DayZ is a survival game developed by Bohemia Interactive. The goal of the game is to stay alive and healthy during a zombie outbreak. Your character in the game will use certain tools to ensure they survive the zombie outbreak; one of the items you can find in the game is epoxy putty, and you might be wondering what you can use it for in the game.
So, what is epoxy putty used for in DayZ? The epoxy putty is used to repair damaged plastic equipment such as helmets. Epoxy putty is described as quick and easy equipment for repairing hard surfaces; however, it does not repair anything other than damaged helmets with ballistics protection in the game. The game uses color codes to indicate the extent of the damage on certain equipment.
In DayZ, various equipment and weapons that are crucial to your character’s survival are scattered around the map. The equipment can help you build a base, craft useful items and protect your character from zombies and other players.
In DayZ, there are numerous items that your character can use to survive attacks, craft items, and build a safe base. Therefore, when playing the game, you will collect numerous items that will be useful as you continue gaming. If you find epoxy putty, you might be wondering what you will use it for in the game.
The epoxy putty is used to repair damaged helmets with ballistics protection in DayZ. Helmets are important in protecting your characters from players using guns to attack you. After your character gets shot at with a few bullets or hit on the head with a blunt object like a pipe wrench, the helmet will get weaker and may not offer your character any more protection.
Instead of looking for another helmet, you can simply repair it with epoxy putty. However, you cannot use epoxy putty to repair other items in the game, such as tents, barrels, and crates.
To repair a damaged helmet with epoxy putty in DayZ, take the helmet and first check its condition by checking the dot’s color. If the dot is green, you do not need to repair the helmet. If the dot is yellow or orange, you can repair the helmet with epoxy putty. Select epoxy putty and press the repair button on your controller as indicated on the screen.
You can repair the helmet several times until the dot appears green when your character picks up the helmet. If you are using a helmet as part of your armor, ensure that you have enough epoxy putty to repair the helmet after an attack.
The in-game description of epoxy putty can be deceiving because it says that it can be used to repair hard surfaces. However, it never works when gamers try to repair other items such as barrels and crates with epoxy putty.
It seems that the developers only made it possible for the epoxy putty to repair helmets in the game. Maybe, in future releases, the developers of the game might extend the use of epoxy putty in the game.
If you are trying to repair certain items in DayZ with epoxy putty and it is not working, you can try other repair items available. There are different items that your character can use to repair specific items in the game, such as a sewing kit to repair clothes.
If you do not have a sewing kit, you can also use duct tape to repair your character’s clothes. Other repair items available in the game are a leather sewing kit, sharpening stone, electronic repair kit, gun cleaning kit, and tire repair kit.
What Is the Wrench for in DayZ?
When walking around an industrial zone or farm in DayZ looking for items and food, you might come across a wrench and have your character pick it up. The wrench takes up two inventory slots; therefore, you might be asking yourself what it does before you decide to keep it.
The wrench can be used in DayZ as a tool or as a melee weapon. As a tool, you can use the wrench to open canned food but note that it will spill 20% to 40% of the food. As a weapon, you can use it to attack and defend yourself against zombies and other players. However, it is not that effective, and other items can outperform it as a weapon.
Food is very important to your character’s health and strength in the game; therefore, if possible, avoid using the wrench to open the canned foods. If you do not want to waste food, you can use your character’s hands to open cans with pull tabs. To open cans without pull tabs, use a can opener, screwdriver or knife to avoid spilling a lot of food.
The in-game description of the wrench indicates that it can be used with fasteners, but, in reality, you cannot use it to tighten bolts or nuts in the game. Most gamers prefer to use the wrench as a weapon if they run out of bullets and cannot find other weapons.
However, it is not as effective as a weapon, and other blunt objects, such as the pipe wrench and firefighter ax. It takes several hits to kill a zombie or another player, and if you are getting attacked by numerous zombies, then a wrench will be completely useless.
If you are looking for a replacement for the wrench, you can use several items, such as a baseball bat with nails. A baseball bat with nails has 100% blood damage, and other players will think twice before they engage you in combat. You can also use a sledgehammer to hit zombies and other players on the head to effectively deter them from attacking you.
The most effective item you can replace the wrench as a weapon is the pickaxe. It has the greatest damage among melee weapons and can kill another player’s character with one or two hits. You can also use it to mine, prepare campfires, and farm crops. It is also a great tool to scare away other players who might want to attack your character.
Where’s the Best Place to Find Nails in DayZ?
