🌺[1.5.2][DLTX] Best Artifact Mod v26 + Custom Stashes🌺 addon

>>DLTX is required<<

DLTX should be useful for mods like Trader Overhaul, weapon/repair/item mods etc. Installing any other artifact mod will break this mod due to .xml files not working with DLTX and .ltx overwrites, unless you are a god of manual merging, willing to spend hours/days combining mods.

No it's not compatible with your favorite modpack, nothing is usually. Learn how to mod manually and maybe you'll make it work or make a better modpack yourself.

Low mod score because people don't want you calling yourself the best!

Spreadsheet with all of the artifacts

MO2 is recommended for installing and managing mods

Recommended mod - Extra artifact slots in outfits

Recommended mod - No drug limit when using unstable artifacts

Recommended mod - Phantoms spawn when low on psy health

Old 1.5 mod

Features:

• Rebalance of all artifacts, attachments, containers.
• Not so new tier 0 and completely new tier 4, now Svarog is required for the strongest artifacts.
• Junk artifacts are now proper artifacts that you can put into containers.
• New icons and descriptions.
• 169 artifacts total, 69 modified game artifacts, 100 custom made artifacts
• Increased artifact respawn chance in blowouts and psy storms.
• Any artifact can spawn in any anomaly zone on any map now.
• Psy blur vision starts at 40%, becomes worse at 20% psy health.
• Most traders sell small amounts of artifacts (3% for all artifacts, up to 2 rolls on 0-2 tier, 1 roll on 3-4 tier). 6% for Sidorovich(Cordon), Sakharov(Yantar), Hermann(Jupiter), Cashier(Pripyat Outskirts), Beard(Zaton)(TO), Forester(Red Forest)(TO), all Mercenary, Monolith and Sin traders. TO means Trader Overhaul needed. Compatible by default.
• New consumable artifacts (called Unstable in game)
• Some old SoC artifacts ported with rebalanced stats
• Optional Custom Stashes Patch that changes the loot in stashes

Custom Stashes Patch (optional but recommended):

• New game required if you want to use this
• Optional Custom Stashes Patch with compatibility built in for BaS, KRISS, MG42+MG3, Simple Weapons pack.
• Custom Stashes Patch will not crash the game even if you don't have these weapon mods.
• The custom stashes patch buffs the loot, introduces all of the new artifacts, and also almost all other items in the game like weapons, outfits, attachments, melee, various meds, food, mutant parts, misc items etc., to stash spawns.
• Without the Custom Stashes Patch, new custom artifacts will not spawn in stashes, only the old base+junk ones with modded stats.
• Common stashes can range from nothing to decent loot. Rare stashes are guaranteed to be way better than common ones.
• If you want to use just the Custom Stashes Patch without the artifact mod, it's entirely possible but I haven't tested it.

Issues:

• Uninstalling the mod will result in crashing due to new items still being in the game, you will have to somehow remove all of the new artifacts from your savefile to unbrick it but I have no idea how to do that or if it's even possible
• Explosive and bullet properties are always tied because one of them randomly doesn't show up. If an artifact has either explosive or bullet protection/vulnerability then it always has the other one. Rupture and impact can be split and they both work properly but on most artifacts they're together as well since it makes sense to me design wise and this way it's similar to explosive/bullet
• -Psy artifacts will try to kill you during blowouts and when going to sleep, take them off during those times
• No new models because I don't know how to model lol
• No new interesting effects because I don't know how to code lol
  You might be able to combine this mod with the perk artifacts mod if you're good at merging but I don't think the new artifacts will have any effects, just vanilla

v26 2023-08-17:

• Lowered prices of all consumable artifacts to make them more accessible and in line with the cost/effectiveness ratio of normal food/meds
• Leviathan cost 60000 to 40000
• Behemoth cost 40000 to 30000
• Oasis cost 40000 to 30000
• Dung Pie cost 40000 to 30000
• Scarab cost 40000 to 30000
• Lancelot cost 40000 to 20000
• Sunflower cost 60000 to 40000
• Blood Clover cost 40000 to 25000
• Pseudogiant Blood cost 60000 to 40000
• Chimera Blood cost 40000 to 30000
• Bloodsucker Blood cost 40000 to 20000
• Sandman cost 40000 to 30000
• Mummy cost 60000 to 30000
• Anubis cost 40000 to 20000
• Hermes cost 40000 to 20000
• Acid Mushroom cost 40000 to 20000
• Psyshroom cost 40000 to 20000
• Slimeshroom cost 40000 to 20000
• Midnight Amanita cost 100000 to 40000
• Giant Jellyshroom cost 80000 to 30000
• Lion's Agaricus cost 60000 to 20000
• Monsoon cost 60000 to 30000
• Cube cost 55000 to 25000
• Cooling Rods cost 50000 to 20000
• Hourglass cost 45000 to 15000
• Dawn cost 40000 to 20000
• Rusty Feather cost 40000 to 10000
• Phoenix cost 80000 to 30000
• Gluttony cost 60000 to 50000
• Snake Oil cost 80000 to 60000
• Devil's Heavendeath cost 60000 to 40000

v25 2023-08-11:

• Fixed TO traders again, their files got accidentally deleted again, I am retarded again
• Fixed Frog having wrong rupture/impact inside of artifact boxes
• Schrodinger's Cat icon update, changed model to flower
• Schrodinger's Cat (no box) -12 hp to -16
• Schrodinger's Cat (level 3 box) +12 hp to +8, added -100 rupture/impact
• Ruby Rose -300 bleeding to -240
• Magma Shard -12 hp to -8
• Anomalous Marijuana +12 hp to +8
• Elden Ring +12 hp to +8
• Firefly +20 hp to +16, -300 bullet/rupture to -250
• Doom +600 rupture to +500, +400 impact to +250, 400 rad to 500

v24 2023-07-28:

• Compass 500 rad to 400, 500 psy to 1000, -250 bullet/explosive removed
• Cocoon -1000 rad to -1200
• Fool's Gold -8000 shock removed
• Kolobok -300 bleeding to -180
• Elden Ring -300 stamina to -240
• Schrodinger's Cat (no box) -200 rupture impact removed, -12hp added
• Schrodinger's Cat (level 3 box) -500 rad to -750

v23 2023-07-25:

• Fixed TO traders, their files got accidentally deleted last update
• Descriptions updated on rocks below where needed
• Garnet -100 rupture/impact removed
• Tourmarine -300 stamina removed
• Cocoon -300 rupture/impact removed
• Frog -500 rupture/impact to -250
• Ametrine -150 bullet/explosive removed
• Project D -600 bleeding to -300
• Schrodinger's Cat (no box) -8 hp removed
• Ruby Rose -600 bleeding to -300, -300 bullet/rupture to -200
• Anomalous Marijuana -400 bullet/rupture to -250

v22 2023-07-08 (recommend deleting old files due to some filename changes):

