The image above represents the completed Zellno Event Manager project following its migration to Zen's Map Enhancement and public release.
📍 Zellno Event Manager
Update — October 2026
Zellno Event Manager has completed development and is now publicly available for DayZ.
The project originally started as an internal administrative tool for the Zellno DayZ Server, designed to make DayZ's dynamic vanilla events easier to locate and manage without changing how those events are created by the Central Economy.
DayZ can generate helicopter crashes, military convoys, police situations, train wrecks, contaminated areas and other dynamic events across the map. Zellno Event Manager detects supported active vanilla events and represents them through administrative map markers.
Main goals
• Detect active vanilla dynamic events
• Create markers only while the corresponding events exist
• Remove markers when events disappear
• Keep event detection controlled by the server
• Synchronize marker information with connected clients
• Avoid changing the original Central Economy event system
• Provide administrators with a practical way to monitor vanilla events
From VPPMap to Zen Map
The first implementation was developed around the server's previous VPPMap environment and demonstrated that active vanilla events could be detected and represented dynamically.
When the Zellno DayZ Server migrated to Zen's Map Enhancement, the marker integration was redesigned instead of modifying or reusing Workshop PBOs.
The final implementation uses Zen's Map Enhancement and ZenModCore and no longer depends on VPPMap.
The completed version was developed to:
• Use Zen Map's marker system
• Avoid duplicate and obsolete markers
• Synchronize markers after connection and reconnection
• Continue operating across server restarts
• Maintain controlled server and client update intervals
• Avoid modifications to dependency Workshop PBOs
The original image remains in this post as a historical reference to the earlier VPPMap prototype.
Public release
Zellno Event Manager is now available on the Steam Workshop:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3812128941
Source code and project documentation are also publicly available on GitHub:
https://github.com/Zellno/ZellnoZenEvents
Project status
Status: Released
Platform: DayZ
Map: ChernarusPlus
Purpose: Server administration and vanilla dynamic-event monitoring
Map integration: Zen's Map Enhancement
VPPMap dependency: None
What began as an internal experiment for the Zellno DayZ Server became a completed public project.
Zellno mods and tools are developed as free and open-source projects whenever they are ready for public release. Supporting the project is completely optional and does not provide any in-game benefits or advantages.
Thank you for following the development journey. ❤️