Summary

  • Dying Light: Definitive Edition includes 26 DLC packs and offers a long-lasting experience for new and returning players, making it the ultimate version of the game.
  • The best blueprints in Dying Light can enhance player survivability, with effects such as toxic and bleeding, electricity and burning, and damage boosts.
  • Players can find and use various blueprints, including Poison Blast, Tesla Shield, Burning Throwing Stars, and God Hammer.

Dying Light: Definitive Edition boasts an array of content for both new players and returning ones. Since Dying Light came onto the scenes in 2015, fans have adored the long life provided to the game by the developers at Techland. Dying Light: Definitive Edition is the finale, the legacy of the first game in one complete package.

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Since Dying Light: Definitive Edition comes with the 26 DLC packs of the original game, there are plenty of blueprints for players to find and use. Due to the high amount, players might wonder which ones are the best, and ones that are worth investing in.

Updated on March 23, 2023, by Jake Fillery: Dying Light features an arsenal of weapons that can be upgraded and enhanced into zombie-killing devices thanks to the best blueprints. Discovering blueprints, and having the necessary materials can be hard, but they are well worth the aggravation to obtain, due to the fact that they exhibit great power, with some, even featuring unique effects not seen anywhere else. Dying Light's best blueprints can often provide a grand advantage over the overwhelming hordes, and here's a bundle of ones to look out for when navigating and parkouring through Harran.

14 Stasis Field Projector

A Throwable Item That Suspends Targets In The Air, Before Pulling Them To The Ground

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  • Location: Old Town, poke the pink Teddy inside the kindergarten
  • Rarity: Orange
  • Effects: Freeze Targets

Materials

Weapon Requirements (Only One Needed)

  • Glowing Mushroom (20)
  • Alcohol (1)
  • None

A rather strange blueprint, but a powerful one, the Stasis Field Projector is unlocked through an easter egg, in which players must be on the "Rupert the Gunsmith" side quest. Traveling to the northeast side of Old Town, players can enter a school to repeatedly poke a pink teddy bear, and when it explodes, the blueprints will be theirs. The blueprint itself is able to freeze zombies in place, such as Demolishers, Goons, Volatiles, and Toads. It's also strong enough to kill bombers and infected children, and works perfectly for Biters, Virals, and Night Walkers, allowing players to keep them suspended in the air for vulnerable targets or a quick escape.

13 Bolter Poison

Apply Strong Toxic Effects To Melee Weapons

dr zere providing Bolter Poison
  • Location: give Bolter Tissue samples to Dr. Zere in "The Siblings" Main Story Quest
  • Rarity: Orange
  • Effects: Toxic (Strong)

Materials

Weapon Requirements (Only One Needed)

  • Herb (4)
  • Underwater Algae (4)
  • Bolter Tissue (1)
  • Melee Weapons

Compliment the power of a weapon with Bolter Poison, a modification obtained through a blueprint, which will add a strong version of the Toxic status to any given melee weapon. This effect can be deadly in the right hands and will make sure to keep undead hordes at bay with every swing, allowing players more breathing room thanks to the quick and powerful effects of toxicity. Yet, there are alternative weapons and effects that can see superior results.

12 Stamina Booster

Gives Players Unlimited Stamina For 45 Seconds

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  • Location: Unlock The Boosters Survival Skill
  • Rarity: Orange
  • Effects: Receive unlimited stamina for 45 Seconds

Materials

Weapon Requirements (Only One Needed)

  • Herbs (2)
  • Alcohol (1)
  • None

There's nothing worse than being in an intense fight against the hordes of enemies that can attack players in Harran, only to become exhausted and run out of stamina, meaning no melee weapon swinging until recovery. Thanks to the Stamina Booster, players can negate this loss, and experience unlimited stamina for both running and melee attacks, ensuring their movement and combat abilities are at the top of their game. It's affordable, effective, and always worth carrying.

11 Speed Booster

Provides Players With A Temporary Speed Boost

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  • Location: Unlocked through the Boosters Survival Skill
  • Rarity: Orange
  • Effects: Sprint faster for 45 seconds

Materials

Weapon Requirements (Only One Needed)

  • Herbs (2)
  • Toxic Lichen (4)
  • None

Speed is the key to survival when trying to avoid hostile soldiers and hungry undead, and the Speed Booster is the perfect concoction for that. Through the right Survival skills, players can unlock the Speed Booster and even the Booster XL skill to add additional time to their speed boost.

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However, it's worth noting that the materials can be rather rare and expensive, and once players enjoy the intense speeds of this drug, they won't want to go back to normal sprint speeds, especially when they can easily outrun enemies and complete parkour encounters with ease.

