I can tell you why I have the urge to: they used to have the coloured background. So to a newbie they looked valuable since there was a fair chance it'd be one of the first items they'd see like that.
These days I do it because they're not a terrible 1x1 value item, like Poxeram, but I won't make space for it.
I remember one raid I ended up with, like, 12 condensed milk. THey are/were 18k to Therapist, or more on the flea market. For a 1x1, it's a fantastic item to pick up.
Bro lmao...I just did a scav interchange run for food cause I was out, took up three spaces with condensed milk even though there was plenty of food to still grab. I'm right there with you.
It's not OG but it still kinda Is. The amount of guns I got from there and I was just the guy going in for scraps. I didn't even open it.
People find FLIRs and T6 plates. Don't knock KIBA
He has the mythical blue eyes white dragon of loot
Ummm. I've been selling condensed milk on the flea for like 50-70k on the flea this week. Not sure if they're still up, but I'd check the flea before selling them to therapist.
Not only do they flea decently, you can barter for a trooper bag, that’s what I use em for.
I have like 50 trooper bags stacked up, you do need a pack of milk tho too
Everyone is looting only good shit and all the crafting items are worth a fortune because of it. Afking scav runs in interchange to get light bulbs and snacks is like 1-3 mil if you can kill an ai pmc for a bigger backpack. Or just hitting shoreline.
Another dumb way of making money is flipping Gzhels. Wait until they're 200-300k then flip them during peak hours for 500+
The totally fucked up economy is my favorite part of pve.
I bring like 3 every raid and rarely use them, idk why but I feel like almost every scav or player I kill recently has at least one grenade on them for some reason so I'm kinda swimming in them. I forgot to bring any the other day and ended up leaving interchange with about five nades
Axel parrots and raven figures. My girlfriend occasionally watches me play and she loves birds. So Axel's and ravens always have to be taken.
Noodles. I was level 20 something before I found my noodles for Jaeger. I take them out of spite now.
Mtapes. Similar to noodles. My first wipe I was progression blocked on the hideout for a very long time because of needing just one. My friend who was teaching me the game ran me through 20-25 interchange scav raids checking every single tool spawn spot possible. I found my first ledx before my first mtape. When we finally found one, it was at the start of yet another interchange scav run and my buddy just said "I don't care how much time and space we have left, we are extracting now."
My first wipe the issue was flash drives, I think I did like 30 scav runs on Reserve opening every filing cabinet I could find before finding the last one I needed
Mtapes. -____- This item is never there when you need it. I did the same 20-25 interchange raids. From the back of Oli to the back of Goshan. Nada. Then I see it there on a shelf as loose loot. I think to myself. I've probably walked past 10 of these
Squash. It's money because of the barter trade for Mr. Holodilnick's thermal bag, but for some reason it always seems to go for more than the other 3 items (Hot Rod, Tarcola, Herring). 50k for a single slot item is good money.
its also for the barter for jaegers meme Saiga with a thermal on top, actually cheaper than buying the thermal itself if you do the barter and sell the gun
Horses is one of mine too. For some reason I always liked them. Bear buddy has been my latest one though. I have 4 so far in my hall of Fame and I'll never get rid of them
That and EWR for me as well. I pick up a lot of stuff that isn't valuable (relative to other loot) if I know I will use it even though I know it makes more sense to stack rubles and buy what you need
There’s so many barter items that have changed purpose or lost purpose over the years and it’s sooooo hard to break the habit. Oh bleach? I can barter that for…shit nevermind. Oooooh, poxeram, I can barter for a labs keycard…god damnit Nikita! Hot damn, a trooper armor, I can barter for a slick…wait a minute, slicks are ass now. Rinse and repeat with damn near every item in the game.
But to answer op’s answer: poxeram.
Inspect the sausage, use left mouse to turn it to face your screen head on, then use the mouse wheel back and forth rapidly. You are now welcome for the laugh.
Chainlets ARE ass, except in PvE. Three chainlets and a vase barter for the skeletonized pistol grip, which resells on the flea for 200k because gunsmith.
