How to Craft and Use a Splint in DayZ

Falls, gunshots, and bad decisions around ladders can all leave your DayZ character with a fracture. When the Broken Bone icon appears, movement becomes a problem fast. A splint will not make you sprint immediately, but it cuts the recovery time enough to be worth carrying the materials.

DayZ Splint Recipes

A splint can be crafted with any one of these three recipes:

• 4x Rags
• 3x Wooden Stick

Or:

• 1x 100% Bandage
• 3x Wooden Stick

Or:

• 1x 10% Duct Tape
• 3x Wooden Stick

Rags and bandages must be clean before using them for a splint. Dirty rags or bandages can cause wound infections, which turns one medical problem into two. DayZ is generous like that.

A crafted Splint uses eight inventory slots (2x4 tiles). It weighs 540g (1.19lb) and has 30% absorbency.

How to Apply a Splint

Find cover before treating the fracture. Applying a splint takes long enough for infected or players to interrupt you, and limping away mid-treatment is rarely elegant.

Open your inventory, place the splint in your hands, then hold the Action or Use button for 10 seconds. Wait until the on-screen circle completes. If danger appears, you can release the button and move before the action finishes.

Once applied, the splint heals the fracture in about 20 minutes. During recovery, you still cannot run or jump. You can climb over smaller obstacles such as low ledges and garden fences.

Use the downtime carefully. Fishing, warming up by a fire for the heat buff, or hiding until the bone heals are all better ideas than chasing infected at night.

A splint is not strictly required for fractures, but healing without one takes at least 34 minutes, even with maximum health, blood, energy, and hydration.