Artifact maps (and some extras)

Easy money, my d00ds.
Also, tried to get some good picture for the guide but I only have memes.

Swamps

Pink stuff is the marker of artifacts, yellow stuff is extra stuff.

Artifacts :

• 1- Medusa
  
• 2- Gravi (And also a Veles detector)
  
• 3- Flash
  
• 4- Crystal
  
• 5- Fireball
  
• 6- Flash
  
• 7- Stone Flower
  
• 8- Meat chunk

Extra stuff :

• 1 - Guard tower (1st mission)
  
• 2 - Starting place after the second blowout
  
• 3 - Pump station
  
• 4 - Fishing Hamlet
  
• 5 - Guard Tower (PSO-1 scope at the top lvl)
  
• 6 - Old chruch
  
• 7 - Burnt farmstead
  
• 8 - Machine Yard
  
• 9 - Train thingy (and a half broken Vintorez sniper rifle)
  
• A - Cut fence, and the entry to to Veles detector and the artifact
  
• S - Start, the Clear Sky base
  
• F - Finish,last mission in swamps, Southern farmstead
  
• F3 - Third flashdrive (It's a stash, can get it either from Cold at the bar or Nimble)

Cordon

Artifacts :

• 1- Night Star
  
• 2- Medusa
  
• 3- Medusa

Extra stuff :

• 1- Route from Swamps
  
• 2- Rookie village
  
• 3- Old Mill, and a bit before the Bus Stop
  
• 4- Broken train bridge, and space anomaly on top
  
• 5- Neutral Base
  
• 6- Car Park
  
• 7- Ruins of a building
  
• 8- 'Secret' Camp
  
• 9- Army base
  
• 10- Entrance to Dark Valley
  
• 11- Train ruin thingy (and also a Chaser 13 shotgun around it)
  
• 12- Tunnel under the train route
  
• 13- Entrance to Swamps' North-East side
  
• 14- Entrance to Garbage
  
• 15- Entrance to Garbage (Far outpost)

Flashdrives :

• F1- Car park, at the military commander's body
  
• F2- At the entrance from Swamps next to the army base, go a bit higher at the beginning of the tunnel, there is a body with a backpack, the backpack has it. Stash info got from the Loner trader.
  
• F3- Info got from the Drifter named d00d. Go to Wolf at the pile of energy drinks, take his quest, do a hardsave in case Drifter dies. Save Drifter from the dogs, escort him back to the village. You need to buy the info from him.
  The flashdrive is next to the secret camp, at the fence next to the dead body, in his arms or next to him is a box or backpack, that contains it.

Garbage

Artifacts :

• 1- Moonlight
  
• 2- Mama's beeds
  
• 3- Fireball
  
• 4- Stone Flower
  
• 5- Nightstar
  
• 6- Moonlight
  
• 7- Meat chunk
  
• 8- Soul

Extra stuff :

• 1- Concentration camp (Or car cemetary as I call it)
  
• 2- Depot (Bandit base)
  
• 3- Diggin site
  
• 4- Flea market
  
• 5- Entrance to Dark Valley
  
• 6- Ditto
  
• 7- Entrance to Cordon
  
• 8- Ditto
  
• 9- Entrance to Agroprom

Flash Drives :

• F1- At a pile of trash, in a piece of pipe
  
• F2- Behind Flea Market, at the underground place, only aquirable a bit later at a quest
  
• F3- In a backpack at a body
  
• F4- At the side of the pile of trash in a backpack
  
• F5- In a backpack next to a body.

IMPORTANT!!
All these flashdrives' (Except f2) info can only can be aquired from Vasyan, who disappears after your meeting when you leave. You have only 1 chance to get the flashdrives.

Dank Valley

Artifacts :

• 1- Night star
  
• 2- Wrenched
  
• 3- Soul
  
• 4- Wrenched
  
• 5- Moonlight

Extra stuff :

• 1- Freedom base
  
• 2- Antenna
  
• 3- Farm
  
• 4- Factory
  
• 5- Entrance to Cordon
  
• 6- Entrance to Garbage
  
• 7- Entrance to Garbage

Flash Drives

• F1- Got from Chehov
  
• F2- Info got from Ganja
  
• F3- Ditto

Agroprom

Artifacts :

• 1- Moonlight
  
• 2- Nightstar
  
• 3- Soul
  
• 4- Nightstar
  
• 5- Moonlight
  
• 6- Moonlight

Extra crap :

• 1- Train tunnel
  
• 2- Loner base
  
• 3- Duty base
  
• 4- Swamps

Flashdrives
(Written with numbers now)

• 5- Info from Krilov
  
• 6- Info from Duty trader
  
• 7- Info from Zvyagintsev
  
• 8- Info from Hermit (Dutier guy at the entrance who also gives a SPAS shotgun)

Yantar

Artifacts :

• 1- Eye
  
• 2- Kolobok
  
• 3- Moonlight
  
• 4- Shell

Extra Crap

• 1- Shakarov in his soupcan
  
• 2- Dead stalker's PDA
  
• 3- Factory's attack's beginning

Red Forest

Artifacts

• 1- Eye
  
• 2- Wrenched
  
• 3- Snow thing
  
• 4- Battery
  
• 5- Gravi
  
• 6- Wrenched
  
• 7- Wrenched

Extras

• 1- Bridge to Limanks
  
• 2- SOS Signal
  
• 3- Tunnel to the forest thing
  
• 4- Tank with space anomaly
  
• 5- Closed gate
  
• 6- Forester
  
• 7- Tunnel where the compass and a Bulldog 6 hides.

