Weapon Mods are very important part of improving weapon blueprints in Dying Light: The Beast. The idea is that you can customize the weapon, adding special power up critical hit effects to melee weapons, increasing the viability of weapons in the game. Alternatively, you can charge up for special effects to really make a special weapon with some on-the-spot-damage to really kill a target you’re dealing with. Throw in some charms for some added touches, and you can really build some interesting weapons. Here’s how to get all Weapon Mods and Charms in Dying Light: The Beast.
All Weapon Mods and Charms¶
Here’s all the weapon charms and weapon mod blueprints in Dying Light: The Beast. Image via Gamer Guides.
This list is currently a work in progress. We have found enough of them to make a pretty decent list you can go ahead and farm across the map or make a targeted weapon builds. If we miss any we shall update,m, but, we think we have them all.
| Mod Name | Type | Effect | Location | Map Marker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acid | Tip | Applies Toxic When Active - Activates on Charged Attack | Found inside Museum Relay Substation - Old Town South | Map Marker |
| Avalanche | Shaft | Applies Freeze on Critical Hits | Purchased from Doug, the Town Hall Vendor | Map Marker |
| Bane | Shaft | Applies Toxic on Critical Hits | Found inside Island Relay Substation - Mental Asylum, Southwest | Map Marker |
| Beast Among Us | Charm | +3% Damage (Humans) | Complete the Bait and the Beast main story mission | N/A |
| Blaze | Tip | Applies Fire When Active - Charges with Attacks, then press Hold To Activate | Requires completing Treasure Map D4, which is found by the highway safe zone. Climb to where you power that safe zone, and enter the hatch next to the power line. Climb down and get it from the table. | Map Marker |
| Catapult | Shaft | Applies Blast on Critical Hits | On top of a chimney roof on a building at the edge of the northern side of the river in the very southeast part of the main Industrial area. | Map Marker |
| Carnage | Charm | 2% Damage (1H Weapons) | On a bird’s nest right at the top of the Monument of Heroes in Villa. | Map Marker |
| Demolisher | Charm | +1% Damage Resistance | Found in a truck on a convoy along abridge leading out of Old Town | Map Marker |
| Empowerment | Grip | Applies A Passive Damage Increase | Found inside Taurus Gas Station Dark Zone - Villa Area East | Map Marker |
| Family Toy | Charm | +3% restored on healing | Where it says Taxi on the map in front of the National Gallery building in Old Town. Parkour up to the balcony near the trees and then enter through the open window. The charm is in a cabinet in one of the back rooms. | Map Marker |
| Flame | Tip | Applies Fire on Critical Hits | Found from the Old Town West Relay Substation | Map Marker |
| Flare | Charm | +3% Uncommon Craft Parts | The locations is somewhat random. They only tend to drop during the hostage scenario random encounters. So keep your eyes open for the blue markers and survivor noises out and about. | N/A |
| Fling | Tip | Applies Blast on Critical Hits | Found inside Touristic Relay Substation - Old Town East | Map Marker |
| Frost | Tip | Applies Freeze When Active - Activates on Charged Attack | Purchased from Exiles Cave Vendor | Map Marker |
| Ice | Tip | Applies Freeze When Active - Charges with Attacks, then press Hold To Activate | Complete the Precious Cargo side quest and you get it inside the container | Map Marker |
| Inferno | Shaft | Applies fire on Critical Hits | Inside a basement near a house under construction southeast from the Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant in the farmland area. The area is booby trapped with mines. | Map Marker |
| Inhibitor | Charm | +3% XP Gain | Located inside a maintenance shed while clearing out the Factory Relay Substation. Next to Slaughter mod mentioned above. | Map Marker |
| Laceration | Tip | Applies Bleed When Active - Charges with Attacks, then press Hold To Activate | Found inside Hardware Store - Old Town | Map Marker |
| Lightning | Shaft | Applies Shock on Critical Hits | Found the Recreation Island West Power Plant Safe Zone. | Map Marker |
| Lucky Duck | Charm | +5% Common Craft Parts | Inside the Vanity Dark Zone in the Villa Vale region. | Map Marker |
| Parkour | Charm | +5% Damage (Parkour) | Located on top of Chimney’s Tower Safe Spot. | Map Marker |
