STALCRAFT: X: Bandits Quests by Area (Work in Progress)

Welcome to this guide wich Im making because I couldn’t find any guide in english for this game.
This will be a work in progress since it will take a while to complete all quests because there is obviously no save option and I have to create multiple characters.

I wanted to upload it already for feedback in case I miss anything.

I also want to apoligise if there is any typographic mistake since Im not that fluid in english.
Please tell me if there is any mistake or some Quests or choice missing and I’ll update it as fast as I can.

I will probably make one for Stalkers too in the future.
And also one in spanish since is my language.

After completing the tutorial and talking with Linden, press “P” to open you pda and then go do the first mission before anything else.

You have to go to find a stash north the bandit base. Be careful with the anomalies.
I strongly recommend to read the “guide” section in the PDA to learn the game mechanics.
After entering and finding the stash an scripted eruption will begin and an artefact will spawn. Pick it and follow the quest.

The Quest is pretty straightforward so just do what it says. You have to sell the artifact, get a weapon, fix it, put and atachment to it and get back to Linden, then the tutorial will be over and you will have to talk to Saint.

You can tell him you are a Blessed or not, it doesn’t really change anything.
It will give you the quest “Old Buddy” and Side Quest will become available (See next section).

Go to the mark where you will find Kalgan dead and Art will atack you so kill him as soon as you see him. Examine Kalgan body and return to give the bad news.
Talk to Saint and he will reward you Kalgan’s Sawed-Off wich is great for mutants and the following items:

Then you will have to investigate Diver’s murder. Talk with the three suspects and go back with Saint. Clearly it was Coxcomb but you can miss and tell him it was either of the other two but Saint will tell you to rethink things and only accept the right option.

Then you have to look for clues in Coxcomb’s hut.

This Crate has 9mm Expanding Rounds

Do NOT open this one cause it has Coxcomb radioactive underwear and you will be dizzy for a couple seconds

This one is the correct one

But to open it you will need the key that its here:

After finding the ear you will return to Saint who will tell you to bring Coxcomb to him, but he already run off and you have to follow him. There is not really a time limit even if it says you have to hurry.

You’ll have to talk with the Outpost Commander and then to a suspicious stranger, follow the mark and you’ll find Coxcomb dead.

Return to Saint and he will reward you with Coxcomb’s BM-16 and other minor items. Then you will finally be able to talk with Shaman so go do that. When he ask you what do you want answer whatever you want, he will like the “I want adventure” answer.

Go speak to Linden and go find your new gear.

You will have to act as a double agent and join the Ordelies so go talk to Jaundice and he will give you two quests in Roadside which you can do either in Ordelies favor or the Blessed.

IMPORTANT: Do NOT buy the scientific suit from Photon2 until you get the quest to do it since it may bug.

Now is time to decide if you go for Ordelies Side or the Blessed Side. I recommend go full for one path instead of mixing them.

Go to Photon-2 and talk with Jaundice Assistant, he will give the quest to kill Hole Punch
Next go find Cobbler who will be in a corner here:

Orderlies Side:

Pick the next options for Cobbler:
“Are you afraid of them beacause you’re a Blessed?”
“I suggest you do this the easy way and confess everything now, or I’ll beat the living daylight out of you!”
“Ok. I can leave you alone now.”

Blessed Side:
Pick the next options for Cobbler:

“Are you afraid of them beacause you’re a Blessed?”
“I help the Blessed. But if you want my help, first I have to know if you’re one of them”
Now you have to find vodka and give him 3 shots and only 3, otherwise he will pass out.
“D’ya want some vodka? Then let’s do a shot!”
“Keep em coming! Pour another one!”
“Real strong, sure! Let’s drink to that!”
And now pick “Can you tell me if you’re a Blessed or not?”
And to help him pick “I suggest that you lay low…”
He will reward you for letting him know:

Now go find Hole Punch and:

Ordery: Rescue Hole Punch only to kill him yourself.
Blessed: Rescue Hole Punch and tell him to cut his ear to make Orderlies think he’s dead.

Return to Jaundice Assistant and give him the ear.

After doing both quests Jaundice will send you a message to go to the base in the marked area. The place Its kinda a labrynth so i’ll tell you where to go. You have to get to Jaundice.

Follow the only path until:



After climbing the stairs go right (West)

Go all down the stairs:


Follow the path and go to where the soldiers are looking (left). There will be and ammo crate to the left and stairs to the right. Climb the stairs.

There you’ll find Linden kidnaped and they will ask you to kill him.

