.61 Repairing Equipment

[ShallowTech 196]

Couple of questions. I did some searching around and found information on repairing items in DayZ SA. However, some of what I am reading does not always work and I think the information is outdated.

Is there anyway to repair a silencer, helmets and knives?

How do the helicopter spawns work?

[emuthreat 2837]

Helmets can no longer be repaired with sewing kits on this patch.
Duct tape will repair any item to the top of its current state, and some items can be repaired up to damaged status, from badly damaged. If you have a pristine fish net, you may use it until it becomes badly damaged, and then repair it after each use, back to damaged status, to avoid it becoming ruined.

If you repair a motorbike helmet with duct tape, it will only restore the item to the highest percentage of the current condition. So if you notice your pristine helmet is now worn, apply some duct tape to make it of maximum worn quality, and the next time it is hit, it *might* not go down to damaged status.

I haven't tried sharpening knives in this patch, as I always just use a stone knife for cutting things.  (The combat knife will work as a 100% can opener, even in badly damaged condition)  Small stones will only repair axes from badly damaged, to damaged.

Putting duct tape on a suppressor should keep it from wearing-out as fast, but again, I haven't tested this extensively.

Edited December 27, 2016 by emuthreat

[ShallowTech 196]

Thank you. The reason I was asking is because I had two silencers, after using them a few times or getting hit by a zombie they are both damaged and they do not seem to work in a damaged state. So I was wondering if there was a way to repair. I tried duck tape but it did not seem to work. I will mess with it a little later to find out.

Thank you

[emuthreat 2837]

The tape will only top-off the damaged state.  It will never increase them back to worn, only delay them from degrading to badly damaged and ruined.

[ShallowTech 196]

okay