I'm about to restart my server to see how it goes. I had seen this one dude in a video who makes decent content say to have the server on constantly and to set that number to 60000, and I still have a pile of discarded items! I hope this helps! Thank you for making a video on this to help others such as myself. Thank you!
I agree, THE MOST HELP in developing a DayZ server. Absolute legend, if you didn't exist I'd be stuck on stage one for more than I already was. Thank you for doing this for us
Basically, I am trying to fix a problem where we have been around the entire map, 2-3 times, found several cars, but the game literally will not spawn glowplugs or sparkplugs, which is what we need to get the cars running. First, I found how to edit types.xml to de-prioritize spawning ANYTHING else(set the cost to 20 for everything but glowplugs and sparkplugs) and set the cost to 100 for glowplugs and sparkplugs. However, I am discovering that loot history is preventing this from changing everything, because its all already spawned. So, I found this... SOUNDS awesome, but.... What I am trying to accomplish is to not blow away the vehicles we have found(we have interacted with them all, so yes, they are on the player interaction persistent item values of 45 days), while resetting loot so my types.xml gets implemented and some sparkplugs and glowplugs can ACTUALLY BE FOUND so we can continue to play. When the loot gets stuck, its brutal. The game will spawn a jerry can in 3-4 garages IN A A ROW, but won't spawn glowplugs anywhere on the damn map it seems. For instance, we have found 42(FORTY TWO) headlight bulbs, but never one sparkplug or glowplug. The default game loot system is obviously not balanced at all, and they obviously are not addressing it. Chance is one thing, but this is just completely broken. So far, it seems to really only be affected sparkplugs and glowplugs. Everything else - guns, food, clothing, persistent items(barrels, tents) we see every now and then, and we are enjoying it all, except these couple items that clearly are bugged somehow.
sparkplugs are a low priority items in the 'tools' 'garages' 'sheds' and industrial categories, if your finding 42 headlight bulbs but no spark plugs your types is badly out of balaence , start lowing the min max and nominal on all items your finding ecessive amounts of , this will free up space in the games cle for it to get far enough down the list to spawn said spark plugs
@@every1knowsdave Thanks for replying, and I hear you. But... this all was the default installed experience, *_no types.xml modification was done_* until I realized the game literally would NEVER SPAWN SPARKPLUGS as a standalone item. We have covered our entire map twice now, and we have 2 total sparkplugs, that we swap between multiple vehicles to move them around. It's brutal. Both of those plugs came from cars that spawned with a working plug in them. Otherwise, no can do. They never spawn as a standalone item, and the 25+ power generators we have found NEVER have a sparkplug, either. What I seem to think is contributing to this, it seems that the grey shelves all over the garages cannot spawn ANYTHING. I have never seen a single item on a grey shelf in a garage, in more than a month. The wooden tables will have items, but never the grey shelves that cover most of the garage. Never has anything ever spawned there. I have definitely visited somewhere between 100-200 garages. Never a single item on the grey shelves. Feels VERY much like a bug, but no idea how to fix it without wiping out everything and starting completely over, which for 3 players and a month of accumulated items(we play on a passworded server for PVE fun), resetting everything would be TERRIBLE. WILL DEFINITELY crank down the min, max and nom for all the stuff we get too much of - LIKE HEADLIGHT BULBS HAHA :)
Love the video! Thanks! I can hear your voice when reading your replies in the comments. (IDK why) I love messing with all the code, making the game do silly stuff, I think I mess with the files more then I play the actual game!
This is great and very helpful. Thank you. I’m wondering though will it actually change the loot and re-roll the existing loot or will it only replace loot that has been picked up?
@@aceplaysgamesnetwork9566 this will replace the loot that been picked up however if you turn down the cleanup timer to then yes it will also re roll the loot and I'm glad I could help
I just had a debate with chatgtp about this and in the end it agreed with me after I reference this video. It was at first saying that RestartSpawn set to 100 would cause loot to refresh every 100 seconds.
Yo so I kinda have the opposite issue on a modded version of AoD lol. Basically loot respawns TO fast. Like, right after leaving the immediate area, all the loot spots have propagated loot. Checked lifetime values and restock values, all in the thousands. Not sure what the hell is causing it. Nominal values are relatively low as well, like 1-20 for any given item. Any ideas? Can't find answers in enfusion modders, you name it lol. Thanks for the videos, always super helpful
@@every1knowsdave yah true one of the reasons i like limited number of storage containers per base keeps the lag in check better as well as player suplied trader's with reasonable selling prices so its not just a horde fest
@@every1knowsdave the one issue i can see with loot restalk on restart is the dedicated may purposely be in high teir loot locations for restart to fill there greedy mitts but that being said its also well within our control to counter and discourage undesirable habbits in name of balancing the server for all player's
@@every1knowsdave yes I needed to manually retype everything from there and the spawnables too because crashes weren’t working either took me a while tbh😅
I just got my server, thank you for all your help in your videos, they are amazing, In one of you videos i seen a mod where you can spawn in anything, can you give me the name of that mod please? 🙂 Also i wanted to start a farming pve server any sugestions on mods?
