A few years ago, we lost a compassionate, amazing, and very much-loved member of our dedicated community, Steve Reynolds aka MedicalCrab aka Str8OuttaCherno – and you guys did him the honor of burying him in Chernarus, Chernogorsk Cemetary with a custom POI immortalizing him across all of DayZ. I just want to say again, thank you for honoring him, thank you for remembering him. Thank you for your heartful condolences and allowing us a place to remember him, and visit him EVERYTIME we play to drop him gear, and have a yarn. I think he'd be so proud.

R.I.P WotalTanker. Anthony was a big part of many #DayZ channels and will be missed greatly. He always came in for friendly chats and laughs.

Recently a member of our DayZ community passed away named Jordan. His friends were wondering if it were possible to include a memorial in-game for his passing near the town of Bor in Chernarus. I thought the coordinates 2881/4327 under the English Oak tree would be a nice place for it. Would it also be possible to include a black cowboy hat resting on or next to the cross at all?

... the one in Southwest of Vavilovo was for my friend Ryan. We met at the start of 2018 and he was such a good friend. He always loved that place in the game especially before the old bus depot got removed from there, which is why the bus sign is there. I miss him everyday. Fuck I really do.

After dealing with 4 times zones (9 hours Distance in total), career changes, moving states and countries, my friends and I finally managed to all meet up in game, and visit our friend Ryan's grave.

Some people in the subreddit may know that this grave was put in in remembrance of Ryan, and is now on the Memorial Map that was made by another reddit user here in the community.

We learned of his passing a few years ago and I managed to reach out to the team to get something to remember him by. A large majority of the group met him first back when the Bus Depot was still in Vavilovo back in Alpha.

He was a very charismatic, hilarious and down to earth guy. He was a real no bullshit kind of person and we loved him massively for it. He used to always kick my ass on Dark Souls III as well.

As the years have gone on, we've all grown up, some of us are now married, in the military, and myself now working at BI, I always think about what his reaction would be to all of us being where we are now.

We miss him every day. Please talk to your friends.

Today on 1/7/24, we lost a very close friend, survivor, father of 2 and teammate for many of us in the community. Our friend Elmer "Pancake" passed away tragically & unexpectedly last night. We met Pencake back in 2016 and after thousands of hours spent surviving, creating bonds and friendship we soon turned out to become best friends. We live across the country from each other but it still felt like he was a brother to us. Someone we talked to everyday regardless of what was happening, but now that can't happen anymore. All of us wish this tweet makes it to your desk in hopes of putting a memorial in-game for Pancake so that all of us can visit him. We were thinking of the church in Novaya Petrovka (we always liked to base there). We love and miss you Pancake. Rest in Peace.

“Friendships made in life are shattered upon death. The bond we shared is unbreakable.”  - RIP Elmer

This is Johns' cross, also known as Prospect. Located northwest of Devil's Castle.

Man, I miss Prospect so much. I played with him every weekend of October except for the one he sadly passed away. He taught me so much. Thank you Bohemia.

... one of my friends [...] passed away of cancer. His Gamertag is SpcKronos. He is [at 6349;13875] on the map ...

This is Roberts' cross, also known as SpcKronos. Located in the woods, southeast of Kamensk.

SpcKronos is my dad. He really enjoyed this game. It’s amazing to see that they put a cross in for him.

... they added two benches and a cross and some rocks that wasn’t there before. We would go there and eat and build a fire because of the hill that is there would sort of hide the smoke. That’s where we would take a quick break or log out at. That is the last place he logged out. Robert Jones was his real name. Aka SpcKronos.

I had one [memorial] added for my buddy, and the devs made a personal touch for it. Pretty cool story [...] it’s by Olsha tower. He died in a motorcycle crash last year [2023], we met playing dayz and found out we lived within minutes of each other. Became very close friends over 6-7 years. I mentioned the motorcycle crash to the DayZ contact and the person in charge of the memorials had their friend die in a motorcycle crash as well. So they put my buddy a motorcycle helmet on his cross. Pretty cool ordeal. [...] 

I picked that spot [at Olsha Tower]. When we met he had a base on that radio tower (i think the server was trumps wall?) [...] I [chose that place] because of the pretty view and the bench. It seemed fitting.

His name is Cody Pierce but his username was Wick. [...] The owner of Sunnyvale is putting a motorcycle statue memorial in safezone with a “press F to pay respects” button to interact with it. He was top of the kill leaderboard for many seasons and very active in the community. [...] we had a big memorial on Sunnyvale last Saturday [October 2024]. The owner of the server put a memorial in place in a safezone, with his favorite ghillie suit and the motorcycle he was on when he crashed. It was a really nice gesture.