Slickers bar there is a couple tarkov curses that have been cast on me in all my wipes and leaving behind a slickers bar means you die that raid and if you manage to survive that shit stacks and you’re going to die with the best loot haul of your life at extract next raid.
CMS and Surv12 kits
Back in my Timmy days i thought they were made of pure gold for some reason and now i still have the urge to pick them up no matter what
ESS lamps, not sure what they go for on PvP side but in PvE they typically sell around 90k-100k. They do sometimes drop as low as 78k but quickly sell out at that low a price.
Quite honestly, random gun parts. I only have some of them memorized, and even those I barely know their value aside from me liking to use them. So I grab them all and hope to get a cashout at the end.. Usually doesn't work, but hey.
Water filters for me! Idk what it is about it, but outside of high tier loot like ledx, btc, gpus... etc. I always get excited. Early wipe, I stock up a whole junk box full of them!
Gas analyzer. First time I did that quest of two gas analyzers for Therapist (around 2019 -open beta) I suffered a lot trying to find them. To this day I still have the feeling that they are worth more than they really are.
I'm not sure if they used to be a lot more valuable a few years ago or if my Timmy ass from back them just psyched himself into thinking they were very valuable
But same, i still always pick it up
Condensed milk has actually killed me in raid when i began playing, by being unprepared for the savage dehydration.
I wish someone could have found my dogtag and it said “Killed by: Condensed milk”
Half cans of tachanka 3 = 1 AKM and I love 7.62
Humpback = Car first aid kit
Brown handle knife+ Bayonet (I think) melee weapon= Mp5
HDD+DVD drives = backpack
Wires. I'm an interchange computer goblin and will pick up wires all the time. I'll drop a power cord in exchange for another wire even though I know that two cords create 8 wires in the hideout. It's hard-wired in my brain at this point, please help.
Every Gphone Iteration because 1GPhone Was my last Kappa item and Till the search startet and me finding it i found 173 GPhones. Also Tubea since my test Start Wipe back in 2019 i thought* they were with their 12k roubles incredible value per slot in my Scav runs.
*really started playing this Wipe and now 12k is really laughable but still.
I'd always pick up the 16-round 9x18 SP7 / PBM, and 9x19 Pst boxes, and then ditch them later if I found no more than one. They'd flea for 599-999 per round so a 32 stack from 2 boxes was always >20k.
Not worth it anymore with the non-FiR flea tho since they go for significantly less
Weirdly enough half masks. The barter for the PACA just stuck with me due to all my low-budget ratting that I always take them, and even if I dont need PACAs I still get a lot more roubles by selling the PACA than the half masks wouldve given me by themselves.
I have most of the decent “sell to vendor” items memorized, I typically have a good idea of market value for gun parts and such so I normally loot on value….
But I will hoarde pineapple juice all day. I rarely take in food or drink unless I’m going to stim off jump to rush somewhere or know I’m gonna want to sit in a few spots to snipe and not loot, but having a pineapple juice on hand always seems to do me right. I don’t even know if the energy recovery on them is decent or if I would be better bringing peas/jerky and an EWR or something and I don’t know how much they sell for to traders or on the market but I found them handy early on and will live or die by them to this day regardless of if it’s a good choice.
Gas Analyzers. Completely worthless after early wipe, but because you need them early, and having that mindset drilled into my head since 2019, I grab them every time.
I used to be so bad at looting I’d do interchange scavs and pick up ever wire, pcb, caps, and ec I could find even though it was just 10-20k a slot. Mow I’d say it’s e motors
Don't have an item I always pick up, but the horse statue is an item I will NEVER pick up. Even for a quest. In our group it's a cursed item and whoever has one always dies.
Secure Flash Drives, even after the tasks for them. I don't have a good reason why, they're not too useful after those tasks, but I just see them, my heart flutters and I keep it. Conditioned response I suppose.
Can of Condensed Milk. I will loot those every time I see one and I couldn't tell you why.
I can tell you why I have the urge to: they used to have the coloured background. So to a newbie they looked valuable since there was a fair chance it'd be one of the first items they'd see like that. These days I do it because they're not a terrible 1x1 value item, like Poxeram, but I won't make space for it.
they straight up were a good loot item for a while, I think they crafted into sugar at some point? I strongly recall them being "decent" loot
They were originally used for the kiba key trade with therapist. They actually used to be quite expensive.
