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Car Battery

12V rechargeable car battery, usable in cars. It can be used to power other appliances, if connected properly.

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Classname CarBattery

Section: Vehicle parts
Weight: 10 kg
Inventory size: 3×3 9 slots
Durability: 200
Spawns on: Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal

Characteristics

Repaired with: Electrical Repair Kit

Compatibility

Attaches to

Attachment slots

Metal Wire

Matched by config slots and lists. Game scripts block a few combinations on top of this.

Where it spawns

Spawns as loot on Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal: Industrial. Also spawns on or inside other items: Ada 4x4, Gunter 2, M1025 and 2 more.

	Chernarus	Livonia	Sakhal
Nominal	60	40	23
Minimum	40	20	18
Lifetime	8 h	8 h	8 h
Restock	6 min	6 min	6 min
Quantity	20–100%	20–100%	100–100%
Loot category	Tools	Tools	Tools
Places	Industrial	Industrial	Industrial
Tiers	·	·	·

Nominal is how many the economy keeps on the map, minimum is where restocking starts. Lifetime is how long an untouched item lies before cleanup.

Spawns with

Spawns with 0% to 35% damage.

Spawns on or inside

From cfgspawnabletypes.xml of the vanilla maps: the item can spawn attached to these items or in their cargo, with the chance set there.

types.xml

Vanilla entries from the mission files of each map. Paste one into db/types.xml of your mission to bring back the default.

types.xml · Chernarus

<type name="CarBattery">
    <nominal>60</nominal>
    <lifetime>28800</lifetime>
    <restock>360</restock>
    <min>40</min>
    <quantmin>20</quantmin>
    <quantmax>100</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="tools"/>
    <usage name="Industrial"/>
</type>

types.xml · Livonia

<type name="CarBattery">
    <nominal>40</nominal>
    <lifetime>28800</lifetime>
    <restock>360</restock>
    <min>20</min>
    <quantmin>20</quantmin>
    <quantmax>100</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="tools"/>
    <usage name="Industrial"/>
</type>

types.xml · Sakhal

<type name="CarBattery">
    <nominal>23</nominal>
    <lifetime>28800</lifetime>
    <restock>360</restock>
    <min>18</min>
    <quantmin>100</quantmin>
    <quantmax>100</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="tools"/>
    <usage name="Industrial"/>
</type>

cfgspawnabletypes.xml · Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal

<type name="CarBattery">
    <damage min="0" max="0.35"/>
</type>

Config

Classname: CarBattery
Config class: CfgVehicles
Inherits from: Inventory_Base › Static › All
Model: \dz\vehicles\parts\battery_car.p3d
Defined in: Addons/vehicles_parts.pbo::config.bin
Inventory slots: CarBattery, LargeBattery