Gauges | Interface DayZ - ArmA 2 mod Guide

TEMPERATURE

Normal temperature in DayZ is represented by a full thermometer. If it falls below 35, your body will start to cool down (the camera will shake and the thermometer blink) and you will become more subject to infections (resulting in coughing and lower blood level). In order to raise you temperature, you need to use a heatpack, sit by a fire or spend some time inside a building.

THIRST

When the water level in your body starts to fall, the icon will change from green to deep red. When you're close to complete dehydration, the icon will start flashing. Total dehydration will result in death. You can replenish it by drinking canned drinks or water bottles.

BLOOD

Normally the icon should be green. If there's a white cross flashing on it, it means that you're bleeding and have to use bandages to stop the bleed. The more blood you lose the more red the icon will become. Blood can be regenerated by eating meat and canned beans.

HUNGER

This works similarly to thirst. In order to avoid death by starvation, you need to eat canned food or coked meat.

SHOCK

This status (for now) doesn't have a large influence. If you log out with it on, your character will be unconscious for a couple minutes after you log back on.

BROKEN BONES

Apart from bleeding, it's one of the most dangerous states at which your character can be. With a broken bone you can only crawl and need morphine to heal.

LOUDNESS / VISIBILITY

Two of the most important items. Monitoring them will soon become something you do almost subconsciously. How much noise you make and how visible you are determines whether the nearby zombies will notice you. The slower you move, the less noise you make. The closer to the ground you move, the less visible you are. Slowly crawling (hold down shift) will make you almost invisible which will let you avoid confronting Zeds. Of course other players can still see you, though it will be much harder if you're in tall grass.

DEBUG MONITOR

In this window you will find the statistics of your character and the server. The most important information here is your blood level (i.e. you health). More on blood in further chapters.

Another important information in the monitor is the Humanity gauge which increases or decreases depending on whether you kill "good" or "bad" players and help others. If your humanity level gets high or low enough, you your character's outfit will change to either "hero" or "bandit".

WEAPON GAUGE

Here you can see the name of the currently used weapon, chosen shooting mode and ammunition (loaded and in backup clips)