DayZ 1.20 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 1.20 update patch notes down below.

DayZ 1.20 Update Patch Notes

PC Stable 1.20 Update 1 – Version 1.20.155766 (Released on 14.02.2023)

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.

GAME

ADDED

Mime masks
Carnival masks
Warning icons for the connection stability and server performance

FIXED

Changing stances could result in desynchronization blocking access to ADS and shooting (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168720, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159299, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169162, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169657, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169837, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169986)
The M1025 engine was not stopping properly when RPM went to 0 (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167763)
Quick gear shifting could result in desync (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168431)
Fixed further exploits to glitch the camera through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T170057 – private)
Hitboxes of items in characters hands were misplaced (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168891)
It was possible to place items inside the stairs of the yellow church (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167358)
When approaching a restrained player with binding materials, the non-functional option was shown to restrain the player again
It was possible to commit suicide with ruined firearms (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160975)
Carp, Mackerel, Chicken and Rabbit were always yielding 100% pieces of meat when skinned
Character sounds when picking up heavy items were not played for the player themself (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167931)
Drink sounds were not played when drinking from pots or cauldrons while prone
Impact sound of items when landing in water was repeating itself
It was possible to shave characters while having their face covered
Equipped belts were not accumulating wetness
Explosives could not be armed reliably (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168007)
Reduced instances of vehicle access being prohibited due to another user already interacting with it
Fixed several broken character animations while restrained in prone
Improved damage zones of the M1025
M1025 trunk bars did not move correctly with the model (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168594)
Sound of taking the SSG 82 magazine was doubled while prone
The player could get stuck in throwing stance
During combat with infected, the player’s position could get reset to a previous infected kill (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T167694, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168690 – private)
ADS sensitivity wasn’t properly applied in all cases (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165015, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165855)
Jumping while having a gag applied or removed could desync the player
Manipulation of heavy items allowed players to access items through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169133 – private)
It was not possible to cover/uncover a characters head while they are prone
It was possible to be force fed while wearing a gas mask (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160486 – private)
The character could teleport to the roof of their seat if an object was at the height of the door (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164360)
Inventory icon of the deployed spotlight was badly cropped
Filling a gasoline canister at a pond could result in desync (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168967)
Items were interfering with the character collision when dropped from gift boxes upon their destruction
Other players could not hear the sound of a locked door being opened (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T163131)
Using the quick bar while moving items in the inventory could result in desync
Some twin doors could not be closed (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160737)
Several twin gates were not properly aligned to open in the same direction (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158950)
Some twin gates could not be opened by force when locked (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T159534)
VOIP did not work after reconnecting the microphone (PC ONLY)
It was possible to access certain underwater locations
Portable maps could display wrong map features when switching between servers running different terrains
Fixed character collision shape shifting causing clipping through structures
It was possible to skip certain parts of the soda can opening animation (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T138370 – private)
The character collision shape would not adjust when falling into water
Switching between 1st and 3rd person camera could result in a distorted character (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T162688, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T162468, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T162412, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164586)
The head-torch with the yellow light did not update its light location in all cases
Orientation of the light on the weapon flashlight was pointing forward when shouldered (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165114)
Chemlight on ground models of utility bags not lighting from the correct position
A climbing player was able to phase through objects during the landing state (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164706 – private)
The player could be teleported to the world origin when climbing (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T166375 – private)
Smoke grenades wouldn’t show smoke outside of the players near distance network bubble
Doors could have their animations and sounds played when reconnecting
Previously felled trees would play their fall-animation upon reconnect
Other players and creatures could be stuck in a permanent frozen animation state if they were to die while the client is being logged in
Grass did not move with the wind on the tenement buildings
Bear traps could hit the player in multiple zones
The M3S truck was missing a sound related to high RPM
Reversing lights of the M3S truck did not emit light
Reversing lights did shine even when the engine was off
Stamina was not decreasing during jogging in deep water
Fixed several issues with individual buildings
Fixed bad rendering of specific trees
Source of the car horn sound was not properly located in 3rd person view
The Santa infected did not scream while attacking
Placing certain items would play the place sound twice (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156577)
Dropping the wooden cooking tripod would make metal sounds
The unloading sound and bullet animation of the Longhorn were not in sync
The dry fire sound of the Derringer was too quiet while prone
Fixed several exploits used to look through walls (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168561 – private)
An exploit allowed to repair car parts to the pristine state
It was possible to repair vehicle engines while they were running
Certain scopes allowed to look through the smoke from smoke grenades (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T141155)
The M1025 driver was accessing the wrong lever when switching gears
Damaged Santa’s hats looked pristine while worn
The Claymore mine explosion did not have the proper volume when the player was facing away
Opened food cans did not fit properly into the inventory UI (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T157660)
Respawning from unconscious state could result in a black screen (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169330)
It was possible to deploy the spotlight using the drop action
The Gunter 2 did not have sounds when removing and attaching wheels
Large clusters of rocks and cliffs could result in in client performance drops
Manual transmission from vehicles could get desynced when changed too quickly (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168465)
Stealth-killing infected with rifle bayonets could result in a glitch
Player corpses had collisions after committing suicide
Vehicle horn sounds would fix to a specific position (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169863, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169862)
The player collision was conflicting with vehicles while sitting in them
It was not possible to pull corpses from vehicles
It was possible to prevent dehydration through non-hydrating food (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168824)
Reduced the chance of getting desynced in doors by running through them while closing (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T170121)
It was possible to stack the ammo box and dry bag indefinitely (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T170051)
Howling of wolves was not synchronized for all players (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160845)

