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STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl
Prypiat Region Guide
★ Best Weapons | Best Armor | Best Artifacts
☆ All Door Code Locations and Solutions
★ How to Unlock All Endings
☆ All Main Mission and Side Mission Guides
★ Locations: All Bases | All Artifact Farms
☆ How to Get All Unique Weapons
Prypiat is the final explorable region in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Read on to see a list of points of interest in this region, including artifact farming locations, unique weapons, stashes, door codes, and bases!
| Prypiat Guides | |
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| Prypiat Region Guide | How to Get to Prypiat |
List of Contents
Prypiat Region Map
| Prypiat Region Map | |
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| Legend | |
Prypiat is the final explorable region you'll unlock in STALKER 2. To unlock this region, you'll have to progress the main story and complete The Boundary, after which both Prypiat and Jupiter will be free to explore.
Note: There is only one base in Prypiat and it will be under attack when you reach it for the first time. Make sure you're prepared for combat before making your way deeper into the city.
Prypiat Artifact Farming Locations
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| # | Location | Possible Artifacts |
| 1 |  Behind the Olympia Cafe is a gaping hole filled with acid clouds. Look for a broken down truck to find a Moonlight artifact on its trailer. |
 Moonlight
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| 2 |  This unpinned (but famous) location on the map is an electro anomaly field. Brave its hazard-filled floor area with a Detector to farm Electro Artifacts. |
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| 3 |  This old school next to the Prometheus Theater houses a lot of gravity anomalies. Explore it with a Detector to farm Gravity Artifacts. |
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| 4 |  The second floor of the Shopping Mall is a thermal anomaly field. Explore it with a Detector to farm Thermal Artifacts. |
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| 5 |  The School Stadium is a large thermal anomaly field. Explore it with a Detector to farm Thermal Artifacts. |
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| 6 |  The interior of the Sunny Kindergarten is filled with acid anomalies. Explore it with a Detector to farm Acid Artifacts. |
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Prypiat Unique Weapons
| Prypiat Unique Weapons Locations | ||
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| # | Weapon | How to Get |
| 1 |
 Margach D-12MT
Ultimate Edition |
 Found inside the 13th Journalist's Stash in Prypiat if you own the Ultimate Edition of STALKER 2. The code to the door leading into this area is 2021. |
| 2 |
 Hunter
Deluxe Edition |
Found inside the 13th Journalist's Stash in Prypiat if you own the Deluxe Edition of STALKER 2. The code to the door leading into this area is 2021. |
| 3 |
 Sotnyk
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 If you sided with Strelok during Subtle Matter and Dangerous Liaisons, you'll get this weapon at the end of Down Below. It will be on the table behind Strelok once you return to the Enerhetyk Palace of Culture. |
| 4 |
 Beast
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 Dropped by Col. Korshunov during Down Below if you decided to pursue either the Strelok, Kaymanov, or Spark endings. This gun cannot be obtained if you sided with the Ward. |
| 5 |
 Encourage
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Dropped by Col. Korshunov during Down Below if you decided to pursue either the Strelok, Kaymanov, or Spark endings. This gun cannot be obtained if you sided with the Ward. |
Prypiat Stashes
| Prypiat Stash Locations | ||
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| # | Stash | Map and Contents |
| 1 | 13th Journalist's Stash | The 13th Journalist's Stash is found behind a code-locked door inside this unmarked building. Use the code, 2021, to unlock the door and reach the stash. It will contain the Hunter (Deluxe or Ultimate Edition) as well as the PSZ-21W Shturm and the Margach D-12MT (Ultimate Edition). |
| 2 | Exoskeleton Lead Container Stash |  This stash is found inside a washing machine at the ground floor of the Laundromat. Loot it to get the Lead Container Blueprint for the Exoskeleton. |
| 3 | M701 Super Polymer Handle Safe |  This safe is found inside the hospital building to the south of the Industrial Hospital No126. Enter from a hole on the east side of the building and crawl through to find the safe on one of the broken shelves to your left. Loot it to get the Polymer Handle blueprint for the M701 Super. |
| 4 | SVU-MK S-3 Rubber Layer Safe |  The safe is found inside the Meat, Fish, Vegatables building. Shoot the lock on one of the doors to reach the room with the safe. Loot it to get the Rubber Layer blueprint for the SVU-MK S-3. |
| 5 | Dnipro Caliber Conversion Stash |  The stash can be found within the bookshelf maze, inside the White House. Loot it to get the Caliber Conversion blueprint for the Dnipro. |
| 6 | High-Capacity SVU-MK S-3 Magazine Safe |  The safe can be found on the 2nd Floor of the Shopping Mall. It will be hidden behind a broken table. |
| 7 | High-Capacity Saiga D-12 Magazine Stash |  Found next to some pots inside the Shopping Mall. |
| 8 | RAM-2 Automatic Two-Stage Gas Regulator Stash |  This stash can be found under the stairs of the southeast corner of the Enerhetyk Palace of Culture. Loot it to get the Automatic Two-Stage Gas Regulator blueprint for the RAM-2. |
| 9 | Saiga D-12 Rebalanced Stock Stash |  This stash can be found next to a corpse underneath the Polissya Hotel during the main mission, Down Below. Loot it to get the Rebalanced Stock blueprint for the Saiga D-12. Note, it will be missable if you chose to descend via the Olympia Cafe. |
| 10 | Operator Exoskeleton Lead Container Stash |  The stash is found behind a locked cell in the flooded basement of the CSC building. Turn on the generator first at the 2nd Floor, then turn on the power switch at the basement to unlock it. Loot it to get the Lead Container blueprint for the Operator Exoskeleton.
