Change Server Map & Server Updates
Changing your server map and updating your server
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Changing your server map and updating your server
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To change the server map, follow these easy steps:
Log into your Game Server Dashboard and select your DayZ server.
Go to the Console tab under the System menu and click "Stop".
Power off your server, this is crucial when editing file contents so that nothing is damaged, goes missing, or overlaps and glitches. Also, so that when you start your server backup afterwards your changes are immediately applied.
Locate the Management menu on the left-hand side, use the dropdown and click the File Manager tab.
Scroll down to locate the "serverDZ.cfg" and open it.
Scroll down in the file contents to locate the "class Mission" section.
Within the "template=" line, replace the <MissionName>.<TerrainName> inside the quotations.
The following maps are supported:
Vanilla (default map)
dayzOffline.chernarusplus
Livonia
dayzOffline.enoch
Frostline
dayzOffline.sakhal
Once you have finished your changes, be sure to click "Save File"!
This file also contains the server settings, change the values to match your needs then be sure to click "Save File".
You are now free to start your server and explore your new map.
To make your life easier, use the auto-update feature to have a more hands-off experience with your server. Follow these simple instructions:
Log into your Game Server Dashboard and select your DayZ server.
Go to the Console tab under the System menu and click "Stop".
Power off your server, this is crucial when editing file contents so that nothing is damaged, goes missing, or overlaps and glitches. Also, so that when you start your server backup afterwards your changes are immediately applied.
Locate the Configuration menu on the left-hand side, use the dropdown menu, and click the Startup Parameters tab.
Under "Auto-update server", replace the [0] with [1] to enable automatic updates.
You can leave this option at 0 if you would like to choose when to update your server.
You can enter [1], start your server with the new update, come back and change it back to [0] so that if any new updates come out you are able to decide if you want to push the update or not by repeating this process.
It will save automatically when you hit "Enter" and navigate away.
On your next server startup, your new changes will appear
