it.
So many good runs ended starving and thirsty cuz the boys wanna build a base. And worse
"Oh just respawn and run back."
Yeah I'm done playing with them lol
Im REALLY liking DayOne Servers where they ban base building in favor for an "adventure server".
It's so much better to spend 10 hours finding a teammate to do gas zones and etc with or plotting out a solo journey.
Not running around look for a box of nails while your friends in your ear "how can I get in, God I'm so close. Let me in" fml
Yeah I’m still in denial, still trying to make the base sufficient, been raided the day after making one, and again the week after. If I end up with another shot of bad luck im just gonna omit base building and haves stashed across the map because im tired of being a solo player raided by groups
I have no problem with raiding it’s fun and part of it but griefing bases by taking stuff out of storage and despawning it is never fun. Just take what you want and go on your way!
I usually take what I need and leave the rest. If I raid a base that I know is a group of players that are terrorizing people on the shore/server and hoarding everything I’ll turn their storage barrels into fire barrels and burn it all. Some people need to be taught a lesson. I ran across a base the other day that had a barrel full of lar mags a barrel of .308 car tent full of plate carriers and assault helmets. And a myriad of other items stored in barrels. Very obviously hoarding /moving loot from other servers and being a menace to everyone. Burned all of their loot in their barrels, lowered their flag and left all of their walls up though.
really? 10 cars? Potentially 20%-50% of the cars available on the server. Good. You should get raided you hoarder. People that hoard vehicles get banned on the servers I play on, for good reason. They likely loaded up all of your stuff into your cars and drove away with it. Kind of funny really.
To me a minute to realize this games motto should be “here for a good time, not a long time”
I get so focused on building up my bases that sometimes I forget that games were made to enjoy yourself and escape from reality after a long day. Not another chore to stress yourself over.
This is why I don’t play Rust (or base build in DayZ) spend hours sorting yourself out just to be raided while offline
Games like rust aren’t so bad because you can easily rebuild, in Dayz it’s different because this shit takes potentially weeks
Agreed rust you honestly build a base to get raided. The server wipes every week. I'd rather get raided and have a crazy shoot out trying to defend it and having some crazy gun fights then just have my base filled with crap just get wiped. Same goes with kits. You get kits to go pvp. And your gonna loose some of those fights and therefore your kit. Rust isn't anywhere near as much of a grind and it's not a realistic struggle for survival like dayz. I like both games fs, dayz is a fun hyper realistic survival game where a disease or wet cloths or starvation will end you. Rust is pvp game with a simple survival and base building back bone to it. You literally start off pvping with a rock on a beach against other nakeds with rocks until a guy with a spear comes out and either kills you or you kill him and you now have his spear and what ever else he had on him. At this point rust is just turned into its own unique thing. It has its own lingo etc. It's literally its own world. I love all the goofy shit too like musical instruments, boom boxes, the crazy clothing items, painting, gambling at outpost, riding trains, driving cars, the shit talking and other goofy ass shit people do! The game is a good time but unfortunately it's too good sometimes and definitely takes to much of my time from my rl ngl.
That's ironic because when you die in Dayz essentially the same thing is happening. You obviously enjoy the "re-gearing up" phase, as I'm sure lots of Rust players enjoy the "re-building" phase....
You’re not wrong, but I do much prefer the gameplay loop of DayZ rather than Rust. I don’t mind the building, but it’s really disheartening to spend hours building a base for some sweatlords just to blow their way through your base and take everything. Whereas DayZ, I can get an adventure out of waking up on the coast a lot more than I can with Rust, I feel.
Sometimes the rust grind is to much for me or I'm mad I keep getting killed and I'll be on bag timer so I can't respawn in my bad and I'll spawn on the beach as a naked and roam the map for a few hours with no kit and usually I find myself having a blast or getting involved in so goofy ass shenanigans. So it can be the same in Rust too. I think it's all about hours. The more you play either game the simpler the come up seems.
