· Server update
We announced a world-loot rebalance on November 3 to cut down excess items spawning around the maps. Duplicate clothing, overstocked utility items and some storage containers were the main targets. Your existing bases, storage and gear are unaffected.
What changed on each map?
The configured world-loot targets were reduced by roughly 16% on Chernarus, 17% on Nasdara, 15% on Deer Isle and 12% on Alteria. Those percentages describe the spawn settings. The mix you find in any given town will vary as older loot clears out.
We reduced duplicate civilian clothes, shoes, novelty items and excessive colour variants, along with some common utility items. Barrels, tents, sea chests and protector cases were also reduced where they had been spawning too frequently.
Some cosmetic variants no longer spawn naturally but remain available from existing traders. Nasdara keeps its tan and desert gear focus, and each map keeps its existing progression and map-specific restrictions.
Your base and stored gear stay put
This rebalance doesn’t remove your stored items. It leaves trader prices and inventories, mission and event rewards, AI loadouts and DNA loot pools unchanged. Animal and infected populations, corpse and grave recovery timers, and the 48-hour vehicle lifetime are unchanged too.
The announcement scheduled the new settings for the following restart. Existing items clear on their usual timers, so expect to notice the change gradually.
A drying-rack fix, too
The same announcement covered a Core fix for the Mass Drying Rack placement preview. It addresses a script error when the item is no longer in the player’s hands.
We’ll keep watching performance under normal and busy-server conditions. If you find unusually low loot, missing trader items or placement problems, open a support ticket with the server and what you found.
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