How to Repair Armors?

This is the "Armor Repair" guide for vanilla S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl by mark...

We'll be using the "1.0006" version of the game , so don't try to do this trick with outdated pirate versions , i suggest you to use the "Steam" version .

Required Equipments

To do this trick we need 4,5 "Battery" artifacts , more artefacts you wear, the shorter and more effective the process will be . There are 2 artifacts with this name and we can repair our armor with both of them .

I'll be using this "SEVA" suit but it works for every armor .

1) Flame Battery

For the first method we have "Flame Battery" . This artifact spawns in "Burner" anomalies and it gives +30 Burn effect . You can find one of this artifact in "Garbage" near the Duty checkpoint .

Flame Battery


After finding the artifact , wear all of them . It should look like this


Here's our damaged suit . As you can see, it's durability has been reduced by half.


Now we just need to jump into a campfire *Burner anomalies also work too* I'm gonna use the one at the Cordon , Rookie Village .


After jumping into the fire you need to wait at least a minute . Don't worry you won't die since the artifact has +Fire Resistance , and you will see that your armors durability is slightly increasing

2) Electro Battery

For the second method we have "Electro Battery" . This artifact spawns in "Gravitational" anomalies . You can find one of this artifact in Garbage , Near to the Agroprom entrance , inside a Vortex . It gives +30 Electric Shock .



It's the same procces actually but this time we need to find an "Electro" Anomaly
After finding enough artifacts wear all of them


It should look like this

And as you can see the armor is pretty damaged , now we will fix it


I'm gonna use the Electro in the Cordon , inside the Underpass .
After you find it jump directly into it[ and start waiting[/i]


If you look close enough you will see that the durability is increased
After a while it is just as new :)

Which one is better ?

I suggest you to use the "Flame Artifact" method because this artifact is easy to find compared to the Electro one . And even if you find it now you need to find a anomaly . Flame method can be done on both "Burner" anomalies and any fire at all .

Thx for using my guide :)

[Bob of Mage]

It also works with the Spring and stuff that deals impact damage. That includes fall damage as well as anomalies. Thrown objects also deal impact damage, so it can allow you to heal when fight certain enemies.

[Col. A. Covolsky]

@Oneironautics modded armor is usually as hard to find as those artifacts, it's a good method for saving cash when exploring the zone for weeks IRL...

[Deez spooder]

oh right no technicians in this game

[Oneironautics]

Why do people be talking about "find 4 of this rare artifact you've never seen before to use the exploit" like it's so easy wtf

Like I know it's the only way to do it, but I'm on my first playthrough, about to go into Red Forest and still haven't seen either of these artifacts.

[Chief]

If I die Im coming right back

[Star Zhee]

the fact that i cant tell if this is a joke or not make it ten times funnier

[Zombie]

Thanks , can't wait to try this and save some RU

[Col. A. Covolsky]

LOL, i feel like this would have made a crewl joke but it made me want to reinstall the game just to check this method out.