Glossary

Hub, safezone: The protected area on the south coast where the traders, task boards, stash, workbench and deploy point live. Nobody can be hurt inside it. Stay too long and it starts draining you — see The safezone.
Deploy: Leaving the hub through the deploy menu, which drops you at a landing point of your choice. The only way out of the safezone.
Extract, exfil: A marked zone that takes you back to the hub after a short countdown. Also used as a verb.
Raid: One trip from deploy to extract. Also, separately, breaking into somebody's base — context tells you which.
Rep, reputation, LL: The one number that unlocks the market tiers and the bigger containers. Earned from tasks, kills and helping other players; never lost on death. "LL" is Tarkov's word for the same ladder — loyalty level.
Task, quest: A job from a trader's board. Story tasks form chains; dailies and weeklies rotate. Task Board.
Board: The physical noticeboard a trader's tasks are taken from and handed in at. Most are in the hub; Mechanic's and the Lightkeeper's are at their outposts.
Secure container: The pouch that survives your death. Alpha is free on arrival; Beta, Epsilon, Kappa and Theta are earned. Secure containers.
Stash: Your storage in the hub. Upgraded through tasks over the course of a wipe. The stash.
Scav: AI fighters. Scav patrols roam villages; bosses have guards. Also Tarkov slang for a player who plays like one.
PMC: A player. A "PMC kill" is a player kill.
The Lab, Labs: The keycard-gated underground area you deploy into. Its own extracts, its own no-relog rule. The Lab.
Keycard: The coloured Lab cards that open specific rooms, and the Lab access card that gets you in. Keys and keycards.
Combat log: Logging out to escape a fight. The server keeps your body in the world for minutes after a combat logout, and doing it is also a rule violation. Death, logout and combat logging.
Territory, generator: A base is claimed by a territory generator that burns fuel. No fuel, no territory, and the base decays. Territory and upkeep.
RA, RA Base Building: The base-building system the server runs. Build from the radial menu with a blueprint in hand.
C4, improvised charge: The two workbench-made explosives that open bases. Rockets work too. Raiding.
Raid alert: The warning the owners of a territory get when it is attacked.
Comp: Compensation — a staff refund for gear lost to a bug, with clip evidence. There are situations where no comp is given; see the rules.
Wipe: The periodic reset of every character, stash and base. Reputation resets too. The last one was 4 September 2026.
Restart: The server restarts every three hours. Dailies change and completions reset on the 6:00 one. Restarts.
GP coins: The arena currency Ref deals in. Earned from his tasks, weekly contracts and dailies rather than found.
Lega medal: The medal that weekly contracts pay and Ref wants for the Theta container.