Which Myth surprised you the most?

*presses glasses up nose* "Um acshually If you use the new Cupid's arrow crossbow bolt you can cure Kuru."

Haha taking the burlap sack off to then get hit by a delayed flashback is a hilarious way to mess with someone you’ve robbed

Shooting the engine is NOT the only thing you can shoot to ruin the vehicle. Shooting the fuel tank will ruin the vehicle much quicker and use less ammunition.

A myth you should try is that if you repair enough items the arrow in the bottom left of your inventory with be above the needle and thread this would allow you to repair items to pristine

grenades definitely use to blow up when shot on the chest.

fishing without bait is how u get food on namalsk

Like archery, ammo condition affecting gameplay is a feature that used to be in DayZ, but was removed in the 1.0 full release. Back in v0.63, I know for a fact ammo condition did increase chances of weapon malfunction, even on a pristine weapon, with pristine mags. If I recall, badly damaged ammo had a chance of catastrophic failure where it would have a pressure spike and damage the firearm either 1 or 2 stages, meaning if you used badly damaged ammo in a damaged firearm, there was a chance a faulty round would actually ruin the firearm. We treated ammo of any quality lower than worn as pure junk, not worth risking putting in our guns. As for the fishing, I'm pretty sure you've always needed bait. It would make no sense for a fish to just bite a hook. Something that would be cool is if the fishing lure were changed to look like a minnow, frog, or maybe a spinner, as such lures IRL don't need bait applied. There is also an old rumor that I think is true, as it's happened to me on empty servers WAY back, like before v0.60, that if you vault over an object (back when you couldn't climb fences, only vault over low ones) with a loaded gun in your hands, there was a very, very, very small chance you slip, and shoot yourself with your own gun. This happened enough that some of us veteran DayZ players still stow our guns before vaulting or climbing. I don't think that mechanic has been in the game for quite some time, though.

The part about scaring wolves with torches and flares, that's true in other survival games such as The Long Dark. Maybe they'll put it in a later stage.

Once I've got a shot while aiming with Pioneer through ATOG 4x32 scope. Someone shot at me and ruined the ATOG but my head was pristine ✨

The meat one could use a little more tweaking. Pristine with food refers to if it is rotten or not so a freshly cut animal will always give pristine meat. The amount bar is what could change from usuing different quality knives or from knife to hatchet to axe.

You can use the multivitamin for a lot of other things too, prevents you from getting sick in wet and cold. Also protects you from unsafe water not just raw meat !

@RavPlays , with the ammo being damaged, it used to be a thing that damaged ammo would increase the chance of jamming which is why you used to be able to repair it, but then they removed it, also with the fishing, it used to be possible to catch fish without bait.

Great Video Rav! I am glad your back! Myth to test in future video, pull pin on flash bang, attach to your vest, run out to enemy, flash bang blinds them but not you, heard this somewhere but never tested! Cheers!

I think the myth about medication killing you dates back to when heart attacks were in the game. The mechanics behind it were really opaque and mystical, not well understood by anyone. You just kind of dropped over dead every once in a great while if you didn't have a defib and battery.

I can't imagine any of these tips will help me personally. But the attention to detail has to be applauded!

Kuru is a brain infection. Not a mental illness. So yeah having a teddy bear was obviously made up.

12ga rubber slug point blank to the head IRL would very likely be lethal. Even a paintball point blank to the temple can be lethal, given the gun is tuned to a higher pressure. Big reason why the range we played on growing up had a "no headshots within 15 feet" rule. Especially true if you run frozen paintballs to make cheaters call their hits.

I love how your somewhat showing everything the game devs seemed to of missed out

i think the grenade explodes on/in cloth just got changed. wobo tested it a year ago and it was like always a blow up

As for the bear stopping to attack you if you lay down, this is true if you put away your gun. It may still hit or kick you once, but then it will wander off.

Do some tests on mushrooms spawning in the forest. I think you can spawn mushrooms in front of you as you're passing through, so that would make them a bad indicator of nearby players.

Great video, thanks for spending the time to confirm or deny the myths. One thing concerning the condition of ammo. Today I was shooting with a pristine Welrod MK 2 without a mag and it jammed twice within a couple of shots. The bullets turned out to be badly damaged. I then opened up a fresh pack of .22 and used those bullets instead, had no more jams that session.

Good video mate, keep them coming. Grenade shooting needs more testing. It's confirmed that they explode when ruined and maybe you were shooting at pristine ones? So maybe they can take more shots just like that pistol you were shooting at? Then there's the matter of the vest, what if it protects the items inside it or attached to it as long as it's not ruined? You shoot at the vest, it gets ruined and then the grenades start taking damage. And if they were badly damaged from the start, it may be that all it takes now is one shot from a high caliber weapon. Needs more testing to be sure.

Editing the fireworks must have been fun. Hilarious. :)

It’s a myth that you have not subscribed fellow commentator

Grenade launcher nades will explode on the vest, but others won’t You 100% can catch fish without bait, did it earlier on official dayz (Xbox) the chances are, awful tho, I just sat there for half an hour talking with mates, got 1 fish quickly, second I gave up.

