JONI Sakhal HARDCORE WINTER

JONI Sakhal HARDCORE WINTER

A small survival pack built for a hardcore winter Sakhal server. No new guns, no traders, no shortcuts - just more ways to scrape by in the cold: better bags, field cooking, foraging, a few rare medical items, and a couple of mechanics that make carelessness cost you.

Everything in this pack loads from a single mod folder and is signed with one key, so players only need one subscription.

What's inside

Backpacks and carry gear

• Camel Backpack - large 9x7 pack. Black, Green, Tan, Woodland Camo, MultiCamo, Winter Camo.
• Military Backpack - 7x6. Black, Green, Tan, Woodland Camo, MultiCamo, Winter Camo.
• Treker Bag - 7x6 hiking pack. Yellow, Green, Red, Black, Blue.
• The Lone Wanderer's Backpack - 6x7. Eight colours.
• Carry Rig and Knife Sheath (Black, Green, Tan) for the back of your belt.
• Camo canteens, Smersh bags and plate-carrier holsters in Green, Black, Tan, Woodland, MultiCamo and Winter Camo.
• Hatchets, machetes and knives can be carried on the new gear instead of eating inventory space.

Foraging

• New Forage action on the ground. Depending on the surface you may turn up a wooden stick, a small stone, or birch / oak bark. Slow, never guaranteed - but it can save your first night.

Cooking on a stick

• Skewer food on a long wooden stick and cook it over any fire, in repeating 30-second steps, without a pot or pan.
• Sticks are fragile (8 hitpoints) - they wear out, so you will keep making new ones.

Field medicine

• Blood Injector and Health Injector, each with a stronger "+" version.
• Devil's Serum and Nectar of the Gods - rare, powerful, meant to be top-tier finds.
• Soup and Mutant Soup.
• New recipe: Psilocybe mushroom + Syringe = anti-psychotic syringe. This recipe needs the mod Kuru2Shrooms - Better use for Brain Disease (the result item comes from it).

Consequences

• Ruined clothing spills its contents. When a jacket, pants or pack is ruined, everything inside drops to the ground with a tearing sound. Look after your gear.
• Whistle. Players can whistle. Your friends hear it - and so do the infected (it makes as much noise as a gunshot-type event). Settings are written to the server profile folder Buddys_Whistle.

Compatibility fixes (new)

The pack now repairs a few things other mods broke on current DayZ. These are small config patches - no files from those mods are included.

• Weapons Overhaul - the BK-43 double-barrel ("MP-43E"), its sawed-off version, both "Dark" skins and the pistol suppressor were invisible (a hidden selection without a texture). They render again.
• BoomLay's Things - furniture kits, plants, lamps and the cable reel always showed as Pristine, whatever their real health. They now show Worn / Damaged / Badly damaged like everything else.
• DayZ Horse and DayZ-Dog - same fix for the saddle, bridle, dog collars and dog gas mask.

Required mods

Because a patch has to load after the mod it fixes, these are now required - the server will not start without them:

• Weapons Overhaul
• BoomLay's Things
• DayZ Horse
• DayZ-Dog

Optional: Kuru2Shrooms - Better use for Brain Disease (only for the anti-psychotic recipe).

For server owners

• Load it like any other mod (-mod=@JONI Sakhal HARDCORE WINTER) and copy the key from the mod's Keys folder into your server's keys folder.
• No types.xml is included - nothing spawns until you add entries. Class names:
• [list]
• Bags: Spur_CamelBag_Black / _Green / _Tan / _WoodlandCamo / _MultiCamo / _WinterCamo; Spur_MilBag_ (same six); Spur_Treker_Yellow / _Green / _Red / _Black / _Blue; Spur_LW_Bag_Black / _Blue / _Brown / _Green / _Grey / _Orange / _Purple / _Red
• Gear: Spur_CarryRig; Spur_KnifeSheath_Black / _Green / _Tan; Canteen_Spur_, SmershBag_Spur_, PlateCarrierHolster_Spur_ + Green / Black / Tan / WoodlandCamo / MultiCamo / WinterCamo
• Medical: BloodInjF, BloodInjSW, BloodInjPlus, BloodInjPlusW, HealthInjF, HealthInjSW, HealthInjPlus, HealthInjPlusF, SieroDelDiavolo, NettareDegliDei
• Food (cooked / crafted, leave at nominal 0): Zuppa, ZuppaTushkano

[*]Suggested placement for a hardcore economy: hiking bags in Town / Village / Hunting; military and camel bags, canteens, Smersh bags and holsters in Military Tier 3-4; sheaths and the carry rig in Hunting; injectors in Medic buildings (the "+" versions Tier 3-4 only); the two serums Medic Tier 4. One of each on the map is plenty. [*]The pack changes a few vanilla items (canteen, plate-carrier holster, hatchet, machetes, long and sharpened sticks). Mods that edit the same items may conflict. [*]Built and tested on DayZ 1.29, Sakhal. It does not depend on the map. [/list]

Changelog

• 2026-09-20 - added compatibility fixes for Weapons Overhaul (invisible BK-43 / pistol suppressor), BoomLay's Things, DayZ Horse and DayZ-Dog (items always shown as Pristine). Those four mods are now required.
• 2026-09-20 - first public release.

Credits

This is a server pack. The work belongs to the original authors - please go and rate their mods: