In this DayZ Guide, we show you how you can play the DayZ Expansion Mod offline in singleplayer. With it, you can also spawn all planes & even ships.
What Expansion offers: The Expansion Mod from DayZ can actually do everything. It doesn’t just bring new weapons or skins. Vehicles, base construction and even airplanes and helicopters are also included.
So that you don’t have to search for hours on a server, you can easily do it in the singleplayer, and we will show you how!
This Guide was updated on December 28th 2020.
Play DayZ & Expansion in Offline Mode
1. Download DayZ Expansion
In order to be able to play the modification in singleplayer, you have to download at least one of the following two files:
DayZ Expansion ChernarusPlus
DayZ Expansion ChernarusPlusGloom (Adapted Map)
Simply click on Download in the upper right corner. You should then receive a zip or Winrar file.
2. Installing DayZ Expansion Offline
If you open this directory, you should see two folders. You will now add this to your DayZ Missions folder. You should find it in your Steam directory. If you haven’t changed that, the address is:
C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZ
Here you should find a folder called “Missions”. In this, you drag your two new CommunityOfflineMode folders.
3. Start & play DayZ Expansion
You can start you have to install a few additional mods. To do this, go to the DayZ steam workshop. Here you subscribe to the following content:
- CF (Community Framework)
- DayZ expansion
- DayZ Expansion Licensed
- Community online tools
- Optional: Zomberry Admin Tools
So that you don’t have to search for each mod individually, I have created a Steam collection that includes all mods. Just click on “Subscribe all” to get all mods.
Now start up the DayZ Launcher via Steam and maneuver to “Mods”. In the search field, which is located at the top right, you are now looking for the said mods and make sure to only tick those. If you have loaded other mods, you have to unload them beforehand.
Then you go to the point “Parameters”, then “All Parameters”. Set a profile name and add your path to the expansion offline folder in the “Missions” search bar. Again – if not changed this should be:
C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZ\Missions\ExpansionCom.ChernarusPlus
The last folder is only to be clicked once! Do not open it, just klick it and then “Select Folder”
Keybindings: The most important keyboard shortcuts that you should remember are:
- END – Activates and deactivates the Community Online Tools
- Z – brings up the console that allows you to play God
- O – brings up the Zomberry console. This is a little clearer
These errors can occur! Here’s how you fix it
Missing missions folder: If there is no folder with the name Missions in your DayZ directory, you can simply create it with a right click> new> folder. Then just rename it!
Expansion Compile Error: If this occurs, close the game. You may also see an error message that you cannot click, but that’s no problem.
In the Parameters section of the DayZ Launcher, select “Force Window Mode”. This ensures that DayZ does not overlay the error message, so you can interact with it. If it appears again, just click on “ignore” and the loading sequence should continue. That’s it: Now you can play DayZ Expansion offline in singleplayer, have fun!
