Cooking Artifacts Thread - Narodnaya Solyanka mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

I gave the topic a generic name so others can use it for issues of this nature.

I have dropped a Droplet into four different Electro anomalies with no Electra Tears artifact. I get a message after five hours and an icon on my minimap indicating success, but there's no artifact. Ultimately, I'm trying make a Fire Tears for Barman since I've had the task for 11 game-days and it's holding me up on the Missing Expedition quest.

When that happens to me I say, "Damn it! I'm using the spawn menu." It's not cheating if you have already made the artifact.

To use the spawn menu. In game hit esc - f1 - esc. Fairly easy to figure out how to use it.

I wonder if the artifact is clipping through the floor. I will take a look into that.

Yes, it happened to me too a couple of times, I still have a marker in Cordon that says that a cooked artifact is below the road. And once I had one that was way high up in the sky. Either shooting it helped or I just reloaded, can't remember.

Also, one time in Garbage I wanted to move two cooked artifacts from an anomaly with a shotgun, and it sent 'em flying faaar away. One of 'em is still in the pockets of a Duty guard at the northern checkpoint.

A tip for cooking: use anomalies that are on slopes, this way the artifacts will bounce/roll out of the anomaly, making them easy to pick up.

Bromzius Thanks for the tips.

HipsterDoofus So I decided to take your advise and just spawn it. Only, I actually tried cooking it again. Wouldn't you know it, it worked...twice. The first time I overslept and woke up just in time to see my artifact walking away in the backpack of another stalker.

Codex I have found that my first attempt always seems to fail. I put my new-found Electra Tears in one of the Burner anomalies of the Wild Territory tunnel and had the same thing happen. I tried again using another anomaly and it worked.

Ok, I think I found a fix for artifacts falling through the ground. Might not fix that one you currently have in ground, Brom, but maybe.

Filebin.net

Put this file in gamedata/scripts folder. As always, make sure you make a backup of your original 'bind_art.script' file. Let me know if any of you notice a difference with this file.

I went to an artifact that I had trouble with before (on top of the rocks behind Ghost) and the artifact was still below ground. For artifacts that I hadn't discovered yet, I had one that didn't show right away, but after a few seconds, it pupped up. Otherwise, I haven't had any issues with artifacts being below the surface.

I just got the recipe for Ruby Battery. It says to put a Battery in a Fruit Punch for 5 minutes. But Ruby Battery doesn't appear on the Transmutator when I scan a Fruit Punch, and if I just drop a Battery in there it does nothing. Is it possible that Fruit Punch is not the correct anomaly?

It might be wrong but try a snow anomaly. See if that gets it cooked.

Yes. Snow anomaly is the correct one for a Ruby Battery, Ruby Pellicle and Ruby Spring. The Ruby Spring recipe is correct but the other 2 recipes say to use a Fruit Punch.

Hey codex_. mikedgeedee found a couple of typos. Noted above.

Good catch, guys. Will correct that for next patch. Thank you!

Was about the 'bind_art.script' file.

Deleted........I downloaded the file a few weeks ago & never got around to installing it. Will try again. This time with the right file.

Edited by: HipsterDoofus

HipsterDoofus wrote:

When that happens to me I say, "Damn it! I'm using the spawn menu." It's not cheating if you have already made the artifact. :

Also, today, I shall start cooking, for the first time in 7 months.

Is there a resource that gives the names of the anomalies other than the highly inadequate (in my case) encyclopedia?
Edit:-
Another "My BAD" moment. The three on this cover are NOT brunettes! They are on a different magazine at a different location! Just a little further in this story!

Edited by: rahul_does

That's the wrong playboy. As you enter the bunker in Radar it is on a shelf.

Get close to an anomaly & open the transmuter. That will tell what kind of anomaly it is,

HipsterDoofus wrote:

That's the wrong playboy. As you enter the bunker in Radar it is on a shelf.

I got that! Blondes and brunettes!

HipsterDoofus wrote:

Get close to an anomaly & open the transmuter. That will tell what kind of anomaly it is,

So much goes on here that such a basic tool was forgotten.