 [...] a grave for a DayZ player called DocSatan who was influential in the DayZDownUnder (DDU) and DUG communities. Added in 1.13.

[...] RIP DocSatan from the DayZ Down Under PC community who passed away [March 2021] from complications with pneumonia. You will be missed brother.

It’s dedicated to DocSatan, he was a prominent player on DayZ DownUnder and one of the leaders of my gaming group the Lone Wolf Collective. He died unexpectedly of pneumonia a year ago and Boydy73, a prominent Australian DayZ Streamer requested the devs leave a memorial for him at one of his favourite places and the devs agreed. He used to always wear an UN helmet and was a super friendly player.

DayZ DownUnder has another memorial in addition to it for him consisting of a sign on a grave, and a UN helmet mounted on a Mosin located at the spot he last logged out on the server on at Klen Mountain.

We just held an in-game memorial for a good friend of us who passed away, @Balbanes3. A massive thank you goes to @dayz who was so kind to give him a resting place next to Willow Lake. We miss you buddy.

For those of you that know Balbanes from the DayZ community, I'm afraid I have some awful news. I've been in contact with his wife and I'm sorry to say that he passed away suddenly last month. I'm gutted. He was a lovely person, and a good friend. She wanted me to pass this on. [7. Sep. 2020]

A message arrived to our team from Tim, Max, Nils, Dominik, Vincent and Jonas.

These guys are a group of DayZ players who lost their friend Phil in a tragic accident this year [2017]. They are reminiscing about their first meeting:

"We met him at the very beginning of the DayZ standalone near the Rify in that old helicopter crash site (one of these that did not spawn randomly). It was a pretty hilarious situation as me and him did not see each other until the moment we both went inside the helicopter. We both panic so hard :D Even thought most of the players shot on sight at this time, we did not and 2 minutes later we both laught so hard together in his teamspeak, it was the beginning of the best friendship in my whole life. There are so much more great memories we shared together because of DayZ. Me and my whole squad really want to thank you for this memories!"

They sent us this message because it was Phil's birthday and they asked us to commemorate him in the game on the spot where they first met.

So we [the DayZ devs] decided to place a memorial at this place in a form of a small cross. This cross will be in game since 0.63 and if you come across it, just remember it belongs to Phil, one of the players.

Also the memorial at Berezino near the red and white smokestack for one of my friends mates who sadly ended his life [...] his name was Tristan.

Cross with a Teddy Bear. Friend of mine ... had one of the biggest PvE Communitys on Xbox. Was an Honor to be an Trader and Admin on Hellgate. His Dream lives on. He loved DayZ. RIP Rafi

My friend Harry has his cross in 3 valleys. [...] He was a great guy and my clan miss him lots. Hopeless at navigation but a heart of gold.

Would you do me a favour and add a dedication to one of the new crosses? its about the kamyshovo cliffs cross. one of my friends reached out to the DayZ team since we had a friend pass in a motorcycle accident - shortly after we all finished school. this was his favourite game and im sure [Maximilian S. aka Hypernight] would appreciate it.

... Jakes' memorial was in fact put in by the devs and is placed in Pogorevka at aproximately these coordinates [...] If you wanna add a bit of extra information WTR: [Our Server – We That Remain] has a permanent memorial as well for Jake, a custom garage we will have placed on all wipes on Chernarus. It is also in Pogorevka, the last town he lived in while playing with us. [...] He is missed every day. Its crazy ite been a year already in a few days.

... when we heard news of [Jakes'] passing our community was pretty quick to tell us that Bohemia could put in memorial spots. [...] we’re a pretty big roleplay server on PlayStation and his favorite character he ever played lived in that town.

...on the late night of 18/01/2023, a fellow friend of mine died of a heart attack while playing DayZ. It had been around six years since I first met him. Lucas 'Yaan' left us the way we all wish to go - in the company of many friends and doing what he loved. We made a memorial in Polana (Livonia) to remember him. I come here to ask you, Devs, to immortalize him - along with all our memories - in the game. Our fellow knight, Yaan...

His name is Brighton. He was 21 years old. 

Brighton was an amazing guitarist and a very special guy who loved everyone and everything and only wanted to spread love to the world.

I picked the spot at Kulno because we built our base there all the time — it was our spot. Constantly setting ambushes for anyone who wanted to come to Dolnik. We thought we ran that town. It’s still the only spot I will build. It’s basically my second home. 

Brighton passed away under tragic circumstances.