Free Software & Add-ons
Hand-picked free tools to super-charge your DayZ modding workflow.

The free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, sculpting, rigging, 3D and 2D animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking and video editing.
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GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
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A free, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and refactoring.
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A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
DownloadEssential command-line utilities for DayZ and Arma modding: PBO packing/unpacking, config editing, and more.
DownloadGUI tool (part of DayZ Tools on Steam) for packing PBOs—handy if you prefer a visual interface over CLI.