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Collector
A049 C026 0101PD Banner
Quest data
TypePickUp
Given ByFence
Required for
Kappa container
Yes
Related quests
Requirement for:
-
Other choices:
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Collector is a Quest in Escape from Tarkov.

Dialogue

Hello, mercenary. I have been watching you for quite a while now, and I know that you are able to solve the tasks assigned to you. Don't get too cocky now, you're not the only one who knows how to follow orders. There are more fighters like you, even more competent. I want to offer you a job, to give you a chance to become a part of something bigger than you can imagine. If you are ready, then here's an assignment for you: my people operate all over Tarkov and often leave souvenirs after themselves. The mission is to obtain and deliver those items to me. No questions asked. The things are extremely rare. I hope I don't have to remind you that you have to obtain all these items by yourself? Believe me, I like no other know when people lie. You will be informed of the drop spot. And one more thing, all my partners have already mastered their skills a long time ago and proven themselves reliable, and if you want to be one of them, then prove to me that you are not inferior to them in training. Don't try to contact me, I will do it myself when the time comes.

Requirements

To gain access to this quest, most, but not all quests in the game need to be completed. There is no clear pattern which quests are required. It's decided by the developers and changes with new game updates. The quest with the highest required level is Crisis at 48.

For keeping track of which quests are required, we have added the parameter "Required for Kappa container" to the infoboxes of quest pages as well as a column on the quests page.

If your experience deviates from our data, please let us know on our Discord or note it here.

InfoboxKappa

Objectives

Rewards

Have you got it all? Good, mercenary. Your hard-earned reward awaits you in the specified drop-spot, just as promised. Congratulations, and welcome.

Guide

Related Quest Items
Icon Item name Amount Requirement Find in raid
FireSteelIcon Old firesteel 1 Handover item Yes
Antique Axe icon Antique axe 1 Handover item Yes
BatteredBookIcon Battered antique book 1 Handover item Yes
FireKlean icon FireKlean gun lube 1 Handover item Yes
GoldenRoosterIcon Golden rooster figurine 1 Handover item Yes
Silver Badge icon Silver Badge 1 Handover item Yes
Deadlyslobs beard oil icon Deadlyslob's beard oil 1 Handover item Yes
1gphone icon Golden 1GPhone smartphone 1 Handover item Yes
DDGMayoIcon Jar of DevilDog mayo 1 Handover item Yes
Can of sprats Icon Can of sprats 1 Handover item Yes
Fake Mustache icon Fake mustache 1 Handover item Yes
Kotton Beanie icon Kotton beanie 1 Handover item Yes
Lupo Icon Can of Dr. Lupo's coffee beans 1 Handover item Yes
Plague mask icon Pestily plague mask 1 Handover item Yes
Raven figurine icon Raven figurine 1 Handover item Yes
Shroud Icon Shroud half-mask 1 Handover item Yes
VeritasGuitarPickIcon Veritas guitar pick 1 Handover item Yes
EnglishTeaIcon 42 Signature Blend English Tea 1 Handover item Yes
Smoke icon Smoke balaclava 1 Handover item Yes
Evasion armband icon Armband (Evasion) 1 Handover item Yes
RatCola Icon Can of RatCola soda 1 Handover item Yes
Loot Lord plushie icon Loot Lord plushie 1 Handover item Yes
WZ Wallet icon WZ Wallet 1 Handover item Yes
Lvndmark rat poison icon LVNDMARK's rat poison 1 Handover item Yes
Missamkey Missam forklift key 1 Handover item Yes
Video cassette with the Cyborg Killer movie icon Video cassette with the Cyborg Killer movie 1 Handover item Yes
BakeEzy Cook Book icon BakeEzy cook book 1 Handover item Yes
JohnB icon JohnB Liquid DNB glasses 1 Handover item Yes
Glori mask Glorious E lightweight armored mask 1 Handover item Yes
Baddie icon Baddie's red beard 1 Handover item Yes
DRD body armor DRD body armor 1 Handover item Yes
Gingy-keychain-icon Gingy keychain 1 Handover item Yes
Golden egg icon Golden egg 1 Handover item Yes
NoiceguyPass Icon Press pass (issued for NoiceGuy) 1 Handover item Yes
Axel parrot icon Axel parrot figurine 1 Handover item Yes
Buddy icon BEAR Buddy plush toy 1 Handover item Yes

Riddle

Until April 19, 2019 this quest was called "A049 C026 0101PD". There was a riddle hidden in the the dialogue and reward text.

Old description

417420696e7465726368616e676520776520776572652061742062617
368207a797877767574737271706f6e6d6c6b6a6968676665646362612
07072797a317574733871356f6e6d6c6b6a336867666534633261


36742074683120316e61206f6620387420366c6c2c20326f75206d7573
742035386c6c207468312035386c6c3620616e64205572416743652044
45726f5252694d

Old reward text

=EjNyQzY2MzMjZjM3kjNyIjY2YjM - 3
==Qdy5yaqBybx1G
31IqhWZ4lGI1hnagwSdytmagYXZgUnZxhXagEH
31IklHI2JWdph2al9GIiFXdsVHagUmagU3cxJmZg
31IWc5NXdmlGIxBSa5BSdoVHeqpgZpNGdgQ3Y
31gMnZvlWZnBybgI2dgQnezdmZpNWbgInY3RHI
316p3drBSaj1GIscmYvt2ZgYHa3tGI1J2d692cyBiZ
31zhGdvpgcyVWdnBSZiBichJGIsgXeupGIypnYlB
31yciBSZiVmcjpncgEXeoJWdmBiZjJ3ZmBCbh5m
31egomY1pgC0tGe1BCazFGZ3dXa4xGIjBHboBS
31dkByZ0FnYqNGI0dXaKAiZlJ3b6hWYgcmZlZ3cg
31IXdnByciBiYqdGIoJGbgcWd0hmYl9GIyFmdzNnT - 2
==AdpBiZvBCd19GI
mxWZzJXdvlHIlRXY09mcgwCbsV2dgMXYgI
XZi1WduBiblRHI09mcgMXag4WZlRncphGd - 1
rebmun eslaf si neetriht taht si hturt dnoces ,6 dna 4 fo mus eht ees
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Quest description decryption

