DayZ Frostline · Settlers server three · Live since October 28, 2026
83 km² of snow, volcanic rock and frozen harbours in the far east, played as a first-person DayZ roleplay server. No Wall and no zones: from shore to shore, nobody shoots without initiating first.
Screenshot: DayZ Frostline · © Bohemia Interactive
The third server Sakhal is the island of DayZ Frostline, and since October 28, 2026 Settlers runs it as a third DayZ roleplay server next to ChernarusPlus 2.0 and Nasdara. Same community, same Discord, same rulebook, and the opposite of Nasdara where it matters most: there is no Wall here, and the whole island plays by the southern rules. No KOS anywhere, initiation first. You need DayZ Frostline to join.
The server
Search for the name in the DZSA Launcher or connect by IP. The tile shows the server as it is right now.
Settlers | Sakhal | Roleplay172.111.51.2232502Gear and food
Vehicles
Bases
Roleplay and comfort
Under the hood
Sakhal is a paid expansion: without DayZ Frostline on your Steam account, you cannot join. Settlers runs the same Vanilla+ core as on Nasdara, with 100 slots and without the Wall, the traders and the custom areas of Chernarus.
The map
This is the map your character unfolds in game, Bohemia's own survey of Sakhal with every road, contour line and name on it. Pick a place and the map flies there. Drag to move, hold Ctrl and scroll to zoom, or open it fullscreen.
Map: the DayZ Frostline in-game map of Sakhal, © Bohemia Interactive. Purple outlines mark military areas, a small arch marks a cave. Grid references count in 100 m steps from the top left, the same way iZurvive does, so you can type them straight into its search.
Lay of the land
Sakhal is an archipelago: one large main island with the volcano in its north, the naval island to the west and a scatter of smaller islands around them. The towns sit on the coast, where the harbours are. Inland it is hills, forest, frozen ponds and steam.
West
Petropavlovsk-Sakhal'skiy fills the west coast around its harbour, with more houses, shops and services than anywhere else on the island. Zhupanovo and Sovetskoye sit up the coast road to the north, Bolotnoye on the road south, where the strait to the naval island opens.
North
The coast road runs east from Evai through Severomorsk, Orlovo, Podgornoye and Rybnoye to Rudnogorsk, then turns south down the east shore. Fresh characters wash up somewhere along it. Offshore lie the small islands of Ushki and Tungar.
Centre
Odinokiy vulkan rises 556 m over the north of the island. South of it the geothermal station draws on the heat, hot springs steam in the valleys around Goryachevo and geysers erupt without much warning. A military area sits on the slopes of Pik Volchiy to the west.
South
Nogovo is the town of the south, with the island's runway on its western edge and a fenced military compound beside the hangars. Dudino lies on the shore below, the bay of Raketnaya bukhta opens to the west and the Slomanny islets sit off the coast.
South-east
Aniva closes the spawn coast in the south-east, with a harbour on its bay. North of it the road follows the shore through Vostok, Shumnoye and Baikovo. Inland, Vysokoye sits below the Ledyanoy greben ridge, and Yuzhnoye guards the road along the south coast.
West island
The navy holds the whole western island: one military boundary around Neran, Burukan, Tugur, Cherny Mys and Kekra, with long piers along the inner shore. On Settlers it plays by the same rules as everywhere else on Sakhal, initiation first.
Combat
All of Sakhal
No KOS. Initiation required.
On Chernarus the Wall decides how a fight is allowed to start. Sakhal has no Wall either, and it goes the other way from Nasdara: everywhere on this island you play by the rules that hold south of the concrete on Chernarus. There are no red pockets here, the naval base included.
Everything else in the server rules applies here exactly as it does there: roleplay, base building, raiding, storage and group limits. Only the parts about the Wall itself stay behind.
An initiation is not a formality. A demand the other side can hear gives them a choice, and that choice is where the stories on Settlers start.
Read the full rulesSurvival
Sakhal is the coldest map Bohemia has built for DayZ, and the cold is a mechanic, not a backdrop. These are the things that kill new arrivals first.
Sakhal sits below freezing for most of the day. Your body heat drains in wind, snow and wet clothes and comes back at fires, indoors and under layers. Water is no refuge: almost everything you could fall into is barely above zero.
Hot springs steam around the geothermal station and in the hills east of it. Their warmth reaches a few metres, which makes them good places to thaw out, but wade in deeper than your knees and the water scalds. Some are geysers: when one starts to bubble, step back, because the eruption kills.
