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Canteen

A reusable plastic bottle used by military and campers. Can be filled with various liquids.

Canteen

Classname

Canteen

Holds

1,000 ml

Weight

250 g

It starts filled with Water. The game counts a liquid’s values per 100 ml, and one second of drinking takes 65 ml.

Water

100

per 100 ml

Per sip

65

water in 1 s (65 ml)

Full

1,000

water in 1,000 ml

Energy

0

per 100 ml

Holds
1,000 ml

Where to find it on Nasdara

Where you find it
Military, Hunting
Spread
In some placesShow on the map

Values from the vanilla types.xml of each map. Community servers often change them.

ChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Nominal (target on the map)20201355
Min (respawns below this)1010845
Lifetime (untouched)4 h4 h4 h4 h
Restock (wait before respawn)0000
Quantity when spawned10–90%10–90%10–90%20–60%
PlacesMilitary, HuntingMilitaryMilitaryMilitary, Hunting
Tiers–––Tier1
Spots––floor, shelves–
Countedon the groundon 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.

Fits on

Used for crafting

Recipes that take this item as one of their two ingredients.

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 1.30 (Experimental server, 2026-10-16), DayZ-Central-Economy f220b29 (Chernarus, Livonia, Sakhal), Nasdara from the 1.30 server. Updated 2026-10-17.

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