Special Exchange

Some NPCs offer unlimited exchange of certain special items. It's not marked in your PDA.

## Akim

Akim is selling Locks for 10000RU and Wrenched.

## Vityok the Raven

Vityok the Raven is offering random artifacts for rare guns and guns upgraded by Lanky. Weapon condition must be better than 50%; its rarity determines the value of the artifact he gives in return.

While generally a **terrible** trade of unique weapons for mediocre artifacts, Personal sawed-off BM-16 can be obtained by exchanging it at Raven (you are limited to 30 trades, so spend your trades wisely) for just two controller hands. Then you can give the gun back to Raven for a Tier 5 artifact, with Plasma Caterpillar, Great Grandma's Beads, and Electric Porcupine being especially desirable in the early game. Alternatively, you can obtain the gun in Devotee's cyclic for the extra eggs you have left from the Crow's eggs quest.

Later on in the game, you may have a large surplus of upgraded weapons found in stashes. These can be traded to Raven for artifacts which will be more valuable when sold, or cooked into higher tier artifacts.

Eligible rare and unique guns

* **Tier 1**: Fort-15, Gewehr 43, OTs-14 "Groza" (NATO), HK MP5A3 "9x18", Saiga-12K "Sniper", TT Z-10, TT ".45", The honorary "Vintorez", Walther "9x18"
* **Tier 2**: AA-12 "Camo", AN-94 "Sniper", AN-94 "Assault", AKS-74U "Special forces", Sayga 308-1 "Custom", APS, FN FNX-40 "Tactical", Crossbow, FN F2000 "Old", Enfield L85A2 "Balanced", Enfield L85A2 "Sniper", Beretta M93R,Mauser C-96 M712 Schnellfeuer, HK MP5SD, Winchester 1300 "Chaser"
* **Tier 3**: Gunslinger's AKMS, Strelok's AK, Fang's AK-74, APB "7.62x25", OTs-14-2 "Groza-5.45", Mauser K-98, Luger P08, Mosin's rifle ver. 1891/30 "Sniper", Fenrir's Cheytac M200, Mauser C-96, Schmeiiser MKb.42H, HK MP5A3 "7.62x25", HK MP5A3 ".357 Magnum", HK MP5SD A3 "5.7x28", OTs-27-2 "9x19", RPKM, RPK-201, SIG SG-550 "Sniper", Rocket-propelled infantry flamethrower RPO-A, SIG SG-552 "Commando", SKS "Custom", SVU-A, AS "Val" "Tactical", AS "Val" PSO-3, General Voronin's VSS "Vintorez", Walther WA 2000 "Anomaly", Sawed-off Remington 870 "Wingmaster"
* **Tier 4**: TOZ-34 "Hunter", AR-F "Sniper", Bibik's AKMS, AWP "Antikiller", Benelli M3 "Tactical", Norman's Crossbow, Ghost's Gauss, Desert Eagle "Long", Big Ben, Flamethrower "Screw's System", FN F2000 "Executioner", Groza "Sniper", HK 417 "Sniper", Luger "Parabellum", Hook's Mossberg, RPG-7, Cardan's Saiga-12K, Franchi SPAS-12 "Hunter", SVD "Long-Range", SVD "Tiger", SVD "Eagle-Owl", SVT-40, VSSK "Vykhlop - Antiterror", Zastava M91
* **Tier 5**: VSS "Golden eagle", AKS-74 "Improved", Chemist's AK, Kalter's VMK, Calter's VMK "+", Barrett M95 "Whisper", Personal sawed-off BM-16, FN F2000 "Paratrooper", Crudface's Gaussgun, "Hostel", "KORD" Machinegun, "KORD" Tank Machinegun, Maschinengewehr 42, "Poltergeist" flamethrower, Strikeback, 6G30 M209, Vepr-12, Vepr-12 "Sniper"

Eligible upgraded guns

Reward artifact pool

* **Tier 1**: Stone Flower, Gravi, Stone Blood, Meat Chunk, Soul, Sparkler, Flash, Thorn, Slug, Droplets, Fireball
* **Tier 2**: Crystal, Moonlight, Thorn, Crystal Thorn, Sea Urchin, Mica, Night Star, Goldfish
* **Tier 3**: Mama's Beads, Pellicle, Battery, Dummy, Spring, Kolobok
* **Tier 4**: Drops of the Soul, Tears Of the Electra, Grandma's Beads, Fiery Dummy, Porcupine, Steel Kolobok, Hide
* **Tier 5**: Plasma Caterpillar, Tears of Fire, Great Grandma's Beads, Electric Porcupine, Fiery Soul, Scale, Bright Dummy, Titanium Kolobok

## Informant

For 40 PDAs, Informant will give you a random stash, equivalent to any other random stash you can get from searching NPC bodies; the rank (Rookie to Master) is also random. These stashes are always located outside the Bar.

For 20 PDAs, he will give you a grenade or a random pack of ammo from this pool:

## Kholod

Kholod has a pretty standard exchange which is located in a separate dialogue for some reason. It's unlimited.

## Kalmyk

Kalmyk will give you Kalmyk's ointment for Vodka ×3 or Cigarettes Lucky Strike ×3.

## Lukash

After The obtained trophy, Lukash will exchange Monolithian ID tag ×10 for **two** boxes of random sniper ammo from the following pool:

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* 7.62x51mm NATO ×20

* 7.62x51mm NATO AP ×20

* 7.62x54mm 7N14 SN ×10

* 7.62x54mm B-30 AP ×10

* 7.92x57mm ×20

* 7.92x57mm AP ×20

* .338 LM FMJ ×10

* LM Partition .338 ×10

* 9.3x64mm Brenneke ×10

* 9.3x64mm 7N33 9CH ×10

* 12.7x55mm STs-130 IA ×10

* 12.7x55mm STs-130 IP ×10

* 12.7x108mm AP ×10

## Sakharov

After Vasiliev's PDA, Sakharov will exchange either:

* Teleport to Yantar

* Teleport to Cordon

* Teleport to Bar

for 20000RU and a Battery artifact.

## Vasily

After finding the blueprints in Collector's stash X-8, Vasily can craft you anomalous underbarrel grenades in packs of six, assuming you completed Tools for Vasily. Regardless of type, each pack takes seven hours to complete and will require:

* Black Energy ×6
* 23x76 "Shrapnel-25" ×6
* VOG-25 charge ×6
* 48,000 RU

You'll also need the following artifacts, depending on the type:

Since these grenades are expensive, rare, and the range is too enormous for them to be safely used in most situations, the only real use for them is the OP-2.2 quests#Wave of Mutants questline. It makes sense to make about 100-120 of VOG-25 charge "Electra" for that questline in advance (which require at least 17-20 days to craft).