Nails in DayZ are very important in base building and crafting weapons. They are not common items in the game, and you have to spend a lot of time looking for them. If you need nails and do not want to roam aimlessly, you may wonder where the best place to find them on the game’s map is.
The best place to find nails in DayZ is in sheds or garages in Cherno and Electro. Cherno and Electro are the largest towns in the game; hence lots of construction was going on before the zombie outbreak. You can also find nails in industrial sites on the map.
You can find nails in boxes that contain seventy nails or that are in a pile reaching up to ninety-nine nails. Some players opt not to look for nails choosing to hunt and kill other players they think or know have nails. Killing other players’ characters and stealing their nails can be dangerous because the player might end up killing your character and stealing some of your valuable items.
Nails are an important ingredient in crafting an effective melee weapon. If you have a baseball bat, you can add the nails to craft a perfect melee weapon that can kill zombies and other players with two or three clean hits. To craft a baseball bat with nails, go to your inventory and select the baseball bat.
Drag the nails to the baseball bat, and a baseball bat with nails will appear in your inventory. You can then use it to defend yourself against zombie attacks or scaring away players who might want to attack you and steal your valuable items.
You can also use nails to build your base. Every character in DayZ needs a base, and you can build your base depending on the materials you have in your inventory. You can use nails to build structures like fences and watchtowers.
You will also need wooden crates to store your valuable items and bury them underground to make it difficult for other players to find them during a raid. Wooden crates can also help prevent despawning during a server shutdown. To craft a wooden crate, you will need wooden planks and nails.
What To Do with Wolf Pelt DayZ?
In DayZ, your character can encounter animals such as bears, goats, deer, rabbits, and wolves, among others. You can hunt these animals using various weapons, and after killing them, you can use their skin to craft certain leather products. After killing a wolf, the skin you harvest from the carcass is known as wolf pelt, and you might be wondering what to do with it.
You can use wolf pelt to craft or repair wolfskin coats. The weather in DayZ can change at any moment, and your character needs garments to keep warm during cold days or nights. You can craft a leather jacket after tanning the wolf pelt.
Acquiring a wolf pelt can be dangerous because you need to shoot or kill a wolf, and if you do not want to hunt wolves, you can find some dead wolves in Great Bear Island on the map. If you decide to hunt wolves for their hide, you can find them roaming alone or in packs in the northern forests of Chernarus.
The Wolfskin coat has high warmth, protects your character from wind, and lasts long. If you are wearing a wolfskin coat, the chances of getting attacked by wolves are low because it scares nearby wolves.
To craft a wolfskin coat, you need four cured wolf pelts and four pieces of the cured gut, and a bladed tool. It will take up to 25 in-game hours to craft a wolfskin coat. You have to craft shifts because you need light to complete the task and take breaks to avoid dehydration.
Do not use melee weapons when hunting wolves because using a melee weapon means that your character has to get close to a wolf. If you swing and miss, the wolf can attack you and cause damage to your character’s health. Always use a ranged weapon when hunting wolves, preferably a gun with a high damage per shot.
Ensure that you also have enough bullets in case the wolf is traveling in a pack. If you run out of bullets and the wolves attack you, find cover in a nearby enclosure. If there are no houses nearby, run in zigzag motion to avoid getting bitten by the wolves. If fleeing does not work, as a last resort, take a melee weapon and attack the wolves one by one.
To obtain tanned leather in DayZ, you need a wildlife pelt and garden lime. You can use the tanned leather to craft a leather backpack or leather shelter. Before turning a wolf pelt into a leather product such as a jacket, you first need to harvest it from the carcass using a knife.
After harvesting the wolf pelt, you have to cure it by leaving it indoors for seven in-game days. A cured wolf pelt can be used to craft a wolfskin coat or repair it. If you are using it to repair a leather coat, you need a leather sewing kit because a regular sewing skit cannot be used to repair leather products.
Wrap Up
The goal in the DayZ video game is to survive for a long time in a fictional world using different equipment and weapons. You only begin the game with a few simple clothes, and you have to obtain useful equipment and weapons like pickaxes, guns, knives, nails, among others. You can find these items in different locations like barns, shades, garages, and industrial sites.
If you are using a helmet to protect yourself in the game, ensure you have one or two epoxy putty sticks to repair the helmet when it gets damaged. You should also ensure that you have the correct repair item for all the items in your inventory.
Some items can be repaired using simple things like duct tape. In contrast, others require a specific item such as an electronic repair kit for repairing electronic equipment like a walkie-talkie.
