DayZ 1.26 Update 1 Update Patch Notes

DayZ has been around for several years and seems like it received quite good reviews from the gaming committee. The developer and publisher Bohemia Interactive keeps the game alive thanks to regular patches. A while ago a new version kicked out and does the same thing as previous ones. Check out DayZ 1.26 Update 1 update patch notes down below.

DayZ 1.26 Update 1 Update Patch Notes

PC Stable 1.26 Update 1 – Version 1.26.158898 (Release on 15.10.2024)

NOTES

Consider using the Steam client option to verify the integrity of the local game cache to avoid corrupted data after downloading this update.
Consider de-fragmenting your HDD after downloading large updates.
In case of problems, please check the Bohemia Interactive support F.A.Q., DayZ F.A.Q., or BattlEye F.A.Q.
You can help us to further improve the game by posting your feedback on the Feedback Tracker.

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
Heavy Metal Poisoning
Bushlat Jacket
Sherpa Hat

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
Authentication for official game servers
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

FIXED

In 1st person view, the characters shadow cast by dynamic lights did not have a head (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158144)
The character could get stuck in falling animation when cornered by infected (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T173675, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T173952, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177664)
After killing an entity with a bolt, cancelling the reload of that bolt through “Load round” would result in the bolt disappearing (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T174854)
New firewood would not be visually reflected in the fireplace after it went to ashes for the first time (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177432)
It was not possible to gather firewood from one variant of hornbeam trees
The jammed state of weapons could get falsely displayed when moving the weapon into vicinity
The Zenit radio station was outputting radio communication, while it is only intended for input
Vegetation was bent by wind stronger at specific angles
The speed of the wind did not properly affect its sounds
Fixed several gestures that could be abused to hide large weapons
Cutting a flag attached to a flag pole into rags would glitch the flag pole (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179035)
It was possible to clip weapons through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178620)
The stamina bar was visible when inside a vehicle (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169545)
Vehicles were missing sounds for failed startup (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177537)
The meat tenderizer and hammer were missing their sounds when building base objects (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179254, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179271)
When in the Exit menu from the main menu, pressing ESC did not close it
Characters could desynchronize when attempting to sit in the same car seat simultaneously
The player character was not properly turning in the main menu (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T180967)
Wheels of vehicles would occasionally spin faster than they should (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167606)
Inventory items should no longer flicker when at near memory limits (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T181570 – private)
Volumetric fog should now be consistent across different view distance settings
It was not possible to bandage a player who is sitting in a vehicle
Fixed an exploit that allowed movement of an unconscious character
Fixed an instance of desynchronized weapon ammunition status
The “Previously played” filter in the PC client server browser
Voice range icon did not appear when pressing voice range up/down keys
Unloading multiple types of ammo into an inventory with limited space would result in surplus ammo types being changed (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179946 – private)
It was not possible to remove the car battery from the Field Transciever (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T181638)
Rebuilding a fence after it being destroyed would not update collisions until the nexty server restart (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T181962 – private)
Some sunglasses were not visible in hands in first person view (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156564)
When holding NVG goggles in your hand, they could be misplaced while looking through them (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T173863)
The pill icon would never disappear again after taking two pills in quick succession (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T182138)
Fixed visual appearance of damaged and ruined ghillie set pieces

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
Renamed “bad” insulation to “worst” for better understanding
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 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

Fixed: Consistency in connect and disconnect admin log message (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178772)
Fixed: Suiciding with a melee weapon would result in inconsistent log messages (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T174730, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178771)
Fixed: When lowering or raising flags, some of them were logged incorrectly as Flag_base (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178827)
Fixed: The tripwire trap was not logged properly in the ADM log when placed (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T174730, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T175403, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T177005, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178210)
Fixed: ADM log printed inconsistent quotation marks and redundant source when killed by a grenade (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T174730, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T176477)
Fixed: adminLogPLayerHitOnly server parameter was not working correctly (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179862)
Fixed: Ping approximation methods of PlayerIdentity should now work as intended on the server (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T178130)
Fixed: Linux server would freeze or crash when scripts fail to compile
Changed: Restock values in types.xml will now trigger in between singular spawns instead of only at the end of spawning from min to nominal
Changed: Restock values in types.xml will now also additionally trigger once count goes under min
Changed: Restock timer on types will now be saved to carry over between server restarts in case it was ticking down
Changed: Attempting to start a server with ShardIds 000 – 099 will prevent the server from starting up, as those are reserved for official servers
Changed: Ambient spawner: Number of spawned entities computing
Changed: Ambient spawner: The ranges and zone mechanics – activating, deactivating, cooldown
Tweaked: !Workshop folder no longer gets created if Launcher is running in Proton operating system