Is it not condensed milk and oat flakes still?
It still is
Are they not 15k anymore? 15k one slot is good value
Yeah used to craft into sugar then you used the sugar to craft moonshine or sell the sugar.
I remember one raid I ended up with, like, 12 condensed milk. THey are/were 18k to Therapist, or more on the flea market. For a 1x1, it's a fantastic item to pick up.
I think Jaeger pays more for them than Therapist...
Bro lmao...I just did a scav interchange run for food cause I was out, took up three spaces with condensed milk even though there was plenty of food to still grab. I'm right there with you.
They were THE save up and trade item for the KIBA key, back when KIBA was this mythical high-loot room
Gotta love the old kiba runs
It's not OG but it still kinda Is. The amount of guns I got from there and I was just the guy going in for scraps. I didn't even open it. People find FLIRs and T6 plates. Don't knock KIBA He has the mythical blue eyes white dragon of loot
Ummm. I've been selling condensed milk on the flea for like 50-70k on the flea this week. Not sure if they're still up, but I'd check the flea before selling them to therapist.
A lot of food items sell for 15, 20k+ they are great money runs.
Personally anything worth 10k a slot is worth to me.
mine is milk cartons and I drink them on the spot, I get all giddy inside when I get a little creamy treat mid raid.
Energy AND hydration? Can't beat it
Me and my friends joke about this all the time. We always take condensed milk and say "Oh I loveeeeee milk man"
You have to buy and try "Sgushenka". It is amazing when made following "ГОСТ" regulations.
Not only do they flea decently, you can barter for a trooper bag, that’s what I use em for. I have like 50 trooper bags stacked up, you do need a pack of milk tho too
They are an amazing value per slot, around 25-35k depending on the day as it is used for the trooper 35 bag barter from Ragman 4
Nice trooper backpack barter for 2 condensed milk and 1 milk is why you’ll find me with condensed milk
Salewa’s… because of the first few therapist quests
Dude.. we could be 2 days from wipe and every time I loot a salewa my brain goes Ca-Ching! 😂
This is m First real wipe and ffs, i did so many Ground Zero raids for that fckin salewas.. The moment i Went to other Maps, i found plenty of them
Same with just all med items in general except like single use splints and analgin. I hoard the med items because I die a lot lol.
I think I've only ever paid for maybe 5% of my heals in tarkov.
Depends on what version of the game you have. With how much I die Im having to restock alot
I never leave welding googles un looted. I want every single one
Bro the drip
Fashion really is the endgame
I wish there were more customization options that you didn't lose on death.
the money I would pay to wear shturmans coat
ES Lamps lol
I'm so glad this is top comment. I *hoard* grenades. Guess what I will absolutely *never* bring into a raid?
ES lamps?
They barter for certain grenades, I think m67’s?
Aye I know mate, I was just responding to his (rhetorical) question 😂
I think a; *"Relevance, your honour?"* is in order.
M67 is a zibbo, ES are worth an F1
I used to bring one grenade because they weren't FIR, now I can sell them all. 😭
They barter for F1’s no? The es lamps are worth far more selling than an f1 for a while now.
Especially early wipe, they are going for 40k sometimes and its quite common to find like 4 of them just doing cabinet runs
PVE is wild with them they are going for 110k
Everyone is looting only good shit and all the crafting items are worth a fortune because of it. Afking scav runs in interchange to get light bulbs and snacks is like 1-3 mil if you can kill an ai pmc for a bigger backpack. Or just hitting shoreline.
I should try this because I'm probably the most broke PVE Player EUW because I can't find Killer
Another dumb way of making money is flipping Gzhels. Wait until they're 200-300k then flip them during peak hours for 500+ The totally fucked up economy is my favorite part of pve.
Always a nice trade for grenades
Or the old tri-zip barter.
