DayZ’s experimental servers have just gotten a fairly relevant update concerning the respawning and persistence of loot in-game. Namely the fact that it can now respawn without the server owner needing to restart it or do a refresh that amounts to the same.

Before now most servers would have to do a refresh every few hours to make sure the map wasn’t completely picked clean of all loot, which basically meant until now there was no such thing as night-time in Chernarus. This new update means that a day-night cycle can finally run properly in game without players having to resort to their fists and running every time they encounter a zombie or two. Dropped loot will also remain on the ground now without despawning, even between server restarts. This means that the pickings are no longer so slim in the zombie-filled wasteland of the apocalypse.

Other notable aspects of the update are the introduction of a new weapon; the CR-527 Carbine and a new model for the random cows you can find wandering around to slaughter for their meat.