Best Maps for DayZ Servers & Installation Guide

INTRODUCTION TO THE BEST MAPS FOR DAYZ

While adventuring in DayZ, exploring while you survive takes you and your players to many unique places from loot-filled military bases, abandoned airports, and even the depths of old mines. From new areas to custom weapons and enemies found in them, many DayZ maps offer a new experience for all players to try something new for a revamped DayZ survival quest!

With hundreds of special maps to try, whether you’re looking for a map inspired by real cities and locations, a map that offers a barren wasteland with limited supplies, or even massive islands for everyone to join on, you can add and play those maps together. Follow us into the zombie-filled lands of DayZ as we cover the best maps for DayZ and how you can install them to your DayZ game server!

TOP DAYZ MAPS

BANOV | DAYZ CUSTOM MAP

OVERVIEW

Inspired by the Slovak landscape of the Banov District and its surrounding areas, Banov is a very large map at 256 km2 containing a very large city with over 30 villages, water dams, and airports to explore. Outside of civilization, Banov contains lush beauty with forests, meadows, swamps, rivers, and many other natural beauties including special hidden locations to uncover. With rapidly changing weather at every turn, every step contains danger as you survive in Banov!

FEATURES

• Great for supporting many DayZ players with a 256 km2 map.
• Banov is inspired by real cities, villages, and forests in the Banov District.
• Weather in Banov can change swiftly, from sunny days to torrential downpours.

CHERNARUSPLUS | DEFAULT DAYZ MAP

OVERVIEW

The default map for DayZ, ChernarusPlus can be played by any DayZ players without any additional mods or downloads. Chernarus+ is the map that DayZ is set in, in a post-Soviet state facing a zombie outbreak. While exploring this mountainous map, you’ll come across many settlements both large and small where you can access almost every structure to find supplies to ensure the survival of you and your fellow DayZ players.

FEATURES

• The standard map for DayZ, no mods or downloads are needed to play.
• Cherarus+ is a large map perfect for many players on your DayZ server.
• Includes many settlements and seven major cities to explore and uncover hidden loot.

NAMALSK | CUSTOM DAYZ MAP

OVERVIEW

A deadly and unforgiving map, Namalsk is a barren wasteland with little life in it but contains several military bases ripe for looting. That loot comes in handy too, as you’ll uncover new weapons and a dangerous new foe called the Bloodsucker. Made for the most hardcore of DayZ players, can you and your friends find the resources needed to survive in Namalsk?

FEATURES

• A desert-like map with one city and many military spawn points.
• Many secrets are hidden throughout Namalsk such as broken sea ice hiding an abandoned nuclear submarine and underground installations to journey into.
• Exclusive features include a new enemy, sci-fi sniper, and the possibility of EVR sequences every hour which will knock out players and result in them losing half their blood unless they’re hidden in a building or are wearing an APSI device.

LIVONIA | DAYZ DLC MAP

OVERVIEW

Livonia is a fictional landlocked land in the Baltic region of Eastern Europe, with major cities and towns throughout the land. Due to the wars faced in Livonia, many buildings that were once occupied now sit abandoned and rotting, filled with many supplies to loot while surviving on this map. Livonia attempted to hold back the infection, with evidence of quarantine tents throughout the map but in the end, the lands were overtaken by the undead.

FEATURES

• Many abandoned buildings can be found around the map with resources inside.
• Forests are dense in Livonia featuring much wildlife with deer, wolves, and bears.
• Remnants of the military can be seen throughout the map with abandoned bases, camps, and airfields.

DEERISLE | DAYZ CUSTOM MAP

OVERVIEW

Deerisle is a community-created map designed based on many real-life locations including “Paris Island” in South Carolina and an airport similar to Knox County Regional Airport in Maine! Maintaining a large size and many different objects and loot to gather across the map, there are many areas to search through as you play! Avoid the deadly wolves and bears throughout this map as you take on both players and zombies to survive.

FEATURES

• Features several locations inspired by areas in the United States.
• Explore many hidden areas throughout the lands of Deerisle.
• Includes over 1.5 million objects on the map.

HOW TO INSTALL A CUSTOM DAYZ MAP

• Go on Steam and access the DayZ Steam Workshop.
• In the Steam Workshop, search for and locate the map you’d like to install. We will be using the map “Iztek” as an example.
• Make sure that you’re subscribed to that map and its required items if there are any.
• In the description for that map, locate a GitHub repository of the map’s files. In the case of the Iztek map, you can find those files here.

• On that GitHub, press “CODE” and then “Download Zip” to download those map files.

• Extract that .zip file using a program such as 7Zip to a safe location on your PC:
  
• After unzipping those files, enter the folders “IztekMissionFiles-main” and then “empty.Iztek”. In that folder, locate and unzip the areaflags.zip file.
• Access your DayZ server FTP now and in that, go to the location /dayzstandalone/mpmissions/
• Upload that custom map’s mission folder and files into this area just like this:
  
• Open the DayZ game now and access the “MODS” section.
• Press the down arrow next to any of those mods you installed, select “…”, and then press “Open folder to Windows Explorer” to access the DayZ workshop mod installations.
  
• In your DayZ workshop mods list, locate the map mod and its requirements:
  
• Upload these folders directly into the “dayzstandalone” folder on your server’s FTP.
• Next, enter the map mod and its requirements folders on your computer and enter the “Keys” folder for each. Upload those keys from each folder into your server’s “keys” folder.
  
• Once those are uploaded, go on your DayZ server panel, turn off your server, and to the left under “SETTINGS”, click “General” to access your DayZ server options.
• In your server options, checkbox “Expert Mode” to ensure that enables.
• Still in your “General” options, locate the “Additional mods” section and add each of your mods that you installed to your server’s FTP, separating each mod with a “;” and then press “Save changes”.
  
• You can now press the “Expert Settings” option under “SETTINGS” to the left on your DayZ control panel.
• In your “Expert Settings” edit the “serverDZ.cfg” file, find this section called “class Missions”, and for the “template=” setting, add your custom mission map folder’s name into this setting and then press “Save changes”.
  
• Lastly, start your DayZ server and then proceed to join to try the custom DayZ map! If you join from the “COMMUNITY” tab on DayZ, you will also be able to automatically install any mods installed on your server:
  

TRY THE BEST MAP FOR YOUR DAYZ SERVER

When taking on the undead and the dangers of other players, the journey you and your friends have can be enhanced by trying the best maps for DayZ that contain unique areas, creatures, and loot. No matter if you’re taking on a huge map such as Banov, exploring maps inspired by real-life locations, or you’re looking for a challenge with a very difficult map such as Namalsk, there is a custom DayZ map for all to enjoy! Try the exciting undead adventures that await when you begin playing the best maps for DayZ on your own dedicated DayZ server!