For the record Loot respawns do not work the way you think. They respawn hourly at the same time every day. In NZ time, this is at x.56 minutes precisely for me on our region. If you leave anything in the box, or loot the entire box, it makes no difference. You can literally loot a stash a minute before the respawn occurs and it will refresh it's loot at the respawn time. Loot in containers is also specific to each server #. So, if you can somehow consistently swap between different server #'s, you can potentially do your stash run multiple times in an hour. But I've not worked out a way to reliably do this when going back to base and then returning for an additional run.
@@CheekiBreekiTvI also reckon, on our servers, Stashes are 10x more effective then Arti hunting too. Arti's spawn far less commonly for us it seems due to lower pop. And Stashes are less likely to have been looted for us which in turn makes Hide Out rewards worth even more money for us.
Finally, someone said it. Stash runs are way more profitable than Artifact runs. Minimal risk due to it being on your side of the map, plus you can do a little bit of artifact hunting as you go around buildings in the Mines.
So what do do you with everything from the staches? What’s the sell method? Sell everything to fence, sell everything on auction house, or a mix of both? Like with artifacts hunting, you generally sell everything to the fence except those one or two off artis you know go for money on the auction house. Half the time I ending up keeping stache run items like med kits and consumables.
I thought about it but I'm not sure what there is to show, it's mainly a lot of mindless grinding (which definitely does something to my goblin brain or I wouldn't be addicted to this game) but I'm not sure how entertaining watching me play would be!
Hi Cheek! Here to share my experience. I (merc) started with nearly 0roubles 6 days ago, and over these 6 days I almost finished buidling my dream art build (at least for now), by just doing stashes and once in a while art runs on Mines and Black Detour. Together, I earned 16.3mln roubles playing 3-4hrs daily. I was mostly selling yeast, ammonia, clusters of recources and tools. Over these 6 days I found 2 centrifuges, a set of screwdrivers and a caliper set. Rn I'm sitting at 6.3mln and, honestly, I am considering buying a 100 black presents for 4.5mln to get at least some golden schema (prefferably sa58), or I can finish buying arts and buy a blue shard. So idk yet, would be really cool to hear your opinion on this. P.S: about black presents, I already opened like 300-350 of them, I am SP lvl 560(?) + season pass, so... yeah, I got every schema 3-4 times already (except ofc yellow ones, smh)
Awesome video, love to see another spreadsheet geek in Stalcraft. I would be interested to see a deep dive into your thoughts on finding brainless XP farming with low risk/competition because I share your thoughts on Forge. Also if you have any recipes or thoughts for leveling the hideout efficiently, that being either low cost or breakeven/minor profit recipes, that would be a great value to the community I think. Seems like its just been grinding loads of useless crap for 10xp (pale leaf->flour for example) Keep up the great videos!
"Checks the nickname and nods approvingly" Welcome to the mercenary! First time seeing your content on Stalcraft and especially seeing this familiar nickname! As for "Battle pass" farming (proved by Russian colleagues), Forge is indeed a really good place to farm a battle pass, but they also noticed that Garbage (yes, the one in South area) is actually a really valid place to farm a battle pass at a pretty interesting pace. Not sure if they nerfed it as they did it with crafting, but you might want to look into it! Also, love your videos! Keep posting them!
Not gonna lie, I can agree, if you can managed to control yourself from grabbing the nearest gun to k__l yourself and kept up the grind, you'll come back at least 100k, covering the cost of ammunition, ammo bags, health, health packs, some booster shots and 2 psyblocks, trust my word, you can theoretically reach a million if you grind at least a hour or two in the game, in just a week.
Yes! When I was saying Forge is great for BP but I think there's safer / better ways to do it was implying the South (Black Willow for Stalkers actually, and Garbage for bandits because weirdly Agroprom is trash). But I need to run the numbers. And it's highly dependent on getting a chill server, nobody else doing it with you etc
Regarding farming BP. Forge farming is so far the best way to do it imo. Can get like 50 bp levels in 2-3 hours if you get decent server and have someone in squad to help holding the server. Doing it with my clan mates time to time. I'm 1100 lvl now, but literaly have one of my mates who got lvl 1750 in first 3 weeks of the season.
Arti hunting is more of a gamble, sure you can get you regular 300k per emision in lab, bd, mines, but it is the little chance of getting an insane arti that sometimes make's the difference. I would say that stashes are more like an investement you do when there is nothing going on in the serve and artis more of a gamble that can get you in the negatives, give you a little bit of money or get you a 170kk arti if you are lucky and know what you are doing.
North stashes just spit in my face constantly. Over 100 hours in the north, probably more like 200 hours by now, and I haven't found a single hideout item.
As a newbie in Stalcraft I appreciate the content as it lacks English content in general however I am having a hard time believing the results of your research. I have done this stash run a bunch of times and never found anything that would be even remotely close to the amount of money you are claiming. For starters every single time at least half the stashes were empty. And in the 10-15 times Ive done it I have only found one Gamma Data Block as a valuable item. Never found anything that would make any actual money. I hope I was just unlucky since my sample size is small but Im not very hopeful if Im being honest.
factions have their own location which is 99% of the time free of enemy players so grinding stuff is safe but takes longer. then there is a location that is inbetween your base and the enemy where you get around twice the materials, but as a solo it can be tough there. because i dont have good enough armor i dont go to the infected areas or forge11 but im pretty sure there is a ton of pvp there. side note, grinding for substance is really easy if you go into enemy territory since you get like 50 per camp, just hope a player doesnt sneak up on you
The game loop at the north gets too repetitive. Too much grinding and not enough engaging game features. The hideout should be featured much sooner also.
Yellow Packs at least in Mines is now pointless. I've been trying for days over various time frames. The Bags in Mines are over farmed all the time. Always empty or trash loot. Making sufficient money in this game is such a trash pursuit.. You have to manipulate markets and/or be extremely lucky.
03:47 Nice but farming the trackers as a stalker is absolute pain since everyone and their dead hamster is running around forest and graveyard, including ofc bandits. And pole is just... no.
If you struggle with farming trackers - ask someone from your faction who has master level gear to just invite you to the party. Even if they'll be doing their own things up north you will be thrown on master servers which on the south of the zone usually pretty much empty. I myself farmed Buryat after I fully leveled my master equipment and it did not take long. Had some leftover trackers from when I was at the south myself, but farmed about 160 alpha/beta trackers in like 6-8 hours because pit, dead city and path of the fools all had like 1 more mercenary/covenant player for the whole map.
as usual,usual player never gona see those numbers,2 mill a hour from stashes?my friend runs stashes all the time, and hes broke as f. and i runing protos and instalations and 1 mill pro hour is a pefrect scenario with overweight starts from 150 as minimum,so for usual player those numbers are fantastic