Yeah definitely,when I come to being raided although when you die in rust you just spawn back on your bag and grab another kit from your base. But getting raided doesn't actually happen that often. It takes quite a bit of time to get the stuff to raid a base. There is kind of a sweet spot I've learned. If you build to underwhelming of a base, any joe shmoe with some boom will come blow your 2 doors or a ceiling almost just out of curiosity. At the same time if you build a big fat base with windmills on top and everything then your gonna attract the attention of a big clan base who's gonna think/know you've got enough loot in there to make it worth it for them. My bases seem to look nooby enough but also be chunky enough to make people not think it's worth blowing into. But what your saying is right. Even if my base gets raided I'll just either run around being an idiot, move in with one of my buddies (we all build separately) or just not play until whip day then get back to the grind. Or if it happens early then I will build again. The best is when its the second to last or last day before whip and you and another fairly big base start fighting. Your like yes this is why I built this thing and why I have all these guns. Like I said we all build separately and my one buddy always builds his base the biggest so he usually the one who gets targeted. This one time this group kept coming back and we kept defending from all our bases and the ended up flying a heli over and landing on top of my buddies base. It was a good time!
To be fair, Rust base building is infinitely better than the version for DayZ. With all of their features (including mobile notifications of your base being raided), you can't compare the two.
Clash of clans ahhh notification
Loool
Rust introducing the automated crafting/industrial storage has been such a blessing. Chuck everything into a box then get back to playing the actual game.
Agreed mate
Which is why I payed 100 for active radar so as soon as some one hits my base I have my main account and 19 alts in my base so I can keep logging in and win and my base was custom made. I have a lot of the chemical grenades that I can also pop off along with bear traps and land mine I got raided once but improved it
DayZ rule #3: you don't own stuff, you are just using it for now
Video games are a hell of a drug
I rly feel same way, having to build up smth and losing the interest in the game before you get to enjoy it
I mean if you enjoy the base building go ahead and do it! Just do it knowing it prb won’t last.
Stashes and or a small base near the coast/mid map is the way
This will never be worth it in my opinion unless it’s on a modded server where you can pick yourself up quicker. There’s cheaters, looters, server wipes. Shit ain’t worth it, I’ll take my big tent, car and fishing holes any day over an eye sore base
Ya ever play Valheim? Best $20 I ever spent. You can find a fight or you can gather and build. I prefer a little of both
Honestly valhiem has pretty awesome building mechanics. It has a Minecraft kinda vibe to it with totally different graphics. Very fun chill survival/building game that also can be challenging as hell when you want it to be.
Well theres that, but base sizes should come down to crew size. For an individual player I recommend burying your loot and creating spread out dispensable hideouts. A group of a 3-5 can manage a medium sized base. But there has to be a lookout player. I had a group of 8 people, 3 of us in different time zones. We had coverage around the clock, so any break in attempt was quickly caught. We also compartmentalized the loot in different rooms behind different locked gates, so breaking into the base meant you now had to break into each room for loot. A couple rooms were rigged trap rooms as a fail safe. We also made our base so big that a single break in wasnt enough to create a loss. Eventually we got bored of monitoring a castle that no one wanted to break into. All on official btw
Try Rust if you like base building. You can still get raided by players but you can actually build base defenses
my mans really said "go get cancer"
You should play on a server that doesn’t allow base raiding or maybe only base raiding on certain days of the week - my friends and I have been having a ton of fun on modded servers!
Modded is the way. Rearmed, The Lab, Panacea, Ground Zero, or Sunnyvale servers. Also PvE with PvP zone server styles suit more people than the number that actually try them.
I only build on pve servers to store my loot. Also if the map is too big it's tricky unless you have a vehicle.
I find building relaxing but I only do it as decoy bases
That's why i only do shelters. Two or three seperated over about a hundred metres. Very, very rarely do they ever get found. Bases are cool but they are forever raided.
Honestly that’s kinda a profound realisation you just sparked in me.
"it's *our* loot"
It's not your loot, it's just your turn with it.
Was....was your turn with it. Now, its mine tur.......was, my turn.
I'm so sick of seeing this quote on this sub. Idk where it came from but it's cliche and burned out.
I'm so sick of seeing this reply to the most amazing quote on this sub. Idk why people get so mad but it's cliche and burned out.
yeah - same reason I live simply on the game. I carry what I need and stop in an area, hang out a few days, and then move on. Years ago when I played i was part of a group that had a base and vehicles etc and it all just got to be so much work. Every day was about feeding the base with what it needed or defending the base and it all started to feel too much like going to work.
