Increasing spawn rates for items on your DayZ server

DayZ decides how much of each item spawns with its Central Economy. The amounts are in types.xml, in the db folder of the mission your server runs. This guide raises the number of shovels on the map. The same steps work for any item.

Find your mission folder

Each map has its own mission folder in mpmissions, with its own types.xml:

Map	Mission folder
Chernarus	dayzOffline.chernarusplus
Livonia	dayzOffline.enoch
Sakhal	dayzOffline.sakhal
Badlands	dayzOffline.nasdara

The Map card on the Overview tab shows which map your server runs. A community map has its own mission folder.

Edit types.xml

1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your server.
2. Select the Files tab.
3. Open mpmissions, then your mission folder (for example dayzOffline.chernarusplus), then db.
4. Before you change anything, open the ⋯ menu of types.xml and select Make a copy. If something goes wrong, you can go back to the copy.
5. Open the ⋯ menu of types.xml again and select Download.
6. Open the file in a text editor on your computer, such as Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code, and search for the item, for example name="Shovel".
7. Change the values (see below) and save the file.
8. Back on the Files tab, in the same db folder, select Upload and choose your edited types.xml.
9. Restart the server. The server reads types.xml when it starts.

info

The standard types.xml is larger than 1 MB, so the dashboard's editor can't open it. Download and upload it as above, or edit it over SFTP. See Files and SFTP. If your mission uses a smaller file, you can select it to edit it directly in the dashboard.

Check your XML before you restart: a missing closing tag in types.xml can stop items from spawning. Editors like Visual Studio Code highlight such mistakes.

Item values

Each item in types.xml is a <type> block. The shovel looks like this (values differ between maps and game versions):

<type name="Shovel">
    <nominal>50</nominal>
    <lifetime>14400</lifetime>
    <restock>0</restock>
    <min>35</min>
    <quantmin>-1</quantmin>
    <quantmax>-1</quantmax>
    <cost>100</cost>
    <flags count_in_cargo="0" count_in_hoarder="0" count_in_map="1" count_in_player="0" crafted="0" deloot="0"/>
    <category name="tools"/>
    <tag name="floor"/>
    <usage name="Industrial"/>
    <usage name="Farm"/>
    <value name="Tier2"/>
    <value name="Tier3"/>
    <value name="Tier4"/>
</type>

Value	What it does
nominal	How many of this item the server tries to keep on the map.
min	When fewer than this many are on the map, the server spawns more, up to nominal.
lifetime	Seconds an item stays in the world before it despawns, if nobody touches it.
restock	Seconds the server waits before it spawns more after the count drops below min. 0 spawns them gradually.
quantmin, quantmax	How full an item spawns, in percent, for example the bullets in an ammo box or the water in a bottle. -1 means the item has no quantity.
cost	Spawn priority. Usually 100; leave it as it is.
flags	Which copies count toward nominal: in containers (count_in_cargo), in tents and stashes (count_in_hoarder), on the map (count_in_map) and on players (count_in_player). crafted marks items that are only crafted, deloot items from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.
category	The item's category, such as weapons, tools, containers or clothes.
usage	The kind of places it spawns in, such as Farm, Industrial, Medic or Hunting.
value	The map tiers it spawns in, from Tier1 near the coast to Tier4 deep inland.

Spawn more of an item

To get more shovels, raise nominal and min. For example, change nominal from 50 to 100 and min from 35 to 70. Keep min lower than or equal to nominal.

Large increases put more items in the world, which can slow the server down. Raise values a little at a time.

tip

To undo your changes, delete the edited types.xml, rename your copy back to types.xml and restart the server. You can also restore a backup.

If you have questions, open a support ticket.