@@every1knowsdave I'm having trouble with food spawning on my server I think I may have put too much in and it's stopping it from spawning is this something that can happen
@@robertstevenson5421 technically yes you can create a negative integer that has the opposite effects and reduces the loot .. if its only food thats effected drop the numbers down .. if however all loot starts going bye bye then check your types file
you'd be surprised but your the only youtuber who actually showed how to do this, I was looking all over for videos on it yesterday finally stumbled onto your video today.
It didn't work I went everywhere my type.xml files are right but there's still more loot on offical then my server and nobody seems to have this problem anywhere
hmm that sounds like you have a CLE issue somewhere , joining the discord and asking for assistance would be my recommendation (links are getting added to every video today)
awesome find, thank you very much for sharing this, i have a dayz help group, i think this is very need to know info, would you mind if i link this video in our group? much love from The G Code
Of course go ahead link any video you see fit 😉 were all about sharing information and skills here 😍 your group is always welcome to contact us through discord or twitter
Hi, another hard question, didn't find any answer except: download modes (what I can't do, my server is on xbox), how to increase durability of suppressors? May be you know. Thx.
Hey brother, can you show me in detail how to have FIXED vehicle spawn locations that guarantee to spawn every restart, as oppose to random spawn points? Thank you
New subscriber here, had a question. loot in houses is no longer spawning but loot in helicopter crashes and zombies are ok. can you please help me out
ok sounds like a bad types . xml file to me helis are controlled by events i belive .. although usually you would have no zombies to .. best person to speak to is our code expert lead in our discord discord.gg/xV75AbrahD
can i just make this change and the loot will spawn...or is there more to making this mechanic function? I'm not seeing any effect in my server. DO I have to remove the original file when I upload the custom file?
best to remove the orignal before posting in the new one yes, and tbh if your loot is already at max you wont see a defference .. turn up the nominals in types to ;)
I have a problem on my server, a mapping was done and now loot does not come out in the vanilla areas of the map, only in the mapping area and I don't understand why, I wiped and it came out but only once: c
sounds like you have exported a new mapgroupos without having the box ticked 'include whole map'' ,re export using that check box ticked and replace the servers mapgroupos with the new one generated
I saw that it was, used the build loader and it told me to put a line in the init.c to recognize spawn points, apparently that line, if it stays on doesn't spawn anything other than the first time you wipe the server for some reason. reason, so I just deleted it. It has nothing to do with the topic of the video, I think, but if it helps anyone here it is, now the problem is that police and medical things come out in hospitals but I leave it like that because I think it's more complicated to fix
2 years later and still one of the best explained and to the point vids ive found
Man, I wish every Dayz "how to" video was this short and to the point.
bro that into was insane well done
I'm about to restart my server to see how it goes. I had seen this one dude in a video who makes decent content say to have the server on constantly and to set that number to 60000, and I still have a pile of discarded items! I hope this helps! Thank you for making a video on this to help others such as myself. Thank you!
It worked!!
OMG, the most underrated video EVER! This is so simple and well-explained. THANK YOU so much!
Thankyou for the wonderful comment, we try to keep these as simple as possible without leaving out any info ;)
I agree, THE MOST HELP in developing a DayZ server. Absolute legend, if you didn't exist I'd be stuck on stage one for more than I already was. Thank you for doing this for us
This was extremely useful to fix an issue where people would abuse the low pop to enter/exit the server to respawn high tier loot; thx so much
I'm just a silent subscriber for God knows how long and man... this video helped me a lot today. Thanks Dave !
Officially the MVP, Bro you are the best i got tired of my server going idle and lack of loot spawning.
you've done us a great honor with such amazing and fast content, may we all be in indebted to you.
This is the perfect video I’ve been looking for!! Thank you so much!!!
glad we could help
Appreciate you making this video and explaining so clearly. Much obliged!
absolutely my pleasure !
I like this "old man" a lot.
lOVE YOU MAN worked like a charm. Great short and straght to the point, and great video
Basically, I am trying to fix a problem where we have been around the entire map, 2-3 times, found several cars, but the game literally will not spawn glowplugs or sparkplugs, which is what we need to get the cars running.
