ARC Raiders: The Dam Battlegrounds - Harvester

Whatever you're looking to make coins in a single run, or you're gaining the best weapon's blueprints and advanced materials in ARC Raiders. There is one event you can't miss, The Dam Battlegrounds - Harvester. However, the Harvester machine is guarded by the feared Queen, a heavily armed killing machine. So how can we get this done? Well, you’re in the right point. Here is the guide about how to maximize your profit during the event.

First, get to the place where ARC Harvester appeared. It located at south of the East Broken Bridge, the Red Lakes Basin. Then you will see the Harvester and the Queen near by it. To get max profit, you should sneak into the Harvester first. Inside the Harvester, there is a puzzle of sorts that you will need to do either solo or with your team mate to unlock components and the best, legendary tiers weapon blueprints.

Once you enter the Harvester, you will see a large center pillar. This is where you eventually finish the event. But during it, the pillar will flash either yellow, followed by flooding the room with fire, or blue, emitting electricity before deploying an EMP. If at any time the room flashes yellow, that's your sign to stop whatever it is you're doing, and book it back to one of the entrances, to get back to outside and avoiding the queen. The room will fill with flame as a rocket is sent into orbit before the panels close and need to be breach again. When the room flashes blue, indicating an EMP is incoming. So long as you have your shield off, you will get stunned and take no damage of your health or lose durability. That means you can remain in the room without worrying or need to re-breach. Just remember once you complete the event to get your shield back on as it'll regenerate without wasting any resources. Once you understand this part of the event, the rest become simple. On each side of the room are elevators that rise halfway up. These grant you access to a ledge that wraps around the entire room. On the walls are dozen small panels that can be breached open. And this is phase one, power cell retrieval and installation. Simply open panels one at a time, ignoring the urge to loot the various containers that are revealed until you find a canister instead. You're looking for two additional canisters on top of the one that's already on the floor near the central pillar. Once you have all three, you'll notice there are breach-able panels next to the slots on the central pillar. Once you have one open, toss a canister in and move on to the next. If you're in a party of three, you can do all of these at the same time, making it faster.

After placing the three power shells into their respective slots, yellow buttons,as we call them, will appear on the walls all around the room, and you will start phase two. Some of these will be on the ground level, while others appear on the upper level. Your goal is to destroy all of this yellow buttons. During this phase, the harvester will still periodically send out EMPs, but if the buttons ever retract back into the wall, that's the sign that fire is coming. Repeat the process of heading back outside and into the archway. And when you return, you'll need to replace the power cells into the central pillar again to make the buttons reappear. In our opinion, the best way to destroy these yellow buttons is to simply use your melee weapon. Overhead attach the ones on the ground level, and standard attack the ones on the upper level. If you're in a party, you should be able to tackle this part quickly. If everyone focus on their own third of room. Using guns was far less effective than just melee. Plus, it can potentially draw the aggro of the queen outside. Once you've destroyed the last button, the harvester will shut down and three separate loot containers will appear around the central pillar. Inside, you will find fantastic loot, but most importantly, legendary blueprints. Each loot container usually has one blueprint inside, and this is how you obtain either the Jupiter or the Equalizer recipes to craft back at your gunsmith.

Before you leave, make sure to finish breaching all the extra panels on the top inner ledge and looting each container. You can find a ton of resources here you can utilize in crafting or sell for a bunch of ARC Raiders coins back in Speranza. Once you've loaded up your bags, peek outside to make sure the queen is patrolling away from your location and that a rocket hasn't spawn. Some of you might choicer to get the Queen down for more ARC Raiders Items. If that’s not a risk you wanna take, book it to the nearest extraction point or leave through a raider hatch if you brought a hatch key with you. But if you're worried about losing those blueprints you've looted, don't forget to put them in your safe pockets. The harvester is a fantastic event to do even if you've completed before. The blueprints alone can fetch you a couple thousand coins each. And combined with all the other resources you can get from the event, you're looking at tens of thousands of coins each time you successfully complete the harvester and extract.

Don't miss this event, and enjoy the fun of the game!

MMOexp ARC Raiders Team