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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DescriptionEdit

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.

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 might be the Yantar ammo box.
Basically, the loot is inside something which may or may not be destructible.

This is just loot that is scripted to appear on the map in the ordinary course of the game without an external container. An example might be a Bandit jacket with a Cmuphob vodka bottle on a Rostok building site.