Where to find Filtering Bottle in DayZ
Filtering Bottle is the in-game name; server files such as types.xml call it FilteringBottle.
On Chernarus, FilteringBottle does not spawn as random loot (nominal 0).
On Livonia, FilteringBottle does not spawn as random loot (nominal 0).
On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 1 on the map (min is 0). Each one lasts 2 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Medic places, in Tier3.
On Nasdara, FilteringBottle does not spawn as random loot (nominal 0).
Where to look
- Hospitals and medical buildings (Medic)
Loot tiers: Sakhal Tier3. 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 |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Min spawns more below this |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lifetime untouched, before it despawns |
2 h | 2 h | 2 h | 2 h |
| Restock wait before respawning |
0 | 0 | 30 min | 0 |
| Quantity how full it spawns |
– | – | – | – |
| Places usage |
– | – | Medic | – |
| Tiers value |
– | – | 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 |
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 Filtering Bottle spawns with
From cfgspawnabletypes.xml: each group spawns with its chance, and one of its items is picked.
Chernarus (same on Livonia, Sakhal and Nasdara)
- Spawns with damage between 0.1 and 0.1 (0 is pristine, 1 ruined).
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="FilteringBottle">
<nominal>0</nominal>
<lifetime>7200</lifetime>
<restock>0</restock>
<min>0</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"/>
</type>
Change it on your server
- How much spawns and where: edit FilteringBottle 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.
Everything else that spawns there: Sakhal 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.
