DayZ Vehicle Builder

Where vehicle parts come from

When a car spawns, DayZ looks it up in cfgspawnabletypes.xml in the root of the mission folder. Its entry lists the parts as <attachments> groups, one per wheel, door or engine part, each with a chance. Bohemia's files give wheels 80%, the spare 40%, the battery, radiator and spark plug 60% and doors 30%, which is why most cars need work before they drive.

• Ready to drive sets every part to 100%.
• Wheels and engine parts only puts every wheel, the battery, radiator, spark or glow plug and the headlights at 100% and leaves the doors, hood and trunk as they were.
• Bare shell sets every part to 0%, so players have to find them all.
• Extra cargo adds <cargo> groups with items that spawn inside the vehicle.

Where vehicles spawn

Each vehicle belongs to an event in db/events.xml, such as VehicleCivilianSedan, whose nominal says how many are on the map. cfgeventspawns.xml, in the root of the mission folder, lists the positions that event may use: X and Z on the map and the angle it faces. Under Where it spawns, the map shows those positions for the vehicle you picked. Click the map to add one, click a point and then the map to move it, and download or apply cfgeventspawns.xml. A vehicle can't spawn more often than it has free positions, so give it at least as many as its nominal. Every colour of a vehicle shares the same positions, and the game picks among the free ones at random: you can't pin one car to one spot.

How many vehicles spawn is set in events.xml: use the events.xml Editor. For crashes, wrecks and every other event's positions, use Event Spawn Positions. For any other item, the cfgspawnabletypes Generator builds entries from scratch, and the guide DayZ cfgspawnabletypes.xml explains the format.

Swap vanilla vehicles for modded ones (PC)

Each vehicle event in events.xml lists the cars it spawns as <child type="…"> entries. Swapping changes those class names to the mod's, so the modded car takes over the vanilla car's positions in cfgeventspawns.xml and its nominal, min and max. Nothing else in the files changes.

1. Add the vehicle mod to the server and to the server's mod list, so players load it too.
2. Click Load from my server, pick the vanilla vehicle to replace and click Swap to a modded vehicle.
3. Click Find vehicle mods on my server. It looks through the server's @mod folders over its FTP or SFTP link for the XML files vehicle mods ship, and lists their cars with their parts. Click a car to swap to it.
4. For a mod that ships no XML, type the car's class name from the mod's Workshop page, one per colour, and paste the mod's cfgspawnabletypes.xml entries if you have them. Without them the car starts with no parts; add its wheels, doors and engine parts by class name, or tick the vanilla parts for a retexture.
5. Click Apply all to server and restart. Vanilla cars already on the map stay until they despawn or the server is wiped.

Tick Keep the vanilla one too to mix: both cars then share the event's positions and count.

Change the vehicles on a Nitrado server

1. Open the file browser in the Nitrado web interface and go to your mission folder: dayzxb_missions/dayzOffline.chernarusplus on Xbox, dayzps_missions/… on PlayStation. Livonia uses dayzOffline.enoch, Sakhal dayzOffline.sakhal and Nasdara dayzOffline.nasdara.
2. Download cfgspawnabletypes.xml, keep an untouched copy and open it here.
3. Set the parts for each vehicle and download the merged file.
4. Upload it over the old file and restart the server. Vehicles already on the map keep their parts until they respawn.

On Xbox and PlayStation servers running Law's KillFeed, the dashboard's Server Files page opens, checks and uploads this file for you and keeps the last 15 versions of every file.

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