You can:
a) Orderly: Kill Linden.
b) Blessed: Start a fight against all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ base.

Option a) is the easiest but cruelest, we wont have to fight and Jaundice will tell us everything we need to know.

Option b) is the mos dificult and Chad. We fight against all the base to save our friend, after killing Jaundice go look for a folder right here:

Then we escape killing everything in our way. Dont worry for Linden, he’ll get out on his own

In any case we have to go back to Shaman and report what we find out and get the next quest.
We’ll have to buy the scientific suit from Photon and talk to Junkman in Scrapyar but that will be in the next Main Quest section.

Here are the side quests that start in The Swamp and give reputation to Boathouse.

After exiting the house Beekeper will stop you and you will automatically begin this quest. Examine the body and talk to Beekeper again.

You can pick wathever of the 2 dialogue options. Then go talk to Kalina. He will tell you that it was a Ghoul. If you want to show off your knowlege tell him you know what a ghoul is and pick the option “Usually three at a time…”. Then go investigate the area of the attack, (Be careful this quest its shared with stalkers and there can be enemy players), and examine the 2 bodies:

Then go to Convict, go back to the same area and enter the lab through this door:

Interact with the PDA and kill the Ghoul. Go back to Beekeper for a reward.

Talk with him and accept his quest. You will have to kill some boars in an area. Then examine Vanya’s body and pick the PDA. Go back to Mosquit and he will give you the next quest and reward you

Next you will have to get Mosquito’s Stash so go get it. After you find it you will see that its empty. Head back to Mosquito and he will give you the quest to kill Gravedigger in the Roadside Bandit Base: Photon-2.

Go and find Gravedigger.

You will find out Mosquito is a piece of garbage and lie to you. Then you will have 2 options:

a) Kill Gravedigger and return to Mosquito who will reward you with:

After doing this Mosquito will take Gravedigger’s place and sell stash’s for money.

b)Trick Mosquito into going to a trap and return to Gravedigger who will reward you with:

After doing this Gravedigger can sell us stash’s for money.

He will be talking with two other bandits, talk to him and follow the only dialogue option to get the quest. You will have to kill some npc’s. I recommend get a good weapon and follow the main quest until you get the equipment from Shaman first.

After killing the 4 stalkers go back to Varg and he will give you the Hunting Couriers Quest.
Go to the area and just run in circles until they spawn, you have to kill 3.

After you killed the third one a map should appear on your inventory and mark where you have to go

In case you cant find the entrance, is righ here:

There will be two groups of 5 stalkers separated. Killl them all and Varg will spawn in the exit. Talk to him and he will give you the quest to negotiate. Go to the place and there will be three outcomes depending on what you do:

1) You can be a ♥♥♥♥ and ask for a lot, wich will infurate Freeman and attack. In wich case you will have to kill him and Varg will be pissed.

The rewards for this path is the Handmade AKS-74U:

2) You can negotiate wrong and get less than a third in wich case the reward will be the Tactical AKS-74U:

3) You can negotiate right and the you get the best reward wich is Varg’s AKS-74U:

To get this you have to pick the next options:
“Give us half or you’ll regret it.”
“I’ll go down to forty. And we’ll give your couriers protection.”
“A third, protection for your couriers, and we’ll find you a good suplier”

It only changes the weapon, the rest of the rewards are always the same.

This unmarked quest will give you a nice blue weapon. You’ll have to find this backpack here:

Then deliver it to Convict and you will have to hack it interacting with the laptop next to him.
This will be an axis kinda thing where you have to match the position 8.8 by going up, down, left or right different number of times by picking the options using the arrows and edit options. but to save you time: the right answers are in F1 1) and in F3 4)

After succeding the hacking device will broke but it will give you the position of one stash wich is hidden in a bush:

Finally go talk with Convict and you will finish the quest.

This one is an important hidden quest that doesnt show on the map and can give you a great weapon but its really long and you have to pick the right options. I will go through this quest per area and tell you what to do in each one.

You will find him above a bus here:

Talk to him, give him a medkit and took him back to base, it will teleport you there beside him.
You can tell him to look for friends or that he is better alone. The better option is to tell him to look for friends.

Next he will ask you what to do to earn money. You can:

a)Tell him to hunt mutants wich then will give the option to tell him to work for a kingpin.
b)Tell him to loot some looser wich then will give the option to tell him to hunt for artefacts.

The best option is the a) since will make things easier.

Te option to drink the vodka or not doesnt matter.
Next time we’ll see him he’ll be in Photon-2 and will give us a quest depending wich option we picked previously. See next section for that.

