Tarkov April Fools 2026: Bucket of Nothing Quest Guide

Every year, Battlestate Games remembers that humor is technically a thing that exists, and deploys it with all the grace of a fragmentation grenade in a confined space. The Bucket of Nothing quest dropped on 1 April 2026 as part of the game's April Fools event. It is a limited-time Prapor quest that tasks you with executing Reshala: the Customs map's resident crime boss: along with three of his guards, and the catch is that you must do it using the 20x1mm toy gun, lovingly nicknamed "Blicky." There is no workaround. There is no clever exploit. Prapor wants you to bring a party favor to a gunfight, and he is completely serious about it. The quest does not count toward Kappa container requirements, which is perhaps the only merciful decision Battlestate has made this patch.

"Truth is, you're a solid warrior... if you weren't so damn lazy and trained more often, you could drop anyone with even a Makarov. Hell, not just a Makarov: even a toy pistol, the b... Blicky!"

— Prapor, during what we can only assume was a very long raid debrief with Escape from Tarkov services

This is, by all measures, a Tarkov April Fools quest in the most pure and devastating sense of the term. Reshala and his followers have been modified for the event to also carry the Blicky: which means you will be gunned down in Customs dorms by gangsters armed with children's toys, and you should accept this as your reality before you even load in.

Before discussing the Reshala kill strategy, let's pay our respects to the instrument of your suffering. The 20x1mm toy gun, designated "Blicky" by Prapor and anyone who has ever touched grass, is a Soviet-manufactured plastic semi-automatic pistol designed for children over the age of five. It fires 20x1mm disks. It weighs 90 grams. It is classified as a secondary weapon. It belongs in a toy chest, not in Customs dorms: and yet here we are. It fits in a 2x1 inventory Escape from Tarkov currency, which is honestly the most dignified thing about it.

The 20x1mm disk ammunition was buffed for this event: damage is up to 25, and projectile speed was raised to 200 m/s, which is Battlestate's way of acknowledging that without these changes the quest would be literally impossible. It still has zero armor penetration, meaning every guard in Tier 4 armor is technically invincible to it unless you find the head. You will be aiming for the head. Constantly. With a toy. In Customs dorms. Where the lighting is terrible and PMCs also want to kill you for existing. Enjoy.

Acquisition The 20x1mm disk ammunition is sold by Mechanic at Loyalty Escape from Tarkov leveling 1. The Blicky itself can be traded from Mechanic for 7x 7.62x51mm M61 ammo packs (20 pcs each). Do the math on whether this is worth it. Spoiler: it doesn't matter, you have no choice.

Tarkov April Fools 2026 Guide | Quest Objectives

The Bucket of Nothing objectives are as follows, stated plainly before the pain begins:

• Locate and neutralize Reshala while using the Toy gun (20x1mm)
• Eliminate 3 of Reshala's guards while using the Toy gun (20x1mm)

Critical Rule Both objectives require you to have the Blicky equipped and be the one delivering the killing blow. If a teammate or random scav finishes off Reshala while you are reloading your plastic child's weapon, it does not count. The game has verified your humiliation must be personal.

You only need to kill 3 guards, not all 4. This is Battlestate's version of a mercy. Reshala typically runs with a full crew of four, so you have one free kill to waste on a stray bullet from a real gun: or, more likely, on your inevitable death and the subsequent raid you'll spend crawling back to dorms to try again. The Tarkov Customs dorms boss fight was never supposed to be done with this. None of this was supposed to happen.

Reshala, known in Tarkov lore as "The Dealmaker," is a scav boss exclusive to the Customs map with roughly a 35–38% spawn chance. He does not always show up. This is important because you can absolutely enter ten raids in a row, survive to the dorms, find nothing, extract, and repeat this cycle until your will dissolves entirely. That is a valid Tarkov experience. That is, in fact, the core Tarkov experience.

His spawn locations on Escape from Tarkov Raids are:

• 2-story dorms (DORM2): Most common; he roams floors and hallways with his crew
• 3-story dorms (DORM3): Expect him anywhere from ground floor to the stairwells
• Yard between dorms: Open ground, exposed, extremely dangerous given your weapon
• New Gas Station: Southern side, near trucks or sandbags; slightly easier sightlines
• Construction site / Skeleton: Near the sub-station passage; rare but documented

Reshala is identifiable by his brown sweater. His guards wear blue jackets with white-striped cuffs. Learn this distinction immediately, because in the chaos of dorms you will need to correctly identify the man wearing a potato-colored sweater and put 25-damage plastic discs into his skull before his four heavily-armed associates fill you with 7.62. The Reshala spawn locations on Customs are ultimately irrelevant if he decides not to spawn, which he might, because Tarkov.

