In Arc Raiders, crafting materials form the backbone of almost every item you can create, from epic augments and shields to trigger grenades and herbal bandages. Efficiently farming these resources can drastically reduce your grind and maximize your crafting potential. In this guide, we'll break down some of the most efficient farms for the primary crafting materials, including batteries, wires, sensors, processors, arc circuitry, mechanical components, and cloth-based resources.
Why Focus on These Materials?
The materials we'll focus on-batteries, wires, sensors, processors, arc circuitry, springs, mechanical components, advanced mechanicals, and cloth- cover a majority of the game's essential items. Whether you're crafting medium or epic shields, repairing weapons, making trigger grenades, or creating herbal bandages, these resources will be consistently required. By prioritizing these Arc Raiders materials, you're effectively preparing yourself to craft a wide variety of useful gear and consumables with minimal downtime.
Setting Up Your Farming Environment
Before diving into farms, consider adjusting your matchmaking. Arc Raiders' aggression-based matchmaking can introduce high-PvP encounters that slow down farming runs. For maximum efficiency, use friendly or PvE lobbies. In my experience, I completed 50 consecutive games without being attacked once, allowing for uninterrupted farming. For players regularly in aggressive lobbies, a secondary account can also be used for material-focused runs, ensuring a consistent and relaxed farming session.
Battery, Wire, Sensor, and Processor Farm: Stella Montis
One of the most productive farms is a 6-minute run in Stella Montis, which yields nearly 40 batteries, 79 wires, 9 sensors, and 10 processors. These materials are essential for crafting and repairing medium and epic shields, making epic augments, trigger grenades, and hatch keys.
1. Spawn at Medical Research and head toward the Sandbox location, focusing on the upper floors.
2. Prioritize servers and computers for loot, checking both tops and interiors for power banks, advanced electrical components, and fried motherboards.
3. Salvage androids and other tech for additional processors and wires.
4. Efficient pathing, like using vents or snap hooks, can shave seconds off your run.
5. End your run at extraction points such as the seed vault or using a hatch key, depending on loot priorities.
Even without maxed breaching skills, this run consistently provides enough resources to craft multiple medium shields, epic augments, and trigger grenades in a single session.
Springs and Mechanical Components: Loading Bay Run
For springs, mechanical components, and advanced mechanical components, a slightly longer Stella Montis run is highly effective:
1. Spawn near Medical Research or Loading Bay. Breach blue containers, vehicles, and shredder gyros for springs and mechanical parts.
2. Salvage items such as rusted tools, rusted gears, and cooling coils to convert into springs and components.
3. Prioritize loot before extraction, as PvE lobbies clear fast.
4. Even in moderately looted scenarios, it's possible to gather 17 springs, 17 mechanical components, and 2 advanced mechanicals in under 10 minutes.
5. Recycling components in Spironza can yield even more mechanical materials for crafting.
This run is versatile and can also yield extra chemicals and metal parts for secondary crafting.
Arc Circuitry: Electromagnetic Storms
Arc circuitry is critical for medium and heavy shields, as well as power rods and snap hooks. The best method for farming it is in electromagnetic storms, such as those at Spaceport:
1. Bring a large supply of adrenaline shots to maintain mobility.
2. Constantly scan the map for arc convoys and probes.
3. Arc convoys sometimes spawn in clusters, maximizing potential loot.
4. Salvage broken arc items, including damaged rocketeers or burned circuitries.
5. Each 8 arc alloy looted equates to one arc circuitry, making this an efficient way to accumulate high-value components quickly.
Fabric Materials: Herbal Bandages, Durable Cloth, and Great Mullins
For crafting herbal bandages, focus on durable cloth and great mullins:
1. Queue for Buried City and loot hospitals or gallerias first, depending on which resource is scarce.
2. Open every drawer and salvage items like torn blankets, tattered shirts, medical bags, and fabrics.
3. Repeat the loop and extract efficiently. Spaceport is an alternative, though slower.
4. Back at Spironza, recycle salvaged items and craft as much durable cloth as possible.
This run not only supplies bandages but also yields antiseptics and chemicals for additional crafting opportunities.
Final Tips
· Focus on friendly PvE lobbies for stress-free farming.
· Prioritize efficient pathing to minimize time lost between loot spawns.
· Invest in breaching skills to increase speed and maximize material yield.
· Salvage everything; many low-value items recycle into high-demand crafting materials.
By following these farms, players can consistently acquire the resources needed to craft shields, augments, trigger grenades, and other essential Arc Raiders items without wasting hours wandering maps or fighting competitors. Master these routes, and your crafting arsenal in Arc Raiders will always be stocked and ready for action.