Deadbolt Dogz
Survive the signal. Run with the pack. Right now that means The War Den — our open 100-slot WARDOGS server in North America East, running nightly. Behind it sit two permanent private worlds where nothing gets raided, on a light schedule until 05 November 2026.
From the field
Live from the safehouse when the signal is up. Nothing loads until you press the button — no third-party script, no autoplay, no audio, and a real bandwidth saving on mobile.
The Twitch player loads on request.
Or open twitch.tv/DeadboltDogz directly.
Three servers. Two of them can’t be raided.
Most survival communities are built around taking things apart. We took the opposite bet: a server where nothing can be stolen from you produces better stories than one where everything can. Six weeks of somebody’s work still standing beats six weeks of it in a pile.
Two of these servers are private, because permanence is the whole point and permanence needs protecting. The third is a hundred-player war, and a hundred-player war needs a hundred players — so its door is open. The standard doesn’t change with the door policy. Chaos is welcome. Malice is not. That holds whether you were invited or you just walked in.
Reduced operations until 05 November 2026
The Compound and The Works are on a light schedule while The War Den stands up. Work on both continues — walls go up, belts get laid, the seasons keep moving — but we are not promising regular hours on either until 05 November 2026. Nothing you built is going anywhere in the meantime. That part never changes. It is also why the war server leads this list right now — it is the one running nightly.
The War Den
100 slots, three factions, North America East. Most WARDOGS servers want fraggers. This one wants pilots, medics, drivers and builders — the work that wins matches and never makes a highlight reel.
The Compound
Season One. A permanent hand-built homestead with helicopters, AI mercenary patrols, and rescue runs that go wrong in interesting ways. Private, vetted, 30 slots. Light schedule until 05 November 2026.
The Works
An entire planet of belts, trains and smoke. Private and vetted, same as the Compound — but here the game itself has no mechanic that lets anyone wreck what you made.
The War Den
A WARDOGS community server in North America East, run by Deadbolt Dogz. Unofficial fan project — not affiliated with BULKHEAD or Team17.
WARDOGS is a hundred-player war fought over one rolling objective, and almost nobody in it is thinking about logistics. We are. The War Den is run for the people who fly the insertion, carry the crate, patch the squad, and build the thing everyone else fights from. Lone-wolf logistics. Own the route. Every leg pays.
The door is open
No password, no application, no waiting list. Filter the in-game browser to North America East and search DEADBOLT DOGZ — short searches work, long ones don’t. If the browser comes back empty you have more than one region selected — pick exactly one and refresh. Turn on Show Empty and Show Community too, or a server that hasn’t seeded yet is invisible to you.
The full name in the list looks like this — read it to confirm you have the right server, but don’t type it into the search box. Browsers match on a fragment, and a name with this many tags and separators in it will usually return nothing.
! NA-E | DEADBOLT DOGZ | THE WAR DEN | HELO + LOG | NEW PLAYERS
The Discord isn’t the door. It’s where the crews get organised: pilots, medics, drivers, builders, and anyone who’d rather have a squad waiting than a random spawn.
- Slots
- 100 · 3 factions
- Region
- NA East
- Access
- Open browser
- Password
- None
What we want on it
- Pilots who’ll fly a supply leg instead of a gun run
- Medics who stay behind the line
- Builders who finish the FOB before the push
- Drivers who show up when the LZ is unsalvageable
- New players. Bad aim is accepted. A mic is the only requirement.
Where WARDOGS itself stands
- Early Access opened 10 September 2026
- Community servers shipped with the launch build
- Rented only through hosts BULKHEAD approved after testing — the server code isn’t public
- Early Access expected to run one to two years
- Black Market, Vault, player skills, jets and new maps are roadmap, none dated
The Compound — DayZ
A permanent hand-built fortress rising on a private, invite-only PvE world, powered by the full DayZ Expansion suite. Real base building. Helicopters. Codelocked gates. AI mercenary patrols instead of public-lobby poison. And one law above all: what we build stays built.
Season One restarts from the beginning on 05 November 2026. Back to S1E1 — Landfall: an empty field, a hatchet, and nothing built yet.
That is deliberate. A server that is eight episodes deep is a server you can only ever arrive late to. Starting over is the one move that puts everyone on the same ground — the people who were here for the first run, and the people who found us during the war. Nobody is catching up, because there is nothing to catch up on. Build sessions still happen before then; a fixed slot doesn’t, yet. Watch the Discord for the call.
Permanent
No wipes. No raids. Every wall placed on stream still stands next stream. Seasons leave ruins, not resets.
PvE only
The patrols shoot at us — never each other. Bad aim accepted. Funny disasters are part of the mission.
Chat = command
You vote the operations. You name the buildings. You keep the ledger. This homestead has a thousand architects.
Season One — eight named operations
Landfall
An empty field and a hatchet. Home starts today.
Foundation
The flag goes up. This land is ours. Gates locked.
Watchtower
The patrols are getting closer. Time to see them coming.
Lifeline
A fortress that can’t feed itself is a tomb with walls.
Motor Pool
Found it in a barn. Getting it home is the hard part.
Stormwall
They know we’re here. The perimeter hardens tonight — or breaks.
Airborne
There’s a Little Bird out there with our name on it.
Open Gates
Wave One opens: 10 plots. The Settlers arrive.
Next operation: S1E1 — Landfall, 05 November 2026. The ledger goes back to zero and we all start in the same field.
Seasons on the horizon
One quarter, one season, one story. New arcs, new modules, new maps — and every season leaves its ruins standing for the next.
