All Artifacts in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | Map Genie (2025)

Slug

Location: In the radioactive bus inside the Maze

Garbage Random Artifact

Location: Inside the Magnetic Cave in the fire chamber. Use your bolts to trigger the flames and get close with your scanner to spot the Spinner shooting out of the flames.

Lesser Zone Wrenchhead

Location: Found inside the Deaf Meadow anomaly. Towers the base of the north-western cliff edge

Lesser Zone Goldfish

Location: Found on Bubbles' body

Lesser Zone Soul

Related Mission: All That is Left

Location: Drop into the basement via the hole in the floor - beware the mutants. Make your way up the stairs and out the gate back to the surface. Turn around, head up the concrete ramp, hop onto the side of the chemical tank - then make your way to the catwalk with the artifact.

Chemical Plant Random Artifact (Acid)

Location: Inside the underground cave in the poison anomaly

Requirements: Appears during a side mission Piece of Cake

Lesser Zone Random Electro Artifact

Location: On top of the silo. Can also spawn on top of adjacent silos. Jump on to the ladder from a nearby insulated pipe. Sometimes will spawn on ground level.

Does respawn after a while.

Lesser Zone Random Artifact

On a small island, near a body.

Does not respawn.

Lesser Zone Weird Ball

One of the legendary "altered items" often mentioned in hushed tones by stalkers around the campfire. A child's ball, oddly weighty.

Equipping it seems to reduce bullet damage in combat, particularly when standing still.

Lesser Zone RandomArtifact

Location: On the ground in a pile of rocks

Lesser Zone Random Artifact

Location: In the middle of all the anomalies

Cordon Random Artifact

Location: Inside the Death Cave, on stone platform with the skeleton

Controller spawns at the entrance once you interact with the loot.

The Zone The Rat King

Location: Reward for completing Escort Quest

Garbage Random Artifact

Location: Under the corridor beside a dead body

Garbage Random Artifact

Location: Basement

Garbage Random Fire Artifact

Location: Inside the magma spitter anomalies. Multiple artifacts have a chance to spawn in this location

Zaton Random Artifact

Location: In the underground railroad tunnel - in the electrical anomaly

Garbage Random Artifact

Location: Near the corpse

Lesser Zone Random Artifact

Next to a corpse inside the barracks in the back

Wild Island Fire Artifact

Location: Inside the Fire Anomaly

Garbage Artifact

Note: Only appears once ??

Garbage Random Chemical Artifact

Location: In the poisoned area

Potential Artifacts: Slime / Slug / Crust

Garbage Random Fire Artifact

Location: In the basement (requires Heavy Key), or on the roof (bug)

Spawn cooldown 2-3 day(patch 1.0.2)

Garbage Random Electro Artifact

Scan around the crane.

Garbage Random Artifact (Electricity)

Location: ??

Swamps Random Artifact

Location: Back of the tanker

Chemical Plant Sapphire

Location: Electric anomaly

Cement Factory Weird Flower

Behind the cabin. Unique Poppy Field "altered item". Emits a fragrance that masks your scent for a while after resting, but wears off gradually.

Lesser Zone Moonlight

Location: Next to a dead stalker lying on a rock at the bottom of the Chasm anomaly. If you walk along the eastern edge of the cliff to the north, you can see a concrete well with a ladder that you can use to go down.

There is also a bag with a blueprint next to the body.

Yantar Random Gravity Artifact

Chance to spawn here

Zaton Gravitational Artifact

In the formation of rocks, in the gravitational anomaly field.

