DayZ offers several large open worlds where you can meet up with friends and survive. But how exactly do you find your friends on Chernarus, Livonia, Namalsk and Co. the fastest? In this guide we will give you three ways how you and your friends can find each other within minutes.
What are the options? Chernarus and Livionia are the two main maps of DayZ and both cover about 200 km². Trying to find your friends here on the off chance is bordering on insanity. Since the beginning of DayZ there are three proven methods to find your friends in the survival game:
- Local knowledge
- Interactive maps
- 3d markers in the game itself
Here’s how you can quickly find your friends in DayZ
#1 find friends with interactive map
On Guided.news we have implemented the interactive map of IZurvive. Here you can create a group, invite your friends and create markers visible to all. To find your friends you can now even turn on points of interest like water towers, churches etc.. This way you can locate your position and aim for a common goal.
It can be an advantage if you already know the maps in their broad outlines and can quickly recognize landmarks. Which landmarks you and your friends will find along the spawns on Chernarus & Livonia, we will show you in the next method.
#2 track down friends via local knowledge
An obvious way to find your friends in DayZ is to know your way around. Or rather, it’s enough if you can identify the town names. Identify is enough because at least on Chernarus they are written in Cyrillic letters. Based on these place names, you can then use an in-game map to find out where you are.
Even easier, if you and your friends start together, you’ll all spawn on the coast in Chernarus anyway. Look around. What can you see, special structures or an island?
Landmarks along the coast of Chernarus (north to south):
- Small fishing village in a hollow: You started in the far northeast at Berezhki.
- View of town with harbor bay: You started in Svetlojarsk, the last major city in the north, along the coast.
- Spawn at harbor bay: Here you started in Berezino
- View of apple orchards uphill: South of Berezino.
- Big concrete block with train station: This is the Factory, halfway between the south and east coast.
- Village with harbor bay & quarry: You are in Solnichny, the first big town before the curve to the south coast.
- Large island off coast with some side islands: You started at Skallisty Island and are in the lower right corner of the map (south-east).
- Big city without high-rise buildings: You started in the south at Elektrozavodsk.
- Big city with high-rise housing estates: Here you are in the neighboring city of Chernogorsk, the largest city in DayZ.
- Swampy area with a small airfield: Welcome to Balota, a small village on the southern coast, west of Chernogorsk.
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#3 Use in-game 3-D markers to find friends in DayZ (PC only).
On some servers of the PC version of DayZ you always have an in-game map that you open with “M”. Here you can set a marker by double-clicking on it and display it as a 3-D marker. A 3-D marker is always displayed, even if the map is closed. Like a HUD, it also shows you distance and absolutely exact location. So you can find your friends in DayZ without much effort. Just set a marker at the meeting point and walk there.
Although this method is the simplest, it is reserved for players on the PC. Because officially this feature is not, but part of modifications. Most modded DayZ servers that you can find in the DZSA launcher have such a map.