CHANGED

Vehicles can spawn without wheels again
Wheels can again be damaged
Reduced the eye zoom distance while sprinting
Reworked item weight calculation (fixing several bugged item weights)
Item wetness now influences their weight again
Weight of the carried gear now impacts player movement inertia
Increased the time needed to refill the car radiator
Checking a player’s pulse is now a continuous action
Increased the lifetime of improvised explosives to 5 days, which can be refreshed through a flagpole
The stairs of the concrete silos are now usable to access the roof
Adjusted the geometry of barrels and fireplaces to cause less issues when colliding with vehicles
Improved the surface detection for throwing impact sounds
Optimized the character update to environmental exposure
Lowered the hit points of improvised feet covers and gave them louder walking sounds (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169140 – private)
Positional wind and tree creaks are more audible now
Tweaked the 3rd person camera collisions to reduce possibilities of exploits
The 3rd person camera zooms in when an obstacle is in front of the camera
Disconnect due to a server restart will no longer kill restrained players
Updated map textures to reflect recent map changes (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T163844)
You can now stealth-kill with the Cleaver
Replaced outdated dirt pile model
Updated textures on static pipes
Updated sounds for the different stages of cooking for more variety
Slightly increased the volume of the stealth kill
Improved the sun reflection on water and changed its color in quarries
Skinned animals now yield more pieces of meat

CHERNARUS

Fixed: Green and black plate carrier vests and their attachments did not have their intended lifetimes (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168947)
Tweaked: Increased chance for random positional bird, insect and tree creak sound to play
Tweaked: Increased audibility of the positional bird sounds during windy weather
Changed: Adjusted player spawn points for more even distribution
LIVONIA
Added: Artwork of the winner of the GraffitiZ contest
Added: New props to the Dambog ammunition storage
Fixed: The Brena Health Care Center was not spawning paramedic infected (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168337)
FixedPolice cars were not spawning loot

SERVER

Added: Server config parameters for connectivity warnings (Documentation)
Added: Gameplay JSON version mismatch and default value handling
Added: Parameter to gameplay config (JSON), that allows people to disable the behavior of influence of stamina to inertia (Documentation to be updated soon)
Added: Parameters to gameplay config (JSON) that allows control over variety of stamina consumers (combat, climbing,..) (Documentation to be updated soon)
Added: Launch parameter “storage” to define root folder for storage location (“-storage=”) (Documentation)
Added: Functionality which will copy over storage when a storage exists in default location (mission) but not in the custom location provided by the storage launch parameter
Added: Warning when DE spawns an entity with no Types entry
Fixed: Sawedoff18 was missing from types
Fixed: Deleting events.bin but not vehicles.bin would cause events composed of eventgroups to have the possibility to spawn inside each other
Changed: Improved error messages and error handling regarding storage location
Changed: Adjusted ping calculation to be more forgiving with individual spikes before kicking a player