Wild Island Whirlwind

Location: Scanner in the Open Field activate it - be careful about the Anomalys that spawn and after Scan is complete pick up Whirlwind Artifact

Garbage Random Artifact (Gravitational)

Location: On the ground surrounded by anomalies. About 15 meters south-southwest from the truck

Cordon Random Artifact (Fire)

Location: In the fire anomaly

Swamps Slug

Location: Inside a toxic waste

Lesser Zone Moonlight

Location: near dead stalker

Zaton Ciliate

Location: Look for sewer grating that you can get inside of. To left when you get inside, dead body and a scanner you can interact with for a Ciliate artifact (does not respawn)

Zaton Random Artifact (Acid)

Location: In the middle of all the acid bubbles

Zaton Random Gravitational Artifact

Location: In the gravitational anomaly field under the bridge.

Respawns.Can be a legendary Compass artifact.

Garbage Chemical Artifact

Location: Between chemical anomalies

Drops: Horn \ Slime \ Thorn

Cement Factory Random Artifact

Location: Fire anomaly

Cement Factory Thermal Artifact

Location: ??

Burnt Forest Fire Artifact

On the roof of the Ahroprom Factory

Chemical Plant Flower Bud

Gravitational Anomaly

Zaton Random Artifact (Fire)

Enter by dropping down a hole just north above this marker, or enter via a cave a short distance northwest of this marker, artifact nearby a burnt corpse.

Zaton Human Eye

When you let go of the "smart ghost" and complete the mission in the Everglades, there will be a team of stalkers here. Talk to them and choose "the smart ghost told me the key information" to get this singularity.

Zaton Gravitational Artifact

Location: Gravitational anomaly near the trains

Yaniv Random Artifact

Location: Inside the magma spitter anomolies

Zaton Random Artifact

Location: In the water, between a small row boat wreck and the gravitational anomaly.

Swamps 'Crown' Artifact

Inside a scanner, on an island with zombified stalkers.

Swamps Artifact

Artifact located in the middle of electrical anomalies.

Malachite Random Artifact

Acid anomaly

Garbage Moonlight

On a train car

Yaniv Random Artifact

Location: Fire Anomaly

Cooling Towers Gravitational Artifact

Location: Gravitational anomaly

Red Forest Random Artifact

Thermal Anomaly (Firecracker)

Yaniv Random Artifact

Location: Underground, an acid anomaly is related to the quest Purely Business quest taken from the Bartender

Red Forest Weird Water

Found only at night, random spawn around the area of the dancing lights

Zaton Random Artifact

Location: Near Kupovate Collective Farm

Zaton Random Artifact

Top of helicopter rotor. You must climb up on the westernmost helicopter tail and time jumps from rotor to rotor, avoiding anomalies. Urchin was found here, unsure if it's fixed or random. Bloodsucker roams the helicopter area. Use caution.

Yantar Random Electro Artifact

Location: Found in the electro anomalies

Red Forest Moonlight Artifact

Location: In ditch in back of a truck

Prypiat Weird Bolt

Reward for solving the puzzle

Yaniv Random Fire Artifact

Location: Fire Anomaly

Yantar Artifact

Location: ??

Wild Island Random Artifact Duga Random Artifact

Location: On top of the rock near the dead scientist's body.

To get there, make sure you're on the highest point of the adjacent rock before you jump to the taller rock. You have to hit it just right to get on top.

Swamps Weird Nut

Found after solving the parkour puzzle at the fire tornado arch anomaly

Cooling Towers Random Artifact

Location: There will be a dead stalker on the tree and an artifact in front of himNOTE: Be careful with the two Bayuns

Chemical Plant Crystal Artifact

Location:

  • Inside of the tunnel, when coming in from the direction of STC Malachite, there will be a room to your right, head down the stairs and you will find the artifact floating next to a body.

Stats:

  • Thermal Protection (Weak)
  • Radiation (Weak)
Malachite Random Gravitational Artifact

Location: Near trailer camp

Swamps Random Acid Artifact Zaton Artifact

Scan around the helicopter

Rostok Artifact

Artifact floating above a corpse of a dead stalker

Burnt Forest Weird Pot

Found during the mist arch anomaly in the chimney of the house after solving the puzzle

Burnt Forest Bubble

Location: School Stadium

Duga Random Artifact

To the northeast of the "Brain Scorcher" location in the Malachite Zone, amidst pyro anomalies (also beware several Poltergeists nearby).

