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Charcoal Tablets

Made of activated charcoal. Used as an absorbent to treat poisoning and overdose or as filling for gas mask filters.

Charcoal Tablets

Classname

CharcoalTablets

Lasts

5 min

Quantity

12

Weight

20 g

Binds salmonella — but only in the last 100 of its 300 seconds, at 2.85 germs per second (about 285 in total). For the full 5 minutes it also helps the body clear food poisoning, as long as your immunity is not low.

Lasts
5 min
One use
1 tablet
Using it again
Taking another one while the first still works uses it up for nothing.

Where to find it on Nasdara

Where you find it
Medical, Village
Spread
Scattered across the whole mapShow on the map

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

ChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Nominal (target on the map)20201390
Min (respawns below this)121088
Lifetime (untouched)8 h8 h8 h8 h
Restock (wait before respawn)0001 min
Quantity when spawned10–50%10–50%10–50%10–50%
PlacesMedicMedicMedicMedic, Village
Tiers––––
Spotsshelvesshelvesshelvesshelves
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.

Used for crafting

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

Sell it in your server's trader shop

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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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