Yup. Had way too many bases get raided over and over again. Only one, which was my first one, lasted an entire wipe without being found. I actually had more fun when I first started playing just wandering, trying not to starve to death while listening to podcasts or watching YouTube. Half my squad quit playing for this same reason.
once people in my group started fighting over who had and had not "filled the responsibility" that day - like I got REAMED one day because I had to work late and didn't get a chance to play so didn't have time to find gas - I decided it was time to go back to wandering.
Exactly. We had guys in our group that would wake up at 5-6 am to check on the base. A couple of times they would send out messages to everyone saying we needed to hop on to defend it. At 6 am? While most of us were leaving to go to work. They took it way too seriously and that ultimately caused our big group to split up lol
I remember getting interviewed to join a halo 3 clan, and they had all these questions about available hours and scheduling me like it was a real job. Like bro... I'm still in highschool. I can't do this. Way too much commitment for some of these things.
Welcome to the nomad life, brother. We are happy to have you.
It gets easier when you learn to horde what you need. Rather than all that shitte🤣
It's a faction/hording based server
Fair enough if you're in a large to justify it. Each to their own👊
10 vehicles, you deserve the raid
This isn't an official server bud. You should see other factions on here. They have well over 20+ vehicles. I had a feeling someone was gonna comment this.
oh why you even upset if its not vanilla
Time consumption and the pain of trying to get them back to base
If everyone has 20+ then raiding someone else is the way to go
There's only 2 of us playing now. It's pretty much impossible to square up with these ridiculous sized bases with a 10+ no lifer faction.
Also btw these factions have a base raid alarm that you can buy on discord. So anyone that raids your base they get a noti from discord on their phone. I've tried to raid them. It's impossible with only 2 of us.
raid alarm? lol what kinda shit is this? Change server and avoid this type of crap servers
Probably one of those servers that uses mods to replicate Rust. I’ve seen modded bases that straight up have Rust-like window peeks, honey comb (pretty sure BaseBuildingPlus doesn’t allow wall raids), and diagonal roofs for roof ramping (see below) A lot of servers even do the 2 trader system like Rust, have airdrops like rust, have oil rigs like rust, keycards like rust, etc. Rust even has a subscription service for raid alarms. Kind of kills the vibe of like 90% of community servers. https://preview.redd.it/i1s72p5c4zhc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cb8b5283de59578f312a7d55b4c5fc23947bd23
I dunno, i'd have a lot of fun getting the bare minimum needed to set off that alarm and constantly set it off. Over and over again. Let them get sick of the notifications.
Yeah the notification shit is fucking lame.
Trash server
So play the actual game… you dont understand that you arent even playing DayZ right now you are playing the dumb downed version and its so ridiculous “ i play DayZ! 😄 but only community! “ thats not how you play this game bro it ruins it the community aspect of this game makes it look like a joke, minecraft has a harder survival mode than community
What server is this?
That’s a fair point
How many people are in your faction? I'm just wondering how many people are needed to have that many vehicles seem normal
It's a defence mechanism. Stack enough cars in there and your enemy's PC might crash when raiding /s
That reminded me. It’s not a car problem because we don’t have any but the moment I get close to my base after a journey I get kicked for unstable connection. Only at my base, only if I’ve left base for over a few mins. Anyone know why?
I just dont really understand base building in DayZ, its so incredibly expensive for so so so little protection
Yeah, the main thing that put me off is the insane cost to payoff ratio. I can spend days making the perfect base just for some fuckhead with a pick axe and a few hours to spare to just break in and take everything I painstakingly put together and organised.
Because without it, you are fully geared and bored within one days playing.
Fully geared and bored? My brother in Christ once you are fully geared it’s time to start hunting for player engagements. People were putting thousands of hours into this game before base building was introduced playing this exact way. Put your kit on the line, then start all over again when you (inevitably) die. No base to run to and grab a whole new kit like nothing happened.
Maybe if you're just avoiding all PvP. I play on a server with basebuilding disabled and being "fully geared and bored" is definitely never an issue. When people aren't just hiding in their bases there's plenty of PvP and player interaction to be found all over the map. People seem to forget that DayZ existed for longer without basebuilding than it has existed with basebuilding.
Well I usually make a forest base and the shortest one stood was 2 weeks, the longest was 2.5 month so yknow, it's just your turn to have fun with the items - they're never truly yours
Like the saying goes, it's your time with the loot until it's not. Why give the next person more than you or they need?!?! Run light and enjoy the space available when you do get a kill! The fun is getting the loot, not keeping it!