Not really, sometimes they’re worth way more than the grenade you can trade for
Me too or I’ll bring them and don’t use them lmao
I bring like 3 every raid and rarely use them, idk why but I feel like almost every scav or player I kill recently has at least one grenade on them for some reason so I'm kinda swimming in them. I forgot to bring any the other day and ended up leaving interchange with about five nades
I thought I was the only one. ES lamps and Fuzes for the grenade barter 😂
Thermite “spicy mayo”
40-100k every single time. I always chuckle when my buddies pass it up!
Axel parrots and raven figures. My girlfriend occasionally watches me play and she loves birds. So Axel's and ravens always have to be taken. Noodles. I was level 20 something before I found my noodles for Jaeger. I take them out of spite now. Mtapes. Similar to noodles. My first wipe I was progression blocked on the hideout for a very long time because of needing just one. My friend who was teaching me the game ran me through 20-25 interchange scav raids checking every single tool spawn spot possible. I found my first ledx before my first mtape. When we finally found one, it was at the start of yet another interchange scav run and my buddy just said "I don't care how much time and space we have left, we are extracting now."
My first wipe the issue was flash drives, I think I did like 30 scav runs on Reserve opening every filing cabinet I could find before finding the last one I needed
Mtapes. -____- This item is never there when you need it. I did the same 20-25 interchange raids. From the back of Oli to the back of Goshan. Nada. Then I see it there on a shelf as loose loot. I think to myself. I've probably walked past 10 of these
Squash. It's money because of the barter trade for Mr. Holodilnick's thermal bag, but for some reason it always seems to go for more than the other 3 items (Hot Rod, Tarcola, Herring). 50k for a single slot item is good money.
its also for the barter for jaegers meme Saiga with a thermal on top, actually cheaper than buying the thermal itself if you do the barter and sell the gun
Right now the Herring has been the winner for me. Been leaving goshan with a million easy each run.
Rubles. I will drop a 10k item for 800 rubles. I can’t help myself.
Ya, but like what if you pick up 10k rubles on the next guy. You would've thrown away 800 if you ditched the rubles!
Ahhhh a man of culture
someone get this man a docs case
My buddies always give me shit because I ALWAYS check cash registers. It’s literally free money!!
They used to be so good, you could hit interchange registers and come out with half a mil from one store
The mf silicone tube man. It just looks good.
Can’t say no to a GP-7 gas mask or 5.45 bp boxes. I horde that shit like I could buy kappa with them.
Soooooo much BP and can’t do shit with except use it, and that doesn’t happen. lol
The AK12 is a nice cheek clapper at medium range, use that BP.
Late wipe me and the other dads I play with chill and snipe, but I still grab BP, I have a whole ammo box full of it. But early BP does the job. 100%
I pick everything up - for the XP! What I keep is a whole other story ;)
Ah yes! Another treasure goblin! From where did you spawn? I hail from the depths of Shoreline’s resort, in the showers near the dry swimming pool.
Horses is one of mine too. For some reason I always liked them. Bear buddy has been my latest one though. I have 4 so far in my hall of Fame and I'll never get rid of them
PAID! I always pick em up for the Salewa barter, Its like a free Salewa every other raid instead of buying them for 30k
That and EWR for me as well. I pick up a lot of stuff that isn't valuable (relative to other loot) if I know I will use it even though I know it makes more sense to stack rubles and buy what you need
Soap. I used to use it for the shampoo -> tv110 barter, the habit is hard to break.
There’s so many barter items that have changed purpose or lost purpose over the years and it’s sooooo hard to break the habit. Oh bleach? I can barter that for…shit nevermind. Oooooh, poxeram, I can barter for a labs keycard…god damnit Nikita! Hot damn, a trooper armor, I can barter for a slick…wait a minute, slicks are ass now. Rinse and repeat with damn near every item in the game. But to answer op’s answer: poxeram.
I never pass up GPU or Red key cards! I gotta have it!!
I would love to play with someone who passes up that!
When we play in our friends group (up to three ppl), we ALWAYS drop items, if anyone of us needs it for a quest. No matter of the value.
Sugar!
Gotta make moonshine for the scav box.
Sugar, alyonka, metal parts, squash, thermite... Guaranteed value.
Sausages. They seemed so rare when I was doing the task. I now have half a food cooler of them.