• Fixed legacy Stone Flower, Night Star having rupture/impact protection, they weren't supposed to have it since they're just pure bulletproof artifacts like in SoC
• Removed or lowered some downsides on a lot of artifacts to make them more viable. With the introduction of various artifacts with no downsides, I (and other players too probably) find myself gravitating towards them since I don't have to play the artifact combo puzzle game with them, even if their effects are weaker. To make pairing artifacts easier and the puzzle game less tedious, some downsides were either removed or lowered, especially on less viable rocks. It should now feel less restrictive than before and open up new combos especially to players that haven't found many artifacts yet.
• Descriptions of newly added artifacts had disadvantages and advantages in switched order, it's now fixed. Fixed Frog having a green dot in disadvantages. Updated descriptions of various artifacts below to show new effects correctly.
• Chain -30 stamina removed
• Gravi -100 psy removed
• Goldfish -2 hp removed
• Golden Chrysanthemum -240 bleeding removed
• Atom -150 bullet/rupture to -75
• Wrenched -60 stamina removed
• Bubble -400 burn removed
• Black Hole -4000 shock removed, -300 rupture/impact to -200
• Mama's Beads -30 stamina removed
• Eye -150 rupture/impact to -75
• Flame -150 bullet/explosive removed
• Dahlia -200 psy removed, -300 rupture/impact to -200
• Flash -700 burn removed
• Itcher -400 chem removed
• Fireball -350 psy to -200
• Magma Shard -300 bleeding to -180
• Ash -12 hp removed
• Emerald -500 rupture/impact to -250
• Stone Skull -4000 shock removed
• Battery -400 chem to -200
• Shell -100 rupture/impact to -50
• Snowflake -400 burn to -200
• Zeus -300 stamina to -120
• Taser -1000 chem/burn to -700
• Sponge -1000 chem to -700
• Lobster Eyes -1400 burn to -1000
• Kolobok -700 burn/chem to -200
• Shard of the Monolith -1000 psy to -500, -3200 shock to -1600
• Topaz -180 bleeding to -60 bleeding
• Amber -1000 chem to -700
• Cell -700 chem to -400
• Beacon -700 burn to -400
• Sandstone -120 stamina removed
• Signet -700 chem to -400
• Garnet -300 bleeding to -180, -300 rupture/impact to -100
• Bat -4 hp removed, -200 bullet/rupture to -100
• Soviet Medal -5 kg removed
• Firefly -400 bullet/rupture to -300, -1000 burn/chem to -700, -3200 shock to -2400
• Black Angel -1400 burn to -1000, -200 bullet/explosive to -150
• Seraphim -1400 chem to -1000, -200 rupture/impact to -150
• Sourpuss -2000 chem to -1000, -200 bullet/rupture to -100
• Tourmarine -200 bullet/rupture removed
• Compass -420 bleeding to -300
• Cocoon -4 hp removed
• Blood Compass -600 bleeding to -420, -1400 burn/chem to -1000, +250 impact removed
• Ametrine -2000 burn/chem to -1000, -300 bullet/explosive to -150
• Hourglass, Cooling Rods, Cube, Monsoon health cost rescaled to -5/10/15/20%
• Dawn health cost from -40% to -20%
• Gluttony -500 satiety to -400, 50% thirstiness to 40%

v21 2023-07-02:

• Added support for Trader Overhaul traders. Allows Barkeep, Beard, Forester, Hawaiian, Cashier, Bandit traders in Jupiter and Truck Cemetery to sell artifacts. Compatible by default, won't crash without TO, but TO is needed for these traders to sell anything interesting.
• Owl and Meeker artifact spawn chance lowered from 6% to 3% since Beard and Cashier will now have 6%.

v20 2023-07-02 (recommend deleting old files due to some filename changes):

• Dropped official support for 1.5.1 (might still work but I'm too lazy to check, I think the only difference was arszi psy script)
• Added 12 new custom artifacts (total of 100 custom artifacts, 169 artifacts overall)
  10 Unique artifacts - Primogem, Stellar Jade, Doll, Angel's Tear, Bullet, Sapphire, Elephant's Foot, Sky, Frog, Schrödinger's Cat
  2 Synthetic artifacts - Black Hole Device, Diamondback v4
• Schrödinger's Cat artifact changes properties depending on whether or not it's in a container, and which container it's in (5 artifacts in 1)
• Fixed Compass, Blood Compass radiation values in containers
• Fixed Tourmarine containers icon
• Removed -2000 burn from Cocoon, updated description
• Death Rose -240 bleeding increased to -300, updated description
• Renamed Pseudogiant/Chimera/Bloodsucker Oil to Blood. Updated descriptions.

v19 2023-06-28 cool timestamps in patch notes from now on!:

• Custom Stashes patch is now DLTX for compatibility (i forgor 💀)
• treasure_manager.ltx now has blacklisted all the buggy stashes that the player cannot access
  
  I will probably make some new rocks soon (v20 coming up big number needs big patch!!!) since I'll be getting back into playing Anomaly (again) i need my fix man i need some STALKAN

v18 2022-08-20:

• Updated mod to work on 1.5.2

v17:

• (New game required if you want to use this) Optional Custom Stashes Patch with compatibility built in for BaS, KRISS, MG42+MG3, Simple Weapons pack. Custom Stashes Patch will not crash the game even if you don't have these weapon mods. The Custom Stashes Patch buffs the loot, introduces all of the new artifacts, and also almost all other items in the game like weapons, outfits, attachments, melee, various meds, food, mutant parts, misc items etc., to stash spawns. Without the custom stashes patch, new custom artifacts will not spawn in stashes, only the old base+junk ones with modded stats. Common stashes can range from nothing to decent loot. Rare stashes are guaranteed to be way better than common ones. If you want to use just the Custom Stashes Patch without the artifact mod, it's entirely possible but I haven't tested it.
• Shortened dltx-ed file names, to update manually you'll have to remove the old files if you're not using MO2
• Rechecked and fixed some artifact, attachment tiers in the files so they work better with stashes
• No more progression difficulty restrictions for stash items, what's available on tourist will also be available on survivalist in stashes
• Removed trade_presets.ltx since it was not necessary
• Manual install version has been discontinued, it will still be there in Original Mod Files but I highly recommend you use DLTX from now on. The original files are there for me to use, and anyone that wants to edit the mod, learn about modding, use manual merging, dltx the original files etc.
• Archdragon's Eye -psy 500 to 1000
• Ruby Rose removed -300 psy, -bleeding 300 to 600
• Pin -hp 2 to 4
• Fireball -hp 4 to 8, -psy 500 to 350, slight description rewrite
• Magma Shard -hp 8 to 12
• Ash -hp 8 to 12
• Thistle +psy 50 to 100
• Sponge +psy 100 to 200
• Lobster Eyes +psy 200 to 350
• Black Spray +psy 350 to 500
• Transistor +psy 1000 to 1500
• Anomalous Marijuana +psy 500 to 1000, big description rewrite
• Titan -psy 350 to 500
• Elden Ring removed -300 bleeding, slight description rewrite
• Fountain +psy 100 to 200
• Cell +psy 200 to 350
• Beacon +psy 200 to 350
• Garnet added +350 psy, increased price from 60000 to 65000, -bleeding 180 to 300, description rewrite
• Firefly removed -200 psy, -burn 700 to 1000, -chem 700 to 1000, -shock 2400 to 3200, tiny description addition
• Death Rose -psy 500 to 1000
• Tourmarine +psy 350 to 500
• Compass removed +180 stamina, added -250 bullet/explosive vulnerability, +rad 300 to 500, increased price from 100000 to 120000, +psy 250 to 500
• Cocoon removed -500 psy, weight from 2 to 1kg
• Blood Compass increased price from 100000 to 120000, +stamina 240 to 300, +rad 300 to 500, -burn 3000 to 1400, -chem 1000 to 1400, -shock 3200 to 4000, -bleeding 480 to 600
• Black Stone removed +2000 burn, +4800 shock and -2000 chem
• Doom +rupture 800 to 600, -psy 1500 to 2000
• Ametrine +psy 500 to 1000
  
  I decided to play Stalker again which has led me to update this mod with a bigger patch, guess I'm not done with this mod after all.

v16b:

• Fixed Stone Skull description

v16:

• Added 5 new custom artifacts (total of 88 custom artifacts, 157 artifacts overall):
  5 Unstable Artifacts - Cube, Cooling Rods, Hourglass, Dawn, Rusty Feather
• Forgot to put in Gluttony and Stone Blood Core into trader files, whoops, they're in there now. Double checked and all 157 artifacts are available at all vanilla traders.
• Gave Pseudogiant Oil +20kg for 10 seconds and extra toxicity, updated description
• Gave Chimera Oil +180% stamina for 10 seconds and extra toxicity, updated description

v15:

• Added 7 new custom artifacts (total of 83 custom artifacts, 152 artifacts overall):
  7 Unstable Artifacts - Acid Mushroom, Psyshroom, Slimeshroom, Midnight Amanita, Giant Jellyshroom, Lion's Agaricus, Devil's Heavendeath
• Changed status name Alcohol Intoxication to Intoxification

v14:

• Added 5 new custom artifacts (total of 76 custom artifacts, 145 artifacts overall):
  5 Unstable Artifacts - Mummy, Anubis, Hermes, Monsoon, Gluttony
• Updated Leviathan icon and description

v13:

• Added 13 new custom artifacts (total of 71 custom artifacts, 140 artifacts overall):
  13 Legacy Artifacts - Thorn, Crystal Thorn, Urchin, Wrenched, Gravi, Goldfish, Kolobok, Shell, Pellicle, Battery, Spring, Mercury Ball, Mama's Beads
• Updated descriptions for several artifacts to reflect them now having a Legacy counterpart

v12:

