DayZ types.xml Compare

Why compare two types.xml files

types.xml lists every item the central economy (CE) spawns, and the vanilla file has a few thousand entries. Finding what changed by eye is slow. Common reasons to compare:

After a DayZ update

Updates can add items and change values in the vanilla types.xml. Put your server's file in Before and the new vanilla file in After to find the new items to add and the values that moved.

Against vanilla

Put the vanilla file in Before and yours in After to see every change you or an earlier admin made.

Between two servers

Compare the loot of two servers, or of a test server and your live one, before you copy settings across.

Before you upload

Check an edited file against the one on the server, so you upload only the changes you meant to make.

An item that shows as removed has no entry any more, so the CE does not spawn it, unless another types file registered in cfgeconomycore.xml lists it.

Get both files from Nitrado

1. Open the file browser in the Nitrado web interface and go to your mission's db folder. On Xbox that is dayzxb_missions/dayzOffline.chernarusplus/db, on PlayStation dayzps_missions/dayzOffline.chernarusplus/db. Livonia uses dayzOffline.enoch and Sakhal dayzOffline.sakhal.
2. Download types.xml. For a second server, download the same file from its db folder.
3. For the vanilla file, Bohemia Interactive publishes the mission files in its DayZ-Central-Economy repository on GitHub. Each map's folder has types.xml in its db folder.
4. Open one file as Before and the other as After. To apply a change, edit the file in the types.xml editor, upload it and restart the server.

What the compare checks

Items are matched by name, ignoring upper and lower case. For every item in both files, these fields are compared:

nominal

How many should be on the map.

min

When fewer are left, the CE spawns more (back up to nominal).

lifetime

Seconds an item lies untouched before it is cleaned up.

restock

Seconds to wait before spawning more once below min (0 = at once).

quantmin

Lowest fill in % for items with a quantity (ammo, liquids). -1 = not used.

quantmax

Highest fill in %. -1 = not used.

cost

Spawn priority. The vanilla files use 100 for almost everything.

flags

Which copies count towards nominal: in containers (count_in_cargo), in tents, barrels and stashes (count_in_hoarder), on the map (count_in_map) and on players (count_in_player). crafted marks items players make, deloot marks loot from dynamic events such as helicopter crashes. Each flag is compared on its own.

category

The loot category, such as weapons, tools, clothes, food or explosives.

usage

The kind of place it spawns in, such as Military, Police, Farm, Industrial or Town.

value

The map tiers it spawns in, Tier1 near the coast to Tier4 deep inland, or Unique.

tag

The spot inside a building, such as floor, shelves or ground.

usage, value and tag are compared as sets. Their order does not matter, only which names were added or dropped.

On Xbox and PlayStation servers running Law's KillFeed, the dashboard's Server Files page opens, checks and uploads files for you and keeps the last 15 versions of every file, so you can download the version from before a change and compare it here. Editing in place is on the paid plan.

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