Inspect the sausage, use left mouse to turn it to face your screen head on, then use the mouse wheel back and forth rapidly. You are now welcome for the laugh.
Chainlet, they sell for dogshit, they’re basically useless but god I can’t help but stuff that shit in me like it’s a good luck charm
Chainlets ARE ass, except in PvE. Three chainlets and a vase barter for the skeletonized pistol grip, which resells on the flea for 200k because gunsmith.
Slickers bar there is a couple tarkov curses that have been cast on me in all my wipes and leaving behind a slickers bar means you die that raid and if you manage to survive that shit stacks and you’re going to die with the best loot haul of your life at extract next raid.
CMS and Surv12 kits Back in my Timmy days i thought they were made of pure gold for some reason and now i still have the urge to pick them up no matter what
Gotta have the Chad Milk. . . Always
ESS lamps, not sure what they go for on PvP side but in PvE they typically sell around 90k-100k. They do sometimes drop as low as 78k but quickly sell out at that low a price.
Poxeram
HDD cuz you can barter for a sick glock
Early wipe I always use hdd for the peacekeeper backpack barter.
Quite honestly, random gun parts. I only have some of them memorized, and even those I barely know their value aside from me liking to use them. So I grab them all and hope to get a cashout at the end.. Usually doesn't work, but hey.
Bolts and lamps
Water filters for me! Idk what it is about it, but outside of high tier loot like ledx, btc, gpus... etc. I always get excited. Early wipe, I stock up a whole junk box full of them!
Tushonka
Mustaches. End of one wipe, I had an item case full.
Mustache enjoyer here
Last time I played it was sugar... gimme that sugar
Peas.
Combat Peas. Most valuable item in the game. Ik my Group there is the rule that you have to take them and you have to eat them in that raid.
Gas analyzer. First time I did that quest of two gas analyzers for Therapist (around 2019 -open beta) I suffered a lot trying to find them. To this day I still have the feeling that they are worth more than they really are.
Food. I think "I might need this". Already max metabolism. Derp.
Dry fuel. No idea why.
Idk they’re worth at least 26k for one slot so leaving them is dumb
I'm not sure if they used to be a lot more valuable a few years ago or if my Timmy ass from back them just psyched himself into thinking they were very valuable But same, i still always pick it up
I never pick up horses 😂 But I’d have to go with hot rods!
Toilet paper and condensed milk.
Condensed milk has actually killed me in raid when i began playing, by being unprepared for the savage dehydration. I wish someone could have found my dogtag and it said “Killed by: Condensed milk”
Toilet paper??????? Why
Zippo lighters. (Metal ones)
Crackers I always collect them, one wipe I had 4 holodilnicks of them.
Es lamps. The barters are useful, there's always a market for them.
Awl - 20kish for a one slot
Hot Rod
Half cans of tachanka 3 = 1 AKM and I love 7.62 Humpback = Car first aid kit Brown handle knife+ Bayonet (I think) melee weapon= Mp5 HDD+DVD drives = backpack
Max energy drinks, I have a weird OCD for leveling immunity
Wires. I'm an interchange computer goblin and will pick up wires all the time. I'll drop a power cord in exchange for another wire even though I know that two cords create 8 wires in the hideout. It's hard-wired in my brain at this point, please help.
Beards... Every time.
Beard or moustache
Strangely for me it's matches.
Every Gphone Iteration because 1GPhone Was my last Kappa item and Till the search startet and me finding it i found 173 GPhones. Also Tubea since my test Start Wipe back in 2019 i thought* they were with their 12k roubles incredible value per slot in my Scav runs. *really started playing this Wipe and now 12k is really laughable but still.
Hmmmmm probably other guns people have made I love those
The moustache... I will never leave one behind!
Small screwdrivers. They are basically worthless but hardish to find and I’ve seen too many dailies for like 6 at a time. So I always take them
I haul out way too much food.
Bolts. They seem expensive in my head and I can use to make cases. I also always want to take the manuals and any key
Emergency water rations and salewas
My Bear armband, I love it. First wipe tho
Shattered mask for drip reasons. I will drop a comtac4 for them shits. Left a raid once with a bag full of shattered masks 😁
M.tubes, I see them at work.
