On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 6 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 4 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places. It also comes from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.
On Livonia, the economy keeps about 8 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 6 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Military places, in Tier3.
On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 10 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 8 are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Special places. It also comes from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.
types.xml values on each map
| Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal how many it aims to keep |
6 | 8 | 10 |
| Min spawns more below this |
4 | 6 | 8 |
| Lifetime untouched, before it despawns |
8 h | 8 h | 8 h |
| Restock wait before respawning |
0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quantity how full it spawns |
5–50% | 5–50% | 5–50% |
| Places usage |
Military | Military | Special |
| Tiers value |
– | Tier3 | – |
| Spot tag |
– | – | – |
| Counts towards nominal |
count_in_map | count_in_map | count_in_map |
| Crafted | no | no | no |
| Event loot deloot |
yes | no | yes |
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, Mag_CMAG_30Rnd is listed in the cfgspawnabletypes.xml entries of these items:
M4A1: as an attachment, in a group with a 10% chanceM16A2: as an attachment, 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="Mag_CMAG_30Rnd">
<nominal>6</nominal>
<lifetime>28800</lifetime>
<restock>0</restock>
<min>4</min>
<quantmin>5</quantmin>
<quantmax>50</quantmax>
<cost>100</cost>
<flags count_in_cargo="0" count_in_hoarder="0" count_in_map="1" count_in_player="0" crafted="0" deloot="1"/>
<category name="weapons"/>
<usage name="Military"/>
</type>
Change it on your server
- How much spawns and where: edit Mag_CMAG_30Rnd 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.