Grenades in clothing will DEFINITELY have a chance of exploding if you are shot - especially if the grenade is already badly damaged. Grenades in DayZ trigger the explosion when ruined (exactly the same as a propane tank), and any item in your base level clothing inventory can be damaged randomly when shot. If it so happens to be the grenade that takes the damage, and it takes enough to be ruined... well, if any buddies are standing next to you they're gonna have just as bad of a day as you are. If you want to keep yourself safe from spontaneous explodification, put your grenades in "secondary" inventories such as pouches or those yellow protection cases.

i swear doesn’t matter how many times the myth of exploding grenades in inventory is busted, ppl will still die on that hill

Bears won't stop attacking you if you lay down, -but so long as you don't damage the bear in any way- , it will only knock you unconscious and then wander away. -If you shoot the bear as it's charging you, and it knocks you out, it will deathblow you.- (Redacted - see below.)

lying down at the right moment can make the bear "miss" you.

thanks rav. the myth confirming that the chambered sporter with hunting scope is the best gun in the game was my favorite

Grenades used to explode when shot. Like you said a lot has changed and been updated over the years. The fishing with no bait only works on Namalsk. Back packs used to work as a bullet shield. Even when destroyed. They only changed that fairly recently. You can also drink dirty water if you take a vitamin first. I think it also reduces the chance of getting blood poisoning from healing with unsterile rags too.

You don't have to shoot cars to kill them. I've learned that bladed melee weapons to the car engine or gas tank on trucks take it out quickly and silently

If you punch someone with a damaged gas canister it will explode in his face

So cars trigger traps ? Lets start puttin flashbangs on traps on every road and see how many car crashes we can get :DDD

Grenades not being able to be shot on a vest is super surprising. I've had encounters that I can no longer explain...

The gas tank cover on a car or truck directly affects the engine and will ruin just as fast. I can confirm as of 1.22 but not new updates. Wobo had a vid of unpinning a flash and attaching to your vest and it would flash the user but would everyone else.

It would make sense that lying down wont stop a bear attack, because that shit doesn't work irl either. It's a myth IRL, so would make sense to be a myth in dayz too.

Armor piercing does as the name suggests! Day Z has a very complex projectile calculation system, and armor can make a huge difference in fights

What i really want to know is does a filter run out faster in gas if you're running?

Shooting grenades really should have like a 5% chance to go off. Pretty sure MythBusters did a lot of testing about it.

I have 2 myths 1° can you kill players with explosions in cars? 2° can you boil dried food?

I know for a fact around .60 alpha time you could drown, I remember laying in the ocean frequently after getting bad spawns to suicide, it was really buggy though, you had to go prone in the water and crawl until right before it would put you into a swimming animation.

Regular grenades don't explode on a vest, but M79 grenades sure do.

The vitamin trick does work to an extent,i did get sick after eating two bear steaks on a vit, so think the dosage is at play aswell.

Smokes and flashbangs will distract zombies for longer periods of time

armour piercing rounds do more damage to the armour of the player not the player themselves. except the stab vest as it ruins it in the first shot so you do more damage.

The bait one is true on Namalsk since there is no way to get bait thats probably why you thought that

Landmines, 40mm (launcher) grenades, including PO-X, and smoke variants WILL explode in your inventory when ruined or on your vest. Gas canisters will in your inventory as well, as stated. They WILL NOT if they are in plate carrier pouches OR 2 layers deep on your body. Meaning a container in a container. A pot, a first aid bag, dry bag etc…I have argued with people about the grenade thing for ages. Assuming nothing has changed without them mentioning it over several patches, you may want to test launcher grenades, landmines, canisters on you and 2 layers deep. A test I’ve never seen though is if quality of ammo degrades weapons and magazines faster. For example if 3 perfect pristine weapons and magazines fire all pristine, damaged and badly damaged ammo will the equipment go to worn, damaged etc…at the same amount of rounds?

About bears.. Once I got atacked by one, made me unconscious, but did not kill me. I heard somewhere that if you shoot at a bear, it will kill, unlike if you don't shoot.

Here's my myth ... You can pull the pin from a grenade.. quickly wrap in wrapping paper and leave as a present for someone to open and surprise! Boom

The one with eating vitamin then raw meat I had no idea about. That's actually pretty useful to know tbh!

All vests used to soak the same amount of damage on their first hit- it was subsequent hits that defined their armor quality as some would be ruined immediately while others would take multiple rounds. But yes, as I remember, vests used to all protect the player equally on the first shot.

FYI the attachments on your gun can get damaged. Had it happen to me once on my Mosin scope

Great video, btw condition of the bullets damages the gun a lot quicker, that's the only difference

2:30 The gas can does fit in a burn barrel if I recall correctly, may want to revisit that one next video. I've never thought of doing it, so I am genuinely curious, and unfortunately don't have DayZ installed right now to test it out myself.