MODDING

Added: DiagMenu script API
Added: Variety of new debug settings within the script section of the DiagMenu
Added: ScriptCaller, a stricter ScriptInvoker which is expected to hold one func
Added: DayZPlayer.GetKickOffReason to get the reason why a player was kicked off
Added: ‘EntityAI.IsSimpleHiddenSelectionVisible’
Added: Common script class ‘DayZCreatureAIInputController’ to control Animals and Infected movement and behaviour states
Added: Script method ‘InventoryItem::ForceFarBubble’ to allow items to temporarily be visible from further distances
Added: Added physics function ‘dGetInteractionLayer’ to check if two ‘PhxInteractionLayers’ can interact
Added: Collision overlap testing methods to DayZPhysics
Added: “$storage:” prefix can now be used to access storage through script
Added: Common script class ‘DayZCreatureAIInputController’ to control Animals and Infected movement and behaviour states (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T158984)
Added: Launch parameter for diag exe to allow window resizing ‘-resizeable’
Added: weightPerQuantityUnit config parameter that defines a weight of one quantity unit
Added: ‘Human.PhysicsEnableGravity’ for enabling/disabling gravity
Added: ‘dBodyIsSolid’ (and ‘Human.PhysicsIsSolid’) for checking if the entity has collision enabled
Added: ‘dBodySetSolid (and ‘Human.PhysicsSetSolid’) for enabling/disabling the collision checking of an entity
Added: Command line parameter ‘-scrDef’ to enable modding defines in script in Workbench/Diag executables
Added: Command Line option ‘-newErrorsAreWarnings’ to Diag/Workbench executables
Fixed: Buldozer crashing after selecting an object which was deleted and restored (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169650)
Fixed: Base game script defines weren’t available in ‘engine’ and ‘gameLib’ script modules (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169907)
Fixed: Character influences the wheel simulation of a vehicle (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168870)
Fixed: On Diag exe, when one player’s hands got bloody, all nearby player’s hands would as well
Fixed: Conflicting synchronization of entity hierarchy with ‘IEntity.AddChild’ and ‘Human.LinkToLocalSpaceOf’
Fixed: ‘CollisionOverlapCallback’ destructor wasn’t being called
Fixed: Docs: string.Split bad usage example (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154855)
Fixed: Docs: string.ToAscii bad script declaration and typo in example (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T160003)
Fixed: Function string.LastIndexOf was not linked (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T155602)
Fixed: Object::SetHealth could not be called on local objects (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T168604)
Fixed: Crash in TextListboxWidget::GetItemData (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T154626)
Fixed: ScriptCallQueue.GetRemainingTime(…) methods
Fixed: HumanInputController.OverrideAimChangeY was incorrectly using values from HumanInputController.OverrideAimChangeX (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T151736)
Fixed: DayZPhysics.RayCastBullet and DayZPhysics.SphereCastBullet would not pass the ‘hitObject’ (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T150488)
Fixed: ScriptCallQueue stopped working correctly after 4-5 hours of uptime (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T156746, https://feedback.bistudio.com/T151279)
Fixed: Scripted command method ‘PrePhys_IsTag’ would not work in the intended way (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165933)
Changed: Moved and renamed certain RPCs relating to Diags to prevent conflicts and usage outside of Diag
Changed: ScriptInvoker now has additional flags and documentation
Changed: New compile errors will be displayed as Warnings outside of Diag/Workbench to minimize impact on existing mods
Changed: New compile Errors being displayed as Warnings will contain the text “FIX-ME” to signal the importance of fixing these
Changed: Improved func reliability and error messages
Changed: “Overriding function but not marked as override” has been changed from being a “Workbench-only warning” to an error in Workbench/Diag and Warning in regular exe
Changed: Weapon chamber and internal magazine changes now also trigger EntityAI.EEAmmoChanged
Changed: Weapon and magazine textures now contain the bullet for better optimization
Tweaked: Widget::GetRotation exposed
Tweaked: return type of ActionBase::IsEat (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T169770)
Removed: Incorrect usage of ‘func’ by NotificationSystem as it is only meant to be paired with proto functions, will unfortunately break compatibility with mods using the removed Bind and Unbind functions
Removed: Calling of super of Engine events (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T164047)