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

- Category
- Clothing
- Weight
- 7 kg
- Inventory size
- 4 × 4 (16 slots)
- Cargo space
- 4 × 4 (16 slots)
- Worn / attached in
- Vest
- Bullet protection
- 50%
- Insulation
- 70%
- Durability
- 170
Classnames
Each colour or version has its own classname. Nominal is the vanilla target count per map.
| Classname | Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() PressVest_Blue | 4 | 10 | 4 |
![]() PressVest_LightBlue | 4 | 10 | 4 |
Attachments
Items that fit one of its attachment slots according to the game config.
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) | 8 | 20 | 8 |
| Min (respawns below this) | 4 | 10 | 4 |
| Lifetime (untouched) | 4 h | 2 h | 2 h |
| Restock (wait before respawn) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quantity when spawned | – | – | – |
| Places | Police, Town | Police | Police |
| Tiers | – | – | – |
| Spots | – | – | – |
| Counted | on the ground, dynamic event loot | 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.
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.








