// dayz item
Plate Carrier
Hard-plate reinforced bulletproof vest, able to absorb various types of impact damage. Can be expandable with holster and additional pouches.

- Category
- Clothing
- Weight
- 12 kg
- Inventory size
- 5 × 5 (25 slots)
- Worn / attached in
- Vest
- Bullet protection
- 70%
- Insulation
- 80%
- Durability
- 225
Classnames
Each colour or version has its own classname. Nominal is the vanilla target count per map.
| Classname | Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() PlateCarrierVest | 1 | 0 | 0 |
![]() PlateCarrierVest_Black | 0 | 1 | 2 |
![]() PlateCarrierVest_Camo | 1 | 0 | 0 |
![]() PlateCarrierVest_Green | 0 | 1 | 2 |
![]() PlateCarrierVest_Winter | 0 | 0 | 2 |
PlateCarrierVest_Desert | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Attachments
Items that fit one of its attachment slots according to the game config.
1-M8 Smoke GrenadeM18SmokeGrenade_Green
40mm Explosive GrenadeAmmo_40mm_Explosive
40mm PO-X GrenadeAmmo_40mm_ChemGas
40mm Smoke GrenadeAmmo_40mm_Smoke_Black
6-M7 Frag GrenadeM67Grenade
8-M4 FlashbangFlashGrenade
EGD-2 Smoke GrenadeRDG2SmokeGrenade_Black
EGD-5 Frag GrenadeRGD5Grenade
HolsterPlateCarrierHolster- PouchesPlateCarrierPouches
Spawns on each 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal (target on the map) | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Min (respawns below this) | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Lifetime (untouched) | 4 h | 4 h | 4 h |
| Restock (wait before respawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quantity when spawned | – | – | – |
| Places | Military | Military, Underground | Underground, Military |
| Tiers | – | Tier2 | Tier2, Tier3, Tier4 |
| Spots | – | – | – |
| Counted | on the ground, dynamic event loot | on the ground, dynamic event loot | 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.
Spawns with
From cfgspawnabletypes.xml: each group rolls its chance, then one item of the group is picked.
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.



