Improvised Shelter
An Improvised Shelter is a crafted shelter in DayZ that provides 100 slots of temporary storage and protection from the elements. It is built from a deployed Shelter Kit, 4 Long Wooden Sticks, and 50 Short Sticks.
Quick item summary
Quick answer
The Improvised Shelter is a crafted shelter made mostly from sticks. It is useful for temporary camps, hidden stashes, and early survival storage because it provides 100 slots without needing tarps, leather, or a full tent.
In-game description
“Simple wooden construction covered with sticks and conifer. Provides temporary storage and protection from the elements.”
Main Uses
- Store up to 100 slots of items
- Create a temporary camp or hidden stash
- Protect stored items from the elements
- Build a shelter without needing tarps or tanned leather
- Use as an early improvised base-storage option
- Unpack later when empty if you need to move camp
How to use this item
Build an Improvised Shelter
Deploy a Shelter Kit on even ground, then attach Long Wooden Sticks and Short Sticks to build the Improvised Shelter.
- Deploy a Shelter Kit on even ground.
- Attach 4 Long Wooden Sticks to the shelter site.
- Attach 50 Short Sticks.
- Interact with the shelter site until construction is complete.
- Use the finished shelter for temporary storage and protection.
Use as temporary storage
The Improvised Shelter provides 100 slots of storage, making it useful for small camps, hidden loot spots, and temporary bases.
View related guideHide it in brush
The finished Improvised Shelter is naturally harder to see in bushy environments, making it useful for hidden camps.
View related guideUnpack the shelter
You can unpack the shelter while it is empty, but you will not recover every resource used to craft it.
View related guideHow to get Improvised Shelter
- Craft it by deploying a Shelter Kit and attaching the required materials.
- Collect 4 Long Wooden Sticks.
- Collect 50 Short Sticks.
- Build it on even ground where the shelter placement is valid.
- Look for existing shelters at abandoned camps or player bases.
Spawn info
- • Improvised Shelters must be crafted.
- • They are built from a Shelter Kit, Long Wooden Sticks, and Short Sticks.
- • The wiki lists rarity as N/A because the item is crafted rather than a normal loot spawn.
Important notes
- The Improvised Shelter provides 100 slots of storage.
- It has 7 days of persistence.
- It must be crafted from a deployed Shelter Kit.
- It requires 4 Long Wooden Sticks and 50 Short Sticks.
- It provides temporary storage and protection from the elements.
- The finished shelter is quite hard to see in bushy environments.
- You may need to interact with the shelter site multiple times before construction is complete.
- You can unpack it only while it is empty.
- Unpacking the shelter leaves it in a pile on the ground.
- When unpacking, you lose about 10 Short Sticks and 1 Long Wooden Stick.