10 Poison Blast

Applies Medium Bleeding & Toxic Effects On Axes, Pickaxes, & Sledgehammers

poison dart blueprint in dying light
  • Location: Old Town, within an abandoned truck
  • Rarity: Orange
  • Effects: Toxic (Medium), Bleeding (Medium)

Materials

Weapon Requirements (Only One Needed)

  • Metal Parts (2)
  • Alcohol (1)
  • Nails (1)
  • Blade (2)
  • Electronics (1)
  • Axe
  • Pickaxe
  • Sledgehammer

The Poison Blast modification is a blueprint that can be applied to axes, pickaxes, and sledgehammers. The application of Poison Blast will provide the player with a deadly weapon that has medium effects of both toxic and bleeding, specific to a two-handed weapon.

This blueprint can be found in Old Town. It is located by a white truck that isn’t carrying anything and has a side compartment with the modification inside.

9 Tesla Shield

Block Enemy Attacks & Electrocute Those Who Try

shield versus demolisher in dying light
  • Location: Unlock Shield Crafting Skill
  • Rarity: Grey
  • Effects: Blocks incoming damage

Materials

Effects

  • Metal Parts (2)
  • Duct Tape (2)
  • Batteries (2)
  • Power Cable (1)
  • Blocks incoming damage

Despite having a grey rarity, the Tesla Shield is certainly more useful than it may seem. After unlocking the Shield Crafting Skill, players will be able to stop the hordes from trying to take chunks of flesh from their skin. Not only can it block attacks, but its special effect electrocutes enemies when activated, allowing players to take a quick breather and regain space against their enemies.

8 Burning Throwing Stars

A Throwable Weapon With A Sharp Burn

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  • Location: Purchase Elemental Throwing Stars skill
  • Rarity: Green
  • Effects: Burns hit enemies

Materials

Effects

  • Blade (1)
  • Gauze (1)
  • Aerosol (1)
  • Will burn hit enemies
  • 25 damage per hit

What makes Burning Throwing Stars so effective, is how cheap they are to craft, and the large quantity players receive upon crafting. These stars travel at a fast speed and are great at making short work of enemies, alive or dead. Not to mention, they burn any enemy that it hits. It's a great thing to love about Dying Light.

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The special effect of the Burning Throwing Stars makes it well worth the journey to get it. Players must unlock the Elemental Throwing Stars skill, and then they will be able to set anyone ablaze with one throw.

7 Volatile Hunter Baton

A Melee Weapon To Electrify & Burn

volatile hunter pack
  • Location: Volatile Hunter DLC
  • Rarity: Green
  • Effects: Electricity (Medium), Burning (Medium)

Materials

Weapon Requirements (Only One Needed)

  • Metal Parts (2)
  • Chemicals (2)
  • Electronics (1)
  • Bat
  • Crowbar
  • Hammer
  • Hatchet
  • Military Shovel
  • Pick
  • Police Baton
  • Wrench

What makes the Volatile Hunter Baton such a great blueprint is its accessibility. With Dying Light: Definitive Edition, the Volatile Hunter Baton will be available right at the beginning, thanks to it being part of a DLC pack. It applies medium electricity and burning effects to the following items: picks, hatchets, crowbars, wrenches, bats, police batons, hammers, and military shovels.

This blueprint can be a great starting modification for new players. It can be used on a multitude of many different weapon types, and also doesn’t require a lot of tools to craft.

6 Leaping Tiger Dao

A Sharp Weapon Which Receives Extended Damage Bonuses For Consecutive Hit

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  • Location: Shu Warrior Bundle DLC
  • Rarity: Blue
  • Effects: Damage booster with consecutive hits

Materials

Weapon Requirements (Only One Needed)

  • Metal Parts (4)
  • String (2)
  • Blade (3)
  • Short Sword
  • Long Knife
  • Scythe
  • Machete
  • Rais's Machete
  • Tahir's Weapon
  • Sickle
  • Blade
  • Cleaver

As part of the Shu Warrior Bundle DLC, the Leaping Tiger Dao blueprint will be available at the start of the game for Dying Light: Definitive Edition players. This modification doesn’t add any elemental effects, but this comes as a great alternative. The Leaping Tiger Dao gives players a damage boost after successful consecutive hits.

5 Medkits

Restore 100 Health With Ease

medkit found in dying light
  • Location: Obtained during the tutorial
  • Prerequisite: Complete Pact With Rais
  • Effects: Restore 100 health

Materials

Effects

  • Alcohol (1)
  • Gauze (1)
  • Restore 100 health

Although weaponry is an absolute necessity for survival in Dying Light’s harsh world of monsters consisting of both humans and infected, being able to fight the hordes would be useless if the player is dead. This is why the medkit craftable utility is a useful blueprint.

Players can also take the Skill “Crafting Expertise” to craft 2 medkits at once instead of just 1. By continuing to craft medkits, players will ensure their survival.