| Puff | Tip | Charges with attacks. Hold to Activate. Increases base weapon damage by 2% and elemental damage by 120 at base level. Very strong for elemental builds | Head to the hose directly south of the Nate Market on the northern side of Old Town, which lines up on the road that goes east to the church. Climb to the roof and check the safe code in the bedroom. The coee is 15 22 40. | Map Marker |
| Reinforcement | Grip | Increases Durability Permanently | Found inside Taurus Gas Station Dark Zone - Industrial Zone West | Map Marker |
| Slaughter | Shaft | Applies Bleed on Critical Hits | Found inside Factory Relay - Industrial Zone North | Map Marker |
| Slit | Tip | Applies Bleed on Critical Hits | Found inside Hardware Store - Industrial Zone West | Map Marker |
| Spark | Tip | Applies Shock on Critical Hits | Found inside Inn Safe Zone | Map Marker |
| Survivor Wish | Charm | -3% Stamina Cost (Melee Weapons) | Inside a small cabin to the right of the Abandoned Safe House in the National Park. You need to smash the boarded up window to enter the small cabin. | Map Marker |
| The Real Beast | Charm | 5% Stamina Regeneration on kills. | Acquired for completing the final main story mission, The Last Supper. | N/A |
| Volatile | Charm | 2% Damage (Melee Weapons) | Located in a room, in the Villa area. Requires entering via a locked key. Note it is kinda bugged so it needs to be patched. There’s a few wall clips you can do but its hard to do. | Map Marker |
| Venom | Tip | Applies Venom on Critical Hits | Buy from the Jenna, the Exiles Cave vendor. Requires Main story progression to grab. | Map Marker |
| Voltage | Tip | Applies Shock When Active - Charges with Attacks, then press Hold To Activate | Found inside Mega Store America Dark Zone - Old Town | Map Marker |
Upgrading Weapons Mods¶
(1 of 2) Here’s the before example of an non upgraded weapon mod in Dying Light: The Beast. Image via Gamer Guides / Techland.
Here’s the before example of an non upgraded weapon mod in Dying Light: The Beast. Image via Gamer Guides / Techland. (left), Here’s the after example of the puff weapon mod in Dying Light: The Beast. Image via Gamer Guides / Techland. (right)
If you go to a workbench and head over to the weapons tab, you can then select the mods menu at the bottom. Here, you can upgrade your weapon mods. These add better stats to the mods themselves, increasing their elemental power, elemental duration, physical weapon damage, if it is charge perk then it lowers the hits needed, typically by 4. If its a crit mod then it increases the critical hit chance by 1% each level.
Note that upgrading them will require the same mats used to craft them, alongside the appropriate level Field Manual Pages. So, you may need to do some Dark Zone farming. The vast majority, if not all will need Oxidizers too, so make sure to farm them to get a fully kitted out weapon.
Best Weapon Mods and Charms¶
In terms of the best weapon mods, we are big fans of the following:
- Slit
- Laceration
- Fling
- Puff
The main thing with Slit and Laceration is that thy are bleed focused weapon mods. These are really good, especially for really tough enemies like Chimeras and Special Infected. Getting one of the big guys to bleed out is a dramatic increase in DPS.
Fling is another favorite of ours. This when it crits really helps burst bigger enemies down if you’re not into the bleed build. It is also handy for pretty much one shotting some of the medium health special infected like Suiciders, Chargers, and other larger durability Biters. Combine it with Catapult and the critical hits with the explosions can do some massive burst damage to bosses too with heavy attack crits.
Puff is one of the best weapon mods, thanks to its charged up effect for greatly improving elemental damage. Activate it and then go crazy on your hits to get those super juicy elemental critical hits..
On the other hand, bleeding on armored opponents doesn’t work out too well. Instead, the fire damage or the toxic damage ones are better as they can be a consistent damage build up on top of the armor.
If you want something that is great at fighting hordes of enemies, then the lightning themed mods are the best. These things tend to ark, and if you are near water sources or metal, it conducts the lightning. Take the Voltage and the Spark modifiers for some strong AOE. Pair it with the final Combat skill as well, which does a 360 spin cleave attack with your melee weapon to really start a chain lightning attack with a strong crit or activation when using this weapon for some extremely strong damage output.
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