On Chernarus, the economy keeps about 7 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 4 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Town places, in Tier1 and Tier2.
On Livonia, the economy keeps about 10 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 6 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Town places, in Tier1.
On Sakhal, the economy keeps about 9 on the map and spawns more when fewer than 6 are left. Each one lasts 4 h when nobody touches it. It spawns in Town places, in Tier1.
types.xml values on each map
| Chernarus | Livonia | Sakhal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal how many it aims to keep |
7 | 10 | 9 |
| Min spawns more below this |
4 | 6 | 6 |
| 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 |
Town | Town | Town |
| Tiers value |
Tier1, Tier2 | Tier1 | Tier1 |
| 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.
What Slingbag_Black spawns with
From cfgspawnabletypes.xml: each group spawns with its chance, and one of its items is picked.
Chernarus (same on Livonia and Sakhal)
-
Cargo:
picks from the preset
foodVillageincfgrandompresets.xml. -
Cargo:
picks from the preset
mixVillageincfgrandompresets.xml.
Random presets
Slingbag_Black is in these named lists in cfgrandompresets.xml, which items use with preset="…": bagsVillage, backpacks_T1.
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="Slingbag_Black">
<nominal>7</nominal>
<lifetime>14400</lifetime>
<restock>0</restock>
<min>4</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="containers"/>
<usage name="Town"/>
<value name="Tier1"/>
<value name="Tier2"/>
</type>
Change it on your server
- How much spawns and where: edit Slingbag_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.
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.