• 1 new artifact category, Legacy Artifacts. Basically a bunch of old SoC artifacts with old stats rebalanced for this mod. They can spawn in anomalies and are sold by traders. If the old and new version of the artifact were similar enough in stats and looks I decided to not port the old one.
• Added 10 new custom artifacts (total of 58 custom artifacts, 127 artifacts overall):
  1 Synthetic Artifact - Stone Blood Core
  9 Legacy Artifacts - Slime, Slug, Mica, Stone Blood, Meat Chunk, Soul, Droplets, Stone Flower, Night Star
• Changed use sound to inhaling for Sandman and Phoenix to reflect their descriptions
• Lowered Doom wound healing from 150 to 120, increased rads from 300 to 400

v11:

• Added 4 new custom artifacts (total of 48 custom artifacts, 117 artifacts overall):
  2 Synthetic Artifacts - Prototype 60, Sparkler Core
  2 Unstable Artifacts - Sandman, Phoenix
• Lowered Snake Oil price from 100000 to 80000, increased alcohol toxicity from 10% to 20%
• Removed tiers and the need for detectors for Synthetic Artifacts. Scientists have figured out a way to make these artifacts not require a detector if you drop them.

v10:

• Added 8 new custom artifacts (total of 44 custom artifacts, 113 artifacts overall):
  1 tier 3 Synthetic Artifact - Project D
  7 Unstable Artifacts - Lancelot, Sunflower, Blood Clover, Pseudogiant Oil, Chimera Oil, Bloodsucker Oil, Snake Oil
• Optimized artifact names in the files, consumable artifacts over 31 signs crashed the game (thank you xray)

v9:

• Added 1 new artifact category, Unstable Artifacts.
  Added 5 new custom artifacts to that category (total of 36 custom artifacts, 105 artifacts overall):
  Leviathan, Behemoth, Oasis, Dung Pie, Scarab
  Unstable Artifacts are activable artifacts with limited uses, they break when completely used up. They're very similar to meds and drugs in effects but are more powerful, rarer and more expensive, a decent alternative to things like meds, food, water, even sleep if you're willing to pay extra for some quality of life. Only available for purchase at traders currently, they do not spawn in anomalies. 10% spawn chance at scientist traders, standard 3-6% at other traders. Playing with thirst and sleep options is encouraged due to some of the artifacts being balanced around them.
• Fixed Synthetic Artifact description color
• Changed Black Raven icon
• Lowered Seraphim jump height

v8:

• Fixed Shard of the Monolith not going into containers, it was missing from all 4 container files, whoops

v7:

• Added 5 new custom artifacts (total of 31 custom artifacts, 100 artifacts overall) and 1 new artifact category:
  2 tier 4 Combat Artifacts - Emperor, Titan
  2 tier 4 Unyielding Artifacts - Elden Ring, Ares
  1 tier 4 Synthetic Artifact - Black Raven
  Synthetic Artifacts are created by the scientists from mostly synthetic components and parts of wild artifacts. Only available for purchase at traders, they do not spawn in anomalies. 10% spawn chance at scientist traders, standard 3-6% at other traders.
• Increased Doom radiation from 200 to 300, updated description

v6:

• Added 4 new custom artifacts (total of 26 custom artifacts):
  2 tier 4 Electric Artifacts - Zeus, Taser
  2 tier 4 Psychic Artifacts - Transistor, Anomalous Marijuana
• Fixed the newest tier 4 artifacts not spawning. I forgot to put them into all anomaly groups, they were only spawning in gravity anomalies

v5:

• Added 4 new custom artifacts (total of 22 custom artifacts):
  2 tier 4 Thermal Artifacts - Magma Shard, Ash
  2 tier 4 Acidic Artifacts - Emerald, Stone Skull
• Fixed Ametrine LLMC weight from 1kg to 1.2kg

v4:

• Most traders now sell artifacts to give players an another way of spending money (try collecting all artifacts or something) and to let people have some choice instead of relying completely on anomaly spawn RNG. The base chance for any 0-2 tier artifact appearing in a trader inventory is 3% up to 2 rolls. 3rd and 4th tier artifacts get only 1 roll. Specific traders get 6% instead, like Sidorovich(Cordon), Sakharov(Yantar), Hermann(Jupiter), Owl(Zaton), Meeker(Pripyat Outskirts), all Mercenary, Monolith and Sin traders.

