How to Complete The Poppy Field in STALKER 2

Early in your first playthrough of STALKER 2, you’ll come across a mission called ‘The Poppy Field’, and it can quickly become one of the most aggravating tasks you’ll be asked to complete. It’s also slightly branching with a couple of choices to make, but you can ‘trick’ the quest to get all the benefits possible.

Read on to learn how to complete The Poppy Field in STALKER 2.

The Poppy Field Walkthrough

In The Poppy Field, you’ll be tasked with finding an ‘icon’ in an anomalous region and returning it to the requester in a timely fashion. That sounds simple, right?

Well, The Poppy Field is housing a secret – it’s an anomaly-ridden zone that’ll put you to sleep faster than you can blink, and once you fall asleep in the poppies, you’re not waking up again. It has claimed many lives, and it won’t think twice before taking you out of the equation.

With that being said, how do you complete The Poppy Field in STALKER 2?

Firstly, you’ll want to search the outskirts of the field for a building containing a man called Pomor. He’ll offer you a unique deal – enter the field and bring back weapons and ammo from dead soldiers to get a special reward and he’ll help locate the cellar that contains the icon.

Before you venture into the field, you’ll want to stock up on energy drinks. They can be purchased from food vendors like Warlock in Zalissya, but they’re also scattered around the buildings that occupy the poppy field.

Here’s how to complete The Poppy Field in full now that you’ve found Pomor:

1. Skirt the outside of the poppy field, darting in to quickly loot the bodies as requested by Pomor. Don’t let your stamina bar empty, but move as quickly as possible, downing an energy drink once every 10 – 20 seconds if possible.
2. Collect all the weapons and ammo from the bodies, leaving the poppy field with each pick-up.
3. Take the weapons back to Pomor and he’ll tell you where to find the icon – but he’ll also offer to buy it from you, which is what you’ll be doing next.
4. Run around the edge of the poppy field and find the cellar, diving down and grabbing the icon while still consuming energy drinks (there will be some in the cellar itself).
5. Return to Pomor and complete the trade, giving him the icon and securing Unknown Stalker’s AR416 as a unique weapon.
6. Double-cross Pomor and kill him, taking back the icon, getting a key to Pomor’s stash room, and still keeping his reward.
7. Return to icon to Mityay in Zalissya as intended to get the full reward for The Poppy Field.

If you don’t take energy drinks to complete The Poppy Field, you’ll find yourself constantly passing out and dying in the field – it pays to prepare for this quest.

For more STALKER 2 guides, check out how to deal with anomalies in STALKER 2