Solving the riddle starts with the quest description, the first paragraph of the hex encoded text equating to At interchange we were at bash zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba pryz1uts8q5onmlkj3hgfe4c2a and the second one to 6t th1 1na of 8t 6ll, 2ou must 58ll th1 58ll6 and UrAgCe DEroRRiM. The first uncovered paragraph indicates the existence of Atbash ciphered text, the text zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba pryz1uts8q5onmlkj3hgfe4c2a equating to abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz kiba1fgh8j5lmnopq3stuv4x2z, a clear substitution pattern. Using the aforementioned substitution pattern, we can take the second paragraph found in the quest description and translate it to 6t the end of it 6ll, you must kill the kill6, a clue which will become useful later along with the UrAgCe and DEroRRiM texts.

Quest reward text decryption

The first operation to be applied to the quest reward text seems obvious, either from the DEroRRiM (MiRRorED if mirrored) text or from the nature of the text, it being a simple mirror of the whole text block. After a mirror, the paragraph First truth is, at the base you see the sum of 4 and 6, second truth is that thirteen is false number is revealed, making us understand that the number 13 should be eliminated in all further findings and that the base being used for them will be 64, instead of the human-used 10. Thus, after removing the already used text, removing the number 13 and decoding the text from Base64, we can observe the following text: thirteen is rot ten number as well, rotate yourself out of it which indicates the use of the rot13 cipher. After another removal of our used text and a rot13 decryption we can observe the following lines: Affine brought you two of the first numbers coupled with vjg pwodgt qh uycp ykvjjqnfu hkxg and how many steps should emperor of rome walk, one or three coupled with bgufs efbmjoh xjui txbot, zpv xjmm gjoe zpvstfmg jo b trvbsf pg gpvs / wkhuh lv d vshfldo sodfh wr uhyhdo brxuvhoi lq d vkdsh ri wxeh, wkh vkruw zdb wx.eh which indicate the Affine and Caesar ciphers respectively. After decyphering the Affine encoded text with the values a = 1; b = 2 we obtain the number of swan withholds five and after decoding the Caesar encoded texts with a shift of 1 and 3 respectively we obtain after dealing with swans, you will find yourself in a square of four / there is a special place to reveal yourself in a shape of tube, the short way tu.be, both clues helping later.

Piecing everything together

To continue, we'll start with the remainder of our quest reward text: 266b2269726c336c4261 a hex encoded string which we should not decrypt for now. The clue the number of swan withholds five shows that 2 (a number which looks similar to a swan) should be replaced by the number 5, doing so in our hex text and then finally decoding it, indicated by the square of four clue, giving us VkUiul3lEa. Looking closely at the obtained string, we can observe the existence of the word killa within it, the clue 6t the end of it 6ll, you must kill the kill6 telling us to remove it from the text. Doing so will finally reveal the text VUu3E which if attached to the UrAgCe string obtained earlier, and being added onto a YouTube short link, as indicated by there is a special place to reveal yourself in a shape of tube, the short way tu.be revealing a YouTube video.

The pastebin

Approximately a week after finding the first YouTube video, a Pastebin link surfaced in the video description. For ease in describing the decryption progress, we'll split the document in 4 sections, one for each paragraph and will start with the last one since it exposes the 1st step within the process.

Paragraph 4

The paragraph is Base64 encoded, but before decoding it, all characters that are found surrounded by a + character need to be deleted and the contents need to be set aside to form the string 524f543437 which equates to ROT47 in hexadecimal. After the removal of the odd characters, the text File119111====T10p2 ...Be advised, we've got... (transmission interrupted)====end of file is revealed. We can note down the "file number" as the rest is just flavor text.

Paragraph 3

Using the former ROT47 clue we can solve this paragraph, applying a ROT47 decryption after a Base64 decode yielding the content we need, but slightly malformed. To clear this malformation every 22nd character in the original string needs to be removed (all of the characters being a 0), thus revealing File108070107==== T10p1 Overseer, this is team 8 unit 13 Foreman callsign. We got ambushed, requesting backup.... ====end of file. Like the last paragraph, we can ignore all text besides the file number.

Paragraph 2

After a reverse of this paragraph we can observe the string m1560red})>/|:\<({4lphab3t (originally t3bahpl4{(<\:|/>)}der0651m) is an outlier and will serve as a clue later, so we can remove it. The rest of the paragraph (still reversed) can simply be Base64 decoded to find File086078121==== OVRp2 ...Possible locals ambush. ====end of file. As with the former paragraphs, keep the file number and ignore the rest.

Paragraph 1

As with the former paragraphs we start with a simple Base64 decode. We can now take the m1560red})>/|:\<({4lphab3t clue and use it as a substitute alphabet while ignoring the importat numbers, giving us the File082056117==== OVRp1 team 10, recon detail, moving to polikhim 1-12. backup call from team 8, unknown detail.... ====end of file string, which again, can be disregarded besides the file number.

Finale

Concatenating all file numbers together yields 082056117086078121108070107119111. If we group the characters and get their coresponding ASCII character, we obtain R8uVNylFkwo which leads to the final YouTube video. The video had a few game keys in its description.

Trivia

The second found video is reused into an official short movie called "Raid".

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