Forgotten Relics
- Opens
- June 16, 2026
- Closes
- July 28, 2026
- Cadence
- one-off
A time-limited event that leans into ARC Raiders' scavenging identity — rare, high-value relics scattered across the maps, with a progression track that rewards players who explore off the obvious routes.
- Time-limited progression track with event rewards
- Hunt rare relics hidden across the surface maps
- Rewards favor exploration over the usual loot routes
How it works
Forgotten Relics runs on Merits. Every 100 XP you earn on any map converts to 1 Merit automatically, and extracting with relics pays bonus Merits on top — the relic has to leave the map in your pack, so dying with one in hand pays nothing.
Relics appear as random container loot — lockers, drawers, and crates — with no fixed spawn points. Residential and commercial districts have the best hit rate: Santa Maria Houses on Buried City, Ruby Residence and Pale Apartments on Dam Battlegrounds, and the Grandios Apartments among them.
The nine relics
Each relic is a trinket with a Merit bounty attached. At half a kilo apiece, there is no loadout reason to leave one behind.
- Train Model — Common · 10 Merits
- Sextant — Uncommon · 15 Merits
- Vintage Steering Wheel — Uncommon · 15 Merits
- Equatorial Sundial — Rare · 25 Merits
- Colorful Shoes — Rare / Epic / Legendary variants · 25 / 50 / 150 Merits
- Tellurion — Epic · 50 Merits
- Elephant Obelisk — Legendary · 150 Merits
Converging Paths — the companion project
Update 1.33.0 also opened Converging Paths, a six-stage Raider Project building a display case for the Nomadic Envoys. Stages two through five are relic and trinket donations; stages one and six are ARC-damage field objectives. Clearing all six pays 300 Raider Tokens, the Red-Black Saltwalker variant, a Sextant backpack charm, the Surge Coil blueprint, the Rascal II SMG, a Combat Mk. 3 (Flanking) augment, the Photoelectric Cloak, and the Bobcat II SMG.
Reward track
- 01150 MeritsSaltwalker Outfit
- 02300 Merits25× Raider Tokens
- 03450 MeritsSaltwalker Speaker Bag
- 04900 MeritsSaltwalker Camo
- 051,350 Merits25× Raider Tokens
- 061,800 MeritsCultist Backpack
- 072,250 Merits25× Raider Tokens
- 082,550 MeritsNomad Jug attachment
- 092,700 Merits25× Raider Tokens
- 103,150 MeritsSkull Pantomime emote — track complete
Field notes
- 3,150 Merits clears the 21-reward track — that's 315,000 XP if you never extract a single relic, so relic bonuses are the whole game.
- Relics weigh 0.5 each: keep every one you find and extract, don't bank early unless you're about to lose the pack.
- Run the residential loops — apartment drawers and lockers hit far more often than industrial containers.