The Safezone

The safezone is the base of operations: a protected 500 m-radius area on the south coast where nobody can be hurt. Every hub trader is inside it, a few metres apart, with their task boards, your stash, the player market and the deploy point.

What's in it#

• The traders — Prapor, Therapist, Skier, Peacekeeper, Ragman, Jaeger and Ref, and their task boards. Mechanic, Fence and the Lightkeeper are elsewhere on purpose; Traders says where.
• Your stash, upgraded over the wipe through tasks. The stash.
• The player market, for selling to other players without meeting them.
• The deploy point — the Land Cruiser and the customs gate by the entrance. It's the only way out. Deploy & extract.

Face-to-face trading with players outside your group happens at a trader — here, or at the three outposts — and the player market is always fine. Meeting a stranger in the field to hand over gear counts as teaming under the rules.

New characters start outside it#

A fresh character spawns on the coast, not in the hub. Your first task — handed to you automatically — completes when you reach the safezone and gives you an Alpha secure container. Until then you're a normal spawn on a normal coast, so don't dawdle.

You can't live here#

Thirty minutes is the limit. Stay longer and you're warned; keep staying and your food, water and health start draining, faster the longer you stay. Step outside and it recovers — but it decays rather than resets, so you can't clear it by stepping over the line and back.

The point is that the hub is a place to trade and plan, not a place to wait out the night or watch the deploy point.

What it deletes#

• Anything dropped on the floor is gone after 2 min. No warning, no compensation. Hand items to people directly or use the safe trade.
• A vehicle left in the safezone is deleted after 2 h. Park it, do your business, take it with you.

Vehicles can't be damaged inside the zone, so a parked one is safe from other players for that window — just not from the clock.

Building near it#

The hub sits inside a no-build zone. Try to place a piece there and the game refuses; there's nothing to report. Building lists the other zones.