Stack composer

Started from Astral Deathmatch | FFA | NWAF | Modded: the 12 mods it publishes to the Steam server browser (as of 2026-10-21), put back into load order — servers publish the list last-loaded first. Mods loaded with -servermod= are never published, so they are not here; add them if you know them.

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Your stack in load order, earliest first. Drag a row, or use the arrows, to reorder.

2 of 12 mods not analyzed yet — left out of the composition below. Open a mod's page to request its analysis.

Stall risks

7 in hot hooks

File I/O on hot paths, timers created per event, and per-player-per-frame hooks across the stack. These can stall a frame regardless of the load figure. See all 7 below.

Mods silencing mods

3 conflicts

Across 44 server-side methods hooked by two or more mods. 2 more on client-only UI classes, listed separately.

Structural load

0.35% of a frame at 100 players

3.505 ms per second, all 10 mods combined. Hook dispatch and timers only — not what the hooks do inside. Methodology.

Who silences whom#

A later-loaded mod overrides a method without super(), so the earlier mod's code on that method — and vanilla's — never runs. Whether that is a bug or the whole point of the mod is the author's call; this shows the structure, not intent.

3 methods across 2 pairs. Read across: the mod on the left silences the mod at the top. Both in load order. 1 2–4 5–14 15+ methods

silences →	1CF	9AJs Weapons	all
4DayZ-Expansion-Core	1DayZ-Expansion-Core silences CF 1 method: 1 value		1
10Tactical Flava		2Tactical Flava silences AJs Weapons 2 methods: 2 checks	2
all	1	2	3
7Astral DM Server Pack	Not analyzed, so what it silences is unknown. Queue it in the list above.
8Astral Liscense	Not analyzed, so what it silences is unknown. Queue it in the list above.

The 2 pairs, largest first# ·

Tactical FlavasilencesAJs Weapons2 methods

AKM_Base.CanReceiveAttachment check · T2 AJs Weapons's conditions on this check no longer apply. For AKM_Base instances, through its ancestor Weapon_Base. script_a.pbo::Scripts\4_World\Weapons\Firearms\AKM_Vanilla.c:20 M4A1_Base.CanReceiveAttachment check · T2 AJs Weapons's conditions on this check no longer apply. For M4A1_Base instances, through its ancestor Weapon_Base. script_a.pbo::Scripts\4_World\Weapons\Firearms\Vanilla_M4.c:21

DayZ-Expansion-CoresilencesCF1 method

NotificationRuntimeData.GetIcon value CF's value here is replaced. core_scripts.pbo::3_Game\DayZExpansion_Core\Client\Notifications\NotificationRuntimeData.c:29

2 conflicts on client-only classes (menus, HUD, notifications) — no server effect

NotificationSystem.GetNotificationData — DayZ-Expansion-Core silences CF
NotificationSystem.GetNotificationData — DayZ-Expansion-Core silences Dabs Framework

Hot hooks shared across the stack#

The engine calls the last-loaded mod first; each super() hands on to the mod before it, ending at vanilla. Badges show what each mod's override calls inside — that body work, not the chain itself, is what costs frame time.

DayZGame.OnUpdate

every server frame

DayZ-Expansion-Core sometimes stops here then VPPAdminTools then CF then vanilla

ZombieBase.CommandHandler

every frame, per active instance

Tactical Flava then DayZ-Expansion-Core then vanilla

PlayerBase.EEItemAttached

every inventory move

Forward Operator Gear then Tactical Flava then vanilla

PlayerBase.EEItemDetached

every inventory move

Forward Operator Gear then Tactical Flava then vanilla

DayZGame.OnRPC

per event

DayZ-Expansion-Core sometimes stops here then VPPAdminTools sometimes stops here then Dabs Framework then CF sometimes stops here then vanilla

PlayerBase.CanReceiveAttachment

per event

Forward Operator Gear sometimes stops here then Tactical Flava sometimes stops here then vanilla

PlayerBase.OnVariablesSynchronized

per event

Tactical Flava then VPPAdminTools then vanilla

PlayerBase.SetActions

per event

DayZ-Expansion-Core then VPPAdminTools then vanilla

Weapon_Base.SetActions

per event

Tactical Flava then AJs Weapons then vanilla

ZombieBase.OnVariablesSynchronized

per event

Tactical Flava then DayZ-Expansion-Core then vanilla

Stall risks#

7 places where one mod's code can hold up a frame by itself, whatever the load figure says. Each is a pattern found in the code, not a measurement: how much it costs depends on what the hook does inside. Most severe first, then in load order.

Per-player, per-frame hook. Runs for every player on every tick, so whatever it does inside is multiplied by the population.

VPPAdminTools

PlayerBase.CommandHandler

about 30× per player per second