Editing Holidays and Events (section)

=== Christmas ===

==== 2014 ====
;Timeframe
Began: 0.52.125994 on Experimental (17 Dec 2014)<br>
Ended: 0.53.126384 on Stable (04 Feb 2015)
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;Background
This year's Christmas event marked the very first holiday to be celebrated in DayZ. Although the game had been released prior to Christmas in 2013, it was not included in-game until the following year. The tone for the next several holidays would be set by this event.

[[Christmas Tree|Christmas trees]] could be found in the common areas of major towns and cities. They came encircled with a number of wrapped Gift Boxes (small, medium, large) which contained random loot: ammunition, attachments, food, paper, etc. Also added were candy canes, headbands, eyemasks, Santa's beard, Santa's hat and woolen gloves.
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File:Christmas2014_a.jpg
File:Christmas2014_b.jpg
File:Christmas2014_c.jpg
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==== 2015 ====
;Timeframe
Began: 0.59.131009 on Experimental (21 Dec 2015)<br>
Ended: 0.59.131121 on Stable (13 Jan 2016)
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;Background
For the second year of the holiday being recognized, Christmas Trees unfortunately did not come with accompanying Teddy Bears as they had the year prior. The trees themselves were the extent of the celebration, and were found in slightly different locations than 2014 due to map changes.

The trees had a 40 slot inventory which seems to have been intended as the means to distribute "gifts" this time around; however, in reality the trees did not spawn any loot. Instead, survivors took to leaving gifts for each other within the inventory of the Christmas Trees. These items would despawn after some time, but on highly-trafficked servers this seemed worth the risk.
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
File:ChristmasTree_2a.jpg
File:ChristmasTree_2c.jpg
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==== 2016 ====
;Timeframe
Began: 0.61.136821 on Stable (21 Dec 2016)<br>
Ended: ??? on Stable (?? Feb 2017)
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;Background
Much the same as the year before it, 2016's celebration of Christmas was limited to the trees placed throughout the map. Once again, the specific locations where trees could be found had changed due to map updates, and this year the total number of tree locations increased (from 10 to 13).

There were no Teddy Bears and no inventory for the Christmas Trees. On this year, they also stuck around for quite a long time (well into February).
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
File:ChristmasTree_3b.jpg
File:ChristmasTree_3c.jpg
</gallery>

==== 2017 ====
;Timeframe
Began: 0.62.143640 on Experimental (13 Dec 2017)<br>
Ended: ??? on Stable (?? ??? 2018)
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;Background
Perhaps the most extensive holiday content addition to DayZ so far, 2017's celebration of Christmas brought new items into the game that went well beyond Christmas Trees. This year introduced clothing in the form of [[Santa's Hat]] and [[Santa's Beard]] in addition to three different sizes of [[Gift Box]].

These gift boxes contained random loot in the same spirit as the Teddy Bears in 2014, but varied in size (from 1 slot to 12 slots) and loot content: ammunition, magazines, attachments, food, supplies, and the seasonal clothing items were all possible. Boxes could potentially be found at any [[Loot#Civilian|civilian]] loot location, primarily houses and wrecked cars, but did not spawn in proximity to Christmas Trees as the Teddy Bears once had in years past.

Christmas Trees can be found in the exact same 13 locations as the previous year.
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="150">
File:Christmas2017_a.jpg
File:Christmas2017_b.jpg
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