FIR Items for Hideout Change + Pestily's and Gigabeef's incredibly useful video guides

Patch 0.16 introduced a significant change: items with the "Found in Raid" (FIR) status are now required to upgrade the Hideout. This has major implications for gameplay, playstyle, and inventory management. Fortunately, there are great streamers like Pestily and Gigabeef to help us get the items we need!

With Patch 0.16, BSG decided to test the resilience of EFT players by including these two bombshells in the patch notes:

1. Listing offers on the PvP Flea Market will be available two weeks after the end of the Patch 0.16.0.0 installation.

2. Building and upgrading Hideout zones now requires items with the Found in Raid mark, except for in-game currency.

   
   

These two game-breaking changes were tossed in with such a casual nonchalance among the "Balancing Changes" in the patch notes that it even went unnoticed by some players.

However, they’ve already transformed how this wipe is being played.

The first change is temporary, but combined with the second, much larger one, it has raised the stakes in every raid. Many veteran players have welcomed these changes, as they've rekindled the tension and nerves they once felt but had lost due to the familiarity and repetitiveness of previous wipes.

Finding an item you’ve been searching for (sometimes for days) and then worrying about safely extracting from the raid to avoid losing it is a psychological mechanic at the core of EFT. Losing this thrill reduces the game to mere PvP. And even PvP, without high stakes, loses its value and meaning.

Before these changes, the real thrill only came from quest items, rare and highly valuable items on the market, or those that couldn't be purchased and had to be found in raids.

Now, even something as simple as a roll of blue duct tape or a box of matches can cause anxiety. And when your backpack starts to fill with 2, 4, or even 8 of these items, the tension builds... and it’s wonderful!

Call it masochism if you want, but you know it’s true!

Space Problems

The biggest change is the requirement to use exclusively FIR items to upgrade your Hideout.

This not only raises the stakes during raids but also affects stash management. Previously, players could sell FIR items they didn’t immediately need and repurchase them later when required. Now, they must keep everything—especially rare items.

On top of that, quest items must also be FIR.

To address this, Lucky Scav Junk Boxes become essential. These boxes occupy just 16 slots in your stash but provide 196 slots to store barter items. However, we all know that even this space is never enough.

Finding Items with a big help from our friend Pestily.

Aside from space issues, the real challenge is finding what you need.

Anyone with some EFT experience has a general idea of where to find specific items, but few have a truly comprehensive knowledge of the best places to locate every type of item.

Thankfully, the universe gave us Pestily, who had the brilliant idea of creating a video guide. In it, he breaks down—map by map and category by category—where to find the items needed for the Hideout.

So without further ado, let's check out his video!

ULTIMATE TARKOV FIR LOOT GUIDE - WHERE TO FIND YOUR HIDEOUT ITEMS - Escape from Tarkov

And Why Not Just Crafting Them?

I don't know about you, but every single wipe I find myself struggling for those Salewas and Iskras. In the mean time I upgrade my Hideout and forget that with the newly built Medstation I can craft Salewas and with the Nutrition Unit I can craft the Iskras!

Well to avoid happening this to you and to know all useful quest items you can craft + more Patch 0.16 tips and tricks I strongly suggest to see Gigabeef's YT video: 5 Tips You NEED To Know In Tarkov Patch 0.16!

Thanks Gigabeef, again.