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Where to find Boxed 9x39mm Armor-Piercing Rounds in DayZ

Boxed 9x39mm Armor-Piercing Rounds is the in-game name; server files such as types.xml call it AmmoBox_9x39AP_20Rnd.

On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 5 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 Tier4.

On Livonia, the economy keeps about 5 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.

On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 12 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 9 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places.

On Nasdara, the economy keeps about 5 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.

Where to look

  • Military bases, camps and checkpoints (Military)
  • Inside, it lies on shelves and tables.

Loot tiers: Chernarus Tier4. 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
5 5 12 5
Min
spawns more below this
2 2 9 2
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
– – – –
Places
usage
Military Military Military Military
Tiers
value
Tier4 – – –
Spot
tag
– – shelves –
Counts
towards nominal
count_in_map count_in_map count_in_map count_in_map
Crafted no no no no
Event loot
deloot
no 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.

Spawns on or in other items

On Chernarus, AmmoBox_9x39AP_20Rnd is listed in the cfgspawnabletypes.xml entries of these items:

  • AmmoBox: as cargo, in a group with a 10% chance
  • AmmoBox: as cargo, in a group with a 10% chance

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="AmmoBox_9x39AP_20Rnd">
    <nominal>5</nominal>
    <lifetime>28800</lifetime>
    <restock>0</restock>
    <min>2</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="weapons"/>
    <usage name="Military"/>
    <value name="Tier4"/>
</type>

Change it on your server

Everything else that spawns there: Chernarus loot list, Livonia 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.