Hand Drill Kit
The Hand Drill Kit is a crafted fire-starting tool in DayZ made by combining a Short Stick with Light Bark or Oak Bark. It takes 4 inventory slots, weighs 210 g, cannot be repaired, and can ignite a prepared Fireplace that contains kindling.
Quick item summary
Quick answer
The Hand Drill Kit is an improvised fire-starting tool that removes the need to find Matches or a Petrol Lighter. It is crafted from natural materials and is especially useful during early survival. A prepared Fireplace must contain kindling before the kit can ignite it, and an ignition attempt can fail and consume the Hand Drill Kit.
In-game description
“A hand drill kit. Can be used for starting a fire.”
Main Uses
- Ignite a prepared Fireplace
- Start a fire without Matches or a Petrol Lighter
- Create cooking fires from natural materials
- Create warmth for cold or wet survivors
- Start a fire for drying wet clothing
- Use as an early-game emergency fire starter
How to use this item
Craft a Hand Drill Kit
Combine a Short Stick with Light Bark or Oak Bark, then select the Hand Drill Kit recipe.
- Collect a Short Stick.
- Use a sharp tool to gather Light Bark or Oak Bark from a suitable tree.
- Combine the Short Stick with the bark.
- Cycle through the available recipes if Fireplace is selected first.
- Choose Craft Hand Drill Kit.
Ignite a Fireplace
Use the Hand Drill Kit on a prepared Fireplace that contains kindling and fuel.
- Prepare a Fireplace.
- Attach kindling such as bark, paper, a Rag, or a Bandage.
- Add Short Sticks or Firewood as fuel.
- Place the Hand Drill Kit in your hands.
- Target the Fireplace and use the ignition action.
Gather bark for the recipe
Use a Knife or another suitable sharp tool on a compatible tree to collect bark.
- Find a suitable tree.
- Equip a Knife or another supported sharp tool.
- Use the collect-bark action.
- Collect Light Bark or Oak Bark.
- Combine the bark with a Short Stick.
How to get Hand Drill Kit
- Craft it from 1 Short Stick and 1 Light Bark.
- Craft it from 1 Short Stick and 1 Oak Bark.
- Gather bark from suitable trees with a Knife or another sharp tool.
- Split a Long Stick or cut Firewood to obtain Short Sticks.
- Loot a crafted Hand Drill Kit from another survivor when available.
Spawn info
- • The Hand Drill Kit must be crafted.
- • It is made from a Short Stick and either Light Bark or Oak Bark.
- • It takes 4 inventory slots and weighs 210 g.
- • It cannot be repaired.
- • A Fireplace must contain kindling before the Hand Drill Kit can ignite it.
- • An ignition attempt can fail and consume the Hand Drill Kit.
Crafting and item conversions
How to craft Hand Drill Kit
Hand Drill Kit
Result: Hand Drill Kit
Craft Hand Drill Kit using Short Stick and Bark.
View crafting guideImportant notes
- The Hand Drill Kit must be crafted and does not spawn as normal loot.
- Combine a Short Stick with Light Bark or Oak Bark.
- The same materials can also offer the Fireplace recipe, so cycle to the Hand Drill Kit crafting option when necessary.
- A Knife or another suitable sharp tool is needed to gather bark.
- The Fireplace must contain kindling before it can be ignited.
- An ignition attempt can fail.
- A failed ignition attempt consumes the Hand Drill Kit.
- It takes 4 inventory slots and weighs 210 g.
- It has 0 absorbency.
- It cannot be repaired.
- It is a reliable recipe to remember when Matches and Petrol Lighters are unavailable.