Dynamic Scavenging

Dynamic Scavenging

Search furniture, wrecks, garbage, and world objects for loot.

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🔍 What Is Dynamic Scavenging?

Dynamic Scavenging adds a hold-to-search mechanic to DayZ. Players can scavenge desks, shelves, vehicle wrecks, dumpsters, and dozens of other objects for randomized loot - all fully configurable through a JSON file.

No client-side exploits. No economy overrides. No vanilla loot changes. Just a clean, lightweight layer of interactive scavenging on top of the base game.

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⭐ Features

Core Search System

• Hold-to-search — Aim at an object, hold the key, watch the progress bar fill
• Custom keybind — Default J, rebindable in Options → Controls
• Rummaging sounds — Spatial audio that nearby players can hear
• Category-specific sounds — 4 built-in sound sets assignable per loot category

Searchable Objects

• 70+ furniture types — Desks, shelves, fridges, lockers, workbenches, hospital beds, military bunks, and more
• Vehicle wrecks — Search abandoned vehicles for salvage
• Garbage & trash — Dumpsters, garbage bins, trash piles, rubble
• Intelligent detection — Objects are automatically categorized by name, type, and building

12 Loot Categories

• 🚗 Vehicle — Wrecks & abandoned trucks
• 🗑️ Garbage — Dumpsters, trash piles, debris
• 🏠 Residential — Homes, shops, schools
• 🏭 Industrial — Factories, workshops, warehouses
• 🏥 Medical — Hospitals, clinics, med tents
• 🎖️ Military — Barracks, bunkers, guard towers
• 🌲 Wilderness — Outdoor natural objects
• 🚔 Police — Police stations, filing cabinets
• 🦌 Hunting — Deer stands, hunting lodges
• 🚜 Farm — Barns, troughs, farm equipment
• ⚓ Coastal — Fishing nets, boat houses, piers
• 🔧 ToolZone — Admin-defined high-value areas

Loot System

• Weighted random loot — Each item has a weight controlling its rarity
• Jackpot drops — Rare chance for high-tier items with full attachments
• Junk drops — Chance to find low-value items instead of category loot
• Multi-drop — Bonus items can roll alongside the main find
• Diminishing returns — Repeat searches yield lower odds
• Night bonus — Better loot odds during nighttime (20:00–05:00)
• Fail chance — Configurable flat chance to find nothing
• Spawn in inventory — Loot goes directly to inventory or drops on the ground
• Item properties — Set stack quantity, condition range, and auto-attachments per item

Balance & Restrictions

• Object exhaustion — Objects become un-searchable after a set number of searches
• Exhaustion reset timer — Optional auto-reset or permanent until restart
• Building exhaustion — Entire buildings can exhaust after enough searches
• Player cooldown — Configurable wait between searches with visible countdown bar
• Max loot per restart — Per-player item cap per server cycle
• Tool requirements — Require a specific held tool to search
• Tool damage — Tools lose durability per search
• Stamina drain — Searching can cost stamina
• Combat restriction — Block searching for 10s after taking damage

Zones

• No-search zones — Block searching in specific areas (coordinate + radius)
• Tool zones — Require specific tools and apply custom loot tables in defined areas
• Proxy category overrides — Force specific furniture to use a specific loot table

User Interface

• Progress bar — Visual search timer
• Notification feed — 5 stacking slots with cascade animation and fade effects
• Cooldown bar — Countdown display with remaining seconds
• "Already Searched" — Indicator on exhausted objects
• Category tags — [Medical], [Military], etc. on results
• Randomized flavor text — 7–8 message variants per result type
• 7 ARGB color settings — Customize every text color in the UI

Admin Tools

• Debug overlay — Shows proxy name, building type, category, whitelist status, and position
• Discord webhook — Post loot finds to a Discord channel (all or jackpot-only)
• CSV logging — Search results saved to file with batched writes
• Config auto-generation — First run creates a fully documented JSON config

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Required on both server and client.

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🎮 Default Keybind

[table] [tr] [th]Action[/th] [th]Default Key[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Search / Scavenge[/td] [td]J[/td] [/tr] [/table] Rebindable in Options → Controls

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🔧 Configuration

Everything is controlled through a single JSON file — ServerConfig.json

The config is organized into clearly labeled sections with built-in documentation:

• Search Timing & Behavior
• Loot Chances & Diminishing Returns
• Object & Building Exhaustion
• Loot Spawning & Max Loot
• Junk, Jackpot & Multi-Drop
• Tool Requirements & Stamina
• No-Search Zones & Tool Zones
• Sound & Notification Settings
• 7 ARGB Color Customizations
• Logging, Discord & Debug
• Proxy Overrides & 12 Loot Tables

Every field includes a _info description explaining exactly what it does, valid ranges, and examples.

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✅ Compatibility

• DayZ 1.28+
• Any map — Chernarus, Livonia, Namalsk, custom maps