iZurvive DayZ Map: How to Use It, Nasdara and Server Tools

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How to use the iZurvive map for DayZ: find your position, filter loot, water and tiers, the Nasdara layers, and how server owners mark spawns and check loot.

DayZ key art: a survivor in a red beanie holding a rifle in front of a ruined town

DayZ gives you no minimap and no GPS dot, so most new players soon look up the iZurvive map. It answers where you are and where the thing you need is. If you run a server, it also shows whether your spawns and loot make sense on the map your players already use. This guide covers both, including Nasdara from DayZ Badlands.

Quick answer: The iZurvive map is the interactive DayZ map at izurvive.com, with iOS and Android apps that have the same features. It cannot show where you are: follow a road to a town sign, type the name into the search (Latin letters that look like the Cyrillic ones work), and the map jumps there. The filter shows loot buildings, water, loot tiers and player spawns, and a group shares your markers with your squad. Nasdara has been on iZurvive since 15 October 2026, the day Badlands came out. Server owners can type spawn coordinates from cfgplayerspawnpoints.xml into the search, compare an item's vanilla usage and tier with their types.xml edits, and upload .ADM logs to see kills and builds on the map.

Everything about iZurvive below was checked on its site, changelog and FAQ pages on 3 November 2026, when the site showed its data as DayZ 1.30.

What the iZurvive Map Covers

iZurvive runs in the browser and as iOS and Android apps, and its About page says "all versions include the same set of features and are compatible with each other." The map menu splits DayZ into the base game, the two DLC maps and a long Steam Workshop list:

MapWhere iZurvive lists itViewsCoordinates on iZurvive
Chernarus+Included in DayZTopographic, satellite, tourist map0 to 15,360
LivoniaIncluded in DayZTopographic, satellite, tourist map0 to 12,800
SakhalDayZ Frostline DLCTopographic, satellite0 to 15,360
NasdaraDayZ Badlands DLCTopographic, satellite0 to 16,384
NamalskSteam WorkshopTopographic, satellite0 to 12,800
Deer IsleSteam WorkshopTopographic, satellite0 to 16,384

The Workshop list also has Takistan Plus, Banov, Esseker, Chiemsee, Pripyat and about twenty more. All six maps in the table have a loot tier layer in the filter; on Namalsk and Deer Isle it is a coloured image laid over the map.

How to Find Where You Are on the iZurvive Map

iZurvive's FAQ is clear that it cannot show your position automatically. You find it yourself:

  1. Follow the first road you find until you reach a town sign.
  2. Type the town name into the search box. On Chernarus and Livonia the signs are in Cyrillic, and iZurvive accepts Latin letters that look similar; its own example is "Ka6ahnho" for Кабанино.
  3. Pick the result and the map zooms to the town.

The search box has four tabs (Locations, Items, Models and Markers) and also takes coordinates: if you find a GPS Receiver in game, type the two numbers it shows. The map shows the coordinate under your cursor and copies it with Ctrl+C on Windows or Control+C on a Mac.

Before you reach a sign:

  • On Chernarus, a new character starts on the coast. All 49 fresh spawn areas in Bohemia's official spawn file sit on or near the south and east coast, so the sea tells you roughly where you are.
  • On Nasdara, there is no coast. Bohemia's store page calls it "fully inland", with sand to the east and border mountains to the west, and the official spawn file puts all 20 fresh spawn areas in the north. Bohemia's April dev blog says important signs are in English and Farsi, so read the English line and search for that.
  • Roads and rail tracks stand out on the topographic view, iZurvive's About page notes, so a junction or a station gives you a shape to match.

Our Nasdara map guide lists its main towns with their iZurvive grid squares.

