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Where to find Pioneer in DayZ

Pioneer is the in-game name; server files such as types.xml call it Scout.

On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 1 on the map and spawns more when none are left. Each one lasts 8 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Prison places.

On Livonia, 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 Military and Prison places, in Tier2 and Tier3.

On Sakhal, Scout does not spawn as random loot (nominal 0).

On Nasdara, Scout does not spawn as random loot (nominal 0).

Where to look

  • The prison (Prison)
  • Military bases, camps and checkpoints (Military)

Loot tiers: Livonia Tier2, Tier3. Tier1 is near the coast and Tier4 deep inland, so a higher tier means a longer trip.

types.xml values on each map

ChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Nominal
how many it aims to keep		 1 10 0 0
Min
spawns more below this		 1 8 0 0
Lifetime
untouched, before it despawns		 8 h 8 h 8 h 8 h
Restock
wait before respawning		 0 0 0 0
Quantity
how full it spawns		 30–80% 30–80% 30–80% 30–80%
Places
usage		 Prison Military, Prison Prison Military
Tiers
value		 – Tier2, 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 Pioneer spawns with

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

Chernarus (same on Livonia)

Sakhal

Nasdara

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="Scout">
    <nominal>1</nominal>
    <lifetime>28800</lifetime>
    <restock>0</restock>
    <min>1</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="Prison"/>
</type>

Change it on your server

Everything else that spawns there: Chernarus loot list and Livonia 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.