To create a custom/better experience for your server, you can create your own spawn coords for ore veins. We will provide 3 different methods for you to do this - maybe you find other solutions ;)

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1. Using an online map (not very accurate)

You can open an online map like izurvive.com and figure out coords. You then need to add them manually to cfgeventspawns.xml like:


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2. Using an ingame admin tool

Use an admin tool like Community-Online-Tools or VPP and go where ever you want to create a spawn point - then read out your player position via the admin tool. You then also need to add them manually to cfgeventspawns.xml like in the first example.

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3. Using Community Offline Mode (COM) or DayZ Editor

Community Offline Mode GitHub[github.com]
DayZ Editor

3.1 Placeholder items

You place the ores or some other items on every location where you want to have a spawn point -> then you export all those coords. You should get something like this:



3.2 Converting into the correct format

1. You copy the "spawnobject list" into a new file and open it with Notepad++ (or something similar).
   
2. Then you press CTRL+H to open Search+Replace.
   
3. You insert the following line into the "search for" input field:
   
   SpawnObject\(\s*".*", "(.*) (.*) (.*)", "(.*) .* .*"\s*\);
4. You insert the following line into the "replace with" input field:
   
   <pos x="$1" y="$2" z="$3" a="$4" />
5. You switch the search mode to "regular expressions".
   
6. You press "replace all".

Everything should be converted now.