Anomaly Zone Renovation Update

23 July, 2026

Stalkers!

The latest update has been deployed to the Anomaly Zone Renovation server, including bug fixes, balance adjustments, and a number of gameplay improvements.

The full list of changes is below:

Balance

Equipment and weapons

Multiple balance adjustments to bullet resistance for all equipment

Increased shotgun damage against mutants

Increased accuracy for most weapons

Reduced the price of 12x70 0000 and 12x76 0000 ammo by 40% at all vendors

Mutants

Multiple balance changes to mutant HP, defense, and damage

Loot

Balance changes to item drop rates

Karma (quest limits)

(You can take quests from these factions for up to 150 karma)

Up to 150 karma:

Hope Station

Military Commandant's Office

Gourmet Village

Imarek Post

Crow's Forest Mercenaries

Radio Tower

Aegis Scientists' Camp

Junk Dealer's Camp

Finn's Camp

Distillery Bar

Zapolyarye

Radius Village

Witch Doctor Camp

Al-Jaffa Village

Khajra Village

 

(You can take quests from these factions up to 0 karma)

Up to 0 karma:

Musaddar Village

Culture Center (DK)

Renegades Camp

Tatar Island

White Brethren

Owl's Brigade

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UI / display

Added item drop display

Added item drop chance display

Changed base and fortification point tracker display

Added localization for frostbite and fire debuffs

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Mechanics

Flags at bases and fortified points

When a player exits the flag, the flag remains in place.

Removed the quick descent mode.

New timings: 70 seconds ascent, 35 seconds descent.

Spawn

White bear spawn time: from 30 minutes to 15 minutes

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Perks

Added:

Strong pockets

Packaging

Stash

Greed

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Bug fixes

Ammo transferred from the warehouse no longer disappears when reloading magazines.

Incorrect NPC names have been fixed.

The firing range of many NPC guards has been fixed.

The guide in the tunnel of the Junkman's camp can no longer be killed.

The NPC for Maslov's quest no longer dies in anomalies.

The durability of the TOZ-34 sawed-off shotgun for the "Big Hunt" quest has been fixed.

Removed irrelevant story dialogue with Grechkin after "Mysterious Artifact."

Removed irrelevant information in dialogues and quest descriptions (Piper, Gourmet, Sour).

Alternative methods of turning in the book in "On the Futility of Everything" (Captain Blood) without opening the book have been fixed.

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Traders

Added:

Aegis Scientists - Doctor Verkhovtsev

- Recipe for WWII anti-radiation agent

- Recipe for 100 ml copper solution

- Empty test tubes

Crow Forest - Egyptian

- Recipe for a 100 ml copper solution

- Empty test tubes

Bar LVZ - Flint

- Molotov

Owl's Brigade - The Pot

- 1-liter bottle of drinking water

- Small dry ration

- Medium dry ration

- Large dry ration

- Can of suspicious stew

- Box of canned goods

- Matches

Radio Tower - Morse

The number of trade points has been changed:

- Armor Restoration Kit Level 3: 1500 → 1000

- Armor Restoration Kit Level 4: 2000 → 1500

- Protective Suit Restoration Kit Level 3: 1000 → 800

- Protective Suit Restoration Kit Level 4: 1500 → 1300

Radio Tower - Pasha Arsenal

- 40 mm grenades

Zapolyarye - repairman

- Tool kits

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Caches

Added:

Vesuvius - Terra Nova - Marshes (medicine):

Potassium Iodide Tablets

Empty Test Tube

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Craft

Added to the workbench:

Test tube with copper sulfate

Bottle with acid

WWII anti-radiation agent

Copper solution 100 ml

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Quests

General

The re-acquisition time for many daily quests has been changed to 18 hours (quests for Scientists, Station Stalkers, Ailment, Butch, Veterinarian, Imarek, Maslov, Grishkovets, Piper, and others)

White Brethren

Pretzel — quest "Boxy's Debt": the quest coin has been replaced. Since the item itself has been changed, the active quest must be abandoned and re-accepted (if the "Coin" has already been obtained).

Captain Blood — fixed alternative methods for completing the quest "On the Futility of All Things," allowing you to turn in the book without opening it.

Scientists of Aegis

Doctor Home — added quests for turning in the "Vesuvius" artifact.

Simonov — the quest item in the "Lost Glasses" and "And I Put on My Glasses!" quests has been fixed. The item has also been modified to avoid bugs with other glasses. The active quest must be abandoned and re-accepted (if the "Glasses" have already been found).

Hope Station

Misha the Hunter — the "Hunting Knife" quest has been simplified for re-acceptance; the quest can now be taken by a character of any level.

Community House (DK) 

Zhora the Crucian — quests added:

- "Two Bottles for Picket"

- "Zhora's Debt"

Handling spider legs to Metrofan now awards the new DK reputation instead of the Traders.

Military Commandant

Quests added

- Private Snegov - "To the Last"

Private Podushkin:

- "Lost from the group"

- "Responsible Podushkin"

LVZ

Hints have been added to Muddy's quests, indicating where to get the quest scalpel and tools.