Stash

Dummy stash of the Burer is a fake stash not featured in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha.

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This is usually the text appearing in the PDA description.
- PDA description

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Description

These are locations on the Main Map and/or the Mini Map in the player's HUD where another party has left - or "stashed" items of value or loot.
The map marker is a small mauve circle design and mousing over it will provide a PDA description of its name along with some cryptic comment.
Almost exclusively in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha, the coordinates are obtained by the player from an NPC's corpse.
When any part of the contents become removed (even if replaced immediately) the map icon colour changes to green and a mouse-over will only glean the PDA description "Stash". This also occurs if an item is added to the contents and then removed.
Locations that are known to be stash locations but are empty (because the coordinates have not yet been obtained) may be used by the player to store items on a non-volatile basis and will have the contents added to with the appropriate loot if the coordinates are subsequently obtained.
BUGNOTE: Games that incorporate the PRM mod may develop "blocked" stash locations.
This appears to be semi-random WRT the stash location but is generally considered to be annoying and immersion breaking due to the resource loss inconvenience on an unclear basis.
WORKAROUND: ...Make sure your game does not include PRM Modpack at startup.
OR - only store loot in stashes for which the coordinates are known (adding does not seem to cause problems, and the coords will not be reacquired)

These are locations that contain valuable loot that has been placed on the map and are available to the player on a non-random basis, but are never given a map marker.
An example would be the cross on Darkscape near a Vortex cluster that contains (varying numbers of) rifles in all versions.
Basically, the loot is inside something which is not destructible and may also be used to store additional items.
NB - the above example is modified by the PRM Modpack.

These are stashes that are coded as locations in some versions (v1.30013 - 1.4005) but have no possibility of the coordinates being given and usually do not contain loot.
Although still present in v1.4007, these are now deprecated from the game and the coordinates are no longer 'cheatable'.

This is just loot that is scripted to appear on the map in the ordinary course of the game with or without an external breakable container.
An example might be a Bandit jacket with a Cmuphob vodka bottle on a Rostok building site.
Another example might be the Yantar ammo box that contains a Snowflake.
The difference being that the placement container (if extant) may not be reused as a container.