First, I found how to edit types.xml to de-prioritize spawning ANYTHING else(set the cost to 20 for everything but glowplugs and sparkplugs) and set the cost to 100 for glowplugs and sparkplugs.
However, I am discovering that loot history is preventing this from changing everything, because its all already spawned.
So, I found this... SOUNDS awesome, but....
What I am trying to accomplish is to not blow away the vehicles we have found(we have interacted with them all, so yes, they are on the player interaction persistent item values of 45 days), while resetting loot so my types.xml gets implemented and some sparkplugs and glowplugs can ACTUALLY BE FOUND so we can continue to play.
When the loot gets stuck, its brutal. The game will spawn a jerry can in 3-4 garages IN A A ROW, but won't spawn glowplugs anywhere on the damn map it seems.
For instance, we have found 42(FORTY TWO) headlight bulbs, but never one sparkplug or glowplug. The default game loot system is obviously not balanced at all, and they obviously are not addressing it. Chance is one thing, but this is just completely broken. So far, it seems to really only be affected sparkplugs and glowplugs.
Everything else - guns, food, clothing, persistent items(barrels, tents) we see every now and then, and we are enjoying it all, except these couple items that clearly are bugged somehow.
sparkplugs are a low priority items in the 'tools' 'garages' 'sheds' and industrial categories, if your finding 42 headlight bulbs but no spark plugs your types is badly out of balaence , start lowing the min max and nominal on all items your finding ecessive amounts of , this will free up space in the games cle for it to get far enough down the list to spawn said spark plugs
@@every1knowsdave Thanks for replying, and I hear you. But... this all was the default installed experience, *_no types.xml modification was done_* until I realized the game literally would NEVER SPAWN SPARKPLUGS as a standalone item. We have covered our entire map twice now, and we have 2 total sparkplugs, that we swap between multiple vehicles to move them around. It's brutal. Both of those plugs came from cars that spawned with a working plug in them. Otherwise, no can do. They never spawn as a standalone item, and the 25+ power generators we have found NEVER have a sparkplug, either.
What I seem to think is contributing to this, it seems that the grey shelves all over the garages cannot spawn ANYTHING. I have never seen a single item on a grey shelf in a garage, in more than a month. The wooden tables will have items, but never the grey shelves that cover most of the garage. Never has anything ever spawned there. I have definitely visited somewhere between 100-200 garages. Never a single item on the grey shelves. Feels VERY much like a bug, but no idea how to fix it without wiping out everything and starting completely over, which for 3 players and a month of accumulated items(we play on a passworded server for PVE fun), resetting everything would be TERRIBLE.
WILL DEFINITELY crank down the min, max and nom for all the stuff we get too much of - LIKE HEADLIGHT BULBS HAHA :)
THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOUR THE BEST!
Love the video! Thanks!
I can hear your voice when reading your replies in the comments. (IDK why)
I love messing with all the code, making the game do silly stuff, I think I mess with the files more then I play the actual game!
Great Work man, Simple video and fast information. Love it
The most helpful video I think I have ever seen of yours :)
This is great and very helpful. Thank you. I’m wondering though will it actually change the loot and re-roll the existing loot or will it only replace loot that has been picked up?
@@aceplaysgamesnetwork9566 this will replace the loot that been picked up however if you turn down the cleanup timer to then yes it will also re roll the loot and I'm glad I could help
I had a problem with some dropped stuff, there was stuff all over the place it was messing up the spawner, this is gonna help man.
Bro you save my hair, kept stressing out wtf was going on with my types.xml.
I love you foe this bro ❤
everyone needs a dave man...
@@giebby369 😜
i second that "You freaking rock dude!"
now subscribed and i love this guy
You are very knowledgeable, you just got my sub. Thanks Dave!
big fan of ur work with the fallout server
Amazingly easy and perfectly walked through
omg dude you are amazing had a problem with my server and you save me and it was so simple....thank you!
Thanks. Will try this out on my low pop PVE server to get loot to cycle and spawn more.
even a year later this was extremely helpful for me as a learning coder thanks mate
glad this info is still useful to people
Awesome video, just what I was looking for!! One question, do the looted items that you drop in your base despawn with this or stay?
you are the man!!! this video helped my server so much!!!
glad i could help .. sorry for the slow reply
Me filling two dry bag backpacks with guns then fucking off for all eternity
Thanks dude!! I'm on day of building my server, I'm glad i didn't have to struggle with this for weeks!!
we have all been there ;) thanks for the support and we hope we we will deliver some more things you will find useful ;)
You are a lifesaver brother! Thanks!
