Bound to you01
Your Identity
Every survivor spawns with an SHD Watch — and it is you. It holds your name, your group, and your bank balance, and it can't be removed. Forget dogtags; your whole identity rides on your wrist.
PvP DayZ · Chernarus · US · First person
Project
SHD
Survive. Hold. Dominate.
A PvP-driven DayZ world with custom SHD tech, an immersive questline, and balanced gunplay. Squad up, raid on weekends, and fight for the map.
- 1PP only
- 4-man max
- Weekend raids
- No cash, all on the Watch
- Restart every 4h
- SHD tech
Server Online
Survivors online
1/ 100
Map
Chernarus
Version
1.30.164078
Peak 24h
2
Peak 7d
2
Last 24 hours · hourly peakNOW
Direct connect
204.13.234.102:2302
What's different here
SHD tech
Everything rides on the watch you spawn with. It's your name, your bank, your keys, and the thing someone wants off your body.
No cash02
Digital Banking
Your money lives on your watch. Buying auto-withdraws, selling auto-deposits, and a paycheck lands every 30 minutes you're actively playing. Send money or pool it in a group vault from the map menu.
Base security03
SHD Locks
An SHD Lock is tied to your group: your members scan in, everyone else gets Access Denied. No codes to leak. With your watch on it's also a gate remote, and your gate opens as you drive at it. Want in anyway? Bring a breaching charge on a raid weekend.
Keyless04
Vehicle Ownership
There are no cars lying around the map: vehicles bought from the trader go straight into your garage, linked to your watch and your group. There's no physical key to lose or copy. Your watch is the key, for you and your crew. Lose a car to a lockpick, though, and it's theirs now.
Identity05
Group Colors
When a group forms, the leader picks a group color. It shows on your watch, your map markers and your base, so you can read friend from foe at a glance.
Risk vs reward06
Death Encryption & Scanners
Die and your watch instantly encrypts: your name, group and balance go dark. But with an SHD Scanner, someone can decrypt your corpse to read it, or spend 30 seconds hacking it to steal a quarter of your wallet, up to $50,000. You're told the moment the hack starts, so get on comms. The group vault can't be hacked.
The rundown
Why play on SHD
PvP, With Somewhere To Go
You can be engaged almost anywhere. Between the fights there are traders, quests and group contracts worth running — not just a gear treadmill.
Custom SHD Tech
Exclusive gear you won't find elsewhere — the SHD watch, advanced locks, and more to give you an edge.
Weekend Raiding
Raiding is weekend-only, so your base is safe through the week. Plan, defend, and strike on raid days.
4-Man Squads
Roll with a crew up to 4. Built for tight small-group tactics — no massive zerg blobs running the map.
Immersive Questline
A story-driven questline woven into the world, with real objectives and rewards beyond the next firefight.
Balanced Loot
Carefully tuned armor and weapons. Positioning and skill win fights — not just whoever found the best RNG.
Intel Questline
Operation Black Static
Project SHD isn't just deathmatch. A signals officer named Vera Sokolova recruits you to expose and destroy a black-ops program the Directive is bringing back online. Press O for your journal; it's the reason to go into the places you'd otherwise avoid.
Three givers at the Trader
Vera Sokolova runs the story. The Quartermaster runs the dailies, weeklies and side work. Elias, the Black Market's man, has the jobs nobody else will hand you. Each of them tracks how much they trust you, from Stranger up to Inner Circle.
Operation Black Static
Fifteen quests. A rogue military remnant, the Directive, is bringing a black-ops program back online, and somewhere along the way you have to choose who to sell out: the safe money or the big money. The other side remembers.
A Field Manual that pays
Your first spawn starts it: extract, join a group, plant a flag, place a sleeping bag, run a contract, and get paid at every step. Hidden quests start from notes, maps and dog tags you find in stashes and crates.
A goal for the whole server
One community goal a week, tracked on the radio boards at the safe zones. Hit the target as a server and everyone who pitched in claims the reward. Miss it and nobody does.
Three steps
How to join
Our launcher: beaconlauncher.com
- 01
Get Beacon
Install Beacon, our free DayZ launcher. It handles the mods for you.
- 02
Find Project SHD
Search “Project SHD” in Beacon, or add us by the direct-connect address below.
- 03
Hit join
Beacon tells you which mods you're missing, downloads them, and puts you in. No manual setup.
Get Beacon
Direct connect
204.13.234.102:2302
Stuck? Ask in our Discord and someone will help you get in.
Comms
Find a squad before you spawn
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