DayZ Kolt 1911 (Colt1911) Spawn Locations & Tiers

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Where to find Kolt 1911 in DayZ

Kolt 1911 is the in-game name; server files such as types.xml call it Colt1911.

On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 26 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 22 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places, in Tier1 and Tier2.

On Livonia, the economy keeps about 35 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 32 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places, in Tier1.

On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 34 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 28 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places, in Tier1 and Tier2.

On Nasdara, the economy keeps about 65 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 55 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places, in Tier1 and Tier2.

Where to look

Military bases, camps and checkpoints (Military)

Loot tiers: Chernarus Tier1, Tier2, Livonia Tier1, Sakhal Tier1, Tier2 and Nasdara Tier1, Tier2. Tier1 is near the coast and Tier4 deep inland, so a higher tier means a longer trip.

types.xml values on each map

	Chernarus	Livonia	Sakhal	Nasdara
Nominal how many it aims to keep	26	35	34	65
Min spawns more below this	22	32	28	55
Lifetime untouched, before it despawns	4 h	4 h	4 h	4 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	Tier1, Tier2	Tier1	Tier1, Tier2	Tier1, Tier2
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	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.

What Kolt 1911 spawns with

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

Chernarus (same on Livonia)

Attachments, 5% chance: PistolSuppressor (1)
Attachments, 25% chance: Mag_1911_7Rnd (1)

Sakhal

Attachments, 5% chance: PistolSuppressor (1)
Attachments, 30% chance: Mag_1911_7Rnd (1)

Nasdara

Spawns with damage between 0.25 and 0.5 (0 is pristine, 1 ruined).
Attachments, 5% chance: PistolSuppressor (1)
Attachments, 60% chance: Mag_1911_7Rnd (1)

Random presets

Colt1911 is in these named lists in cfgrandompresets.xml, which items use with preset="…": Xmas_Weapons_Medium.

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="Colt1911">
    <nominal>26</nominal>
    <lifetime>14400</lifetime>
    <restock>0</restock>
    <min>22</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="0"/>
    <category name="weapons"/>
    <usage name="Military"/>
    <value name="Tier1"/>
    <value name="Tier2"/>
</type>

Change it on your server

How much spawns and where: edit Colt1911 in types.xml with 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.

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.

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