Malachite Random Artifact

Location: Inside the bubble anomaly

Swamps Random Artifact

Location: ??

Swamps Random Artifact

Search near center of location around toxic pools near tank

Chemical Plant Random Artifact

Location: Military Tunnel - underground on top of the train car

Chemical Plant Random Artifact

Location: ??

Prypiat Random Artifact

Daredevil Pass - The artifact moves around in a maze of glass shards and gravity orb anomalies.

Cement Factory Random Artifact

Location: Underground

Rostok Ciliate

Use Psi-block to get rid of the hallucinogenic effect

Wild Island Random Artifact

Type: Gravitational, e.g. Stone Heart

Rostok Thermal Artifact

Location: Inside the gas tank area

Burnt Forest Random Artifact

Near a body.

Duga Electrical Artifact

Location: Ground floor of the Commissary Store

Duga Random Artifct

To the southeast of the "Promin CMD Factory" in the Chemical Plant Zone, amidst Vortex and Shard anomalies

Chemical Plant Random Artifact

Location: Toxic Bog inside Chemical Plant zone. Bubble anomalies.

Chemical Plant Random Artifact (Electricity)

Location: Inside the warehouse in the Electro Anomalies

Zaton Random Gravitational Artifact

Location: Ground or top floor, around the hole.

Prypiat Random Gravitational Artifact

Can spawn on the roof. The legendary compass artifact is a possible spawn.

Jupiter Random Electro Artifact

Type: Electro

Prypiat Moonlight

Approach from the south east and go through the maze, you'll find the artifact on a dead stalker on the top right corner. (also scanner shows it)

Prypiat Moonlight

Location: SES Polygon - inside the complex in the middle on the floor by a dead body

Jupiter Random Artifact

Location: In the middle of a gas bubbles.

Zaton Meat Lighter Red Forest Moonlight

Location: Near the corpe in the middle

Malachite Random Artifact

A psi anomaly with a large number of phantom artifacts, among which only one is real.

Chemical Plant Random Artifact (Thermal)

Location: ??

Burnt Forest Random Artifact (Thermal)

Location: ??

Burnt Forest Random Artifact

Fire Anomaly

Cooling Towers Random Electro Artifact

Location: On the roof

Type: Electro

Jupiter Random Electrical Artifact

Location: Pripyat substation - you need to activate a scanner that will cause electrical anomalies. After activation, there will be an artifact in the scanner. Two poltergeists will also appear

Jupiter Random Fire Artifact

Type: Fire

Prypiat Acid Anomaly

Underground, random artifact respawn. The main quest will take you here after SIRCAA. The entrance is a cave NE on the waterline.

Wild Island Meat Lighter

Location: On the roof inside the scanner

Prypiat Lantern

Scanner, up on the crane, next to the stash. One will need to jump onto a ladder, then activate the scanner.

Caution: 2 Electro-Poltergeists will spawn after the scanning is done.

Cooling Towers Mica

Location: Next to the slug, inside the radioactive bus

Garbage Dead Sponge Artifact

Inside Warehouse on scanner that, when charged will give you the "Dead Sponge" artifact upon interacting with it. Be aware that after you take the artifact, 3 bloodsuckers will spawn

Dead Sponge (0.3 kg) - An uncommon artifact found in thermal anomalies.

Powered Dead Sponge used to be sought after by practitioners of alternative medicine on the Mainland. The remedy's popularity waned following a series of deaths among its users.

Bleeding Resistance: MediumRadiation: Medium

Rostok Devil's Mushroom

Once you arrive, you'll see a clearing with a scanner in the middle. Activate the scanner, and wait. Once the scanner is finished, an Armored elk will spawn. You can now pick up the artifact from it, and run away or fight the mutants.

Yaniv
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