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Ballistic Vest

A ballistic vest. Able to absorb various types of impact damage. Used by various organizations around the world.

Ballistic Vest

Bullets

50%

Insulation

0.7

Cargo

16

Weight

7 kg

How much of each kind of damage this item absorbs where it is worn.

Bullets50%

Bleeding 100% · Shock 25%

Melee25%

Bleeding 100% · Shock 45%

Infected25%

Bleeding 100% · Shock 45%

Explosions50%

Bleeding 100% · Shock 50%

Where to find it on Nasdara

Where you find it
At events only (vehicle spawns, helicopter crashes, convoys …)
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)82088
Min (respawns below this)41044
Lifetime (untouched)4 h2 h2 h4 h
Restock (wait before respawn)0000
Quantity when spawned––––
PlacesPolice, TownPolicePolicePolice
Tiers––––
Spots––––
Countedon the ground, dynamic event looton the groundon the groundon the ground, dynamic event loot

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
PressVest_Blue41044
PressVest_LightBlue41044

Attachments

Items that fit one of its attachment slots according to the game config.

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.

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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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