I have now accepted the side quest “kill someone with fireworks”

I think it would be really cool if they made welding masks stop flash bangs and any other bright lights, just change it to where it just makes a lot smaller and less intense flash, I was disappointed that it didn't work lol

only thing ive heard over and over again, is that you shouldnt eat your food at once. Myth is that it fills your apple better or longer if you only eat a quarter of it at a time

For the fishing guns out, they need to just add a magnet that you can put in place of the hook simply. . . Then work an item list for in game magnet fishing. . . Like whole drysacks game generated with metallic values possibly pristine grade, etc. . .

Grenades do explode if shot on plate carriers ,but if you store em in pouches they'll be fine cause pouches are bulletproof.

wolf's can also be distracted by bones! "give a dog a bone" I suppose

Fun fact you can throw bones to distract the wolves as well!

On xbox theres a huge problem with greifers placing campfires on roads. It stops the car in it's tracks, likely killing the driver. Also, once again on xbox, you can auto load (yy) a magazine that is low ammo when you have full mags. Don't know why, or remember what update it was, but it's happened to me and a freind like 3x through 2021-2

AP 9x39 round doing the same damage as non AP is such great myth to know, they are only better for wallbangs than, i was always leaving them on the ground cause i tought they were doing less damage through armor plates

Hunting knives and kitchen knives yield the most meat per steak....btw.

I once killed a squad with a fence kit, but I used the shovel to put the posts up on a blind corner.

Tires, even if ruined, are utterly bullet proof btw.

My favourite Dayz contributor. Just dont see enough of him nowadays. My loss.

You don’t get bleed damage when you lay down when a bear attack you, it worked for me every time but I dunno if I just got really lucky.

If you punch someone with a badly damaged gass canister or grenade, shouldn't it blow you up also 🤷‍♂️ great video 🍻

The no bait on a rod has only worked in Namalsk for me

6:00 please do note that any amount of explosives in inventory will explode.

The type condition of/and type of knife effects the amount of meat you get per steak, not the amount of meat you get from the animal. It's like using the can opener versus using anything else to open canned food. Can opener=100% of food from the can versus anything else used to open reduces the amount recieved.

I caught a red herring fish on the island by kamby, on Chernarus one time. Couldn't find any reference to it online and was unfortunate enough to die shortly after catching it. I caught it on the pier by the lighthouse and have ran into other players that claim to have also caught it from fishing piers. Sadly There are lots of versions of the game now and it may not even be obtainable.

fishing with empty hook does work. Also, hitting after running allows to hit through a block

Fun fact - you can hold a plate carrier in your hands and it will deflect bullets when shot until ruined . I tested this yesterday

You should test with the other grenades like flash bangs. My friend was in a firefight and got shot(?) and something exploded like a flash and knocked him out. Scared the shit out of us.

8:29 Damaged bullets are wearing the mag out faster and therefore can make your gun jam faster

40mm Grenades do explode on Vests and Plate carriers

drowning: you can also drown by doing animation. its hard to get good angle that lets u stay in water tho

Hand Grenades don’t explode if you shoot them, However, Thumper Grenades do! That’s why you should never store them on your chest!

@ 8 minutes - you absolutely can fish without bait, we've all done it, caught fish and lived off of them on ice sheets on namalsk where there are no worms to dig up, and no fruit trees to spawn fruit anywhere.

Maybe it was just some glitch but opened dog food can really seems to attract wolf ,and gives you enough time. If you get attacked near edge of map , run out , animals can't run out of map, at least on console ps4

I have to say I've had too many vest grenades blow up upon shooting a player for it to not be true 😂. I've even been blown up by my vest grenades

You can also drown if you craft in deep enough water. You suffocate and go from full health straight to red.

In Nimalsk you can fish without bait, and I believe you can shoot gold tops on someone's vest and they explode

3:38 Shooting fireworks up his own ass to help us out....What a guy...!! 😎👍

6:45 bold of you to assume I ain’t already done that.

I wonder if the ammo condition wares the gun down quicker. That would make senses could you test this.

if Raw meet distracts wolves, do you think you attract their attention more carrying it in your pocket?

I'M not sure I'm completely right but I've watched a WOBO video on armor piercing and i think it does more damage to said plate carrier ultimately rendering the actual plate useless quicker than non armor piecing for a faster kill since the armor would be rendered useless.

Unless they updated the hitbox for fireplaces they should still stop cars. You just have to place them correctly. I still think it's dumb they removed the barrel hotbox though.

Use a fire barrel and put a jerry can in it, I swear I’ve seen them blow up but only with a fire barrel

The raw meet and vitamin is great. I heard it works with water aswell

I've heard damaged ammo increases ware on weapon, I believe shooting animal in head damaged bones and even though arrows always the same I believe better stats make your health Regen faster I've also heard codiene makes health Regen faster and I love to know what the benefits of getting your skill all the way to the needle side would do.

You can ruin a car by starting it up and letting it run with an empty radiator. I do this alot instead of shooting so I don't attract enemies as easily.

I’ve had range finder block sniper shots both with me holding it and while shooting other people. Also you you used to be able to do the vomit emote to drown yourself but they patched it bc it was linked to a glitch

My captain survived a a shot from a sniper because the binoculars stopped the bullet and I survived a sniper because my rifle slowed the bullet... still woke up with flashing health tho