How to Make Rope in Dayz

Rope is one of the most crucial pieces of equipment in DayZ. You can find it, craft it, use it, and craft with it.

It can help you get food, deal with other survivors, secure your base, and expand your inventory space.

Before we get into its multiple uses, let’s go over the rope crafting process. If you don’t want to search for rope, or you just can’t find it, crafting it may be the easier option.

There are two ways to make rope in DayZ, but let’s start with the most popular.

How to Make Rope in DayZ?

If you don’t want to or don’t have the time to harvest rope, you can craft it using rags. Use your knife to cut rags out of any fabric you find, like tablecloths, clothes, etc.

Create two stacks with a minimum of six rags in each.

1. Place one stack of rags in your hands.
   
2. Drag the other stack of rags over the ‘’Combine’’ box.
   
3. Press the Left Mouse Button, or whatever key you’ve assigned to the Combine action.
   
4. Hold until the animation ends.
   
5. Take the rope from the Vicinity tab.
   

You can then use the rope in other crafting recipes, or use it to restrain people when you don’t have handcuffs.

How to Make Rope in DayZ on Xbox?

Crafting rope is the same across all platforms. For example, this is how you do it on an Xbox:

1. Take six rags in your hands.
2. Drag the other stack of rags over the Combine box.
3. Press and hold the ‘’B’’ Button on your controller.
4. Hold until the animation ends.
5. Take the rope from the Vicinity tab.

How to Make Rope in DayZ on PS4?

Nothing changes on PS4 when it comes to making rope, except the button you have to press to combine the two rag stacks.

1. Take a stack of six rags in your hands.
2. Drag the other stack of six rags over the Combine box.
3. Press and hold the Circle Button on your controller.
4. Hold until the animation ends.
5. Take the rope from the Vicinity tab.

How to Make Rope in DayZ With Guts?

You don’t need a big stack of guts to make improvised rope in DayZ, but you will need at least one, and a knife.

1. Take the guts from your bag into your hands.
   
2. Select the knife and drag it into the Combine box.
   
3. Hit the assigned Combine button to make improvised rope.
   
4. The crafted item will look the same as generated rope, and you can take it from the Vicinity tab to use in other crafting recipes.
   

You can also make rope from guts on the ground.

1. Highlight the guts.
   
2. Don’t take them in your inventory.
3. With a knife equipped, select the Craft Rope recipe.
   
4. Press and hold the assigned Combine button.
   

Keep in mind that you can get two types of guts in DayZ –  small guts and large guts. You can only craft large guts from other survivors and large animals into rope.

Killed infected offer large guts as loot too.

Pro tip – Although you can’t eat guts or cook them as they’ll make you sick, you can still heat them. Heated guts are great when low on resources if you want to stay warm during the winter season. Keeping heated guts in your backpack while taking multivitamins may help prevent you from catching a cold.

How to Get Rope in DayZ When You’re Out of Guts?

If you do a lot of hunting and killing in DayZ, you can build a hefty supply of guts. Cutting guts with a knife will allow you to make rope.

But what if you’re not an aggressive player?

Well, you can also easily make rope from rags by combining two stacks of six rags each into improvised rope.

However, since rope is such an important item, crafting is not the only way to get it. When you’re out of guts or rags, you can also loot rope.

It has multiple spawning locations such as farms, camping sites, residential areas, and supermarkets, among others. It’s a relatively common material that shouldn’t take long to either craft or find in large quantities.

Did you know that the game has two types of rope? Basic, simple rope is what you find and collect in various areas in the game while the rope you craft is called improvised rope. Both types look the same when used or when in the inventory.

Additional FAQs

How Does Crafting Work in DayZ?

Crafting is one of the core functions of the game. Survivors can craft a wide range of items using two or more crafting materials.

It’s possible to do this in one’s inventory when dragging the base crafting items over another and selecting the Combine option.

You can also craft items on the ground or in your hands. Some players craft on the ground when they lack inventory space.

No crafting is instant, and some recipes take longer than others to complete.

It’s interesting to note that some combinations of items can create various outcomes. Therefore, it’s important to cycle through the recipe list until you find the result you need.

The game also indicates what items can be used together. When an item dragged over another display yellow or orange, they can be used in some recipes together.

What Is Rope Used for in DayZ?

Rope is a kind of equipment with multiple uses in DayZ. It’s mostly used by survivors in crafting recipes for fence kits, fishing rods, and backpacks.

It also provides a rudimentary means to restrain other survivors if the player doesn’t have access to handcuffs. You can tie opposing survivors’ wrists and prohibit them from using objects.

While the restrained player can’t free themselves, someone else can use a knife to cut the rope off.

How Do You Make a Backpack in DayZ?

A backpack, or an improvised backpack (as it is named in the game), is one of the most important early-game items in the game. You’ll need it to store more crafting materials, ammo, edible goods, and so on.

To make your first backpack, you need three crafting materials: wooden sticks, rope, and a burlap sack. You can harvest sticks and rope from bushes or find them in various warehouses, supermarkets, and other residential and commercial areas in the game.

You can also craft sticks from larger pieces of wood. To find a burlap sack, you should explore sheds and warehouses, as well as industrial areas. Although rope is a naturally occurring item in the game, you can also craft it from rags or guts.

The crafting process is as follows, on all platforms:

1. Drag the burlap sack from your inventory and put it on the ground.

2. Take the rope from your bag and drag it over the burlap sack.

3. From the actions list, select to craft the improvised courier bag.

4. Leave the bag on the ground.

5. Drag your wooden sticks over the courier bag and choose the recipe for the improvised backpack.

6. Take the backpack and equip it to get extra inventory slots and storage space.

Note that you can also make a leather improvised backpack. The crafting process is identical with one small exception – instead of a burlap sack, you need a wild boar pelt. Go hunting and replace the sack with the pelt in the previous recipe.

A leather backpack gives you five additional inventory slots from the standard 20 slots of the regular backpack.

Keep Practicing Your Crafting

You can’t go for too long in DayZ without crafting something. Everything has an expiration date or a purpose, so you always have to keep making new items.

Rope is one of those essential items with multiple uses and one of the items you need for other essential equipment. We recommend using guts as often as you can when crafting rope.

Rags work great too, but you need more of them, and they also have their uses in other recipes, including medical items such as splints or bandages.

Let us know how often you use rope for restraining purposes. Everyone crafts with rope but not that many survivors bother restraining others. Do you enjoy immobilizing survivors and making the game harder for them? Share with us your thoughts in the comments section below.