ARC Raiders Outpost Storage Guide: How to Get 100+ Extra Stash Slots with Containers

Summary

Bottom line: Arc Raiders' Outpost system is still in its early stages, but it already does one crucial thing—massively expand your effective stash space through container storage. Used properly, weapon racks, diner cupboards, and warehouse dressers can give you hundreds of extra slots, so your inventory and stash stop being the bottleneck—and if crafting materials are scarce, spending ARC Raiders Coins on them often beats letting loot overflow and go to waste. This guide breaks down each feature, how to use it, what it costs, what it holds, and its known limitations.

1. Polished Weapon Rack: Dedicated Weapon Storage

Effect: Mount it on a wall and decorate it with 4 weapons. Fully upgraded with attachments, those weapons no longer take up inventory space—but you can access them anytime.

Crafting materials: Sheet Metal + Plastic Parts. No blueprint required.

Placement: Each room type usually has wall slots available, and large rooms can hold multiple racks.

Key trick: The rack itself can be placed into storage. The weapons stay on it. Take it back out and they're still there. This effectively turns the rack into a "movable weapon safe" for managing space.

Material sources:

Sheet Metal: Found everywhere; pick it up as you go. Can also be bought from Celeste at 3 seeds per sheet metal, but that's expensive.

Plastic Parts: From normal salvaging and looting.

2. Diner Cupboard: 16-Slot Large Container, the Core of the System

Effect: Provides 16 storage slots, the largest capacity of any craftable container currently available. Holds Scrappy's food and large amounts of recyclables.

Placement: Large rooms can hold multiple cupboards, and every room can take one. A small slot fits a warehouse dresser (5 slots); a large slot fits a diner cupboard (16 slots).

Material requirement: Metal Brackets—the key material.

Efficient Metal Bracket farming spots:

Stella Montis → Seed Vault: Breach the electrical panels on the walls beside the door and loot the electrical boxes along the walls. Metal brackets drop frequently.

Loading Bay → Logistics Admin Room: Breach the blue breachable containers for a fairly high drop rate.

3. Direct Scrappy Feeding: Eliminate an Entire Inventory Category

Effect: Put Scrappy's food into the diner cupboard and feed Scrappy directly from it—no need to keep food in your inventory or stash.

What fits: Apricots, prickly pears, lemons, agave, and most other Scrappy foods, plus roots.

Known limitations:

Olives and mushrooms cannot be stored, for no clear reason—a current-version bug.

Fruit mix cannot be stored.

Bonus use—seed storage: Every 10 fruit equals 30 seeds. If you're short on space, store fruit as "compressed seeds." When needed, use "Clear Attached Items" to send the fruit back to your stash and recycle it into seeds.

4. Recyclable Storage: "Compress" Raw Materials into Finished Items

This is the most underrated feature of the system. Many recyclables fit in the diner cupboard, and you can pull them out later to break down into base materials. One recyclable often equals multiple base materials, saving significant space.

High-value recyclables and their outputs:

Items that do NOT fit (confirmed): Pressure Regulators, Iron Spouts, Microscopes, Broken Guidance Systems.

Best Spring Cushion farm: Pendul → Commissary supermarket. It has three breachable rooms—Breach Room, Underground Room, and Staff Room—all packed with Spring Cushions.

Space math: One diner cupboard = 16 slots. The cupboard itself can go into storage while keeping its contents. In theory, multiple cupboards plus the storage mechanic can give you 96+ extra slots for recyclables.

5. Warehouse Dresser: Best Choice for Small Rooms

Effect: Provides 5 storage slots.

Materials: Only Plastic + Sheet Metal—low crafting barrier.

Comparison: The Clinic Medical Cabinet has just 3 slots and is not worth using. If you're short on metal brackets, use warehouse dressers in large slots as a stopgap.

6. Key Limitations and Cautions

1. You cannot recycle directly from outpost containers
Unlike direct Scrappy feeding, workbenches cannot read items inside outpost containers. For example, if you need springs for mod components, the refiner only pulls from your inventory—it won't see the Spring Cushions in the cupboard. You must return to the outpost and click "Clear Attached Items" to send items back to your stash before using them.

2. Organize containers by resource type
Don't mix everything in one cupboard. Recommended split:

One container for Spring Cushions (Steel Springs + Durable Cloth)

One container for batteries and wires (tasers, power cables, portable TVs)

One container for fabric-type items

3. Containers can be stored with contents intact
Weapon racks, warehouse dressers, and diner cupboards can all go into storage while keeping their contents. This provides another "compression" tool—but it also means you need to remember what's inside which container.

7. Workbench UI Ordering (Hard but Doable)

Workbench positions in the outpost affect their order in the workshop UI. This feature is currently very buggy, with no fixed pattern, but the community has settled on a relatively reliable method:

Make sure the Workbench is in the first slot (by the red pillar).

Swap only two benches at a time.

Do not click-and-drag manually—it triggers bugs easily.

Correct method: put both benches into storage at the same time, then—without leaving the outpost page—install them one by one in your desired new order.

Don't move multiple benches at once, and don't put multiple benches into storage at once.

Known issue: You may get a "no free space" error even when a slot is clearly open. Adjust your camera angle and retry. Once done, you never need to touch it again.

8. Priority Recommendations

Step one: Craft at least one diner cupboard (16 slots) and place it in a large room. Prioritize storing Spring Cushions and battery/wire recyclables.

Step two: Mount polished weapon racks on walls and hang your fully-kitted but rarely used weapons.

Step three: Fill small rooms and remaining slots with warehouse dressers.

Step four: Organize containers by resource type—one type per container for easy finding.

Step five (optional): Reorder workbenches, then leave it alone.

Material prep: Collect Sheet Metal and Plastic Parts ahead of time (weapon racks, dressers), plus Metal Brackets (diner cupboards). Farm brackets at Stella Montis' Seed Vault or Loading Bay's Logistics Admin Room.

Summary:The outpost system is still a work in progress—you can't recycle directly from containers, some foods won't store, and workbench ordering is buggy. But by arranging containers as described above, you can create hundreds of extra storage slots without waiting for official fixes. The core approach: use large containers (diner cupboards) for recyclables and food, weapon racks for weapons, organize by type, and remember to clear containers back to your stash before recycling. If you'd rather skip the grind and buy ARC Raiders Coins, MMOEXP is a well-known marketplace worth checking—just review their delivery and refund terms first.