Project DayZ (B42)

[gusty prism]

Neat!

[arctic agate]

whats a damn nice idea 😄

[lament lintel]

Are you making the whole chernarus???!??

[past heath]

yess I am, I want to play it myself with my mates

I'll put it on the workshop for everyone ofc

I have also commisiond custom DayZ gun mod

[lament lintel]

Well my steam points goes to you when it does it’s a dream come true to experience dayz in zomboid

[past heath]

Thank you good sir, it should be playable in 3-4 weeks for the map, the gun mod 2 weeks🍻

i wish it could be faster, but it is 2500 cells

[past heath]

Slowerly but surly mapping out the roads to perfection, so far from West Military Tents to Cherno

[past heath]

everything re scaled and touched up perfectly with 1-1 road placement so far

[thick wigeon]

Why did you cut the islands on the left?

[old ravine]

How big is the vanilla map for comparison? 2500 sounds like much more lol

love this idea

[past heath]

I cut them for these reasons,

[past heath]

PZ's full playable cell count is 1600 Cells, Chernuarus is about 40% larger then Kentucky

[thick wigeon]

oh okey

[old ravine]

thats sick bro

[past heath]

yesterday I finished 40% of the roads, will do the rest today, then work on dirt paths, and day after start placing buildings in towns

just making sure every road is exactly in the right place gives me autimsn, I wish it could be faster

[past heath]

thank you🍻

[thick wigeon]

It would be really cool if you released it. We could even make add-ons to expand it. Because this is just southern Zagoria, while Chernarus is much larger.

[past heath]

It will be a standaalone Map, as Dedicated Servers cannot handel 1600 PZ cells + 2500 extra Cells when most modded maps range in the hundreds, not thousands of cell counts. So it's Standalone so people can actualy play it, and say a random guy from 3rd world country can play it too, so people do not need NASA pc's. I will be making Liviona and Namalsk over the next 2 years though. There have been 5 Project DayZ's that have been abandoned well before even this stage. I will not allow Redistribution of my work with mofidied versions without explicit permission

However I will obviously let anyone download/ use it

due to technical limitations it will be standalone and will not be able to have more cells added, otherwise I'd of connected it to kentucky

also making 150 buildings in 4 directions, so 600 buildings, takes alot of time. I'd hate for people to be re using my assets for free

[thick wigeon]

Well, it's understandable that everyone decides for themselves whether their work will be editable or not. But it's a shame it won't be able to be expanded to the required size of Chernarus.

In any case, good luck, because it would take a lot of time to make such a map on your own.

[past heath]

it's the exact same dimensions of the DayZ standalone map, and no it's a fast process, I am a real game developer who is doing this in my spare time, there is 300 sea cells, and about 1700 wilderness cells, and about 500 town cells

it will be out in a month

and the gun mod next week

this is ascreenshot I used to show a player keybind options for change /hold yesterday of my personal project, I assure you Project DayZ will be playable soon

[thick wigeon]

The map is Dayz South Zagoria from Arma 2, and I will introduce an expansion of it to the size of Chernarus, which voluntarily gives a larger territory

[past heath]

Have you tested loading something this size?

with 16GB ram and the BEST CPU our server has struggles on map generation for this size

what is the hardware you use?

as I did want to add it to kentucky, if you can figure out ways for it to run, then i'd be open to exspansions

the last thing I'll say is OG grapeseed used to blow up servers just from all the trash tiles/ decoration and that was 2 cells, so you get what I mean

if you find a way I'm all ears

[thick wigeon]

We have a server with 64 gigabytes of RAM and I think the server can handle its load, another question is how the game engine will behave, although before this there was a successful but abandoned experiment with a huge map that worked quite well but had a lot of empty spaces due to its size

And we don’t have to worry about the capacity, we have a friend with a good data center that provides us with computing power.

Essentially, you need to load a card in place of the centerpiece. It's enough to specify the cell the card replaces, if my memory serves me right. I may have also heard about attaching additional cells to a separate card, but I could be mistaken about that.

[past heath]

This is really interesting and informal and I appreciate you taking the time to actualy write that out and explain cohesively, in that case I'd be open to allowing people to make extensions to it indeed, feel free to DM me or keep posted on the Map. I would be open to it 100% if it's playable, however I do think if we take your suggestion It'd still be standalone, so that way it has more then enough RAM for others to add their own extensions

I will be dropping a Test version on the workshop that's very bare bones on the 10th, I expect it to be finished though at the end of the month

[past heath]

Gun MOD TM soon

[past heath]

All the roads Perfectly mapped out now

[past heath]

** Sneak Peak**

[past heath]

**Beach + Map progress **

[past heath]

** All Beach's done, working on train tracks, then last is rivers**

[past heath]

Train Tracks Finished

[past heath]

Time to place down the buildings & set up the animal, zombie, & foraging zones & paint tress🎉

[past heath]

working on vegetation

[past heath]

ADA 4x4 made by the Amazing Pen Pen Pirulin🤯

[lament lintel]