The Works — Satisfactory
The doctrine with the safety on. Satisfactory is the one game where our rule is enforced by physics rather than good manners — there is no mechanic in it that lets another player take your factory apart. So we don’t have to police it. We just build.
- Start a line, name it, leave it running. Come back three weeks later and it is still humming.
- Bring a factory idea and we’ll find a spot for it. The map is big and the belts are cheap.
- Same access rules as the Compound. Private, vetted, invited through the Discord.
- The best build night on the schedule. No threat model, no gear fear, just problems worth solving.
- Build nights are irregular until 05 November 2026. The world stays up and your lines keep running; we just aren’t holding a fixed slot yet.
- Game
- Satisfactory
- Schedule
- Light to 05 Nov 2026
- Raiding
- Not possible
- Access
- Via Discord
No face. No name. One signal.
Deadbolt and Dogz — hooded Operator on one side, Dogz on the other, one shared red gaze. The Operator runs the safehouse: part scout, part builder, part chaos agent.
The one hard rule
Lurkers welcome. Builders needed. Rescue teams appreciated. Settlers earned. And one rule the stream enforces on itself, so nobody misses progress.
Gameplay pauses during ads
Nobody misses the good part because Twitch decided to sell a car. The run holds, the chopper waits, and we pick it back up when everyone is actually watching. It is the only rule the stream enforces on itself — and it is not negotiable.
Off the flagship
The three permanent servers have their own files above. Everything else runs on rotation — themed nights, story runs, and whatever world calls next.
DayZ
Scavenge. Survive. Tell the tale.
Tarkov
Risk. Loot. Survive.
Active Matter
Quantum-unstable zones. Get in, harvest, extract.
Fallout Friday
Wasteland nights, whenever the vault door opens.
Witcher Wednesday
Fate. Monsters. Choices.
Science Saturday
Experiments, oddities, tech deep-dives.
Story nights
The armchair, the dog, and whatever world calls next.
ConOps21
A BoldHat® transmission — story-driven gameplay and live experiments from inside the system.
Community directives
Join the Discord
Ops get called there before they happen.
Read the rules
Chaos is welcome. Malice is not. There’s a difference and everyone here knows it.
Pick your role
Builder, scout, medic, farmer, fighter, driver, trader, lurker, chaos agent — all useful.
No sweat required
Bad aim is accepted. Teamwork is preferred.
Watch for community nights
Themed runs get called in Discord first. Show up and you’re in.
Better chaos
The private servers are curated to protect the event, the players, and the vibe.
Be nice. Don’t be a dick.
- Zero tolerance. No hate, harassment, slurs, doxxing, threats, targeted bullying, or creepy behaviour.
- Play it straight. No stream sniping, griefing, cheating, exploiting, or sabotaging community events.
- PvP by the book. On the Compound and The Works, PvP is only allowed when the event or server rules allow it. The War Den is a war game — PvP is the whole point there, and the rules above still apply to how you treat people.
- Story stays clean. No spoilers, backseating, or lore dumping unless asked.
- Keep the feed clear. No spam, scams, trauma dumping, political flame wars, or self-promo without permission.
- Mods have the call. Respect the mods. If a mod calls it, the call stands.
- First person on the Compound. Where DayZ supports it — no third-person peeking over walls. The War Den runs standard WARDOGS rules.
Griefing, stream sniping, cheating, harassment, doxxing, or intentionally ruining community play may result in removal — from any server we run.
Earn your plot
This is how you get onto the Compound, our 30-slot private DayZ world. It does not apply to The War Den — that server is open, and you can join it right now from the in-game browser without talking to anyone.
The Compound settles in three waves of 10 plots. Wave One opens at the Season One finale — and since Season One restarts at Landfall on 05 November 2026, that finale is a full season away. There is no rush and no queue to beat. No raiding. No griefing. No stealing. First-person only. What we build together stays built.
Watch
Pull up a chair. Lurkers welcome — it’s a valid contribution.
Discord
Briefings, votes and after-actions live here.
Be known
Become a regular. Fly a leg, run a belt, answer the radio. We notice.
Apply
Two minutes and one vibe check, in the Discord. A form, not a trial.
Settler
The password. The plot. The pack.
Don’t eat yellow snow
Tips are never expected and always appreciated. If you’d rather support the operation by spinning up a server of your own, our hosts pay us a commission and it costs you nothing extra.
BisectHosting — WARDOGS
One of the small number of providers BULKHEAD approved to run WARDOGS community servers after performance testing. The War Den runs on it, so this is a recommendation for the thing we actually pay for — and the link pays us back.
BisectHosting · affiliate linkSurvival Servers — DayZ & Satisfactory
Where the Compound and The Works live. Good fit if what you want is a small persistent world you and your people can leave running.
Survival Servers · affiliate linkOr just come hang out in the Discord.
The fine print: no refunds.
Nine nights that stuck
Captures from the safehouse and the field. Our own footage, our own builds — no borrowed promotional art anywhere on this site.
Where the journey started
World War Z is where this pack learned the only lesson that ever mattered: a wall is only as good as the people who agree to hold it. Everything since — the compound, the factory, the war den — is the same idea with better tools.
The wider signal
ConOps21™
Story-driven gameplay, project signals, lore fragments, and live experiments from inside the system.
BoldHat Games
The studio channel. BoldHat® transmissions, dev signals, and ConOps21: Subversion Protocol broadcasts.
Reality String™
The franchise hub. Where the wider signal originates.