Bus stash

Bus stash
PDA map and ingame locations.
General Characteristics
Stash type	Engine cover
Statistics
Location	Countryside
Coordinates given by	Bandits Duty Loners Mercenaries Military
Loot	2x F1 Grenade 2x Smoke Grenades 4x 5.56x45mm AP rounds 2x Alkaline batteries 1x Petrol can

Bus stash is a bugged stash featured in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha.

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I left a stash in that old bus. If you're short on supplies, take it. - PDA description, v1.4007

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Stash going places - PDA description

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Overview

• Bugged in all versions up to 1.4005.
• For all stashes on the level the assigning community consists of Bandits, Duty, Loners, Mercenaries and the Military. Only Bandits and Military are usually present but a rare Merc sometimes shows up inexplicably.
• All of the stashes in Countryside are found in the eastern half of the map.

Notes

• Bugged in versions 1.30013 through to v1.4005.
• Conveniently, this is located at a Bandits' spawn point, with a pack of Blind Dogs nearby that should not be problematic.
• Stashes in the Countryside are definitively bugged in all early game releases. The majority have NO probability of being given, and only one - Leap of faith - with a probability of 0.03, will always be given if the player has found the map that leads to it.
• The problem with the remaining stashes is due to the absence of any condition list whatsoever within the gamefiles for the specified "stalker community" to provide the coordinates to the player.
• This may be corrected by hacking the "treasure_manager.ltx" file and appending "condlist = {actor_on_level(la19_country)} 50" after the items line. The value of 50 (a probability of 0.5) is arbitrary and may be reduced.

Trivia

• Randomly given early in game by dead Bandit in Cordon (in EP versions of v1.4005) for no reasonable advantage to the player.

Gallery

PDA marker as of v1.4007

Inside this.

Stash contents