Weapons, damage and armor (2024)

Updated for DayZ 1.12.

Basic key points[ | ]

Weapons[ | ]

• Recoil can change with switching firing modes and between only prone and stand stances.
• Sway change with switching between all stances.

Armor[ | ]

• Armor items apply their effects on the whole body parts and don’t have their own hitboxes.
• Clothing equipment can randomly select items from its inventory, to apply incoming damage to them, and lower the hit effects based on the items’ health/properties^[specify].

Damage[ | ]

• Player’s character has 100 shock health points, after this number goes below 26, the character becomes unconscious until the value regenerates to above 50.
• Damage is based on the velocity of the bullet at the time it impacts an entity.
• Bullets will slow down when penetrating material, imparting correspondingly less damage if it hits an entity after.
• Hitting different body parts will differ the damage values to apply, the HP damage is applied even if no organ hitboxes are hit.
• Penetrating hitboxes of a character may cause additional effects.

Contact weapons / Ammunition[ | ]

Description, and CfgAmmo and CfgMagazines configs[ | ]

Damage^[i] =

1. [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ DamageApplied \ Health \ damage] of HP .
2. [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ DamageApplied \ Blood \ damage] of Blood .^{[expansion needed]}

Impact^[i] = [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ DamageApplied \ Shock \ damage] of Shock .

Armor/Penetration^[i] =

1. [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ DamageApplied \ Health \ armorDamage] value of ignoring armor items’ effect of HP protection .^{[not confirmed][expansion needed]}
2. [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ caliber] penetration effect value .^{[detail needed]}
3. [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ deflecting] degree ricochet angle .

Projectile speed = [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ initSpeed] .^{[detail needed]}

Air friction = [CfgAmmo \ [projectile classname] \ airFriction] .

Ammo weight^[i] = [CfgMagazines \ [ammo classname] \ weight / count]g .

Launchers / Ranged weapons[ | ]

Description, and CfgWeapons config[ | ]

Ammo affection = any effects applied to the CfgAmmo entity’s properties .^[i]

Rounds Per Minute = [modes >-> [type of fire] \ 1 / reloadTime * 60] .

Dispersion =

1. [modes >-> [type of fire] \ dispersion] .
2. [modes >-> [type of fire] \ firespreadangle] pellets spread .
3. [modes >-> Single \ dispersion] .

Reload =

1. [magazineSwitchTime * 10]s .
2. ^{[expansion needed]} .

Sound power = ^{[expansion needed]} decibels .

Reliability = [DamageSystem \ GlobalHealth \ Health \ hitpoints] shots .^{[detail needed]}

Weight = [weight / 1000]kg without any attachments, mags and ammo .

^{[expansion needed]}

Armor[ | ]

Description, and [CfgVehicles \ ["Clothing" type entities]] config[ | ]

Armor =

1. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ Projectile \ 100 - Health * 100]% of HP damage reduction .
2. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ FragGrenade \ 100 - Health * 100]% of HP damage reduction .
3. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ Melee \ 100 - Health * 100]% of HP damage reduction .
4. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ Infected \ 100 - Health * 100]% of HP damage reduction .

• [DamageSystem \ GlobalHealth \ Health \ hitpoints] armor health, the maximum amount of blocked character HP damage (in the best condition) .

Impact suppression =

1. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ Projectile \ 100 - Shock * 100]% of Shock damage reduction .
2. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ FragGrenade \ 100 - Shock * 100]% of Shock damage reduction .
3. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ Melee \ 100 - Shock * 100]% of Shock damage reduction .
4. [DamageSystem \ GlobalArmor \ Infected \ 100 - Shock * 100]% of Shock damage reduction .

Weight = [weight / 1000]kg without any attachments and cargo .

^{[detail needed]}

See also[ | ]

• Character Status
• Weapons
• Clothing

Notes[ | ]

[CfgAmmo \ .. \ hit]: has no effect on character damage, either penetration;

[CfgAmmo \ .. \ weight]: defines size of visual impact effects, has no effect on ballistics;

The testing was limited, so the info is not guaranteed completely corrects, but more likely are.

Sources[ | ]

• DayZ 1.07 configs.
  

• Modding DayZ 1.07 ^{[small preset]}, and testing it with DayZ Community Offline Mode .
  

• https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/dfhjkw/armour_hit_box_testing/

Outdated[ | ]

• https://www.reddit.com/r/dayz/comments/drifei/dayztips_57_no_armor_against_fate_updated/fn5lpba?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
  

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suym-_-sAQQ
  

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8r0siV1JMA
  

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pz9pCAf96c