Field notes
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Nasdara is the inland arid province that ships with the expansion: 267 km² of arid spring, the largest official DayZ terrain the team has made.
The terrain
Nasdara covers 267 km² and is played in an arid spring.
It is the largest official DayZ terrain the team has described. Chernarus stays autumn, Livonia summer, Sakhal winter.
What sits beside it
The seasons line up on purpose: arid spring here, autumn on Chernarus, summer on Livonia, winter on Sakhal. That is a climate contrast, not a travel time between servers.
No town-coordinate index has been announced. Personal-radio transmissions carry coordinates and access codes for urban bunkers. The codes stay in the transmissions. Follow them on the radio notes.
What you do on the ground
Ruined mud and stone houses are the building problem. Nearly 5,000 rebuildable structures include wells and irrigation tunnels. Over 5,000 rebuildable houses come in about 20 mud and stone variants. One figure counts structures. The other counts houses. Both stay on the rebuilding page.
Heat, dust, and scarce water are the survival problem. Gusts can build into large sandstorms, and water is how you rinse sand from your eyes. The sickness names, including Sillicosis beside silicosis, are on the heat page.
Dogs, mouflon, a desert monitor, and two fish belong to this province. Dobermann and German shepherd dogs, four variants each, cannot be tamed or kept as companions, and packs are tied to military zones. The full list is on wildlife.
Size, season, and what the map is for
Nasdara covers 267 km². It is the largest official DayZ terrain the team has made. Play it as an arid spring. The neighboring official climates stay what they were: autumn on Chernarus, summer on Livonia, and winter on Sakhal. That lineup is a climate contrast, not a claim about travel time between servers.
Nasdara Province was named on 27 June 2025. It became playable with Update 1.30 on 15 October 2026. Between those dates, Update 1.29 on 15 July 2026 put Nasdara military convoys on Chernarus and Livonia. A convoy on an older map is not proof that you are standing in the new province.
The province is the paid part of app 3816030. Shared 1.30 changes can appear on the older maps. The houses, wells, irrigation tunnels, and the Nasdara animal list are the reasons to buy the terrain rather than only to install the patch.
- 267 km² arid spring, largest official terrain the team has described.
- Named 27 June 2025, playable 15 October 2026.
- 1.29 convoys on older maps are not the province itself.
What you do on the ground
Sandstorms are a Nasdara hazard. Water is how you rinse sand from your eyes. The medical names that travel with that weather are heatstroke and silicosis, also written Heat Stroke, Sillicosis, and Irritated Eyes.
Ruined mud and stone houses are the building problem. Wells and irrigation tunnels sit inside a province-wide count of nearly 5,000 rebuildable structures. The houses themselves are over 5,000, in about 20 mud and stone variants. The trowel, the sheet-metal openings, and the code lock are the jobs on the rebuilding note.
Tune the personal radio for the bunker coordinates and the access code. Those codes stay in the signal. Underground facilities use terrain holes, and other maps and modders can use that same hole system. Follow the signal in, then regenerate navmesh if you build terrain, because the 1.30 format does not load the old file.
How to read the lizard still
The picture shows a large lizard on open arid ground. The desert monitor is the named lizard for this province. It is territorial, and it yields meat and skin. A wide shot of the terrain is the province, not a spawn pin.
Other pictures show a rider on a green motorcycle in a valley and a yellow moped near an infected figure. Green fits the Bitrak 682 plate colors. Yellow is a fixed Jana 50 color. Paint in a picture is not a model name. Use class, pace, colors, and shields to tell the bikes apart.
A ruined street shows a tank, a jeep, and a stop sign. It does not identify the Golden KA-M or any other new gun. The 1.30 weapons are the Lee Enfield, the Luger, the MP-18, SCR16, the Golden KA-M, and the melee set. Color in a picture is not a weapon name.