On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 25 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 13 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places.
On Livonia, the economy keeps about 15 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 10 are left, after waiting 3 min. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places.
On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 45 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 37 are left, after waiting 3 min. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places.
types.xml values on each map
| Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal how many it aims to keep |
25 | 15 | 45 |
| Min spawns more below this |
13 | 10 | 37 |
| Lifetime untouched, before it despawns |
8 h | 8 h | 8 h |
| Restock wait before respawning |
0 | 3 min | 3 min |
| Quantity how full it spawns |
10–25% | 10–20% | 10–20% |
| Places usage |
Military | Military | Military |
| Tiers value |
– | – | – |
| Spot tag |
shelves | shelves | shelves |
| Counts towards nominal |
count_in_map | count_in_map | count_in_map |
| Crafted | no | no | no |
| Event loot deloot |
no | 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.
Random presets
Ammo_545x39 is in these named lists in cfgrandompresets.xml, which items use with preset="…": ammoPolice.
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="Ammo_545x39">
<nominal>25</nominal>
<lifetime>28800</lifetime>
<restock>0</restock>
<min>13</min>
<quantmin>10</quantmin>
<quantmax>25</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="weapons"/>
<tag name="shelves"/>
<usage name="Military"/>
</type>
Change it on your server
- How much spawns and where: edit Ammo_545x39 in
types.xmlwith the types.xml Editor. - What it spawns with: build a new entry with the cfgspawnabletypes Generator.
- Where the files are: DayZ mission folders. Changes apply after a restart.
Values from Bohemia's public DayZ-Central-Economy files (commit 9a21bb9, 2026-08-13). Servers can change all of them, so a community server may differ.