Tactical Note Reshala does not wear armor. His guards do: Tier 2 through 6 armor vests and Tier 3–5 helmets, sometimes Altyns. Since your ammunition has zero penetration power, every engagement against a guard in a sealed helmet is a headshot race. Target face, eyes, or unprotected areas. You will miss constantly. Plan for this.

How to kill Reshala with a toy gun: a sentence that no guide should ever have to contain, and yet here it is, indexed and everything. The strategy is not complicated in concept. It is only complicated in execution because the execution involves a 20-meter-per-second plastic disc against a man in military kit.

1. Acquire the Blicky and other Escape from Tarkov items first. Buy the 20x1mm disk rounds from Mechanic LL1. Trade for the gun itself using M61 ammo packs at Mechanic. Do not enter the raid without both. Prapor has a drunk sense of humor; the game does not.
2. Load in early. Customs raids fill with PMCs who will be camping dorms for normal reasons: loot, quest items, the usual. Load in as early as possible. Pre-dorms routes from most spawn points are manageable if you move before the traffic arrives.
3. Check if Reshala spawned before committing. Listen for AI gunshots, check for guard aggression noise from dorms, or peek the yard carefully. If you hear nothing and dorms are silent, either Reshala did not spawn or he's waiting very quietly for you. Both are bad.
4. Clear perimeter before entering. Guards will push aggressively. They throw flashbangs and fragmentation grenades even when you're behind cover and out of line of sight. Do not cluster with teammates inside. Grenades are a fast, embarrassing way to die while holding a toy.
5. Target Reshala (brown sweater) first, then guards. Isolate him from his crew if possible. He tends to retreat behind guards after spotting you, so the first moments of engagement: before he reacts: are your window. One center-mass shot will not kill him with a Blicky, but it will tell him you exist.
6. Headshots only, always. With zero penetration, anything behind armor is immune. Faceshield or not, the face hitbox is your target. The Blicky's 13.41 MOA accuracy is not your friend, but it is the only friend you have.
7. Consider PvE mode. PvE grants 100% boss spawn rates. If you cannot find Reshala in PvP: which is statistically likely given the sub-40% chance: PvE mode guarantees he is there, every raid, waiting to be killed by your shameful firearm.

Warning: Guard AI Reshala's guards are not passive. They push players aggressively, flank, and will pursue you across significant distances if they detect you. Their guns are real. Yours is plastic. Keep this asymmetry in mind at all times. Distance is your ally. Dorms hallways are your enemy. The guards will also carry the Blicky during this event: meaning Reshala's crew is walking into a firefight with toys of their own, which somehow makes them even more threatening, because at least they have four of them.

Prapor, to his credit, is not completely without shame. The rewards for completing Bucket of Nothing are legitimately good: which is his way of acknowledging that what he just made you do was unconscionable. If you survive long enough to see this screen, congratulations. You have earned it by means of extreme psychological suffering.

The AK-308 is a 7.62x51 NATO-caliber assault rifle built by Kalashnikov Group for export markets. It is a real gun that fires real bullets with real penetration values: which stands in remarkable contrast to everything you just used to earn it. Three ProMag 24-round magazines for the AK-308 are also included, because Prapor apparently felt guilty enough to give you something immediately usable. The AK-308 Tarkov reward is one of the better event quest payouts in recent memory, which is darkly appropriate given what you had to do to get it.

Tarkov April Fools 2026 Guide | Prapor's Completion Dialogue

"The hell?! You actually went in there with that piece of crap? It was just a drunk joke... What Reshala, what dorms? Don't bullshit me, kid. Next thing you'll say is Reshala himself gone crazy and came at you with a toy gun as well. Still, I'll give you this: you've got guts. I don't believe a word of it, but not every soldier can sell a story like that. Here, take it. A little something from your good old uncle Prapor!"

— Prapor, completely floored for Escape from Tarkov Quests, handing you an assault rifle out of pure disbelief

To be clear: Prapor did not think you would actually do it. He sent you into a firefight with a child's toy on a drunk dare. He genuinely expected you to fail, laugh it off, and move on with your life. Instead you loaded into Customs, found a crime boss with four armed guards, and murdered them all with 20x1mm plastic discs: possibly multiple times, across multiple raids, after losing everything to guards with flashbang grenades. Prapor's surprise is valid. His guilt is palpable. His AK-308 is appreciated.