DayZ Types Updater (types.xml)

It compares your types.xml with the official vanilla types.xml of your map and adds every entry missing from your file — typically the items of a new DayZ update. The new entries arrive with unchanged vanilla values (nominal, lifetime, flags, category, usage, tier) at the end of the file. Everything else in your file is preserved byte for byte.

Straight from Bohemia's official DayZ-Central-Economy repository on GitHub (master branch) — the same source the game's mission files come from. We cache the state for about 30 minutes; if GitHub is unreachable, a bundled copy of the latest game state steps in.

Yes, guaranteed: the updater does not rewrite your file, it only appends the missing entries before the closing </types>. Your changed values, your order, your XML comments and all mod entries stay exactly as they were.

Any entry in your file that doesn't exist in your map's vanilla types.xml — in practice almost always items from mods, occasionally classes Bohemia removed from the game. The updater lists them for you but never changes them.

Chernarus, Livonia and Sakhal each have their own types.xml with map-exclusive items (Sakhal for example has different weapons than Chernarus). The comparison only works against the right map — which is why the updater also checks whether your file matches the selected map and warns you otherwise.