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DayZ server guides, launch parameters, error codes and a database of every game item with stats, spawns and ready types.xml entries.

Guides

How to set up a DayZ server

A step by step guide to running your own DayZ server on Windows: install, start file, settings, mods and loot.

types.xml in DayZ: every field explained

What each field of DayZ types.xml does: nominal, min, lifetime, restock, quantity, flags, category, usage and tiers, with a real entry and common fixes.

cfgspawnabletypes.xml in DayZ: attachments, cargo and damage

How DayZ cfgspawnabletypes.xml spawns items with attachments, cargo and damage: chances, presets from cfgrandompresets.xml, hoarder and a real entry.

events.xml in DayZ: vehicles, crashes and animals

How DayZ events.xml spawns cars, helicopter crashes, animals and infected: nominal, min, max, radii, flags, positions and children, with a real entry.

DayZ classnames: every item by category

Every DayZ item classname by category: weapons, clothing, food, vehicles and more, where server admins use them and how to copy them without typos.

Reference

All DayZ server parameters

Every command line switch and every serverDZ.cfg setting, with defaults and what each one actually changes.

All DayZ launch parameters

Launch options for the game itself: what to put in Steam, what the launcher already does, and which parameters do nothing at all.

All DayZ error codes

Every connection and kick error code the game can show, what it means in plain words, and what to actually do about it.

Receiving AR16 Sentinel data on your website

How a website accepts the data AR16 Sentinel sends from a DayZ server: multipart request, HMAC signature, retries, the PHP trap and a ready PHP receiver.