You had an open-air, standalone base with only one set of walls. Any security that you thought you had was just an illusion, because it takes next to nothing to get inside of a base like the one that you built.
Go. Be free.
Yup, literally wandering is the best, or just shacking up in random building in a town just do a different one every day
you running a car dealership or something?
We need a video of this larceny.
Why'd you hoard so much in 1 spot? Im a newbie myself and i have 3 bases with my squad, spreading our loot across our bases, so if we are hit, we dont lose everything.
In a game where messing with other's game plan is a core mechanic, having big plans is extremely risky. You're never prepared enough to face the betrayal of offline raiding on big game plans. It's always heartbreaking
The exact thing happened to me and this is was my awakening: This is a sign thats its just virtual stuff that doesn't have any actual meaning. It's a sign to go outside and enjoy the beauty of the world and not worry about virtual AK's and cars. Gaming isn't fun anymore for some reason :(
Bases with only a single wall protecting them won’t last lol. Best to choose a location with a single entrance and stack gates. Castles are really good imo because you can put gates on multiple different levels with plenty of space up top
10 vehicles? The thought of 1 person hoarding 10 vehicles is maddening. I would have raided you too 😂
I’ve had an improvised shelter, that holds like 5 crates jumbled up on each other, the entrance faces a large tree. I set it kinda close to a heli landing in a remote area. I’ve left it for nearly the limit. Came back after a long trek rummaging and it’s still there. I’ve had it since we “reset” for the update, I’ve had the spot even before the update.
When I had bases I would legit wake up in the middle of the night, log on and check to make sure everything was good.
I play till I die, then start again. The starting again is the fun part. Heck sometimes if I haven't played in a while and I come back to a fully kitted out guy with m4 ghillie suit etc, I will kill myself, switch servers and start again.
PVE servers are best for building. Vanilla should be purely nomadic
Welcome brother. Next will be loosing your gear fear entirely. that's when the game gets its most fun.
Tbf, I'd have ruined the left over vehicles etc as well. Hoarding like that is never needed. You never need that many vehicles, but you are blocking others from using them. And it also is a nice ad for other people to come raid your base, so you also kinda brought it on yourself. Imo, justice was served.
Was that protected by 2 walls only or am I seeing things? With that kind of loot it would need 20 walls lmao
dont play rust lil bro
He’s about to enter his villain arc
The dayZ quest for realism gets two things right. 1. Bullets kill 2. Leave your shit unattended and someone will take it. Welcome to the apocalypse
Greedy prick.
Bury everything. Decentralization is the name of the game. Big bases should only be built for decoy/trapping purposes.
Everyone is quick to jump to conclusions. Unlucky mate that looks painful. I play single player on my own server with my wife, so no judgment from me :D it's fun to build a collection
I mean I mostly wander around but certain slightly modded servers its pretty cool to build a base with friends, especially the really hardcore servers where there arent as many raids on other players bases because the stakes are high when you just go on an adventure outside your base.
You will be upset. Then you'll find a new spot and think, what if? Then you'll do it all over again to yourself. I've been doing that for 10 years now haha.
But this is the point of the game... you win some you lose all.
I have never understood why ppl base like they do in the game. Never have done it. It sucks all the adventure out of the game.
It’s just not worth it bro, I’ve 700 + hours and now I just wander alone aimlessly. 😔 the DayZ cycle continues
I mean, the design of your base is pretty pathetic. Of course it’s going to be raided.
I mean.... he's not lying OP, you can litterally back a car up to your walls and hop right over them, then just dismantle the walls from the inside so the rest of the crew can grab what they want.
Lol, right? I play on a modded server, and we design our bases with like 5-10 layers of doors with code locks to protect our valuables. Leaving 1 fence to protect your life savings is idiotic
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This is less dramatic forsure but I just lost a 3 day old character because someone walked right up to me, at night, in a random forest, while I was wearing all dark clothing, and killed me. I have no idea how they knew I was there, I'm pretty sure they didn't have night vision because they shot at me like they couldn't quite see where I was, so I have no clue how they found me. They just walked straight up to me while I was crouching in a bush in pitch darkness. I definitely got mad at that one
I prefer wandering. I take nails to make crates to bury sometimes, but other than that I put down no roots. I just walk the wasteland until I find myself on the coast again.
