How to Get and Use SRD Buryat in Stalcraft – Guide 2025

Artifact hunting is an extremely interesting content in Stalcraft. Newcomers need the Buryat Short Range Detector (SRD), a scanning device capable of detecting these curiosities. It belongs to the Veteran rank and allows you to farm artifacts of all types. Collecting your own SRD is a non-trivial task, which is quite time-consuming. In this article, you will learn how to get “Buryat” in Stalcraft in the shortest possible time and how good this scanner is.

How to Get a Buryat in Stalcraft?

There are only two ways to mine your own detector:

• craft it from the components you collect;
• buy it at an auction.

It will take a long time to farm the materials for crafting. Buying at auction will require a good source of income – and this is not quick either.

Craft

“Buryat” consists of the following components:

• 125 beacons of the “Alpha” group;
• 125 beacons of the “Beta” group;
• 25 beacons of the “Gamma” group.

In addition to them, you will need the SRD Candle. The cost of kraft is 100 thousand rubles. You can exchange components for the scanner in two places:

• In Spot, go to the bar and find the researcher (he stands next to the mechanic).
• The second NPC is located in Grozny at the base of the “Duty”.

To craft Buryat, approach the NPC and exchange the collected parts for a fully completed detector.

Buying at the Auction

Crafting the scanner is noticeably easier than buying it: the currency for the purchase requires a lot. Today, prices for the detector “Buryat” at the Stalcraft auction start at 10 million rubles and continue to increase steadily. It’s hard for a beginner to collect such a sum, but you’ll be able to acquire beacons faster.

How to Quickly Get a Buryat?

Beacons of all three groups are farmed with the help of the SAK-1 Wide Range Detector (WRD), which will give you a general direction. Finding a specific point will help you with the Candle. Both items are given in the plot. For stalkers, it is a quest Professor Solyannikov “Lead”.

To farm Buryat, go to the desired location and start SAK-1. Wait until it beeps three times and turn it off. The device will detect a signal. Next, you need to arm yourself with a “Candle” and spin in different directions. In one direction, the detector’s spiral will begin to glow – that’s where you need to go to the nearest intermediate point. If you find them all, the final destination will be revealed, and with it, the coveted beacon.

Where to Find Components for Crafting?

The easiest place to find Gamma beacons: they are often found, and the required amount is small. They appear at the following locations:

• Serpentine;
• Barrier;
• Institute;
• Temple Swamp;
• Forge 11;
• Quiet Zavod.

Searching is easiest at the base location. Leave the base, collect all the beacons in the area, and then re-enter – this will change the server. Repeat until you have the right number of items – and quickly nafarit on “Buryat”. An alternative way to mine – perform daily tasks or visit the Forge, beacons will fall out as you go.

The Beta resource is a bit more difficult to farm. Its locations:

• Dead City;
• Graveyard;
• Path of Fools;
• Polesskoye.

Earlier, it was easier to search Dead City and Graveyard, but now there is too much competition. If your server has a lot of player killers, you will have to farm the Path of Fools.

Alpha beacons for the Buryat detector in Stalcraft are the hardest to get. They fall out at the following locations:

• Swamps;
• Roadside;
• Equipment dump;
• Agrocomplex “Kolos”;
• Black Willows;
• Forest.

The best places for farming are Agrocomplex and Black Willows. In the Pit and on the Roadside there are a lot of people who want to shoot you, on the Dump there are even more of them, so you won’t be able to collect resources in peace. In the Forest, it is inconvenient: while you run around the ravine, the signal is already picked up. Swamps are a neutral option without any special advantages.

Tips for Quickly Obtaining Buryat

If you want to farm beacons safely, do it at night. The period from midnight to 8 am is relatively peaceful. From 1 to 3 the servers are empty, this is the best time to hunt. If you can stay up for a couple of nights, resource gathering will be over quickly.

Take 3-4 SAK-1s with you: that’s enough for one Candle charge. With spare SAK-1s, you’ll be able to farm for longer.

The SAK-1’s body has a range switch. You can scan in the short or medium range. The second option is preferable: it covers many locations, such as Black Willows and Dead City. It requires a little more charge, but farming becomes easier.

