Field manuals
Scavenged field guides grounded in the companion dataset — loot economics, quest routing, and survival notes.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-12
ARC Raiders Dam Battlegrounds map guide & loot
The starter map, read properly: five loot areas, eight surveyed exits, the Controlled Access Zone puzzle step by step, and a route that avoids the dam's center fights.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-12
Best weapons in ARC Raiders: what the stats actually say
ARC armor penetration is the stat that decides machine fights. The five penetration tiers, the documented damage numbers, and how to read the armory.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-12
ARC Raiders workshop upgrade order: what to build first
The documented costs and unlocks make the order arithmetic: Scrappy and the Stash first, then the Gunsmith. What each tier-2 actually buys you.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-11
ARC Raiders weak points: where to shoot every machine
Every ARC machine has a soft spot. Where to aim on the Queen, Bastion, Matriarch and the rest — and why body shots waste ammo.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-11
Is ARC Raiders crossplay? Platforms & cross-progression
Which platforms ARC Raiders is on, whether crossplay and cross-progression work, and how to squad up across PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-11
The ARC Raiders skill tree, explained
The three skill branches — Conditioning, Mobility, and Survival — how gates and major nodes work, and how to plan a build you can share by URL.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-11
Expeditions, Trials & seasons: ARC Raiders progression
How ARC Raiders' seasonal progression works — Expeditions, the weekly Trials ranked ladder, and how to make the most of both.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-09
ARC Raiders loot economics: pack for coin per kilo
Your backpack is a weight budget, not a grid. How to read value-per-kilo, what the numbers say about ARC parts, and what to leave on the floor.
▤ Field manualFiled 2026-07-09
ARC Raiders starter quests: from Picking Up The Pieces
How the early quest graph branches out of Shani's first job, which quests gate your workshop, and the gather objectives worth pre-farming.