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Pen

Regular colored pen. Unsurprisingly, can be used for writing and marking things down.

Pen
Category
Tools
Weight
12 g
Inventory size
1 × 1 (1 slots)
Durability
10

Classnames

Each colour or version has its own classname. Nominal is the vanilla target count per map.

ClassnameChernarusLivoniaSakhal
Pen_Black000
Pen_Blue000
Pen_Green000
Pen_Red000

Spawns on each map

Values from the vanilla types.xml of each map. Community servers often change them. Nominal and min are added up over all variants.

ChernarusLivoniaSakhal
Nominal (target on the map)000
Min (respawns below this)000
Lifetime (untouched)8 h8 h8 h
Restock (wait before respawn)000
Quantity when spawned–––
PlacesTown, Village, Office, SchoolVillageVillage
Tiers–––
Spotsshelvesshelvesshelves
Countedon the groundon the groundon the ground

Tier 1 is near the coast, Tier 4 deep inland. A nominal of 0 means the item does not spawn as loot on that map.

Sell it in your server's trader shop

With dzbot, players on your Nitrado DayZ server — PC, PlayStation, Xbox or Switch 2 — buy items like this one with your server currency on your server website, and the order spawns at their chosen spot after the next restart.

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Data from the game files: DayZ 1.29, DayZ-Central-Economy 9a21bb9 (2026-08-13). Updated 2026-10-13.

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