How I staying warm enough, consistently. It is positively possible right now :) DayZ SA Stable - 0.49.124971 After new spawn, I have 10-15 min until cold freeze death, rain or not, any type of clothes or server. Warm up I need fire in fireplace outside. To make fireplace and ignite it, I need to find axe, matches, and book/pater/rags/bandages, and no rain. I can make 1st fireplace with any axe, even in badly damaged condition, despite zeds resistance to the very idea. Cosplayers also may not like it, thats different issue obstacle, and any nearby hero may help also, depends. Anyhow, after 1st fire you still have the same very time until next freezing death - 10 to 15 min. You may return periodically to you 1st fireplace, but its limiting you effective range. Problem with your 2nd fire is your axe. If its in worn condition, you are fine. If it is in badly damaged, most likely you will not be able to make 2nd fire, your axe will be ruined in process, and if you far from your first fire, and freezing already, thats most likely means death for you. Only solution I found is to carry 2 axes, one, preferably pristine, to melee zeds, and second would be in damaged condition eventually, to chop fire wood, split for sticks. Melee axe degrade very slow from zeds, and chopping axe degrade very very fast. With damaged axe its very trouble to kill zeds. Also remember, that you have only about 50 hit points for your whole life span. So I need to carry stone to sharpen chopping axe, sometime twice for one fireplace. To mine stone from stone deposit in a quarry, or rock formation, you need to find pickaxe. If you put mined stone near near/in your chest, zeds will ruin it very quickly, and ruined stone is not usable for sharpening axe. So I have melee axe on shoulder, chopping axe, stone, matches and book in a backpack for safety. With all that setup I can make fire first sign of freezing, about every 10 15 20 min in game, in rain more often. Clothes, Gorka, masks, respirators, food, energy, water, whatnot warm server - all no matter for freezing. You may make fire when cold, to start new cold cycle. It is mandatory when light freezing started. In a deep crimson freezing nothing will help you, you dead in a water. What I found somehow very strange, that after about staying this way alive for about 12 in game hours, cold stops bothering me. Any ruined clothes, rain or not, cooling messages continue, but I never get cold or freezing. So I can drop chopping axe, stone, book and matches, free inv space. That effectively means, that sniper campers do not freeze by waiting for you. Palmface. And zed are not spawning around you anymore, if you don't move for long. Bottom line, its hard to stay warm for new spawn, and not for vet.