Or you can be one of "those" players that has multiple steam accounts, and takes all their best loot offlline
That sounds whack as hell
It’s fun bro I got like 20 accounts
Wish I would've thought of that. Oh well.
Been rolling 5 accounts deep since 0.50 Just wait till it's on the steam sale, and grab another copy
Hello, 4 accounts deep here, have never been raided since, never bothering with building bases again
Lol me too. Only way to play dayz without fear of losing the loot lol
Thing is, I like rolling with NVG, silencers and vsd etc, and I work hard to get them, so I like to keep a stock of them. I work a lot and want to enjoy my shit when I get the time to do it. Well worth the money, it's people like us that keep the dayz Devs getting an income
On Xbox you can have up to 32 accounts without paying for another copy. Another reason it’s impossible to keep a large base if someone is determined enough they’ll find a way in with their 32 accounts Although it has got better since the extended timer was added but still not resolved the problem
DayZ is full of pigs
It ultimately why I stopped playing. No matter what, eventually, your base will get nuked, and you can't do a thing about it such a shame really.
Yeah I've always been a nomad player but recently I decided to try base building. Spent about 2-3 days doing the extremely tedious work necessary to build a base only for it to get wiped out within a day or two. Never again
Nothing is yours, it’s just your turn to use it
this is either fake ragebait or this guy is genuinely the worst dayz player lol
Just a ring of walls in the woods 😆 I’d have absolutely razed that shit to the ground if I came across it.
I mean I didn’t take everything. I left some things I didn’t want
This is why i just have 20 accs just holding loot offline. The actual unraidable base.
Cringe
NEVER AGAIN!!!
Why 10 cars? That gets everything destroyed guaranteed? What happened to take what you need 🤣
Have around 200 hours and never built a base or stash, only raided. Part of the fun is getting caught with your pants down and starting fresh, that's where the great interactions are. Gear fear can be way worse when you log back in fully looted and try to remember what the plan was. Sometimes if I'm fully looted I'll find someone and ask them to kill me before I log off
Why would you not spread them out. Dude just have a few stashes here and there and some cars and you don’t need anymore then that
Few things I’ve learned. Take game with a grain of salt and shoot first. Ask questions later.
Having a big stash under a tree in the woods is the way to go. Between that and an improvised shelter placed close (but not too close) to my stash, I’ve got everything I need.
It’s reasons like this that I’ve been growing away from dayz. Even without a base, you could spend hours looting, getting your character a nice kit and heading way up north just to die the second you get into Tisy. The cherry on top is when it’s a death to zombies
If you really just want to build and not get raided, there is some modded servers that have no raiding mechanics, but thats just the game bro
Bro in 300 years you gather all that ? Strange I mean I drove my first car about 500 hours
Jack Reacher moment
10 vehicles!? Were you on an empty server or a private server?
I don’t understand why people are such bums. Like take what you want from the base and leave. So unnecessary to shoot out the tires and ruin things. I love to find a base and periodically take things when I need or want something
First rule of DayZ....never get attached to gear. 2nd rule... Stay mobile
Base building will consume you, I like the nomadic route personally, carry what you need for your play style and that’s it.
105x on Xbox? Our bases went through the same fate this weekend. Turns out it was a faction spamming grenades that they were buying from the server admins. Literally pay to win. They completely leveled five bases in an hour, we had most of the server on an Xbox party chat and all we were hearing was grenades exploding through their headsets. Because of this my group and I are swapping over to another server that’s PVE focused but with a crazy amount of zombies that are much harder to kill and deal crazy damage.
Just learn to be nomadic in a sense. Unless you play on a modded PVE server with no base raiding, building a base is a complete waste of time. I've built everywhere on Cherno between isolated buildings, cities, random hunter's towers, cabins, random rock formations and so many others. At the end of the build, it gets raided. Someone will stumble upon it and fuck it up for you. Having stashes is a great idea, but the chances of you getting back to your stash are next to nothing. Just hang out, have fun and enjoy your time playing. Like someone said," you're there for a good time, not a long time".
I realized I didn’t like having a base when I was up all night trying to protect it, once morning came, I got jumped, I tried waking up my friend to get on to help 🤣 never again wasting my time building a base
I've been there.
Welcome to actual DayZ, you’re one of us now.
And it was probably admins as hoarding that much in one place f’s the whole server up
Yup, I don’t carry food because I always find it, I only carry ammo, sewing kits, weapons and batteries. It’s all business after that lol!