Damn this is nice imagine if the project zomboid engine allowed for gas attacks

[past heath]

it does actualy, we are working on the static & dnamymic gas zone mod aswell, but it isn't priority so we are banging out map, cars, guns first + making a swimming mechanic

we're using a customized fog zone in a circle that we can change the color of + change it affecting health values for it

[past heath]

starting work on Kamenka Town

will remove river, was mistake, and tidy up roads then do houses and docks

[past heath]

Kamenka's layout finished

[long skiff]

🔥

[past heath]

some recent work

55% of all 160 Buildings done

[past heath]

DayZ Firearm Mod releasing tomorrow, sneak peak of some of the weapons

[hard cargo]

Will the Derringer be in the mod? 🙏

[past heath]

Yess & it's Pink Vareint

same for the Kolt & other weapons with their varient's

I forgot about the WOOD SVD though, so that will be in a future update and the Poly SVD will be the one in current

[hard cargo]

Haha awesome, Looking forward to this mod!

[past heath]

Cheer's I'll update & post a link to the Mod when it's ready Tomorrow here🍻

for now, enjoy the piano house

[lament lintel]

this was my base in dayZ

[past heath]

Medical Center

[past heath]

well me and the Gun Mod Dev have stayed up pretty late to bring mod out today, my bad we missed the deadline. Time zone difference be abit wild sometimes, mod will come out shortly, until then here's the Blaze

[long skiff]

Awesome work, really appreciate the effort you’re putting in 🙌 keep it up!
Just wondering, do you have an estimated timeframe for when the DayZ map mod might release?

[past heath]

Thank you much appreciated homie, Yeah we do have a rough timeframe it just isn't 100%. The Map's Artist & Nature Designer/Co Mapper is currently in the process of updating their personal custom Tile pack to B42, it contains 1000+ Tiles and they need to update all of them even the ones we won't use to port it over

Now the map would have been done at the end of this Month- However due to needing to update the tile's I'd say near the End of February.

The Reason we NEED the tiles, is they make CURVED roads, they also have made all the Tree's & other nature assets from DayZ, aswell as that they have special Blends & Rules that make the Grass actualy look decent and real.

Here is the Tree's for a example, compare that to normal PZ tree's

the majority of the work will be spent in zoning for 2-3 weeks, setting up the zones, loot spawns, forgaging zones, animal spawns & the DayZ respawning system

we have made the majority of the buildings already and the whole map is shaped out already

I myself want to playthis too, so I will work harder to bring it faster, however we need to be patient for our Co mappers Tile Pack💪

rn trying to get ghille wrap to fit

[long skiff]

🫡 🫡 🫡

[lament lintel]

Nothing like revisiting chernarus without campers

[past heath]

Working on rushing the push to steam for the Firearm mod Alpha, my guy is finishing up details now & will push to steam, just gotta wait verification so steam makes sure it's not a zip bomb

[past heath]

Expect the ocasional Bug

[past heath]

due to a national wildfire the Main Firearm Mod author is waiting for the internet services to return to publish the mod, sorry for the wait, you can find more about the incident here https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/01/18/chile-declares-state-of-emergency-after-wildfires-force-20-000-residents-from-their-homes_6749549_114.html

[past heath]

the [B42.13.2]Dayz Firearms Project - Alpha is *** LIVE*** & playable in ADMIN testing

You must have the Admin mode & Item List Viewer to spawn in the Items currently

Currently it is undergoing debugging & the last round of additions & Bug Fix's, however it's to a point we feel happy Publicly releasing it for testing.

Due to ongoing Active Development it is not suggested to add it to LONG TERM playthroughs and we suggest short term gameplay to avoid any Save Issues

We are happy to Release The [B42.13.2]Dayz Firearms Project - Alpha
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3651494414

We hope you enjoy Survivors, most Credit goes to @penpenpirulin For his Amazing Gold Standard work

We will Iron out the bugs and finish it very soon, until then enjoy!

[lament lintel]

Oh I shall try it later

[past heath]

🍻 I hope you enjoy, hopefully by tomorrow we have the last of the Bugs ironed out + the items spawning naturally so admin menu isn't needed. Everything else works if you want to kill some z's with the DayZ weapons, the GUI for the guns is done by pressing (T)

[long skiff]

@past heath
Do you have a more precise ETA for when the map might be finished?
I’m planning to set up a PvP server using this map once it release
Thanks ❤️

[past heath]

yess I do, sorry I have been really Ill IRL so I have taken a break for a few weeks to recover for health issues.

I can say safely that it will be finished by May, currently the Veg + the Main map PNG's are finished.

We have 80/140 Buildings made, each in all 4 directions, so 80x4.

Also we have a Gun mod that's in revamp as dayz devs DMCA'd our gun mod.

I apologize about the wait, each of the buildings take about 8-10 hours per so a whole work day per building, sometimes if I'm really speedy I can get 2-3 buildings done a day at most, I am on break for the next 2 weeks so I would say Late May it will be out

i slid you a invite in dm's to the discord if you want future updates