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Field Shovel

A shovel most often used by soldiers as well as adventurers and survivalists. It's usually used as a tool to dig trenches and build camping grounds, but it also makes for a good self-defense weapon.

Field Shovel

Classname

FieldShovel

Weight

1.8 kg

Light attack
20 health · 100 blood · 10 shock · 1.4 m reach
Heavy attack
32 health · 100 blood · 16 shock · 1.4 m reach
Sprint attack
32 health · 100 blood · 16 shock · 3.3 m reach

Where to find it on Nasdara

Where you find it
Military
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)35202540
Min (respawns below this)28151934
Lifetime (untouched)4 h4 h4 h4 h
Restock (wait before respawn)0000
Quantity when spawned––––
PlacesMilitaryMilitaryMilitaryMilitary
Tiers––Tier1, Tier2, Tier3–
Spots––––
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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