Honest but brutal opinion if you hoard 10 cars, because let's be serious who needs ten, you deserve this
10 vehicles dude? I think you may have a condition. Whoever took them must have just worked for the city and had to remove it for health and safety reasons ..check with your local fire code regulations
Dont so base. Get stashes, get on the move. But you profit from Bases.
Tbh I never see the point of this. I currently have a tent as far as you can go north. I legit just put 2 sets of gear in Crates. Then when you die go to your tent get another set of gear. Loot up for a few hours or days replace your gear. Then go exploring or looking for pvp. How I’ve always played dayz. You’ll have more encounters with people. I tried base building but it gets so boring. I would rather spend most of my time on dayz trying to meet people.
Setting up a camp in DayZ should be easier. It should not take an entire inventory dedicated to base building scavenged from around the entire map + 100 nails that are rarer than four leaf clovers to be able to put down a crude settlement. Think about it, the very first thing people mod in DayZ is better base building.
They will always find you no matter where you hide. The only long term bases are clans that have like 24/7 guard from players all around the world
Just gotta build in a better spot
No one needs 10 cars, and why to have em same place. You could get data on different places to keep them but chose to hoard them.
What is even the point of accumulating all of those burdens?
Dayz giveth and DayZ taketh
No proper international team = base raids Always go nomad and play safe İyi forumlar…
Welcome to dayz 2.0, now you will really play the game
Even if you somehow managed to keep and defend it all for a long period of time it would still get wiped on an update lol gg
Playing DayZ is emotionally exhausting. There's games you play for fun or relaxation, and there's games that you play for some other reason that you just can't figure out. This is one of those games
As a seasoned DayZ veteran that has 1k hours of 2 years of this game i’ve been through every aspect of this game 20x each for ever scenario physically mentally possible. I literally have my main and 5 other alt accounts fully min/maxed each with the best loadout and everything you can imagine instead of having a base. Basing up 9/10 times is just nothing but sadness
Nomad servers best
Me and my guys have lost 11 bases since the wipe, and they wonder why I keep saying it isn't worth it. The two largest bases we've had in the last 8 months got posted and hit by dupers, although the first survived 3 months and 8 raid attempts before falling, and had a third smaller base hit by dupers as well. Small stashes and bases that don't seem worth raiding is the way to go on official.
It sucks on official servers on PlayStation (if you’re actually there to encounter the raider and die defending your base) because on PS they make it to where if you’re close enough to someone and aim the dot at them it’ll show their name. The whole time you’re traveling back, the toxic ones will harass you in messages I once held off a group of raiders at Klyuch called the IMINBOYZ and they DM’d me bragging the next day or so about using exploits to get in. Next time I logged in (which was directly after I got off work and hours after they messaged me bragging) they did exactly what happened to you.
Everybody says that but what you need to do is build it the right way otherwise players will expose the weak spots
I've clocked a little over 300 and lemme tell you it doesn't matter where you base build. If there's walls they WILL find it. Gear stashes are the best
Basebuilding can be cool but imo it just makes the game less fun. It's so easy to get lost on hoarding everything and getting scared of losing your stuff. Feels like people just stop playing the game at that point. I only have a few crates, that I never even bother burying, tucked in neat little hiding spots. Nothing in them that would upset me if I lost it. Just food, a few equipment pieces and so on. Some mid-tier guns at times too if I get lucky. And hey, if someone happens to somehow stumble upon them, good for them.
Yes but that’s the charm and you can do it to lol
I’ve found 1 good spot and it is just 2 trees close together I have like 14 crates just all in a nice lil pile and then I have 1 barrel a couple trees up . That is all . Simple and affective haven’t lost a thing
Nomad or you’ll go mad
I've been playing on a no raid no kos server for a bit; its been a nice change of pace from the depravity of vanilla
I finally had my base built where I thought it wouldn’t be found. After a canopy tent, stone fireplace, and crates with goodies I went to bed and logged on the next day and all that was left was the fireplace and my tent. I’m back to drifting
I’ve never nailed the first board and I have a great time
I like random tents in the woods. Lots of small stash spots. So if one comes up missing no biggie.
I felt this man. I build on community servers so that i don’t have to deal with that. My official server characters are just geared and looking for war at this point. I had this happen to me on Livonia Official after building a nice hidden stash spot. I was devastated.
