CowboyHat_darkBrown is one colour of CowboyHat_black. The values are usually the same for every colour; see that page for the full list.
On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 20 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 15 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Farm, Village and Hunting places, in Tier2, Tier3 and Tier4.
On Livonia, the economy keeps about 12 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 5 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Farm and Village places.
On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 3 on the map and spawns more when none are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Farm and Village places, in Tier1 and Tier2.
types.xml values on each map
| Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal how many it aims to keep |
20 | 12 | 3 |
| Min spawns more below this |
15 | 5 | 1 |
| Lifetime untouched, before it despawns |
4 h | 4 h | 4 h |
| Restock wait before respawning |
0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quantity how full it spawns |
– | – | – |
| Places usage |
Farm, Village, Hunting | Farm, Village | Farm, Village |
| Tiers value |
Tier2, Tier3, Tier4 | – | Tier1, Tier2 |
| Spot tag |
– | – | – |
| 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.
Other colours
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="CowboyHat_darkBrown">
<nominal>20</nominal>
<lifetime>14400</lifetime>
<restock>0</restock>
<min>15</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="clothes"/>
<usage name="Farm"/>
<usage name="Village"/>
<usage name="Hunting"/>
<value name="Tier2"/>
<value name="Tier3"/>
<value name="Tier4"/>
</type>
Change it on your server
- How much spawns and where: edit CowboyHat_darkBrown 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.