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| 11 | Brummbar Exoskeleton Sprint Upgrade Stash |  The stash can be found on the heel of the statue, right in front of the Prometheus Theater intersection. Loot it to get unlock the Sprint Upgrade for the Brummbar Exoskeleton. |
| 12 | Shield of Duty Exosuit Lead Container Stash |  Found behind a set of locked double doors in the room behind the River Port (marked by disco lights). Chuck a grenade above the doors to unlock them. The stash is guarded by a very tanky Chimera. |
Prypiat Side Missions
No Side Missions in Prypiat
| There are no side missions in Prypiat. |
List of All Side Missions and Map
Prypiat Door Codes
| Prypiat Door Code Locations | ||
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| # | Door or Safe | Code and Location |
| 1 | 13th Journalist's Stash Door |  (Solution: 2021) This location gets marked if you've collected the first 12 Journalist's Stashes. The building itself can be visited once your gain access to Prypiat. |
| 2 | Between the Lines Achievement Door |  (Solution: 13263622) Found in an apartment to the southwest of the CSC building. Opening it nets you the Between the Lines achievement. |
Prypiat Points of Interest
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| # | Point of Interest |
| 1 | Enerhetyk Palace of Culture This is the only Base in Prypiat. You'll be tasked to head to this location during the main story mission, The Road to the Foundation. |
| 2 | Polissya Hotel One of two entrances to the Foundation underneath Prypiat. You will have to choose to enter through here or the Olympia Cafe during the main mission, Down Below. |
| 3 | Ferris Wheel |
| 4 | Olympia Cafe One of two entrances to the Foundation underneath Prypiat. You will have to choose to enter through here or the Polissya Hotel during the main mission, Down Below. |
| 5 | City Park A location you visit if you decided to investigate the Laundromat during the main mission, The Road to the Foundation. The helicopter wreck at its center will be guarded by a deadly Chimera. |
| 6 | Music School |
| 7 | Prometheus Movie Theater One of two locations you investigate during the main mission, The Road to the Foundation. |
| 8 | CSC |
| 9 | River Port This building houses a deadly Chimera behind a set of locked double doors. It guards a stash containing the Shield of Duty Exosuit Lead Container Blueprint. |
| 10 | School No1 |
| 11 | School Stadium |
| 12 | Industrial Hospital No126 This is where you meet Scar and his Sparkers during the mission, The Road to the Foundation, if you sided with the Spark during Subtle Matter and Dangerous Liaisons. |
| 13 | Shopping Mall |
| 14 | White House |
| 15 | Strumok Milk Shop |
| 16 | Sunny Kindergarten |
| 17 | Laundry One of two locations you investigate during the main mission, The Road to the Foundation. |
| 18 | Zustrich Canteen |
| 19 | Department Store |
| 20 | Meat, Fish, Vegetables |
| 21 | Bookstore |
| 22 | Kolosov Bakery |
| 23 | Friendship Kindergarten |
| 24 | Prypiat-1 Checkpoint |
| 25 | Start Shop |
Prypiat Base Location
Enerhetyk Palace of Culture is Located in the Northern Part of the City
The Enerhetyk Palace of Culture is an Ecologist base found in the northern section of Prypiat. It is one of the only safe zones in Prypiat that has a bed that you can rest in (since the Spark and Ward bases have none).
Enerhetyk Palace of Culture Map Location
Prypiat Notable NPCs
Enerhetyk Palace of Culture NPCs
There are 3 service NPCs found inside the Enerhetyk Palace of Culture. Additionally, this base is where you first meet Col. Degtyarev - the protagonist of the earlier STALKER game, Call of Pripyat.
| NPC | NPC Type |
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 TechnicianBison is one of the only Technicians in the game that can fully upgrade all weapons and armor. |
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 TraderTalk to this NPC to buy weapons and armor or sell surplus items. |
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 GuideTalk to this NPC to fast travel to Bases you've already visited. |
STALKER 2 Related Guides
All Regions
| All Regions in The Zone | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lesser Zone | Cordon | Garbage |
| Rostok | Chemical Plant | Malachite |
| Duga | Burnt Forest | Wild Island |
| Cement Factory | Cooling Towers | Zaton |
| Swamps | Yantar | Red Forest |
| Yaniv | Jupiter | Prypiat |
All Map Guides
| All Map Guides | |
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| How to Leave the Lesser Zone | How to Get to Prypiat |
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