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Dayz Version 1.70 Patch Notes (Dayz 1.26) for PS4, PC & Xbox One

Dayz version 1.70 is available to download on PS4, PC(v1.26), and Xbox One. According to the official Dayz 1.70 patch notes, the latest update adds new Frostline DLC and various tweaks. Apart from this, today’s Dayz patch 1.70 also adds new animals and new items.

Previously, a major Dayz update 1.24 added a new Vikhr rifle and 30rd 9x39mm magazine for the Vikhr, ASVAL and VSS rifles. Unfortunately, players are still experiencing bugs with the game. Today’s Dayz patch 1.70 will address a few of these issues. The upcoming Dayz update 1.71 will fix the remaining issues.

Read more details below.

Dayz 1.70 Patch Notes – October 15, 2024

FROSTLINE DLC

  • Added Sakhal terrain
  • Rubber Boat
  • Ice Axe
  • Yellowfoot Mushroom
  • Reindeer
  • Winter-themed infected types
  • Winter-themed variants of existing clothing items
  • Budenovka
  • Snowstorm Ushanka
  • Ski gloves
  • Navy uniform jacket and pants
  • OMK jacket and pants
  • Walleye Pollock
  • Steelhead Trout
  • Shrimp
  • Scientific briefcase and keys
  • Canned crab
  • Down jacket
  • Ski goggles
  • Glass bottle

GAME

ADDED

  • Brown Hare
  • Red Fox
  • Wolf trophy headdress
  • Shemag
  • Fishing jig
  • Wooden fishing hook
  • Consuming scorching hot items now slows consumption and causes damage
  • It is now possible to climb onto ledges while swimming
  • Some items can now freeze if exposed to low temperatures
  • Grass now bends under animals and infected
  • Terrain and object visibility settings
  • In-game server browser now verifies all official servers before displaying them
  • In-game server browser can now filter for maps
  • In-game server browser now allows sorting for maps in a separate column
  • Description field for servers, displayed in the server browser
  • Support for stick dead zones

FIXED

CHANGED

  • Updated official server naming conventions in coherence with the server browser update
  • Reworked character heat comfort and how it is influenced
  • Rebalanced the insulation values of most clothing items
  • Reworked fishing action and its chances, including audio and particle effects (let go of LMB to reel in a fish when caught)
  • Fishing bait is no longer crafted, but an attachment of hook
  • Slightly rebalanced the nutrition values of fish
  • Eating raw fish now causes food poisoning instead of salmonella
  • Worms are now stackable
  • It’s now possible to dig multiple worms at once with certain tools
  • Reworked the common cold into stages, added pneumonia
  • Codeine pills and morphine now suppress common cold and influenza symptoms
  • To tackle animal predators being an easy source of food for highly geared players, we have infected predator meat with a disease
  • All edible items can now be added to cooking slots
  • All edible items can now be heated up to warm up the character when consumed
  • Tweaked water gain from food items, decreased the gain from cooked items
  • Removed rough and precision soft skills
  • Firewood can now be stacked up to 3 times in the inventory
  • Tweaked the minimum and maximum temperatures of items
  • Players now gain temporary immunity to the common cold after beating it or any of its later stages
  • The flare gun ammunition now spins slightly on descent
  • Active rain/snowfall now decrease the hearing of infected
  • Force feeding is now only possible when facing the player
  • Sitting in a vehicle with running engine will now set your character’s heat comfort to neutral
  • Heat packs cool down over a longer period and give drastically more benefit
  • Traps now require bait and might catch different animals depending on the bait
  • Traps now play a sound when they aught an animal
  • Traps in water not play a particle effect when they caught an animal
  • Reduced damage taken by traps on catch
  • Increased chance of catching animals via trap
  • Reduced time required for traps to catch an animal
  • Significantly increased the weight of animals pelts
  • Terrain detail video settings are now hidden and set to one value that corresponds to the multiplayer settings (it was always forced to one value by the server anyway)
  • Optimized world loading for respawning players (PC only)
  • Reduced the AI alertness from pistol shots
  • Strongly reduced the AI alertness from shots of the Sporter
  • Heat buffer (+ symbol) now shows progression on HUD and its behavior has been slightly altered
  • Reduced size of the cargo on most jackets, pants and vests
  • Adjusted inventory sizes of various items
  • Many continuous actions have now their camera view angle limited to the general area, where the action is conducted
  • It’s not possible to construct garden plots below certain environment temperatures

CENTRAL ECONOMY

  • Fixed: The restock value was not properly considered when restocking items (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177835)

CHERNARUS

  • Fixed: A glitched military convoy position at Dubrovka
  • Changed: Morning fog behavior, there is always morning fog around the coast and in the low altitude valleys. The density is randomized, it can be too thick sometimes
  • Changed: Wind direction and speed is giving clues about how the upcoming overcast will be
  • Changed: Large-scale rebalancing of clothing items and firearms

LIVONIA

  • Changed: Morning fog behavior, there CAN be a morning fog which is on the river and around its bed. The density is randomized
  • Changed: Livonia now has sudden overcast changes. The sudden change always ends with a bad weather and the duration of it shorter compared to normal overcast changes
  • Changed: Wind direction and speed is giving clues about how the upcoming overcast will be
  • Changed: Default date reset interval moved from Aug-Sept to July-Aug
  • Changed: Large-scale rebalancing of clothing items and firearms

