Common DayZ Terms

Have you ever tried to integrate yourself in a gaming community with well established lingo? Perhaps it's a game where people tend to be loud about their well established lingo, likely due to the Zeds chasing you? If so, I have the information for you!

• Bambi

  • Completely new DayZ player

• Newbie​

  • New spawn to a particular server​​​

• Spawn point

  • Areas on the coast where newbies spawn, can be seen on the iZurvive map

• PVE

  • Player vs Environment ​

• PVP

  • Player vs Player​

  • Strictly not allowed on Evolution for any reason, including revenge

• Relogging

  • Logging out of the game, and logging back in​

  • Done to reset bugged issues, including the sound bug

• Bugged​

  • Several known common issues that can often be solved by jumping, F5, relogging, or punching a wall. Common bugs include: ​​

    • Hand bug--players will show that you have something in your hands that you don't, such as a gun you recently put in your inventory​

    • Inventory bug--you're unable to take things in and out of your inventory, likely because you have the hand bug and don't realize you have something in your hands

    • Sound bug--sound from the game disappears, can usually only be solved by relogging

• Emotes, including emote wheel

  • Commonly referred to as F5, F11, etc.

  • Emote wheel can be accessed by pressing and holding .

• F11/Suicide​​​​

  • Killing onself via F11, or such as jumping off a building, or running into Zeds and not defending yourself​​​

  • Can be done for a variety of reasons, such as getting a better spawn location, or a desired character

• Load out, or kit

  • Clothes, guns, your general outfit​

• Cattle call

  • Unique Evolutionary Gaming term​

  • Standing on top of a building, such a shed, and firing a loud gun to bring Zeds to you (like a milkshake); then staying on the building and shooting the Zeds from the roof

• Taco stand, aka kiosks

  • Unique Evolutionary Gaming term used to refer to kiosks​

• Building call outs/names

  • Each building has a unique name; this will be important to learn particularly for other servers, where identifying which building you're in is invaluable​

  • All building call outs can be found here

• Base

  • On Evolutionary servers, a base can refer to a home, walled fortress, a tent, a barrel in the woods, a claimed car, buried loot, etc. ​

  • If it's not yours, it's not yours

• Screenshot/F12

  • To take screenshots in game, press F12​

• Removing HUD

  • Quick press ` to remove your HUD​

  • Long press ` to remove your character stats