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Deadly DayZ

by Zedicide · for DayZ

Deadly DayZ Hardcore Livonia survival where everything you wear, use and live in gets better as you do. Everything is progressive One four-level ladder runs through all crafting: Crude, Normal,…

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Deadly DayZ Hardcore Livonia survival where everything you wear, use and live in gets better as you do. Everything is progressive One four-level ladder runs through all crafting: Crude, Normal,…

Deadly DayZ

Hardcore Livonia survival where everything you wear, use and live in gets better as you do.

Everything is progressive

One four-level ladder runs through all crafting: Crude, Normal, Salvaged, Masterwork.

  • Armor: Crude 60% protection; Salvaged 125% and 2x durability; Masterwork 150% and 2.5x.
  • Ammo: damage 70% / 100% / 115% / 130%.
  • Guns: 11 craftable guns at all four levels, plus 5 reward rifles you can upgrade. Crude is worn and can jam; Masterwork has 2.5x durability and almost never jams.
  • Tools: Crude pot, pan, shovel, pickaxe, sickle, hatchet and saw from scrap; the hatchet climbs to Masterwork.
  • Recipes: 368 in the catalogue (225 ours) plus 54 gun build and upgrade recipes.

Bases

Stick shelter, camo or leather shelter, civilian tent, large tent, Mobile Base, large Mobile Base with its own fence.

  • Homes cannot be destroyed or raided. PvP stays on at home.
  • Each home guards a 10 m zone (large base: about 20 x 20 m) and is a respawn point.
  • Farm animals and farm loot in your zone are protected.
  • Mobile Base storage grows in stages: weapon racks, magazine shelves, loadout hooks, crate racks.

Skills

  • 20 tracks, 135 perks, one shared XP pool. Everything you do feeds it.
  • Tier gates: 150, 450, 1,350, 4,050, 12,150 XP. 89 tiers in all.
  • XP, tiers and perks are never lost on death.
  • Press B to open (rebind: Options > Controls > Deadly DayZ > Open progression screen).

Crafting and scrap

  • Hold a tool, drag scrap onto it, scroll the list, hold to craft. Any tool down to a kitchen knife works; worse tools wear faster (2% per craft hacksaw, 16% knife).
  • Materials count from pockets, the ground (2 m) and open containers (3 m).
  • Scrap comes from salvaging wrecks, tyres and fabric. Bank it at an ATM: banked scrap survives death.

Hunting, tracking and taming

  • Press J for the tracking list (Options > Controls > Deadly DayZ > Open tracking list).
  • Pathfinder range: 500 m small game, 1,250 m medium game, 2,000 m predators. Foraging and taming (horses, chickens, pigs) use the same distances.

Quests, records and firsts

  • 16 quest chains, ranks I to V: 80 ranked quests.
  • Leaderboards, trophy weight records for 27 species, server firsts and 29 achievements.

Hardcore start

You wake in Survivor Town with a kitchen knife and a bandage. Cold and wet clothing can end a run. Guns, ammo and building materials are rare near town. Restarts at 00:00, 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 UTC.

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Highlights

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Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 2d ago.

Deadly DayZ on Nxeon

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One-click install
Not available. One-click install isn't available for this game's mods yet. Download it and upload it to your server in Files.
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
DayZ — 6 GB (6 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
2026-10-14, released 2026-10-14

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Workshop

From 4 recorded builds of Deadly DayZ.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
2026-10-142026-10-14n/aWorkshop
2026-10-122026-10-12n/aWorkshop
2026-10-112026-10-11n/aWorkshop
2026-10-062026-10-06n/aWorkshop

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

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What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Steam Workshop as “QoL”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Compatibility

Game
DayZ

Verified at the source

  • ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-14Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorZedicide, as published on Steam Workshop
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

Deadly DayZ, answered

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Is it free?

Yes. Deadly DayZ is free to download from Steam Workshop.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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