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Pen

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

Pen

Weight

12 g

Light attack
10 health · 100 blood · 15 shock · 1 m reach
Heavy attack
12 health · 100 blood · 17 shock · 1 m reach
Sprint attack
12 health · 100 blood · 17 shock · 2.8 m reach

Where to find it on Nasdara

Does not spawn on its own on Nasdara – it only comes with other items, from crafting or from admin spawns.

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

ChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Nominal (target on the map)0000
Min (respawns below this)0000
Lifetime (untouched)8 h8 h8 h8 h
Restock (wait before respawn)0000
Quantity when spawned––––
PlacesTown, Village, Office, SchoolVillageVillageTown, Village, Office, School
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.

Classnames

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

ClassnameChernarusLivoniaSakhalNasdara
Pen_Black0000
Pen_Blue0000
Pen_Green0000
Pen_Red0000

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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