A real kitchen
A full cooking overhaul: recipes, pots and meals worth sitting down for. Dinner is a social event again.
Season 2 · Fresh wipe 07/02/2026
Northbound presentsChernarusPlus 2.0
The country you think you know, rewired. New lights, new dangers, new places your map doesn't show. This page spoils none of them.
The ground truth
Read the terrain
Bohemia's original 230 km² of South Zagoria, then a season's worth of hand-built work on top. The numbers below are real. Where it all sits is your problem.
Landmass
15 × 15 km
ChernarusPlus: coast, farmland, deep north.
Hand-placed objects
0
Custom structures and set-dressing added for 2.0.
Mods loaded
0
Curated for a Vanilla+ feel, not an arcade.
Survivors
0
First-person only. Organic RP rules.
Tier zones
6+ unique
Loot ladder redrawn for 2.0. See below.
Dynamic lighting
When night falls, the lights come on
Nights on Northbound are properly dark. But the country isn't dead: street lamps hum awake at dusk, windows glow, village crossings pool with light. Beautiful, until you realize everyone else can see the light too.
Navigate by the glow
No in-game map markers out here. On a moonless night, a distant lamp line is the best compass you'll get.
Light is information
A lit street tells you where people go. It also tells people where you go. Use it, or skirt it. Both are choices.
Or make your own
Fires still cook, dry and warm. They also broadcast your position to everyone on the ridge. Organic RP starts at the fireline.
Custom areas
Places your map doesn't show
Season 2 seeds Chernarus with hand-built sites: some vast, some a single room you'll walk past twice. A few made this page. Most didn't. No coordinates, no hints.
Somewhere off the coast
The Island Chain
Worth the tripHigh
Cost of admissionThe crossing
A scatter of islets, piers and half-drowned wrecks strung off the shoreline: cabins on the rocks, boardwalks over the shallows, and more standing between them than the seabirds. Getting there is easy. Getting there unseen is the game.
Field noteOpen water has no cover in either direction. Whatever you carry out, you'll carry it across a very long, very visible stretch of blue.
Behind old walls
The Old Fortress
Worth the tripVery high
Cost of admissionSevere
Towers, ramparts and a long approach with nowhere to hide. Places like this were built to keep people out. That hasn't changed, only who's doing the keeping. Bring friends, or bring patience.
Field noteEvery wall that protects you going in protects whoever's waiting when you leave. Plan the exit before the entrance.
Set into the rock
The Door in the Cliff
Worth the tripUnknown
Cost of admissionUnknown
Somewhere in the hills there's a blast door with vines growing over it. Someone built it to survive the end of the world. The end of the world came. The door is still doing its job. What's behind it, and what it takes to find out, stays off this page.
Field noteDoors like this don't open for optimists. Do your homework in the world, not on the wiki.
Out past the horizon
The Oil Rig
Worth the tripHigh
Cost of admissionSevere
A city of pipes, stacks and cranes parked out on open water. Getting there takes a boat or real stubbornness, and the climb happens in full view of everyone already up top. What the platforms hold is the kind of loot that starts wars back on shore.
Field noteThere is exactly one polite way up, and everyone on the rig watches it. Plan the climb like a heist and the ride home like a getaway.
Find it yourself
There are more sites than this page admits: some large enough to hold a war, some small enough to miss at ten meters. None of them are listed anywhere. Boots on the ground, survivor.
New infected class
Something out there burns
A new kind of infected walks Chernarus in 2.0. Survivors who met one and lived agree on very little, except the smell of smoke, and that it never had to touch them to hurt them.
We're not publishing what it does, where it stands, or what it's guarding. You'll know it when you feel the heat.
- Designation
- ██████████Find out
- Behavior
- ████████████████Get closer
- Damage type
- ████████You'll feel it
- Known locations
- ██████████████Keep walking
- Advice
- Don't stand still.
