Heat Pack
The Heat Pack is an uncommon medical equipment item in DayZ used to keep your character warm while moving. It takes 2 inventory slots, weighs 150 g, spawns in camping and hunting loot, must be activated before use, provides warmth from any normal inventory slot, lasts around 20 minutes, and becomes ruined after use.
Quick item summary
Quick answer
The Heat Pack is a piece of medical equipment in DayZ used to help keep a player warm while away from a fire or other heat source. Once activated, it can be stored in a normal inventory slot to provide heat comfort. It is single use, cannot be repaired, and becomes ruined after its warmth runs out. Heat Packs are useful for cold-weather survival, long travel, wet conditions, and areas where staying near a fire is unsafe or inconvenient.
In-game description
“Small disposable heat source, keeps you warm for a limited time when put into a jacket, pants or vest.”
Main Uses
- Activate to provide temporary warmth while moving
- Store in a normal inventory slot after activation
- Use during cold weather, rain, snow, or long travel away from fires
- Use to help maintain body temperature when you cannot safely stop near a heat source
- Carry as an emergency warmth item for cold regions or wet survival situations
How to use this item
Use a Heat Pack
Activate a Heat Pack and keep it in your inventory to gain temporary warmth while moving.
- Find a Heat Pack in camping or hunting loot.
- Activate the Heat Pack before you need warmth.
- Place it into a normal inventory slot such as clothing or carried inventory.
- Keep moving or continue traveling while it provides heat comfort.
- Replace it after it runs out, because it becomes ruined after use.
How to get Heat Pack
- Search camping loot locations.
- Search hunting loot locations.
- Check hunting cabins, hunting stands, camps, hiking areas, and outdoor survival loot spots.
- Loot players carrying cold-weather survival supplies.
Spawn info
- • The Heat Pack is used to keep a player warm while moving.
- • It is single use and must be activated to provide warmth.
- • Once activated, it works from a normal inventory slot.
- • It takes 2 inventory slots and weighs 150 g.
- • It heats up to 80 °C for about 20 minutes.
- • After use, it becomes ruined.
- • It spawns in camping and hunting loot locations.
- • It is uncommon.
Medical notes
Risks
- • It is single use and becomes ruined after the active duration ends.
- • It must be activated before it provides warmth.
- • It does not work from attachment slots, hands, pouches, or containers.
Related symptoms
- • Cold exposure
- • Low body temperature
Prevention tips
- • Helps maintain warmth in cold weather.
- • Useful when traveling wet, cold, or far from a fire.
- • Can help reduce the risk of losing body temperature during exposure.
Important notes
- The Heat Pack is a single-use warmth item.
- It must be activated before it provides warmth.
- Once activated, it needs to be stored in a normal inventory slot.
- All normal inventory slots provide the same Heat Comfort benefit.
- The Heat Pack does not provide warmth if placed in attachable equipment such as pouches, hands, or inside a container like a Cooking Pot.
- Activated Heat Packs heat up to 80 °C for about 20 minutes.
- After the active duration ends, the Heat Pack becomes ruined.
- It is useful for cold-weather travel when you cannot stay near a fire.