And some artifacts are put in the game by the devs, in special crates/cases or in the wild. Some are randomly spawned when you break a crate. Some are found in secret stashes, some on bodies. Some artifacts are generated by anomalies after a day based on a probability calculation, and every day thereafter until the quota for the anomaly is filled. It is an ongoing work there's lots of stuff we know that ain't so. This article is intended to correct as many of these as possible. There are a lot of misconceptions held by quite a few of those who play STALKER. Metacognix - What You Know That Ain't So in STALKER-SoC What You Know