Here are the Quests that give rep to Photon-2. Most start in Roadside and take place only there, some take place in multiple areas (Roadside/Scrapyard/Kolos Agrocomplex)

This quests take place only in Roadside

Firs talk to Tolyan in the base righ here:

Then you will have to talk to Bullet here:

Return to Tolyan for info, then return to Bullet, have 5 dog’s tails to save time since he will ask you that. After delivering the tails you’ll have to meet him at midnight after 0:00 in the marked area.

You’ll find Bullet “wounded” right here:

Talk to him and head to the Boar’s Den right here:

After killing him (strongly recommend shotgun) loot his body and be careful because Bullet will atack you at the exit of the cave so shoot him on sight. Loot him and you’ll find out the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ wanted all the glory to himself.
Go to sell the hunting trophy you just get and you’ll end the quest:

Talk to Smooth and he’ll give you a deliver quest. You have to deliver the blue envelope to Forex and the red one to Mishka/Bear.

If you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and deliver it wrong this is the reward:

If you did it correctly is this one:

Talk with the merchant of gear Toothy and he will send you to Cop who will give you the “Scouting” quest.

You just have to go to each position and come back.
Tell Cop you checked all the points and he will send you to clear a stalker camp and put three claymores. You’ll have to put them here:

After that return to Cop and he’ll send you to deliver a package. Afterward you have to kill Hop and his people in the middle, be careful for enemy players. Find the corpses here:

Return to get your reward:

Now you’ll have “The Gig” quest, go to Toothy and then go find the delivery man, Fly.


He’ll send you to search the package in an area with boars but you’ll realize it isn’t there. Go back to him and then go “ask the locals”.

Talk to Jig and you will give you punch of quests.

You’ll have to:

• Take food to Jig (1 Vodka, 2 piece of Rye Bread and 2 Canned Beans.)
• Pick the pistol for Spike. You’ll have to take it from the mechanic and maybe pay (I pick the same answer twice and he ask me to pay one time and the other it didn’t so it may be random)
• Pick the Medicine from Garrote’s corpse:

After gathering all come back to Toothy and he will reward you:

Talk to Pharmacist and he’ll give you the “Truffles” quest where you have to search a stash. As soon as you do that someone will appear:

After talking with him you’ll have to search for some bodies:

Then go back to Pharmacist and he’ll tell you to clear a camp. Make sure to pick “Maybe I could.”
Kill the 5 stalkers and return for your reward:

(Technically its a multiple area quest but this part happens only here)

If you tell him to find a kingping, then he will be here at Photon-2:

He will ask you to kill mutts and deliver him 5 dog’s tails. Wathever dialogue option you choose before doing the quest doesn’t matter.

If you tell him to go hunt for artifacts you will find him inside here:


You can choose whatever dialogue for now. Then he will ask you for the “Heart” artifact wich you have to get or buy in auction and that’s why is way better to have pick the other option.
Anyways since I’m doing all choices, find the Heart or buy it and deliver it to him.

After delivering the tails or the Heart he will reward you with the artifact “Battery” for the tails or Nothing fot the Heart 🙂 and ask you how to handle things if someone crossyou:
You can tell him:

a) “It’s better to handle things peacefully…”
b) “If you have a dispute with someone…”

It’s better to pick option a)

Then he will tell you he’s heading to the bar but you will find him next in the middle base at Scrapyard with Junkman (See next section).

This Quests will take place in multiple areas beside Roadside.

Sailor will stop you when you cross path with him inside the base and ask you if you are for the Blessed or not. If you want to do this quest you must answer “Against!…” and he will send you to Kolos Agrocomplex to find “Royal Vodka”

You will find the Vodka in the marked position here:

Return to Sailor and he will give you the quest “Play Along” where you have to do just that. Pick always the first option or it will fail. Return to Sailor and get the quest “Springing a Trap”

Now go to the marked area in Roadside and you’ll find Sailor wounded:

Now go see Cabin Boy and accept to go inside and kill the Blessed while they “cover you”.

After killing them by yourself speak to Cabin Boy one more time and go to Sailor for your reward:

After this quest you can use Sailor for the side quest: “Chaos” in the future.

(In Progress)
This quest doesnt really give you anything so only do it if you are a completionist like me.
Talk to Gnome and choose whatever option, it will give you the quest anyways.

(In Progress)

Talk to Fixer and accept his Quest, you will have to go to Scrapyard…

(In Progress)
To this quests to appear you have to advance in the main quest to the point you met Junkman.