ARC Raiders Map Conditions Guide | How To Utilize Them To Earn More Loot?
Posted: Dec 05, 2025 Views: 44
For most shooter games, maps are one of the effective elements that can continuously add freshness to the game. Different terrains and buildings mean you can break away from conventional tactics and try new combat strategies.
The recently popular extraction shooter game ARC Raiders also fully adheres to this principle, launching with five maps (although one of them is a training ground), and quickly adding a sixth map, Stella Montis, through patch 1.2.0.
Interestingly, the developers have also fully utilized their creativity, adding more fun and challenges to ARC Raiders in the form of special map conditions without adding new maps! Next, we will introduce these conditions and how they work.

Map Conditions Overview
All conditions are divided into two categories. One type is attached to each map, allowing you to experience them directly, and they rotate regularly to constantly change the gameplay in specific areas of the map, or increase the number of obtainable ARC Raiders items.
The other type is more like a special event, requiring you to queue up separately to enter, similar to playing dungeons in an MMORPG. These events are usually more challenging but will help you earn more points for weekly trials in addition to loot.
It should be noted that conditions are just one way to enrich map gameplay; the game will still regularly add new maps. Of course, the conditions will also be continuously updated.
Condition 1: Prospecting Probes
We will introduce the currently available map conditions in ARC Raiders in order from easiest to most difficult. As the simplest event, Prospecting Probes condition increases the number of ARC Probes and Couriers that appear on the current map.
They are essentially devices that, once found, provide you with specific loot, such as alloy, circuitry, or motion cores, which you can use to craft more advanced items in the workshop.
Probes look like missiles and constantly emit a sound, while Couriers are more square-shaped. Both are marked by emitting black smoke so you can identify them.
In short, Prospecting Probes is almost purely a beneficial condition; the only thing you need to watch out for is other players competing with you for the devices.
Condition 2: Husk Graveyard
This condition generates more Baron Husks on the map for you to loot - although the name sounds mysterious, it's actually just a type of abandoned device from which you can find valuable loot.
It's worth noting that finding Baron Husks and the two devices mentioned in Condition 1 will help you complete the corresponding main quests in the game. Therefore, even looted devices may still be valuable.
Condition 3: Uncovered Caches
If you hear a ticking sound coming from under a building while searching for loot, it means you've triggered this condition. You can follow the sound to find containers hidden with a large amount of loot - the closer you get, the louder the sound.
However, be aware that if you don't find and open these containers in time, they will explode after a certain period. So if you trigger Uncovered Caches, it's best to act immediately.
Condition 4: Lush Blooms
This event creates a rare pastoral atmosphere in the post-apocalyptic world of ARC Raiders, allowing you to find more natural resources such as fruits and vegetables on the map, or Bountiful Baskets containing these resources.
These materials can be used to upgrade your mechanical rooster, Scrappy. This assistant can generate extra resources for you based on your combat results and time; the higher the level, the faster it generates resources.
Condition 5: Launch Tower Loot
This condition mainly applies to Spaceport map and requires you to manually trigger it by finding any fuel cell and placing it in the generator under the main tower. After triggering it, you will encounter more ARC enemies in Spaceport.
Based on the above characteristics, we recommend that you team up with other players and bring enough ammunition and heavy weapons to ensure your survival.
Condition 6: Hidden Bunker
This event is somewhat similar to the previous one in its mechanics. You need to activate four antennas scattered in the four corners of the map to enter Hidden Bunker and start looting successfully.
After activating each one, you need to defeat several robot enemies until all four objectives are completed. Therefore, the best solution is still to work together with teammates to improve efficiency.
Condition 7: Harvester Event
This event centers around ARC enemy, Queen, and Harvester it guards. Harvester itself is a building that will spawn in an open area on the map, and you can enter through any of the three entrances.
Although Harvester has a lot of good loot, the building itself spews fire, so you must periodically go outside to avoid it until the flames disappear.
The most challenging part outside the building is Queen and some Rocketeer enemies. The latter is easier to kill, while the former is more challenging, but the game doesn't force you to kill it, so you can choose to avoid it.
Condition 8: Night Raid
This event, and Condition 9, which will be introduced later, both require separate entry. They alternate with the regular maps in the game. Night Raid features more ARC enemies, fewer extraction points, and rarer loot.
Therefore, although this event allows you to use stealth and a flashlight for defense, its overall danger level is still very high. Do not venture into it unprepared.
Condition 9: Electromagnetic Storm
This event operates similarly to Night Raid, but it also adds periodic lightning strikes to the map, posing a danger to you. Interestingly, the lightning doesn't belong to any faction; it attacks ARC robots as well, so you can use this to your advantage in combat.
To avoid or utilize these lightning strikes, you can observe the premonitory signs of their attack locations, as long as you are able to move.
The above are all the map conditions currently available in ARC Raiders. It is expected that after Cold Snap update, scheduled for some time in December, Snowfall will be added as the tenth condition.
This condition will introduce a dynamic weather system to the game, such as blizzards, increasing the difficulty of exploration and combat on various maps by affecting visibility. It's something to look forward to!
We hope this information is helpful to you in playing ARC Raiders. Thank you for reading.
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