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Brass Knuckles

Effective hand-to-hand weapon, easily concealed from unattentive enemies. Makes for a nasty surprise afterwards.

Brass Knuckles

Heavy attack

27

Health per hit

Light attack

15

Health per hit

reach

1 m

Weight

142 g

Light attack
15 health · 100 blood · 21 shock · 1 m reach
Heavy attack
27 health · 100 blood · 45 shock · 1 m reach
Sprint attack
27 health · 100 blood · 45 shock · 2.8 m reach

Where to find it on Nasdara

Where you find it
Town, Village
Spread
Scattered across the whole mapShow on the map

Values from the vanilla types.xml of each map. Community servers often change them. Nominal and min are added up over all variants.

ChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Nominal (target on the map)105504572
Min (respawns below this)60353036
Lifetime (untouched)4 h4 h4 h4 h
Restock (wait before respawn)0000
Quantity when spawned––––
PlacesTown, Village, CoastVillage, TownVillage, Coast, TownTown, Village
TiersTier3, Tier4–––
Spotsfloorfloorfloorfloor
Countedon the groundon the groundon the groundon the ground

Tier 1 is near the coast, Tier 4 deep inland. A nominal of 0 means the item does not spawn as loot on that map.

Classnames

Each colour or version has its own classname. Nominal is the vanilla target count per map.

ClassnameChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
BrassKnuckles_Dull40101026
BrassKnuckles_MenAtArms35302526
BrassKnuckles_Shiny30101020

Sell it in your server's trader shop

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Data from the game files: DayZ 1.30 (Experimental server, 2026-10-16), DayZ-Central-Economy f220b29 (Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal), Nasdara from the 1.30 server. Updated 2026-10-17.

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