How to configue resource spawning on a DayZ server

Last modified on 19 July 2024 in DayZ
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Spartak Itskovich

Spartak Itskovich

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Resource Spawning

Searching the DayZ private server for useful resources is a crucial process in DayZ, whether it's food, weapons, or clothing for survival in the game's hostile world. By adjusting these parameters, you can change the quantity of resources a player can find, the locations where they can be found, and the rarity of various items. This allows you to make your server more hardcore by reducing the number of items and making search locations more challenging, or vice versa, easier.

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How to Configure Resource Spawning

1) Navigate to the game panel. Stop the server in the Console section.

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2) Go to the File Manager and open the mpmissions folder.

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3) Open the folder with the map of your server. If your map is Chernarus, open the dayzOffline.chernarusplus folder; if it's Livonia, open the dayzOffline.enoch folder.

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4) Once you've opened the map folder, open the db folder inside it, then the types.xml file.

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5) In this file, you can edit the spawning of various items and resources.

types.xml file edit

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Configuring the types.xml File

Below, we provide explanations for configuring types.xml:

Lifetime The time the item will be available to players after spawning (time specified in seconds)
Restock The time required for the next spawn of this item
Cost The probability of the item spawning
Category The category where and how a particular item will spawn (conditions)
Usage The place where the item will spawn
Value The value of the item, which affects the spawning location (harder/easier)
Nominal The maximum number of items that can be on the map at one time
Min The minimum number of items on the map
QuantMin The minimum quantity of one item (e.g., the number of bullets in one box or the amount of food, medicine, etc.)
QuantMax The maximum quantity of one item (e.g., the number of bullets in one box or the amount of food, medicine, etc.)

Now you know how to configure the spawning of items and resources on your server, allowing you to make the gameplay more unique. Play with GODLIKE.

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