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Bitterroot PvE · Season One

CONTRABAND

DayZ Network · Three Maps · One Story

A PvE world that plays like a PvP server — aggressive AI, real consequences, and systems deep enough to keep you coming back. Just the world doing what it does.

How to Join Explore Maps

DEEP ROOT PROGRAM ACTIVE — DR. HARLAN CROSS — SITE ZERO CLASSIFIED — BITTERROOT QUARANTINE IN EFFECT — SUPPLY LINES COMPROMISED — CONTRABAND NETWORK OPERATING — FALCON ROCK RESTRICTED — DEEP ROOT PROGRAM ACTIVE — DR. HARLAN CROSS — SITE ZERO CLASSIFIED — BITTERROOT QUARANTINE IN EFFECT — SUPPLY LINES COMPROMISED — CONTRABAND NETWORK OPERATING — FALCON ROCK RESTRICTED —

Why Contraband

Built for Players Who Stay

This is a harder experience than most PvE servers. The AI is the threat — aggressive, unpredictable, and concentrated exactly where you need to go. The systems around it give you a reason to keep pushing in.

AI That Hunts You

The AI is the heartbeat of this server. Expansion AI fills the world with patrols that push back — coordinated, aggressive, and scaled to keep you on edge whether there are two players online or twenty.

EXPANSION AI

Career Questlines

Five NPCs. Five career paths. Zeke, Earl, Gabe, Walt, and Reyes each have their own arc — run one deep or work them all. Your progression is yours.

EXPANSION QUESTS

Terje Medicine

Injury and illness that actually matters. Bleeding, infection, broken bones, disease — deep medical systems that make every fight and every mistake carry weight.

TERJE MEDICINE

Drug Running

iM7 gives you something to fight over and run from. Cook, mule, or move product through contested territory. Precursors are world loot only — you have to earn the cook.

iM7 DRUG RUNNING

Infected That Hit Back

Standard infected hit harder than you expect. Special Infected — visually distinct, significantly tankier — stack in military zones, silos, and bunkers. Rain kills their hearing. Use it.

SPECIAL INFECTED

DNA Keycard Lore

Cross's research is locked behind keycards. DNA Notes tell the story if you find them. Most players won't. That's the point.

DNA KEYCARDS · NOTES

The Network

Three Maps. One Story.

Contraband is a three-map network that unfolds over time. Each map connects — physically and narratively — to the next.

BITTERROOT

● Pending

The flagship. A PvE world built on Harlan Cross's footprint — Falcon Rock, the contraband trade network, and five NPCs who know more than they let on.

PVE BOSS: HARLAN CROSS TERJE MEDICINE DRUG RUNNING CAREER QUESTS

DEADFALL

Coming Soon

Dr. Maren Voss continues Cross's work at Site Zero. The contraband still moves — now between two connected maps via portal system.

PVE PORTAL SYSTEM BOSS: MAREN VOSS SITE ZERO

CHERNARUS

Coming Soon

Full PvP. Colonel Savin's operation at Tisy. The files that explain everything are here — and so is everyone who wants them.

FULL PVP TISY MILITARY BOSS: COL. SAVIN ZONE CONTROL

The Story

DEEP ROOT

Before the outbreak spread, Dr. Harlan Cross was running something beneath Bitterroot Valley. Funded by a criminal underground. Hidden in plain sight. Whatever he was building — it worked. That's the problem.

"The subjects adapted faster than projected. Voss wants to relocate the program. I disagree. Bitterroot is containable. Deadfall is not. If Cross knew what she was planning, he would have never —"

— Recovered fragment · Journal Unknown · Location: Falcon Rock

Getting In

How to Join

SERVER IP 45.45.195.33:2302

STEP 01

Join Discord

Everything lives there. Rules, mod list, server IP, community. It's the front door.

STEP 02

Get the Mods

Subscribe via Steam Workshop or DZSA Launcher. Full list pinned in Discord.

STEP 03

Find the Server

Launch DayZ → Community → search CONTRABAND. Or direct connect using the IP in Discord.

STEP 04

Stay Alive

That part's on you. The rest we've handled.

CONTRABAND

Built for Players Who Stay

Three Maps. One Story.

DEEP ROOT

How to Join

Where the Network Runs