Characteristics
- Category
- Attire
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 300
- Craftable
- No
- Researchable
- No
- Bullet protection
- 35%
- Explosion protection
- 20%
Overview
A standard issue military ballstic vest. Worn, used, and dirty, but highly protective.
The evening a crate hands you one is the evening it goes on. The vest skips the leather problem entirely, because nobody crafts it: the page lists high quality metal and sewing kits at a Level 3 bench, but the game files say it cannot be crafted or researched at all. Every vest comes from loot, recycling or trade.
| Chest piece | How you get it | Durability |
|---|---|---|
| Ballistic vest | Loot only | 300 |
| Metal chest plate | Level 3: 18 HQM, 50 leather, 8 sewing kits | 360 |
| Road sign jacket | Level 2: 20 leather, 2 road signs, 2 sewing kits | 500 |
Read the last column twice. The vest wears out first, and when it is gone you cannot rebuild it. The game calls it highly protective, so it is a fine find, but a vest you lose at Launch Site stays lost until the next lucky crate.
So plan your kits around the chest plate, which you can learn and craft again after every death. The vest is a bonus for the evening the hunters are offline and the leather box is empty.
Protection
-
Bullet
35% -
Arrow
34% -
Stab
20% -
Slash
30% -
Blunt
40% -
Explosion
20% -
Cold exposure
-20% -
Bite
20%
- Chest
- Stomach
- Arms
- Hands
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