Glad to help
Not exactly what I'm looking for but kinda funny you just figured this out lol. Keep working at it bud and you'll figure it all out.
I just had a debate with chatgtp about this and in the end it agreed with me after I reference this video. It was at first saying that RestartSpawn set to 100 would cause loot to refresh every 100 seconds.
thanks for a short n sweet video with no jabbering on lol ;) liked n subbed!
thanks for the sub, we try not to waste your time here ;)
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you! 🔥
Love ur accent and energy dude haha
thank god you do such nice videos mate, has been an absolute pleasure to find your stuff, and get the information i need
Perfekt and what you need in 4-5 minutes
Thanks for the video! Do cars, player tents etc. despawn/respawn as fresh loot as well?
no this only effects the loot spawner, it doesnt effect despawn
@@every1knowsdave awesome, thank you!
thank you sir, exactly what i was looking for
thank you my idle mode and loot spawn is so mad right now this will hopefully help (SUBSCRIBED)
My God this was good. Subbed!
thanks you sir
Thank you for this great video!!!
This is amazing, thanks man !!
Yo so I kinda have the opposite issue on a modded version of AoD lol. Basically loot respawns TO fast. Like, right after leaving the immediate area, all the loot spots have propagated loot. Checked lifetime values and restock values, all in the thousands. Not sure what the hell is causing it. Nominal values are relatively low as well, like 1-20 for any given item. Any ideas? Can't find answers in enfusion modders, you name it lol. Thanks for the videos, always super helpful
globals xml has some references for cleanup and spawn distance id look at that , sounds like the clean up is to fast and the distance to low
Great video!
Oooh stuff i never thought of more so applies to higher pop servers but still very good knowledge for everyone
yeah high pop servers will suffer this a lot .. or small servers with dedicated looters ;)
@@every1knowsdave yah true one of the reasons i like limited number of storage containers per base keeps the lag in check better as well as player suplied trader's with reasonable selling prices so its not just a horde fest
@@every1knowsdave the one issue i can see with loot restalk on restart is the dedicated may purposely be in high teir loot locations for restart to fill there greedy mitts but that being said its also well within our control to counter and discourage undesirable habbits in name of balancing the server for all player's
@@Kraigthecanadian yeah i can see that being an issue for high pop pvp servers .. but as you said theres ways around it ;)
dude you are a beast thanks for this tutorial
Cheers ... been running around for ages looking for something I added and fuckall was spawning ....now they will hopefully .
Thank you very much i was wondering why after deleting player storage it doesn't respawn xD
if the loot stops respawning completrly you have a broken types file
@@every1knowsdave yes I needed to manually retype everything from there and the spawnables too because crashes weren’t working either took me a while tbh😅
I just got my server, thank you for all your help in your videos, they are amazing, In one of you videos i seen a mod where you can spawn in anything, can you give me the name of that mod please? 🙂 Also i wanted to start a farming pve server any sugestions on mods?
VPPAdminTools on the steam workshop
Good Stuff mate!
Absolute legend mate this is going fix so much issues for me
your quite welcome .. glad we have been of use to you ;)
@@every1knowsdave I'm having trouble with food spawning on my server I think I may have put too much in and it's stopping it from spawning is this something that can happen
@@robertstevenson5421 technically yes you can create a negative integer that has the opposite effects and reduces the loot .. if its only food thats effected drop the numbers down .. if however all loot starts going bye bye then check your types file
For everyone wondering if this works... it's only on a specific server. With specific mods... don't let him fool you.... no hate here just honesty
I don’t think so, I did the same thing and it worked for me so.
thanks for the info, quick and to the point. keep making content my guy!
Thanks for the compliment ;) .. we have no intention of stopping
Dude ur an mvp.. did u mess around with the dayz expnsion ai yet? Also their quests?
thanks i appreciate it .. i have not yet but one of our team is messing around with it as we speak
Who you calling a very hungry loot goblin?!?!? lol 🤣🤣🤣
Hey bud, been using your videos, was wondering if you had one for changing a loading screen?
not yet but im working with one of the team to create one
Incredible help
Sending love an good vibes brother thank you so much
Beautyfull....tyvm mr.
Subbed and liked, thanks for the info man
thanks for the support , glad it helped
ty so much I needed this
you'd be surprised but your the only youtuber who actually showed how to do this, I was looking all over for videos on it yesterday finally stumbled onto your video today.
Thankyou .. we try to post things we found as fast as we can, we ourselves hunted for this for a while, I'm glad you finally found the fix
You are Legend tnx for all helping videos!!!!