Army Warehouses

Artifacts

• 1- Wrenched
  
• 2- Shell
  
• 3- Eye
  
• 4- Wrenched
  
• 5- Bubble

Extras

• 1- Millitary base
  
• 2- Entrance to Red Forest
  
• 3- Bloodsucker village
  
• 4- Village's tower

Protip for selling artifacts

Sidorovich gives the best price for artifacts, Shakarov gives the second best price.

Disclaimer thing

This guide is for vanillia Clear Sky, mods might change the artifacts you would find.

[(voice) pewpewlol]

where is number one artifact in agroprom

[Smelly (Afraid of Women)]

@sgame144 No that's not the one, it's called "Sky Reclamation Project (SRP)" It should be the first search result, if it isn't, then here is the link: https://www.moddb.com/mods/srp
Just keep in mind, you will have to start the game all over again if you wanna use it

You can get a faction that you are not a part of to like you enough by doing quests for them,
doing one or two quests for clear sky should make them green again.

You can also choose between sticking with the loners or going with the bandits.
I didn't even talk with the bandits and immediately wiped them out on my playthrough, just keep in mind that if you do the same you'll miss out on the bandit technician who can upgrade SEVA suits.

They'll also rob you of all your money at the entrance to the garbage whenever you are near it.
That is sadly necessary if you wanna be friendly with the bandits.

[sgame144]

since i did the "go into cordon and back out to open an entrance up north", i lost all statistics and im just a stalker, all yellow friendlies now once i went back into swamps. i have to put my gun away. no friends either in cordon, all ready to shoot me if i get too close

[sgame144]

@Smelly (Afraid of WWomen)

Is this the mod?

ABR CS MOD 1.0.2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky mod | Released 2022

[sgame144]

@Smelly (Afraid of Women) thanks for the advice! Yeah i recall beating SOC recently and how many advanced weapons i ended it with. That into cordon and back out sounds cool, but so does the mod! if seen so many bugs!

[Smelly (Afraid of Women)]

@sgame144
Oh and, maybe you should consider starting a new game but with the Sky reclamation project mod.
It's basically a pack of bug fixes as well as some optional quality of life mods. Many consider it a necessity for clear sky since it's by far the most buggy game in the series.
The SRP is available on Moddb.
Just keep in mind that you'll need to start a new game with it installed

[Smelly (Afraid of Women)]

@sgame144 Okay so basically:

What I did was stay in the swamps and do stuff till I had a fully upgraded Clear Sky assault armor/MP5, I was persistent enough to eventually snipe the MG gunner
(The color of your crosshair shows if an enemy is in your line of sight which helps)

But since you probably don't wanna waste more time in the swamps like I did
(seriously, there's better things to spend your time on, my first plathrough took about 100 hours and I don't even like the game)
I recommend that you take the "secret" path. Go to the cordon via the way you're supposed to go, then immediately go back, a new route to a more northern part of the cordon should have been unlocked, it's next to one of the last renegade bases.

And about the AK ammo, don't worry about it, you'll get plenty of ammo for it when you clash with the military in the cordon. Hell, you'll probably get the better Spetsnaz AK, although that one can only be upgraded later in the game.

[sgame144]

Need more help please! Playing on veteran difficulty because ive played this game since it came out with SOC...thing is, im not making as much $ for things in the swamps and if i go into cordon, i get wrecked by the stationary "mg 42" at the corner of the military post. I have an upgraded Akm with scope, but only 30 rounds left. CLear sky trader doesnt sell them. any idea where i can get better weapons in swamps? I have a the really broken rifle but no ammo for it, i forget the name. Saw a video above of the player just sprints past the military in cordon, but seems hes running super fast! Ive tried over and oover, i tried to hit the gunner from far enough away from the base, but its so far away.

[sgame144]

@Smelly (afraid of women)

Thanks for the advice, and bummer about the tower! oh well

[Smelly (Afraid of Women)]

@sgame144

1) Check under the matress in the little cave, you gotta look really closely but it's there, then equip it and the artifact should appear in the bucket behind where you found the detector.
Also here's a video that shows how to get it:
https://youtu.be/FvjjR1O8Q10?t=356

2) I have this problem as well, from what I found on the wiki and stuff you would have had to climb the outpost's tower before the emission to get that flash drive and it's impossible to acquire afterwards.