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Where to find KA-74 in DayZ

KA-74 is the in-game name; server files such as types.xml call it AK74.

On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 6 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 4 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places. It also comes from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.

On Livonia, AK74 does not spawn as random loot (nominal 0). It can still come from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.

On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 4 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 2 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places, in Tier3.

On Nasdara, the economy keeps about 6 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 4 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places, in Tier3.

Where to look

  • Military bases, camps and checkpoints (Military)

Loot tiers: Sakhal Tier3 and Nasdara Tier3. Tier1 is near the coast and Tier4 deep inland, so a higher tier means a longer trip.

types.xml values on each map

ChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Nominal
how many it aims to keep		 6 0 4 6
Min
spawns more below this		 4 0 2 4
Lifetime
untouched, before it despawns		 8 h 8 h 8 h 8 h
Restock
wait before respawning		 0 0 0 0
Quantity
how full it spawns		 30–80% 30–80% 30–80% 30–80%
Places
usage		 Military Military Military Military
Tiers
value		 – – Tier3 Tier3
Spot
tag		 – – – –
Counts
towards nominal		 count_in_map count_in_map count_in_map count_in_map
Crafted no no no no
Event loot
deloot		 yes yes no no

Tier1 is near the coast and Tier4 deep inland. "Counts" lists where copies count towards nominal: count_in_map means copies lying in the world, count_in_cargo in containers, count_in_hoarder in tents, barrels and stashes, count_in_player on players. Every value is explained in DayZ types.xml explained.

What KA-74 spawns with

From cfgspawnabletypes.xml: each group spawns with its chance, and one of its items is picked.

Chernarus (same on Livonia)

Sakhal

Nasdara

The vanilla types.xml entry

As in Bohemia's Chernarus file. Paste it into your own types.xml to restore the default, or change it with the free types.xml Editor.

<type name="AK74">
    <nominal>6</nominal>
    <lifetime>28800</lifetime>
    <restock>0</restock>
    <min>4</min>
    <quantmin>30</quantmin>
    <quantmax>80</quantmax>
    <cost>100</cost>
    <flags count_in_cargo="0" count_in_hoarder="0" count_in_map="1" count_in_player="0" crafted="0" deloot="1"/>
    <category name="weapons"/>
    <usage name="Military"/>
</type>

Change it on your server

Everything else that spawns there: Chernarus loot list, Sakhal loot list and Nasdara loot list.

Values from Bohemia's public DayZ-Central-Economy files (commit f220b29, 2026-10-16). Servers can change all of them, so a community server may differ.