Threat file · NB-ZClearance: none
Side quest 01
Keys, registers & chests
Good loot doesn't fall out of trees in 2.0. Some of it sits behind locks. Old cash registers on forgotten counters, heavy chests stashed across the country, and two separate key chains between you and the loot.
Optional · repeatable · unforgiving
Two key chains
Step 1 · Find a register key
Two chains, two stories. The register chain and the chest chain never touch: different keys, different hiding places, different payoffs. Where each one starts is yours to find out. We will say this: the first key is always the cheap one.
Side quest 02
Grow your own
The other road to getting ahead doesn't need a single bullet: a full cannabis pipeline, from seed to brick. It pays well. It also takes time, ground you can't defend from your loading screen, and nerve.
Optional · slow money · high blood pressure
Seed to brick
Stage 1 · Plant
The infrastructure is the quest. Dry-posts and the press exist only at fixed, hidden stations out in the world. No recipe, no map marker, no "ask an admin". Finding them, and surviving other people who found them first, is the whole point.
Not a trader-city server
Then find the buyer.
There is a trader. That is nearly all this page will tell you. No trader city, no safe zone, no glowing map pin. Northbound doesn't do drive-thru economies. The road to the buyer is deliberately long, deliberately quiet, and it ends somewhere that takes real effort to reach, let alone leave.
Two more things, because we're feeling generous: the last stretch is guarded by things that burn. And the market pays for more than product. Rare finds have buyers too.
The economy
Loot is earned here
The spawn tables for 2.0 are tuned hardcore. Shelves are emptier, rifles are rarer, and the gap between "found on the coast" and "carried out of the deep country" is wide on purpose. If everyone has it, nobody values it. So on Northbound, nobody just has it.
The top shelf exists. It sits behind distance, tiers, keys, quests and other people. That PPSh in the video? Someone walked a long way in the dark for it.
New tier zones
The ladder moved
2.0 redraws the loot tiers across the whole country: six zones plus a handful of unique cells that follow no pattern at all. Your Season 1 routes are cold. The old wiki maps are wrong. Good.
Tier 1Beach money
Tier 2Getting dressed
Tier 3Now it's a rifle
Tier 4Worth robbing
Tier 5Bring friends
Tier 6Tell no one
Unique██████
Where the lines run is not documented: not here, not on the forum, not in DMs. The heat map lives in your boots.
And the rest
Small things that change everything
Thirty-eight mods, tuned quiet. No minimaps, no kill feeds, no floating names, just tools that make the world deeper and the roleplay easier.
Handwritten notes
Pen and paper work. Leave a warning on a door, a trade offer at a crossroads, a last letter where you fell.
Working radios
Tune a frequency and talk across the country. Broadcasts, ambushes, radio plays: the airwaves are yours.
Bicycles
Quiet, fuel-free and faster than boots. The most underrated vehicle in the apocalypse.
Classic wheels
From a Defender to a '67 Impala: rare rides with real keys and real locks. Lose the key, lose the car. Guard both.
Fight from the seat
Shooting from vehicles works. A moving truck is cover, taxi and gun platform in one, for you and for them.
Locks & fortifications
Code locks, base building and fortification kits. Your stash is as safe as your architecture, and your secrecy.
Hands up, hands out
Surrender mechanics and give-and-take interactions make robberies, arrests and mercy actual scenes, not spray contests.
It gets messy
A gore system with consequences you can see. Violence on Northbound looks like a decision, because it is one.
Quiet quality of life
Earplugs for loud rides, autorun for the long roads, a working 3D map when you find one. Nothing that plays the game for you.
Your colors
Custom armbands for groups and factions, designed by the community and worn in the world. Get your custom armband.
A watch worth killing for
Somewhere on the server ticks a luxury watch that exists nowhere else. One of the rarest finds in 2.0. That's all you get.
Season 2 · ChernarusPlus 2.0
Fresh country. Fresh stories.
Wiped 07/02/2026. Every legend on this server currently owns a flashlight and a bad feeling. Best time to land there has ever been. Come write your story.