How to farm “Buryat” in Stalcraft and not lose loot? Always take a skip to collect resources: it will protect beacons from players who want to kill you. In order not to lose resources after death, just dump components into it. Be especially careful at the exits from the locations: ambushes are often set up there.

As soon as you get the Candle and SAK-1, start farming right away. When your equipment is at the veteran level, there will be fewer beacons on the map. As a result, collecting will take much longer. By the way, the most profitable farming is on master-rank servers (and AFK).

How to Use Buryat in Stalcraft?

The tool is placed in the primary or secondary slot of your choice. If you want to search for signals and use the SRD for missions, the detector needs a WRD for full operation. In this case, the tool is a “Candle.”

Also, the narrow band detector is able to scan space on its own. It looks for artifacts around in a certain range. All you have to do is pick them up faster than your competitors.

Farming Artifacts with the Buryat

Artifacts are generated in the Zone after emissions, that is, every three to four hours. The spawn period is 80 minutes. In the first 40 minutes, artifacts appear more actively, but their level is low. In the second half, the resources are rare, but really valuable samples are found among them.

How does the search for artifacts with the Buryat in Stalcraft work? The farming tactics at any location are simple: you need to change servers and restart from the base. Literally, go to the location immediately after the ejection, scan, collect, detect, and immediately change the server. Promptly leaving the zone of farming will help bubbles.

The Main Places for Mining Artifacts

Farming should be in the North Zone. These are the locations:

• Black Bypass;
• Quiet Waterhole;
• Mines;
• Reflection;
• Tributary;
• Kuznya-11.

Let’s say at once: Labyrinth to search for artifacts is unpromising. You will have to farm in scientific armor, which makes you vulnerable to assassins. The competition is high, and the chance of artifact spawning is small. This is the most unfavorable location for farming.

It is not difficult to understand how and where to use the detector “Buryat” in Stalcraft. Artifacts are not scattered throughout the map but arise in special points — “stagnation.” Experienced art hunters farm these places and do not waste scarce spawn time on fruitless attempts. At Mines and in Pritok, stagnations are located at the beginning of the location, near the first houses.

On the Black Bypass and Reflection, they are scattered all over the location.

To collect them, you will need scientific armor. It is better to farm at least two people: a partner in combat armor will cover you from player hunters and opponents from another faction.

There is a huge competition on Forge-11; you will have to go in coordinated groups. Four stagnations generating basic artifacts surround four points in the center of the map.

The heart of the Forge is a place where there are a lot of simple resources and a good number of rare ones. The competition is correspondingly competitive; it is almost impossible to survive there alone.

There are a lot of infected zones in Quiet Pond; they differ in type and level. Different types of armor and artifacts can help in gathering them:

• combo for level 3 biohazard zones (large one in the center of the map and two small ones on the left);
• counter artifact for a level 3 thermal zone (small area at the top of the map);
• scientific for the large level 4 biohazard zone (lower part of the map);
• combat for hunting other players.

During the discard, you will only have time to go around one large zone or small zone on the left or top. If you go to a level 4 biohazard zone, take a partner in combined or combat armor to protect you from competitors.

What is Better: Buryat or Elbrus? Clear Comparison

There are only two anomaly detectors in the game. Not surprisingly, the quality of their work is often compared. Previously, the difficulty of obtaining scanners was the same – there were more reasons to look for what was more profitable. Now it is much more difficult to obtain “Elbrus”, but the performance characteristics of the devices have not changed. Let’s consider whether “Buryat” or “Elbrus” is better.

By all indicators, “Elbrus” is superior to “Buryat”. Players rarely use it because now it is extremely difficult to get a scanner. You will have to pay from 57 million rubles, or even 80-100 million if you are not lucky. “Buryat” is the choice of beginners, and experienced art hunters go with “Elbrus”.

Conclusion

“Buryat” is a great option for a beginner artifact hunter. However, if you are not going to specialize in artifact hunting, investing in the “Elbrus” will not justify itself. It is more profitable to farm “Buryat” and walk around with it. Crafting it is a bit of a pain, but the scanner is available.

Which detector do you prefer to walk with? Wcrafting Buryat difficult,yat, and did it justify your investment? Tell us in the comments.