ARC Raiders Blueprints: All 95 Locations, Drop Rates & Farming Guide

What Are Blueprints in ARC Raiders?

Blueprints in ARC Raiders are permanent crafting recipes. Once you extract with a blueprint, it unlocks that item at the Assembler forever on your account. You never lose the recipe. You can then build copies of that weapon, attachment, grenade, or utility whenever you have the required materials.

Each blueprint also carries a sell value of 5,000 coins if you bring it to a Trader. That makes duplicate blueprints a reliable income source, especially once you have unlocked most of the catalog. Some players run dedicated "blueprint sell runs" during Electromagnetic Storms, targeting high-density container zones and extracting duplicates purely for the coin value.

The system is straightforward: find the blueprint in a container or on a specific enemy, extract successfully, and the recipe is yours. Dying with a blueprint in your inventory means you lose it. No insurance, no recovery. That tension between extracting safely and pushing deeper for more loot is what makes blueprint farming one of the most engaging loops in ARC Raiders. For a visual breakdown of every blueprint and its category, check the interactive Blueprint Database.

Attachment blueprints let you build the components that turn a base weapon into something specialized. Each attachment slot has its own set of blueprints.

Augment blueprints unlock the Mk.3 variants of each augment class. Mk.1 and Mk.2 are available without blueprints, but Mk.3 requires a blueprint drop.

Not every raid is created equal when it comes to blueprints. Map conditions are the single biggest factor in your farming success. Community testing across hundreds of raids has produced a clear hierarchy.

Blueprints only appear in specific container types. Opening standard crates and resource nodes will never produce one. Targeting the right containers is just as important as running the right map condition.

The math favors Weapon Cases and Raider Caches. A single Storm raid hitting six Weapon Cases gives you a statistically better shot than 20 Day Raid lockers. Plan your route around these containers specifically.

The community has tracked patterns suggesting certain blueprints drop more frequently at specific locations. None of this is officially confirmed by Embark Studios, but the sample sizes are large enough to take seriously.

Augment Mk.3 blueprints appear to drop at a noticeably higher rate from underground containers at Bluegate. Multiple players have reported finding all four Mk.3 augment blueprints within 8-10 Bluegate runs, while other maps took 30+ raids to produce a single augment drop.

Rattler III and IV blueprints have a suspected higher drop rate from the apartment complex at Pale Apartments on the Buried City map. The two Raider Caches on the top floors seem to favor assault rifle blueprints disproportionately.

Snap Hook blueprint has been reported most frequently from containers at Pilgrim's Peak during Electromagnetic Storm conditions. The theory is that utility blueprints have a weighted spawn table tied to elevation-based POIs during Storms. This is purely observational, but worth testing if the Snap Hook is the last utility blueprint you need.

Containers are not the only source. The Surveyor, a specific ARC machine enemy type, drops blueprints directly upon death. Community data puts the rate at roughly 1 blueprint per 5-6 Surveyor kills.

Surveyors patrol predictable routes in most maps, but their AI pathing shifts between sessions. You will not find them in the same exact spot every raid. They tend to spawn near resource-rich areas and named POIs. Listen for the distinctive scanning sound they make, it is different from standard ARC drones and carries further.

A dedicated Surveyor farming strategy involves sprinting between known spawn zones and only engaging Surveyors while ignoring other enemies. This is faster than looting containers but riskier since combat draws attention from both ARC machines and other Raiders. Pair this with an Electromagnetic Storm and you can realistically pull 2-4 blueprints per raid through Surveyor kills alone.

Not every blueprint requires RNG. Several are awarded as guaranteed quest rewards, Harvester Event prizes, or Trial completions. If you are missing a specific blueprint, check whether it has a guaranteed source before grinding containers for hours.

Hullcracker

Quest Reward

Jupiter

Harvester Event

Equalizer

Harvester Event

Trials also award blueprints upon first completion of specific tiers. The Trials system rotates weekly, so check the active Trials board in Speranza to see which blueprints are currently available as rewards.

Bring the cheapest loadout you own. A Tier I weapon, no armor, and a basic backpack. Sprint directly to high-value container zones, open everything, and extract the moment you have a blueprint. Do not engage enemies unless forced. Do not loot anything except blueprint-capable containers. Your goal is speed and volume: run as many raids as possible per hour.

This works because blueprint drop chance is per-container, not per-raid. Opening 6 Weapon Cases across two fast runs beats opening 4 across one slow, geared-up run. The cheaper loadout means deaths cost almost nothing.

Map your route to hit containers in order of proximity to the extraction point, working backward. Open the closest-to-extract containers last so you are always near an exit when a blueprint appears. This reduces the distance between finding a blueprint and successfully extracting with it. The Items page lists every container's typical loot pool if you want to pre-plan which containers are worth the detour.

When the "Uncovered Caches" world event activates, additional containers spawn across the map. These bonus containers follow the same drop tables as their permanent counterparts. Combined with an Electromagnetic Storm, an Uncovered Caches event can yield 2-4 blueprints per raid for experienced farmers. Track event rotations and save your highest-effort runs for when conditions align.

This is one of the most searched questions about ARC Raiders blueprints for sale, and the answer is no. There is no in-game marketplace, auction house, or player-to-player trading system. You cannot purchase blueprints from other players or from the in-game store. Every blueprint must be found through gameplay.

Community Discord servers have attempted to set up informal trading by having players drop items in-raid, but this is unreliable and risky. You would need to coordinate a raid with another player, meet at a specific location, have them drop the blueprint, pick it up, and successfully extract. Most attempts fail to griefing, miscommunication, or simply not matching into the same server instance.

Embark has not announced any plans for a trading system. The extraction-and-keep model is core to the game's economy, and introducing trading would significantly change progression balance. For now, every blueprint you own represents time invested in the Rust Belt.

Need to compare weapons before crafting blueprints? Use the Weapon Compare tool to find which blueprints are worth farming first.