Where to find Marksman Scope in DayZ
Marksman Scope is the in-game name; server files such as types.xml call it MK4Optic_Black.
On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 2 on the map and spawns more when none are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Police places. It also comes from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.
On Livonia, the economy keeps about 2 on the map and spawns more when none are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Police places, in Tier3. It also comes from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.
On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 1 on the map (min is 0). Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Special places. It also comes from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.
On Nasdara, the economy keeps about 5 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 3 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Police places. It also comes from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes.
Where to look
- Police stations (Police)
- Special spots of the map (Special)
Loot tiers: Livonia 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 |
2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Min spawns more below this |
1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 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 |
– | – | – | – |
| Places usage |
Police | Police | Special | Police |
| 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 |
yes | yes | yes | 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.
What Marksman Scope 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 and 0 (0 is pristine, 1 ruined).
Spawns on or in other items
On Chernarus, MK4Optic_Black is listed in the cfgspawnabletypes.xml entries of these items:
Scout: as an attachment, in a group with a 25% chance
Random presets
MK4Optic_Black is in these named lists in cfgrandompresets.xml, which items use with preset="…": Xmas_Optics_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="MK4Optic_Black">
<nominal>2</nominal>
<lifetime>14400</lifetime>
<restock>0</restock>
<min>1</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="1"/>
<category name="weapons"/>
<usage name="Police"/>
</type>
Change it on your server
- How much spawns and where: edit MK4Optic_Black 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: 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.
