ARC Raiders — Complete, Clear, and Accurate Guide

ARC Raiders is a PvPvE extraction shooter.
You are one of the survivors living in Speranza, an underground refuge where people fled after the mechanized ARC invasion.

Every trip to the surface (Topside) is about:

• gathering resources
  
• fighting machines and other players
  
• collecting valuable items
  
• and most importantly — extracting successfully to bring your loot back

The loot you extract allows you to:

• upgrade your gear
  
• unlock new items
  
• level up stations in your Workshop
  
• increase your chances of success in future raids

Before a raid, you are located in Speranza — an underground city of survivors.

Here you can:

• take your weapons and equipment
  
• gather necessary consumables
  
• upgrade your Workshop stations
  
• craft new items
  
• recycle or sell unwanted loot
  
• gather everything you need before heading out

Scrappy is your “junk collector” / chicken companion in the hideout. He automatically brings you materials after raids.

He is a passive source of resources, especially useful for basic crafting, upgrading workbenches, and saving time.

Thanks to Scrappy, you don’t have to rely entirely on what you can gather during a raid — very convenient if you don’t want to farm resources manually every time.

Below is a table with all Scrappy levels, upgrade requirements, and effects:

In ARC Raiders, your Workshop is the base where you turn loot (materials and parts) into weapons, armor, consumables, and much more. To unlock “advanced” recipes, you need to upgrade stations.

Here is a list of all main Workshop stations + their levels + required resources + what they unlock:

Expedition Project is a voluntary full character reset system that becomes available at level 20. It allows players to replay the game from scratch while earning special rewards and permanent account benefits.

How Expedition Project works

• Each player has their own personal Expedition Project.
  
• The project cycle lasts 8 weeks.
  
• During the first 7 weeks, players complete project stages.
  
• On the 8th week, the completion window opens — if all stages are finished, the player can perform an Expedition Reset.
  
• If a player misses the window, progress is saved until the next 8-week cycle.

After completing an expedition, players can start a new project and repeat the cycle.

What the player loses after an expedition
When performing an Expedition Reset, players lose everything related to the character:

• level
  
• skills
  
• inventory and items
  
• crafting capabilities
  
• Workshop upgrades
  
• all material progress

What is preserved
After the expedition, everything tied to the account is preserved:

• purchased and earned cosmetic items
  
• achievements and awards
  
• any premium content
  
• most early-game onboarding is skipped (tutorials, early unlocks)

Why do it — rewards and benefits
Developers are still finalizing details, but current known rewards include:

• permanent account unlocks for each completed expedition
  
• unique cosmetic items and visual marks to show how many expeditions you’ve completed
  
• temporary account bonuses for the next 8-week cycle (do not affect combat power)
  
• each new completed cycle increases these temporary bonuses (up to a limit)

⚠️ Important: Expedition Project does not give any combat advantage over other players.

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