v3:

• Fixed Moon being called af_moon in some files and crashing the game, it was supposed to be af_peas

v2:

• Added 7 new custom artifacts (total of 18 custom artifacts):
  2 tier 4 Energy Artifacts - Electrolytes, Lumine Wheel
  5 Unique Anti-rad Artifacts - Topaz, Amber, Garnet, Tourmarine, Ametrine
  Hopefully this allows people to find more anti-rad artifacts and deal with the high radiation, high tier artifacts a bit better.

v1:

• Complete remake of the old mod in 1.5.1 dltx
• Rebalance of everything, a bit less random effects on everything, more unique artifacts and attachments with proper roles and simpler advantages/disadvantages on most artifacts, different weights, prices
• Beautiful numbers, finally
• 2 new artifact tiers, tier 0 which doesn't require a detector (not really new I guess), tier 4 which requires Svarog. Veles only detects up to tier 3, Bear up to 2, Echo up to 1.
• 11 new custom artifacts, more to come in future updates
• Junk artifacts are now proper artifacts that you can put into containers
• Artifact containers are now 0.2kg and have had their -radiation utility severely rebalanced. If an artifact has +/-radiation then it stacks with the belt container's -radiation. -20, -40, -60 for belt containers respectively, if the artifact has low +radiation the belt container can still make it into -radiation. Designed to keep the artifacts close to your body, they don't protect well against high tier artifacts (they can have well over than +100rads in this mod) so finding a good -radiation artifact is essential for hauling tons of artifacts and having them on your belt. The lead container is designed for safely transporting artifacts in the inventory. It provides a 100% radiation decrease to all artifacts but it cannot be put on the belt.
• Radiation resistance and satiety were removed from almost all artifacts, their stats don't show properly and are extremely delicate to number changes, overall a pain in the ass to work with and balance. Some artifacts might still have these stats but they will be seriously rare and the description will tell the player how powerful the effect is.
• Lowered jump height of some rocks
• Increased artifact respawn rates and all artifacts can now spawn in any anomaly zone on any map. It honestly made 0 sense that for example you have to dive into a fire anomaly to get fire protection artifacts, if you can even survive that then you usually don't need the artifact by then so this should spice things up a lot and make exploring any map worth it. The only thing limiting your artifact hunting should be your detector tier, not the map or the anomaly type. The old system works in SoC and CS because of linear progression and no detector needed/access to veles at the start of the game but CoP spawns all tiers of artifacts anywhere after a certain point, the same should happen in CoC variants because there is no map progression. Northern Zone being rich in strong artifacts in CoC results in people never visiting southern locations for artifact hunting and general exploration. People playing warfare and currently fighting in the southern Zone also will not be able to acquire strong artifacts despite possibly having Svarog already. You can argue that northern Zone is more dangerous which is why it should have stronger artifacts but that depends on the faction you're playing/starting point and also Zaton+Jupiter are usually very safe and open maps that allow you to farm tons of artifacts with 0 effort. Anyone that really wants to farm artifacts can always just sleep and farm anomaly zones on those maps, there's no balancing this other than the players themselves making the choice to not abuse the system. I think the spawns being 100% random all over the zone is a better system for all factions and warfare players that encourages visiting all maps, even southern ones instead of punishing the player for spending time on maps with low quality artifact spawns and encouraging only hanging out in the northern Zone or straight up farming artifacts with sleeping through emissions. You can edit artefacts.ltx to change all of this
• Heart of the Oasis and Shard of the Monolith(Volat Emerald/Monolith) added into the anomaly spawns, alongside all of the new custom artifacts.
• Increased detector costs by about 5% to make the numbers nicer looking. Highly recommend buying/crafting Svarog as soon as possible to have access to all of the new artifacts in the mod.
• New icons for a lot of artifacts
• New descriptions for all of the artifacts, filled with flavor, lore, memes, jokes, cringe, references, immersion, tiers, advantages, disadvantages, unique properties, usages, approximate prices etc. Please give them a read if you feel like it.
• Blurred vision from psy damage now only shows up below 40% (extra blurry stage at 20%) psy health to make -psy artifacts more usable

Please report any bugs, typos, weird stats. I double check everything but the scope of the mod is massive and I may have missed something.

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