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Stalcraft Xis an MMO set in a post-apocalyptic world where you need to start from scratch, collect resources and survive hordes of mutants and anomalies. You also need to be aware of enemy players who might hunt you down and loot your corpse, if you aren’t strong enough.
The key to surviving is having strong and reliable weapons and equipment, but the only way to get your hands on such gear is through crafting them. The essential resources required to craft late-game gear are found from iron crates hidden in caches across the map. For that, you need to know how to get and use a metal detector and find the hidden loot.
How To Get A Metal Detector
There are two ways through which you canacquire Metal Detectors in Stalcraft X. One of them nets youLeglet Metal Detector for freefrom completing a questline, while theother is from crafting them using in-game resources.
Can be crafted with36 Stinky Root and 22 Crappitefrom Trader
SN-2u Leglet
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Can be acquired as a reward for completing the Junkman questline
While both the metal detectors serve the same purpose, the Leglet has an inbuilt radar, making it much more useful. Be sure not to take it in PvP-prone areas, as you might lose it by getting killed.
How To Use A Metal Detector
TheMetal Detectors in Stalcraft X help you find hidden loot cratescontaining metal scraps and craft items like aluminum cables from hidden caches which spawn across the map. When you have them in your inventory, the detectors make a sound whenever you’re near a cache, and thefrequency of the sound increases the closer you get to the hidden location.
Youdon’t need to equip the metal detector, keeping it in your inventory is enough for it to detect nearby caches. Only equip it if you hear a signal. If you keep it equipped regardless,it will lose its charge very fast.
What Are Caches
Caches are locations you can find on the ground whichcontain ‘Iron Crates’ upon digging. These caches can be found using metal detectors and are a great source of scrap loot andessential crafting items like aluminum cables and copper wires. Apart from the cables, the iron crates can containtransistors, capacitors and all the other metal scraps.
Caches mostly spawn two kinds of drop, which either consist of five wires or a pack of 20 wires. Depending on your play style, you should handle them differently.
How To Recharge Your Metal Detector
Once you get a metal detector, it won’t last you forever. You need tocharge it regularly to ensure that it works. Follow these steps to charge your metal detector:
While it might sound easy to do,charging your metal detectors isn’t free. Every time you charge your detector, itcosts you a certain amount of Rublesdepending on the amount of charge left on it.
Best Metal Detection Locations
If you’ve got your hands on a metal detector,knowing where to use itis also essential to getting the most value out of that item. Depending on your faction, there aretwo locations where you can find lots of hidden caches.
While both of these locations are sprawling with caches,they also carry a significant risk of PvP encounters.
Apart from the above locations, you can alsofind caches across the map in random locations, but the frequency will not be as high as either of them. The advantage of exploring other locations is thedecreased chance of PvP encounters, but it requires more time and is less profitable overall.