SERVER

KNOWN ISSUES

  • The server browser might not display servers – a fix is in the works – THIS CAN BE SOLVED BY RESETTING FILTERS
  • Dying while having the inventory or quick-wheel open can result in the respawn menu not functioning and requiring a restart, a fix is in internal testing
  • Respawning from unconscious might result in disconnect from the server
  • We are investigating a possible performance decline on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles
  • There might be issues with vaulting over fences, a fix is in internal testing
  • Weather can be desynced for players after server start – a fix is in internal testing
  • Thawing frozen items in cookware is too slow – a fix is in internal testing
  • Heavy Metal Poisoning Screen effect is present after respawn – a fix is in internal testing, can be solved by reconnect
  • Vehicles or boats behave weirdly next to rocks (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T183992, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T183617) – a fix is in internal testing
  • Character is stuttering while passing doors
  • Camera twitches after vaulting over fences/walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T185237)
  • Sakhal map doesn’t have translated name and description – a fix is in internal testing
  • Alarm sound of Warhead bunker entrance can play permanently after server restart
  • Some ice sheets cannot be climbed on
  • Tents can clip into ice sheets after being packed
  • Grass shortly disappears when driving boats close to a beach
  • Boats and players in them are not getting any damage in crashes
  • Small stutters can happen when walking/sprinting into the sea
  • Climbing on boat, especially with no or low stamina, can cause animation glitches
  • Some food can clip into fireplaces and ovens when added to cooking slots – a fix is in internal testing
  • Inconsistencies with the cfgweather.xml (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T183730) – a fix is in internal testing
  • Thawed snow area around fireplaces is not visible at night
  • PC server descriptions do not support new line characters – a fix is in internal testing

The following changes were added previously.

Added

  • New Animals and Items
    • Brown Hare
    • Red Fox
    • Wolf trophy headdress
    • Shemagh
    • Fishing jig
    • Wooden fishing hook
    • Scientific briefcase and keys
  • Gameplay Mechanics
    • Consuming scorching hot items now slows consumption and causes damage
    • Climb onto ledges while swimming
    • Items can freeze in low temperatures
    • Grass bends under animals and infected
    • Terrain and object visibility settings
  • Server Browser Enhancements
    • Verifies all official servers before displaying
    • Filter and sort maps in the server browser
    • Server description field
  • Controls and Support
    • Support for stick dead zones

Fixed

  • Visual and Animation Bugs
    • Missing character head shadow in 1st person view
    • Stuck in falling animation when cornered by infected
    • Disappearing bolt after killing an entity
    • Firewood visual bug after fireplace ashes
    • Issues with gathering firewood from certain trees
    • False weapon jammed state display
    • Vegetation bent by wind at specific angles
    • Wind sound not properly affected by speed
  • Game Mechanics
    • Abused gestures hiding large weapons
    • Clipping weapons through walls
    • Visible stamina bar inside vehicles
    • Missing vehicle startup sounds
    • Missing sounds for meat tenderizer and hammer when building
    • ESC key not closing Exit menu
    • Desynchronization when multiple characters sit in the same car seat
    • Improper character turning in main menu
    • Fast-spinning vehicle wheels
    • Flickering inventory items near memory limits
    • Consistent volumetric fog across view distance settings
    • Bandaging a player in a vehicle
    • Exploit allowing movement of unconscious characters
    • Desynchronized weapon ammunition status
  • Server Browser and UI
    • Previously played filter issue in PC client
    • Voice range icon not appearing
    • Ammo unloading issue with limited inventory space
    • Car battery removal issue from Field Transceiver
    • Fence collision issue after rebuilding
    • Sunglasses visibility issue in first person view
    • Misplaced NVG goggles view
    • Persistent pill icon after taking two pills quickly
    • Damaged and ruined ghillie set visual fix
    • Respawn menu gamepad control issues
    • Respawn button skip after unconsciousness with open pause menu

Changed

  • Server and Gameplay Adjustments
    • Updated official server naming conventions
    • Reworked character heat comfort and insulation values of clothing
    • Enhanced fishing actions, including new audio and particle effects
    • Rebalanced fish nutrition values and introduced food poisoning from raw fish
    • Stackable worms and multiple worm digging with certain tools
    • Reworked common cold stages, added pneumonia
    • Infected predator meat to discourage easy food source
    • Heating edible items to warm character
    • Adjusted water gain from food items
    • Removed rough and precision soft skills
    • Stacking firewood up to three times in inventory
    • Tweaked item temperature ranges
    • Temporary cold immunity after beating it
    • Flare gun ammunition spins on descent
    • Active rain/snowfall affects infected hearing
    • Adjusted force feeding mechanic
    • Neutral heat comfort in vehicles with running engine
    • Extended heat pack benefits
    • Traps now require bait and play sounds/effects when catching animals
    • Reduced trap damage and increased catch chances
    • Increased weight of animal pelts
    • Hidden terrain detail video settings for consistency
    • Optimized world loading for respawning players
    • Reduced AI alertness to pistol and Sporter shots
    • Heat buffer progression on HUD
    • Reduced cargo size on jackets, pants, and vests
    • Limited camera view angle during continuous actions
    • Restricted garden plot construction in certain temperatures

Central Economy

  • Restocking Fix
    • Proper consideration of restock value during item restocking

Chernarus

  • Environmental and Item Changes
    • Fixed glitched military convoy position at Dubrovka
    • Updated morning fog behavior around the coast and valleys
    • Clues from wind direction and speed about upcoming overcast
    • Large-scale clothing items and firearms rebalancing

Livonia

  • Environmental Adjustments
    • Updated morning fog behavior around the river
    • Sudden overcast changes with bad weather outcomes
    • Wind direction and speed indicate upcoming overcast
    • Default date reset interval moved to July-August
    • Large-scale clothing items and firearms rebalancing

Download the free Dayz update 1.70 on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One.

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Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson
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