The style of play in EscapeZ was largely inspired by DayZ in the sense of I'm striving hard for a desperation feel in the game. To begin, players will not be able to place or break blocks of any kind, not even torches. This is because the focus isn't on mining and building, but on exploring, surviving, and looting.

There have been dozens of chests placed around the world that contain a random amount of supplies that players will be able to find. The supplies contain items such as sticks, coal, iron ore, potion materials, food, weaponry, and armor. Basically all the necessary building blocks of crafting. Players are encouraged to gather these supplies and then set out and find crafting tables and smelters to get better gear to help them survive.

Don't worry if you find an empty chest. The contents will respawn with another set of random loot on a timed interval.

The point of this event is zombie killing. For every zombie a player kills, they will receive one point. The player who gets the most points by the end of the event will receive a free copy of ARMA 2: CO (on Steam, $30 USD) so they will be able to join in on the fun on our DayZ server.

The only monsters in the game will be zombies and pig zombies and they will spawn at night but will not die in sunlight. The server is set to Hard so zombies will take some effort to kill and they will be able to break down doors.

Be careful though because while you get one point for every kill, you lose 5% of your total score for every death. I should also mention that PvP will be enabled. You will not receive any points for killing other players, but you may turn the tides of a high score by hunting another player down. Leaderboards will be actively available on the website during all times of the event.

We have enabled multiple spawn points around the map so that when a player dies they will respawn, at random, in one of these locations. This helps prevent spawn camping as well as keeping things more interesting.

The world we decided to use is a custom map of an island found here. Several of us have gone through and heavily altered the map by building dozens of structures in many locations scattered around the world. Some obvious, some hidden. Most of these locations contain supplies that can be looted.

The world is beautifully designed and players will be able to access most locations on the map, including the cliffs. Be mindful though because if you can get there, so can zombies.

The map is a smaller one so the number of players allowed at one time will be limited to around 15-20 players at once. Don't worry if you're unable to get in at a certain time as the event will last over the course of one week.

As was mentioned earlier, players will not be able to break or place any kind of block. This presents a problem with lighting and we have decided that players will be able to use a torch if they have it equipped in their hand.

To turn on your torch, left-click with the torch in your hand. To turn it off, left-click again. With the torch on, a light radius will extend out from the player. This is your only light source in the game. Use it sparingly as the torches do go out and use coal to light up again. NOTE: there is a limitation with the torch as it doesn't work on a few blocks. We are aware of the issue, but there isn't a fix. We have minimized the use of these blocks as a result.

The light is client side only. This means that other players will not be able to see the light of your torch.

Players should take note that their inventories will be significantly reduced in the sense that items now have very low stack rates and some items will not stack at all such as food. The reason for this is so that players will not hoard items and will have to make intelligent decisions about which items are important to them. Players will have to decide if holding on to some iron ingots is more valuable than holding on to more food.

Due to the server being on Hard, players can die from hunger. We have greatly increased the amount of time it would take a player to starve, but players should be mindful that if they neglect searching for food, they will die.

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