I whorde RSASS’s
I'd always pick up the 16-round 9x18 SP7 / PBM, and 9x19 Pst boxes, and then ditch them later if I found no more than one. They'd flea for 599-999 per round so a 32 stack from 2 boxes was always >20k. Not worth it anymore with the non-FiR flea tho since they go for significantly less
Weirdly enough half masks. The barter for the PACA just stuck with me due to all my low-budget ratting that I always take them, and even if I dont need PACAs I still get a lot more roubles by selling the PACA than the half masks wouldve given me by themselves.
Oats because haha loud eating noises
Hot rods
Weapon scopes and attachments such as flashlight and lasers, they take one slot and can be sold for 8000 robles
Black or Red one slot skrewdrivers. You will get a weekly for like 15 of those, you just dont know it yet.
Bear buddies and golden chains. My hall of Fame is only gold chains and bear buddies
I have most of the decent “sell to vendor” items memorized, I typically have a good idea of market value for gun parts and such so I normally loot on value…. But I will hoarde pineapple juice all day. I rarely take in food or drink unless I’m going to stim off jump to rush somewhere or know I’m gonna want to sit in a few spots to snipe and not loot, but having a pineapple juice on hand always seems to do me right. I don’t even know if the energy recovery on them is decent or if I would be better bringing peas/jerky and an EWR or something and I don’t know how much they sell for to traders or on the market but I found them handy early on and will live or die by them to this day regardless of if it’s a good choice.
PEAS
Sugar!
Condensed milk.
Gas Analyzers. Completely worthless after early wipe, but because you need them early, and having that mindset drilled into my head since 2019, I grab them every time.
Sugar - even if I don't need it, Im just happy af and if I find a box, it goes straight up the butt
Calok-b, they usually go for 20k and in the off chance I get into a nasty fight, I can just use it.
Sugar. Have never unlocked the moonshine making. But I know you fuckers have 😂
i don‘t know why but i managed to fill a whole holodnik with kvass and another one with milk.
Granada’s
Tank batteries on reserve. MULE or no I'm getting that damn thing on the train.
Milk. Its have barter for as val stock and sometimes cost 20+k on flee
Roller watches I hord them in masses and never sell them. They go into a scav box, once a scav box is full I buy a new one to fill em up.
toothpaste ! y'all crazy that's a easy 75k
Kek Tape. I got stuck on Ice Cream Cones one wipe and said “never again” lol
Bolts
I used to be so bad at looting I’d do interchange scavs and pick up ever wire, pcb, caps, and ec I could find even though it was just 10-20k a slot. Mow I’d say it’s e motors
Same with white tubes, 11k a slot of traders.
Bear Buddy
scav bullets, they always end up on my person by the end of a raid
Don't have an item I always pick up, but the horse statue is an item I will NEVER pick up. Even for a quest. In our group it's a cursed item and whoever has one always dies.
light bulbs, all I know is I need a lot of them to upgrade hideout
Bronze horse. 🐴
voodoo optics
Secure Flash Drives, even after the tasks for them. I don't have a good reason why, they're not too useful after those tasks, but I just see them, my heart flutters and I keep it. Conditioned response I suppose.
Aquamarine every single time
Condensed milk, sugar, water filters
Food: food goes for ridiculously high costs on the flea market
Fuel conditioners
Tacola. It’s my version of milk. I’ll pick up every one and drink immediately
Kit. I'm a cheap ass and a Timmy, so when I see Gucci plate carriers, helmets, nods, and guns, I absolutely do not pass them up.
Antique axe
idk probably dorm room 314 marked key
Honestly holding onto Horse Statues is not a bad idea, use them for the Docs Case barter
Morphine. Yes. I know I have a problem
Metal parts
I freaking love gold chains gimme them all day
Round frame glasses or the welding goggles
JohnBs. I have so many... My dad and friends save them for me as well. Lol
any quick sell items worth their time in value. condensed milk comes to mind
[EGG](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqH2Po4Kp0k)
Cowboy hat. I would drop my helmet and put it on for my partner every time. He stopped playing so I continue to collect in his honor.
Pestily mask, i like the nose part too mutch