Snow and water on a volcanic island can carry heavy metals. Boiling and purification tablets leave them in, chelating tablets take them out, from the bottle or from you. Untreated, the poisoning shakes your hands, drains your water, takes your hearing for a while and ends in vomiting and lost health.
Most food you find is frozen solid and has to be thawed at a fire before you can eat it. The cold is hard on gear as well: tools wear out a fifth faster here than on a warm map.
It does not rain on Sakhal, it snows. Snowfall comes and goes, storms bring thunder with the snow, and the wind reaches 20 m/s. Cars leave tracks in fresh snow, and a fire melts the snow around it.
Caves in the hills keep the wind off and make good camps for a group or a long night. The paper map marks every entrance with a small arch, so look before you set out.
Grey and white wolves hunt in packs, brown bears roam the forests. They are after the same reindeer you are, and they do not wait for an initiation.
Late winter
The island is held in February, all year round. Days are short, nights run at twelve times real speed on Settlers and still take about an hour, and a fresh character arrives with a quarter of an hour of protection from the flu. Spend it finding a jacket.
New in Frostline
The expansion also brought new ways to get around, eat and dress for the weather. Settlers runs all of it as Bohemia shipped it, plus the additions you know from Nasdara.
Twenty-two rubber boats wait along the shores. A spark plug and fuel get one running, three passengers ride behind the driver and there is no storage. A tire repair kit patches the hull, and a ruined boat sinks slowly enough to get out.
Frostline brought reindeer, red foxes and brown hares to hunt. Wolf packs and brown bears share the forests with them, and goats and sheep stay near the farms.
Two new fish bite here: walleye pollock, by far the most common, and steelhead trout. You can fish from a boat as long as it lies still. Old wellies come up now and then, too.
Clothing comes in insulation variants, and Sakhal spawns the warm ones: winter hunter gear, the snowstorm ushanka, the budenovka, sherpa beanies and the shemagh, which doubles as a face cover.
Sakhal has a soundscape of its own, with northern birds and the clank of metal in the harbours. When the wind picks up every animal goes quiet, and on a still day far from the trees the island can be almost silent.
The Settlers additions from Nasdara run here as well: one two-seat Mosquito Tandem on the whole island, the Land Rover Defender 110, code locks on RaG furniture and radios with real ranges. Bullets and blows do nothing to base parts, and only a hacksaw gets past an attached code lock.
Facts from Bohemia Interactive's DayZ Frostline release notes and dev blogs, the 1.30 game scripts, the vanilla Sakhal mission files and the in-game map.
Pick your ground
All three servers run at the same time, with the same people behind them.
| Topic | ChernarusPlus 2.0 | Nasdara | Sakhal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Map | 15 × 15 km, rebuilt for Settlers | 267 km², DayZ Badlands | 83 km² of land and the sea around it, DayZ Frostline |
| Combat | Two zones: initiation south of the Wall, KOS north of it | One zone: KOS allowed everywhere, never without a reason | One zone: no KOS anywhere, initiation first |
| You spawn | In the south, in the roleplay zone | In the north, on the road between Darvazeh-e Gharb and Jakhzar | On the north and east coast, between Evai and Aniva |
| Slots | 100 | 100 | 70 |
| Mods | Around 30, Vanilla+ | 24, the same Vanilla+ core | 24, the same as Nasdara |
| Extras | Custom areas, a hidden trader, quests and key chains | Vanilla Nasdara: rebuilding, Morse bunkers, motorbikes | Vanilla Sakhal: boats, hot springs, geysers, caves |
| You need | DayZ | DayZ and DayZ Badlands | DayZ and DayZ Frostline |
| All three | First person only, restarts every ~4 hours, English, one Discord | ||
Quick answers
172.111.51.223, port 2502. The server name is Settlers | Sakhal | Roleplay. Step by step on How to join.
Survival notes
Before you leave the beach
Sakhal ships with the expansion. Without it on your account, the server turns you away.
The clothes you wake up in, a bandage, a blunt steak knife and a chemlight. Your first fire matters more than your first gun.
Wet clothes and wind steal heat faster than anything. Find a jacket, a hat and gloves before you look for a rifle, and dry off by a fire.
Boiling does not take the heavy metals out of melted snow or pond water. Keep chelating tablets once you find them.
The small arches on the paper map are caves. Out of the wind is where you want to sit out a storm.
Nobody may shoot you without a word first, and you owe everyone the same. Say what you want, give them a moment, and let the answer decide what happens next.
Settlers · Sakhal
Sakhal is new for everyone. Dress warm, bring a friend, and tell us on Discord what the island does to you.