It didn't work I went everywhere my type.xml files are right but there's still more loot on offical then my server and nobody seems to have this problem anywhere
hmm that sounds like you have a CLE issue somewhere , joining the discord and asking for assistance would be my recommendation (links are getting added to every video today)
thnk u mate helped a lot left a like and i subscribe
awesome find, thank you very much for sharing this, i have a dayz help group, i think this is very need to know info, would you mind if i link this video in our group? much love from The G Code
Of course go ahead link any video you see fit 😉 were all about sharing information and skills here 😍 your group is always welcome to contact us through discord or twitter
Fantastic video, Is there anyway you know how to spawn custom loot at Heli crash sites on console. Thanks
did this actually work for any one because it dont seem to be working for me
yeah this usually works flawlessly unless you have a error with your types . xml file
How can you eliminate the despawning of objects and weapons?
increase the lifetime in the types xml file
Does this configuration make, for example, the tent and wooden box disappear before its lifetime? This happened to me.
its shouldnt no , unless your cle is overloading and your spawning to much loot
So, for some reason, when I do this, none of the loot is different. Why would this be? My server is not public. It is LAN. Would that be the problem?
likley your cle is overloaded , ie theres already to much loot on the map , go into your types and increase all the nominals
Best and funiest guy greetings from germany go for it ❤💯🤟
Hey! I did exactly what u did but i does not work for me.. can you help me? 😅
Hey man. So i just did everything you said to do and its still not working. I have no loot swpaing in anymore. Please help. Im trying everything.
run your types file through a xml validator
Thanks a lot ! great video !!!
Hi there,
What does CleanupLifetimeDefault and var name="CleanupLifetimeLimit do?
Hi, another hard question, didn't find any answer except: download modes (what I can't do, my server is on xbox), how to increase durability of suppressors? May be you know. Thx.
Thank you very much for information! 👍
Much appreciated Dave!
Don't suppose you know how to wipe all loot from the server?
Did you find out how to do this?
Hey brother, can you show me in detail how to have FIXED vehicle spawn locations that guarantee to spawn every restart, as oppose to random spawn points? Thank you
New subscriber here, had a question. loot in houses is no longer spawning but loot in helicopter crashes and zombies are ok. can you please help me out
ok sounds like a bad types . xml file to me helis are controlled by events i belive .. although usually you would have no zombies to .. best person to speak to is our code expert lead in our discord
discord.gg/xV75AbrahD
Sub'd and liked, thanks!
can i just make this change and the loot will spawn...or is there more to making this mechanic function? I'm not seeing any effect in my server. DO I have to remove the original file when I upload the custom file?
best to remove the orignal before posting in the new one yes, and tbh if your loot is already at max you wont see a defference .. turn up the nominals in types to ;)
I have a problem on my server, a mapping was done and now loot does not come out in the vanilla areas of the map, only in the mapping area and I don't understand why, I wiped and it came out but only once: c
sounds like you have exported a new mapgroupos without having the box ticked 'include whole map'' ,re export using that check box ticked and replace the servers mapgroupos with the new one generated
I saw that it was, used the build loader and it told me to put a line in the init.c to recognize spawn points, apparently that line, if it stays on doesn't spawn anything other than the first time you wipe the server for some reason. reason, so I just deleted it. It has nothing to do with the topic of the video, I think, but if it helps anyone here it is, now the problem is that police and medical things come out in hospitals but I leave it like that because I think it's more complicated to fix
Hey homie! How to save my base in local server but still refreshing loot?
does not work for me somehow i even changed the other settings to yours but everytime i restart i check the airfield its still the same loot
try wiping the loot first .. it could be your cle is overloaded
You mean the whole server wipe? Or can I just wipe the loot and if yes how
Does this reset the loot or does this just fill up the empty spawn points with loot? I.e does this despawn and respawn everything?
doesnt reset it , just forces more to spawn ;)
it still wont work could someone please help me
Nobody helped bro
Hello again, my loot stopped spawning after i changed values in types.xml, i verified for 2 hours now but no errors, no typos, what should i do?
replace your types file with a fresh its corrupted
@@every1knowsdave actually i had to let the server run a whole night and loot was good the next morning, probably was too much for it lol💀
I noticed your respawn limit it set to 500 where my is only set to 20 is that something I should worry about
Thx for the Help very nice and easy explenation :*
this is really really fucking helpfull holy shit
hey dave, why respawntypes on 120 isnt this waay to high ?
I need Hallz to see this
haha :P
When the Server respawns the loot, will the position of the loot change or does only addional loot spawn?
Loot cycles between slots in each loot area , so it does change but stays within the same cycles