Can you refresh all loot without a wipe?

[us271934-Слава Україн]

After the Sakhal recent update we noticed that no loot spawns at the new tents and containers in the geothermal plant. We're also thinking that the dead scientist spawn is mucked up. This is a private server and we're not interested in a total map wipe that takes out our existing bases, personal loot, etc. Ideally we like to despawn all existing loot that's just laying around and not 'owned' by players and then spawn a completely fresh slate of loot that will hopefully conform to the new update.
Any suggestions?

[withered]

I heard many times that such problem can only be solved via wipe. Or manually - players would need to pick everything. But who knows - maybe there is a tool for that nowadays.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

withered eredeti hozzászólása:

I heard many times that such problem can only be solved via wipe. Or manually - players would need to pick everything. But who knows - maybe there is a tool for that nowadays.

I've got my fingers crossed. About the only semi-automated way I can think of is to make a types.xml with loot parameters set to a zero lifetime, zero nominal quantity and a very high restock timer. I'd then log in and see what's happened. In particular, since we all have flags up, what would happen to things not in actual containers like generators?

Some older reddits were debating why items marked as "tools" didn't always show a flag icon.

After checking out the status of loot around the map locations where we'd seen some weirdness I'd trade out this edited file for the 'real' types.xml and restart the server with global.xml RestartSpawn set to 100%

In spite of what I just wrote there are other considerations that make a "just do it" decision inappropriate. It's almost funny how many of the experts in DayZ forums have thrown in their facts and then be 'corrected' by other experts.

Rest assured that I'll post my conclusions and results if I get a viable path toward this server 'repair'.