LAUNCHER

Added: Launcher now verifies all official servers before displaying them

MODDING

Added: ‘CGame.ReloadShape’ to reload an objects p3d through script (diag only)
Added: Support for NoiseSystemParams::shotVolExponent in Infected.hpp config file, which affects volume fall off shots heard by infected
Added: Diag Menu: “Enfusion World > Bullet > Simulation” to pause and step through physics simulation
Added: GetAimingHandsOffsetLR, GetAimingHandsOffsetUD script API
Added: Ability to define a texture layer with a certain projection vector into Multi and Super shader (documentation coming soon, Adam Franců)
Added: Script functions IsPointInPolygon, IsPointInPolygonXZ, IsPointInTriangleXZ, TriangleWindingXZ
Added: Exposed various getters for Car wheel contact
Added: Configuration of the sea – parameters MaxTide and MaxWave in cfgWorlds. Diag menu option to set the sea level to maximum or minimum
Added: Script function GetAdditionalHealthTypes
Added: CGame.SurfaceGetSeaLevelMin() and CGame.SurfaceGetSeaLevelMax()
Added: dBodyGetWorldTransform and dBodyGetDirectWorldTransform to EnPhysics
Added: ‘Human.PhysicsGetPositionLS’ and ‘Human.PhysicsGetPositionWS’
Added: Config entry ‘animPhysDetachSpeed’ for any entity with dynamic physics, a zero-value means the player will not stay on the entity, any positive non-zero value means the player will stay on the entity until that speed (m/s) is reached, then the player will slide backwards
Added: “SurfaceInfo.GetByName” and “SurfaceInfo.GetByFile” to directly get the SurfaceInfo
Added: Partial implementation of ‘animPhysDetachSpeed’ for static objects (such as House), the player will never slide
Added: ‘Pawn.ForceCorrection’ for forcing network corrections to the owner
Fixed: ‘DbgUI.SliderFloat’ not accepting inputs or rendering
Fixed: A bug that could be abused to obfuscate files
Fixed: EntityOverlapSingleBullet had incorrect parameter count
Fixed: FindFile script method did not handle the pattern correctly on linux (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T179707)
Fixed: FileMode.WRITE was not truncating the file on Linux (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T180210)
Fixed: ‘Human.PhysicsGetPositionWS’ and ‘Human.PhysicsGetRotationWS’ would ignore enfusion parent
Fixed: ‘DayZPlayer.SetDirection’ would only set the players direction after they had moved
Fixed: EEHitBy events were not being fired after entity is destroyed/killed
Changed: Vertex limit in a single p3d model has been increased from 32 thousand to 65 thousand – requires binarize.exe in DayZ Tools to be updated to take advantage, which will occur later
Changed: The vehicle UI has been refactored to allow for more extendability. In the current version (1.26), both the old and new solution are present to give time for mods which would use the vehicle UI scripts to change to the new version without pressure. With version 1.27, the old solution will be removed completely. By default, the old UI solution is used. In order to switch to the new version, run the game with startup parameter -scrDef=VEH_UI_REFACTOR. The relevant changes are present within IngameHud.c
Changed: SurfaceGetType(3D) now returns the Y position the surface was found
Changed: Tree and grass material property `perlinDirAffection` will now have square reduction of its magnitude below the value of 0.5, resolving some visual noise of trees and grass
Changed: Clutter generation speed has been significantly increased on higher cell size terrains
Changed: Surfaces can now define a ‘stepParticle’ and ‘wheelParticle’
Changed: Some minor documentation improvements around physics getters for Human
Changed: ‘Human.PhysicsGetTransformWS’ now returns the true world space with enfusion hierarchy
Changed: Roadways no longer create physics for dynamic objects
Tweaked: Debug shots trace now outputs speed of projectile upon exiting a surface

TERRAIN BUILDER

Added: Template library filtering
Fixed: Export Shapes to Imagery functionality now continues to work even after invalid path is specified
Fixed: Renaming an object/shape layer works now, instead of creating a new layer
Tweaked: “Remove + Delete from HDD” from Object layer window has been replaced with “Remove” option which does NOT delete the corresponding file
Tweaked: Removed various unused options from Terrain -> Preferences
Tweaked: Generate layers process has been optimized and is now faster
Tweaked: Improvements to the mass conversion of PNG to PAA for layers (you can select parallel conversion)

KNOWN ISSUES

The server browser might not display servers – a fix is in the works – THIS CAN BE SOLVED BY RESETTING FILTERS
Respawning from unconscious might result in disconnect from the server
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
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