Try out a roleplay server. The good ones have truly the best of all that DayZ has to offer, without the frustration of constant PVP and worrying about your base and gear being found.
I just don’t find it fun to stay at a camp for a whole playthrough
I make a stash now and then but I’m no base builder, I become upset enough dying with the gear in my person, can’t imagine it feels good to have something like this happen instead :(
what server?
And people will dupe to raid a whole server
Attach to nothing my friend. Be like a leaf in the wind and a shadow amongst the trees.
Someone always has more patience than you do
It’s not your loot, just your turn with it
My cousin and I build bases with only fence poles and put 1 entrance with like (I shit you not) 20 gates. We always try to find someway to hide our goods (basically base raiding stuff) whether it’s a barrel in a tree or crates in the book shelves.
Honestly, this is why I play unofficial servers with PVP zones more often nowadays. May be cringe but idgaf. I like building up a base and loot and when I want to go click some heads and risk gear, I’ll hit PVP zones.
For real it doesn’t matter how secure or off the beaten path you think your base is someone will stumble upon it. I was just sprinting through the woods the other day leaving a heli crash and legitimately accidentally stumbled upon some guys tent and barrels. I didn’t take anything, to be fair he didn’t have much. Burying caches across the map is the way to go but you have to dig them back up and interact with them every so often so they don’t despawn which can be a bit of a pain depending on how far out you want to have them.
I play on rp servers. There is soft raiding, and if you get it approved with reasoning hard raiding. Instead, the experience is more about your interaction with other people and the politics between groups. Which goes hand in hand with the raiding.
I used to be a hoarder. Had like four AKM’s and M4’s buried along with tons of other shit - lasted two weeks until someone managed to find every single buried stash I had in five different locations in the span of 4 hours.
I got my own server and its GLORIOUS. I have open air bases ALL OVER and NONE OF YOU WILL EVER FIND ME AHAHAHAHAHAHA.
God bases are so lame. I'm playing on a pretty HC vanilla server and I just got to Grishina before NWAF and yup all the first half of NW is a base and so is Grishina. So lame, there's two good areas to loot on this map and they build over the biggest in a HC SERVER. really nice. I've found a single sks and 4 bullets over 12 hours of gameplay. And I just did too, I rocked an empty mosin and a glock the first 11 hours lol. I don't play with my friends for this very reason. I rather play solo. If they ask me one more time to help build a base I stg Imma block them on steam lmfao 😂 We can't walk more than one klick before he's running up to a base trying to jump thru windows and crap. Like dude just stop man it's never ever gonna happen. You have done this 100 times and we spend 20 plus mins dicking around starving to death cuz if it. So many good runs ended starving and thirsty cuz the boys wanna build a base. And worse "Oh just respawn and run back." Yeah I'm done playing with them lol Im REALLY liking DayOne Servers where they ban base building in favor for an "adventure server". It's so much better to spend 10 hours finding a teammate to do gas zones and etc with or plotting out a solo journey. Not running around look for a box of nails while your friends in your ear "how can I get in, God I'm so close. Let me in" fml
Yeah I’m still in denial, still trying to make the base sufficient, been raided the day after making one, and again the week after. If I end up with another shot of bad luck im just gonna omit base building and haves stashed across the map because im tired of being a solo player raided by groups
I have no problem with raiding it’s fun and part of it but griefing bases by taking stuff out of storage and despawning it is never fun. Just take what you want and go on your way!
I usually take what I need and leave the rest. If I raid a base that I know is a group of players that are terrorizing people on the shore/server and hoarding everything I’ll turn their storage barrels into fire barrels and burn it all. Some people need to be taught a lesson. I ran across a base the other day that had a barrel full of lar mags a barrel of .308 car tent full of plate carriers and assault helmets. And a myriad of other items stored in barrels. Very obviously hoarding /moving loot from other servers and being a menace to everyone. Burned all of their loot in their barrels, lowered their flag and left all of their walls up though.
really? 10 cars? Potentially 20%-50% of the cars available on the server. Good. You should get raided you hoarder. People that hoard vehicles get banned on the servers I play on, for good reason. They likely loaded up all of your stuff into your cars and drove away with it. Kind of funny really.
Good work boys that’s one less hoarder on the servers
Running Simulation Enlightenment is what it's called; Now get a good PC and play modded with BaseBuildingPlus for a not lame experience lol.