// dayz item
Ballistic Vest
A ballistic vest. Able to absorb various types of impact damage. Used by various organizations around the world.

Bullets
50%
Insulation
0.7
Cargo
16
Weight
7 kg
How much of each kind of damage this item absorbs where it is worn.
Bleeding 100% · Shock 25%
Bleeding 100% · Shock 45%
Bleeding 100% · Shock 45%
Bleeding 100% · Shock 50%
- Insulation
- High · 0.7Warmer than 60% of the Vest items.
- Gets at most
- WetNever gets soaked.
- Soaks up water
- Not at all
- Category
- Clothing
- Weight
- 7 kg
- Size
- 4×4 (16 slots)
- Cargo
- 4×4 (16 slots)
- Slot
- Vest
- Quickbar slots
- 1
- Durability
- 170
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.
| Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | Nasdara | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal (target on the map) | 8 | 20 | 8 | 8 |
| Min (respawns below this) | 4 | 10 | 4 | 4 |
| Lifetime (untouched) | 4 h | 2 h | 2 h | 4 h |
| Restock (wait before respawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quantity when spawned | – | – | – | – |
| Places | Police, Town | Police | Police | Police |
| Tiers | – | – | – | – |
| Spots | – | – | – | – |
| Counted | on the ground, dynamic event loot | on the ground | on the ground | on 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.
| Classname | Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | Nasdara |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() PressVest_Blue | 4 | 10 | 4 | 4 |
![]() PressVest_LightBlue | 4 | 10 | 4 | 4 |
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.










