In this DayZ Guide, we show you how you can play the DayZ Expansion Mod offline in singleplayer. With it, you can also spawn all planes & even ships.
What Expansion offers: The Expansion Mod from DayZ can actually do everything. It doesn’t just bring new weapons or skins. Vehicles, base construction and even airplanes and helicopters are also included.
So that you don’t have to search for hours on a server, you can easily do it in the singleplayer, and we will show you how!
This Guide was updated on December 28th 2020.
Play DayZ & Expansion in Offline Mode
1. Download DayZ Expansion
In order to be able to play the modification in singleplayer, you have to download at least one of the following two files:
DayZ Expansion ChernarusPlus
DayZ Expansion ChernarusPlusGloom (Adapted Map)
Simply click on Download in the upper right corner. You should then receive a zip or Winrar file.
2. Installing DayZ Expansion Offline
If you open this directory, you should see two folders. You will now add this to your DayZ Missions folder. You should find it in your Steam directory. If you haven’t changed that, the address is:
C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZ
Here you should find a folder called “Missions”. In this, you drag your two new CommunityOfflineMode folders.
3. Start & play DayZ Expansion
You can start you have to install a few additional mods. To do this, go to the DayZ steam workshop. Here you subscribe to the following content:
- CF (Community Framework)
- DayZ expansion
- DayZ Expansion Licensed
- Community online tools
- Optional: Zomberry Admin Tools
So that you don’t have to search for each mod individually, I have created a Steam collection that includes all mods. Just click on “Subscribe all” to get all mods.
Now start up the DayZ Launcher via Steam and maneuver to “Mods”. In the search field, which is located at the top right, you are now looking for the said mods and make sure to only tick those. If you have loaded other mods, you have to unload them beforehand.
Then you go to the point “Parameters”, then “All Parameters”. Set a profile name and add your path to the expansion offline folder in the “Missions” search bar. Again – if not changed this should be:
C:\ProgramFiles(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZ\Missions\ExpansionCom.ChernarusPlus
The last folder is only to be clicked once! Do not open it, just klick it and then “Select Folder”
Keybindings: The most important keyboard shortcuts that you should remember are:
- END – Activates and deactivates the Community Online Tools
- Z – brings up the console that allows you to play God
- O – brings up the Zomberry console. This is a little clearer
These errors can occur! Here’s how you fix it
Missing missions folder: If there is no folder with the name Missions in your DayZ directory, you can simply create it with a right click> new> folder. Then just rename it!
Expansion Compile Error: If this occurs, close the game. You may also see an error message that you cannot click, but that’s no problem.
In the Parameters section of the DayZ Launcher, select “Force Window Mode”. This ensures that DayZ does not overlay the error message, so you can interact with it. If it appears again, just click on “ignore” and the loading sequence should continue. That’s it: Now you can play DayZ Expansion offline in singleplayer, have fun!
What’s status on the fix? Getting hang at half way mark as others indicated earlier.
If it’s a Nitrado server try this:
go inside your server profile (or config) => expansionmod => Settings => generalsettings.json => disable the custom mapping and interiors (from 1 to 0). It should improve the server perfs
Check if the expansionmod => missions folder is not empty
Check if the crash.logs have a error
cant get it to work done it right and it crashes
Sorry to hear that. We will work on an updated version of this guide as soon as we figure out, what causes this crash. It’s not working since the last hotfix.
go inside your server profile (or config) => expansionmod => Settings => generalsettings.json => disable the custom mapping and interiors (from 1 to 0). It should improve the server perfs
Check if the expansionmod => missions folder is not empty
Check if the crash.logs have a error.
Is there any way to launch this without using the launcher, a command line for a batch file perhaps?
I have followed all of the steps in this guide, but when I attempt to launch the game, the progress bar for loading stops a little after the halfway mark. I deleted and reinstalled DayZ and all the additional files, and have the same result. If I run DayZ alone or just with the mods, it loads normally. But, once I add the Missions folder and the other files, it will not load. I am not getting any form of error message and I have attempted this in both full screen and windowed. Thank you in advance for your assistance!
I’m having the same issue.
Hey Ray and Stank2k! This article is outdatet since the latest Hotfixes. We will update it as soon as possible :)
Same here, any fix yet?
No zombies or gear spawns for me. Is this normal for offline mode?
same for me. Not seeing any loot anywhere
Yes, unfortunately that is normal.
so doing all of this is a waste of time then? im new and trying to figure game out but cant on public servers coz everything has been looted
Might want to put a link in your post for the mod collection. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2277879252
Thanks, Daniel! I’m sorry I forgot it!