The Layers Worth Turning On

Open the filter to choose what the map draws. On the official maps the main groups are:

  • Loot buildings: Military, Medical, Urban, Rural, Industrial, Coast, Wreck and Landmark. The settings switch loot icons between Simple and Detailed.
  • Water: on Chernarus the water pumps sit under Urban. Nasdara has had its own Water category since 22 October, with brick wells, irrigation tunnel entrances and water troughs, plus a water truck event. A well icon is not a promise of water: Bohemia's July dev blog says some wells "need your labor and the labor of another friendly you met" before they give drinking water.
  • Loot tiers: coloured zones for Tier 1 to Tier 4 and Unique. They match the <value> tiers in the game's loot file, which is why they matter to server owners below.
  • Events: crash sites, vehicle spawns (on Nasdara including the motorbike) and player spawns.

For a single item, use the Items tab of the search: iZurvive shows every position where it can spawn, and you can step through them one by one. The item sheet adds weight, size, attachments, recipes and what the item spawns with.

The distance tool turns a route into time: iZurvive divides the distance by 3 for running and by 5 for sprinting, so it assumes about 3 and 5 metres per second.

On Chernarus, plan a loot route from your spawn town past the nearest pump and inland toward military loot. On Nasdara, plan around water first: Bohemia says the map has "very little standing water".

Groups and Markers

Click the map to add a marker. Markers can be dragged, coloured, given a type and put in a group, and you can also draw circles, lines and areas. A group shares those markers with everyone in it:

  • Group: anyone with the name and password can join. iZurvive's FAQ notes that group names are case sensitive and that a stray space or a similar name is the usual reason two friends end up in different groups.
  • Group+: needs an account (iZurvive logs you in with a link by email), shows who joined, has Admin, Member and Viewer roles, kick and ban, and an invite link. Since May 2026 the owner can hand the group to another member.
  • Lock markers: a filter option since November 2025 that stops markers from being moved by accident.

Nasdara (DayZ Badlands) on iZurvive

Nasdara arrived on iZurvive in steps after Badlands came out on 15 October 2026, according to its changelog:

DateiZurvive versionWhat changed for Nasdara
15 Oct 202620.2.0Nasdara map added
17 Oct 202620.2.2 and 20.2.3Fuel stations, topographic map, more zoom levels; loot maps and wikis for all maps updated for DayZ 1.30
19 Oct 202620.2.4Repairable water wells and irrigation tunnel entrances
22 Oct 202620.2.5Loot map update, medical containers, rural and urban tents, the new Water category, a wiki per official map

Switch between the topographic view and the satellite view in the map menu, under DayZ Badlands. Bohemia's store page calls Nasdara's 267 km² of desert the largest map for official DayZ; on iZurvive it is 16,384 m wide. If you run or plan a Nasdara server, our Badlands and 1.30 checklist covers the update routine.

iZurvive for DayZ Server Owners

Your players already know iZurvive, so use it to plan your server and explain it.

Mark your spawn points

The player spawn layer shows the fresh, hop and travel spawns from the official files; Chernarus also has a safe spawn type. On Nasdara we compared the layer with Bohemia's cfgplayerspawnpoints.xml in its DayZ Central Economy repository, and the 20 positions are the same, for example x 10862.6, z 11663.7.

A <pos> is not a single spot. In the official file it is the centre of a 200 by 200 metre grid (grid_width and grid_height set to 200) in which the game samples spawn candidates and drops the ones that overlap objects or water. To plan your own spawns:

  1. Hover over the spot on iZurvive and note the coordinate shown: X first, then the north value, which the mission file calls z.
  2. Draw an area about 200 m across around it, so you see the whole spawn bubble.
  3. Measure from the spot to the nearest water and the first loot building. On a community server, new players should reach both quickly; on a hardcore server, harsh spawns can be the point.
  4. Add the position to the <generator_posbubbles> group of each section you want it in (<fresh>, <hop> or <travel>):
<generator_posbubbles>
    <group name="AllSpawnpoints" lifetime="0">
        <pos x="10862.637695" z="11663.675781" />
        <pos x="9705.84082" z="12237.535156" />
    </group>
</generator_posbubbles>

To check a position you already have, type both numbers into the iZurvive search, for example 10862 11663, and pick the coordinate result; the panel that opens can drop a marker there. Spread spawn clusters so fresh players are not farmed at one hotspot.

