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Derringer
Double-barreled break-action pistol. Combines compact dimensions and powerful ammunition. Uses .357 rounds.

Damage
65
Health per hit
Velocity
352
m/s
Recoil
1.44
Weight
350 g
- Damage
- 65 health · 100 blood · 90 shock
- Muzzle velocity
- 352 m/s
- Spread
- 20.6 MOAMOA (minute of angle) measures how far shots stray from where you aim: 1 MOA is about 2.9 cm at 100 m. With this spread a bullet lands up to about 60 cm from the aim point at 100 m and 180 cm at 300 m. Lower is more accurate.
- Recoil
- 1.44 up · 0 sidewaysAverage aim climb per shot in the game's own units; higher kicks harder.
- Penetration
- 1
- Ricochet below
- 30°
- Loudness to infected
- 80How far infected and animals notice the shot, relative to other weapons.
Calculated from the game's muzzle velocity and air resistance: how fast the bullet still flies, how far it drops and how long it takes. Below the speed of sound the supersonic crack stops giving the shooter away.
Speed over distance (m/s)
| Distance | Speed | Drop | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | 274 m/s | 47 cm | 0.32 s |
| 200 m | 214 m/s | 228 cm | 0.74 s |
| 300 m | 166 m/s | 628 cm | 1.27 s |
| 400 m | 130 m/s | 1,392 cm | 1.95 s |
| 500 m | 102 m/s | 2,755 cm | 2.83 s |
| 600 m | 81 m/s | 5,112 cm | 3.97 s |
| 800 m | 59 m/s | 16,041 cm | 7.41 s |
Subsonic from about 10 m · Drop with the barrel level and without zeroing.
- Clearing a jam
- 6–10 s
- Durability
- 200
Jam chance per shot
| Pristine | 0% |
|---|---|
| Worn | 0.1% |
| Damaged | 1% |
| Badly damaged | 5% |
| Ruined | 100% |
A worn magazine adds its own chance on top.
- Buttstock
- 10 health · 100 blood · 15 shock · 1.2 m reach
- Category
- Weapons
- Weight
- 350 g
- Size
- 2×1 (2 slots)
- Slot
- Pistol
- Length
- 15 cm
- Sway
- ×0.65
Where to find it on Nasdara
- Where you find it
- Town
- 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.
| Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | Nasdara | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal (target on the map) | 20 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Min (respawns below this) | 15 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| Lifetime (untouched) | 4 h | 4 h | 4 h | 4 h |
| Restock (wait before respawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quantity when spawned | 50–100% | 50–100% | 50–100% | 50–100% |
| Places | Town | Town | Town | Town |
| Tiers | Tier1, Tier2 | Tier1, Tier2 | Tier1, Tier2 | Tier1, Tier2 |
| Spots | – | – | – | – |
| Counted | on the ground | on the ground | on the ground | on 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.
| Classname | Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | Nasdara |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() Derringer_Black | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
![]() Derringer_Grey | 20 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
![]() Derringer_Pink | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ammunition
Fits on
Repaired with
Sell it in your server's trader shop
With dzbot, players on your Nitrado DayZ server — PC, PlayStation, Xbox or Switch 2 — buy items like this one with your server currency on your server website, and the order spawns at their chosen spot after the next restart.





