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Signal Pistol
Simple breech loaded signal pistol. Launching flares at long distances, it can be a handy tool for communication, orientation, or just illumination. Uses flare cartridges.
Classname
FlaregunDamage
30
Health per hit
Fire rate
462
rounds/min
Velocity
80
m/s
Recoil
0.95
- Damage
- 30 health · 100 blood · 10 shock
- Fire rate
- 462 rounds/min (single)
- Muzzle velocity
- 80 m/s
- Spread
- 103.1 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 300 cm from the aim point at 100 m and 900 cm at 300 m. Lower is more accurate.
- Recoil
- 0.95 up · 0 sidewaysAverage aim climb per shot in the game's own units; higher kicks harder.
- Ricochet below
- 30°
- Loudness to infected
- 40How 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 |
|---|
Subsonic from the muzzle · Drop with the barrel level and without zeroing.
- Clearing a jam
- 6–10 s
- Durability
- 150
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
- 400 g
- Size
- 2×2 (4 slots)
- Slot
- Pistol
- Length
- 17 cm
- Sway
- ×0.8
Where to find it on Nasdara
Does not spawn on its own on Nasdara – it only comes with other items, from crafting or from admin spawns.
Values from the vanilla types.xml of each map. Community servers often change them.
| Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | Nasdara | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal (target on the map) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Min (respawns below this) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lifetime (untouched) | 4 h | 4 h | 4 h | 4 h |
| Restock (wait before respawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quantity when spawned | – | – | 30–80% | 20–80% |
| Places | Military, Police, Medic, Firefighter, Coast | Military, Police, Medic, Firefighter, Coast | Medic, Coast | Military, Police, Coast |
| Tiers | – | – | 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.
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.