Check loot edits against the vanilla data

The iZurvive item sheet shows the vanilla loot rules: the same usages, categories, tags and tiers as Bohemia's types.xml, plus the attachments an item spawns with. Take the CR-75 pistol on Nasdara. iZurvive lists it for town and village buildings in Tier 1 and Tier 2, which is exactly the official entry (shortened here):

<type name="CZ75">
    <nominal>50</nominal>
    <min>45</min>
    <!-- lifetime, restock, quantmin, quantmax, cost and flags left out -->
    <category name="weapons"/>
    <usage name="Town"/>
    <usage name="Village"/>
    <value name="Tier1"/>
    <value name="Tier2"/>
</type>

Before you change an entry, look the item up on iZurvive to see where it spawns now. Then compare with your edit:

  • A new <value>: turn on the loot tier layer to see which zones the item can now reach. With <value name="Tier3"/> added, the CZ75 can also appear in town and village buildings inside the yellow Tier 3 zones.
  • A new <usage>: filter the matching building type, such as police stations for Police, to get an idea of where it will show up.
  • nominal and min: these set how many copies the economy keeps on the map, not where they spawn, and iZurvive does not show them. Check those in game after a restart.

Once you edit loot, the Official view no longer matches your server. Since 17 September 2026 iZurvive can show customised maps for modded community servers: players who select your server in the filter get data that matches its loot and map changes. Servers are added on request, and iZurvive asks admins to contact it through Discord, email or Facebook. Our types.xml guide explains every value in the file.

Draw rules, traders and staff notes

Rules are easier to enforce when players can see them. Draw no-build areas around traders, military bases and event spots, mark traders, and post the group's invite link in your Discord. A Group+ has a default role for people who join, so players can come in as Viewers while staff are Members or Admins. Keep secret locations and admin notes in a separate staff group, and lock markers so nobody drags a zone by accident. Marker search also finds notes, which helps once the map fills up.

Read your server logs on the map

iZurvive's server log reader puts the events from a DayZ admin log on the map. The server writes that log as a .ADM file in its profiles folder when it starts with the -adminlog launch parameter. Upload the file and iZurvive shows every event that has a position, with a filter per event type. You see whether bases go up inside your no-build zones or kills cluster at one spawn.

Some events are only logged when serverDZ.cfg allows them. These are the options iZurvive's FAQ and Bohemia's admin log page name:

adminLogPlayerHitsOnly = 0; // 1 logs player hits only, without infected and animal hits
adminLogPlacement = 1;      // traps, tents and other placed items
adminLogBuildActions = 1;   // build, dismantle, destroy
adminLogPlayerList = 1;     // player list with positions every 5 minutes

The reader is a free beta, and iZurvive says it might become a paid upgrade later. On our DayZ server hosting you edit serverDZ.cfg and types.xml and upload mission files over FTP, on Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal, Nasdara or community maps such as Namalsk and Banov. Make a backup in the panel before a loot or spawn change; every DayZ plan has 2 or 3 backup slots.

FAQ

Does the iZurvive map have Nasdara? Yes, since 15 October 2026, with a topographic view since 17 October. Open izurvive.com/nasdara for the topographic map or izurvive.com/nasdaraSat for the satellite view.

Can the iZurvive DayZ map show where I am? No, iZurvive's FAQ says so. Find a town sign and search for its name, or type the numbers from an in-game GPS Receiver into the search.

Why can't my friends see my markers on iZurvive? Check that the group is switched on in your group list and that you really joined the same one. Group names are case sensitive, and a hidden space or a similar name puts you in a separate group.

Can my server's custom loot show on iZurvive? Yes, once iZurvive lists your server. Players then pick it in the filter and see its custom loot and map changes. Contact iZurvive through its Discord or by email.

Does iZurvive work for Namalsk and Deer Isle? Yes. Both are in the Steam Workshop section with a topographic and a satellite view, a loot map and a loot tier overlay.

Does DayZ have an in-game map? Only as loot. In Bohemia's Nasdara loot file the Tourist Map item spawns in town, village and hunting loot, and the GPS Receiver in hunting loot. Most players keep iZurvive open on a second screen or phone.

Sources

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