ARC Raiders Scrappy upgrade guide: All items and locations

This ARC Raiders guide covers Scrappy upgrades from base to level 5 and shows how to complete every step in the Workshop. It lists exact requirements, the best spots to find each item, and simple farming loops across Dam Battlegrounds, Buried City, Spaceport, and Blue Gate that make Workshop upgrades faster in an extraction shooter.

Plan raids around specific materials, listed below. In ARC Raiders, track Train Scrappy to flag items, then use the safe pocket to bank found items in case extraction fails. Each section lists the best hotspots and container types for chicken upgrades in Embark’s extraction shooter.

Scrappy upgrades in ARC Raiders

In ARC Raiders, Scrappy upgrades are handled in the Workshop. Progression runs from the base pet (level 1, available from the get-go) to a cap at level 5, which is four upgrade steps in total. The first step begins once you find and extract a single Dog Collar. However, later tiers require a lot more items, which are hard to find.

Use the lists below to check which resources chicken needs for an upgrade before you queue a raid in ARC Raiders. Track the “Train Scrappy” objective so that required items are flagged and hard to miss during looting.

After you find the required items during the raid, stash what you lack most in the safe pocket (a usual feature for extraction shooters that saves items even if you fail to exfil).

• Level 2 Scrappy requirements: Dog Collar ×1.
• Level 3 Scrappy requirements: Lemon ×3, Apricot ×3.
• Level 4 Scrappy requirements: Prickly Pear ×6, Olive ×6, Cat Bed ×1.
• Level 5 Scrappy requirements: Apricot ×12, Mushroom ×12, Very Comfortable Pillow ×3.

These requirements apply to the current build of the game and may change if the following patches for the extraction shooter rebalance Workshop. In that case, this guide will be updated with additional info.

The next block explains where to find each item with specific hotspots for all ARC Raiders maps, screenshots, and additional tips on events and locations.

Where to find Dog Collar in ARC Raiders

The Dog Collar is a blue rarity item that unlocks Scrappy’s level 2 upgrade in the Workshop. It spawns in all kinds of generic containers and a few specialized ones, and can also be found on shelves and furniture outside of containers.

The best way to find the Dog Collar is to visit the Residential locations on the Dam Battlegrounds and Buried City maps. In the Workshop, enable tracking for the train Scrappy objective to mark the collar with an eye icon.

For Dam Battlegrounds, you need to visit Pale Apartments, Ruby Residense, and Pattern House locations. They clustered near Victory Ridge, the northwest part of the map. Inside the houses, check every shelf and container.

For Buried City, there are a lot more targets to loot, but combat is more likely, too. Essentially, half of the map is Residential areas, and the districts you have to visit are the West Village and Old Town. Skip pharmacies and cafes on the 1st floors and look for usual living quarters.

You can also choose to go into Night Raid (high-risk, high-reward mode of the extraction shooter), if available, for better chances of rare loot (the collar included), but danger will be increased proportionally.

Work in Residential areas methodically rather than sprinting between distant points. Enter the apartments, check everything for the Dog Collar, then move to the next doorway on the same block. If you do not see a collar after a full sweep, extract or rotate to another Residential cluster and repeat.

When you find the collar, if you’re not using a free loadout, place it in the safe pocket so you don’t lose it if a raid goes south. For now, ARC Riders requires only the collar for level 2 Scrappy.

Where to find Lemons and Apricots in ARC Raiders

For Scrappy’s level 3 Workshop upgrade in ARC Raiders, you need three Lemons and three Apricots. They are considered Nature-type loot, which is both rare and place- or event-specific. Nature items can only be found on and near plants or during a special event.

Firstly, before discussing loot spots, we highly recommend choosing a map with the Lush Blooms event. This event multiplies Nature loot and adds a new container, the Wicker Basket, which usually holds a couple of dozen different Nature items.

Looting plants

A slower but more reliable method is looting plants/trees. A few fruits spawn around them, and you can interact with trees to knock off 1-3 more on the ground. The best way to find Lemons and Apricots is to visit the Nature locations on the Dam Battlegrounds, Buried City, and Speceport maps.

For Dam Battlegrounds, you need to visit Red Lakes part of the map. You have to go to southern hill with Raider Hatch across the Red Lakes Balcony. A few Lemon and Apricot trees are waiting for you there. You probably won’t have all the required items in a single raid, but it’s one of the safest spots.

For Buried City, the trees are placed right in the middle of the map, in Marano Park. You can get there fast, but so is everyone else, and there’s also a big enemy ARC around (Bastion, Leaper, or Bombardier). Extraction is also placed right there, so you can keep trying to get Lemons and Apricots with a free loadout.

For Spaceport, go to the bottom of the map, to the southeast part of La Chiesa. Your target is the Staff Parking area, where 4-6 fruit plants are placed in a row. If you’re lucky, you can get all the required Lemons and Aprikots in a single run, but if you’re spawned in the middle of the raid on the opposite side of the map, there’s a high chance the place will already be looted before you arrive.

Looting baskets

The luck-dependent method is looting Wicker Baskets during the Lush Blooms event.

On Dam Battlegrounds, you need to go to Victory Ridge part of the map. The first target is the Hydroponic Dome Complex, where, during the event, baskets can spawn in every dome, so you have to check them all. After that, you need to head to the unnamed ruins north of the Hydroponic Dome Complex, where a few more baskets may appear (marked in the screenshot below).

On Buried City, there are more baskets, but they spawn rather randomly. You’re interested in the cafes and restaurants on the ground floors of buildings (usually in the Residential areas we discussed in the collar section, West Village and Old Town). Baskets also spawn in the northern part of the New District, where you’ll need to check every corner. Overall, there are plenty of Wicker Baskets, but they can be harder to find, and the PvP density is higher.

Where to find Prickly Pears, Olives, and a Cat Bed in ARC Raiders

Scrappy level 4 needs two Nature stacks (six Prickly Pears and six Olives) and one indoor Trinket, Cat Bed. Nature items can still be looted from plants or from Wicker Baskets. The basket method for Dam Battlegrounds and Buried City maps from the previous section on Lemons and Apricots remains unchanged.

Other Nature items, including Prickly Pears and Olives, can still be found in baskets, so we instead focus on plant spots.

How to get Prickly Pears in ARC Raiders

Unlike other trees, you can’t interact with cacti to spawn more Prickly Pears; you only have to check the ground around. The preferred way to get pears is to loot from both plants and baskets during Lush Blooms, since you need 6.

On Dam Battlegrounds, head to the north side of the Pattern House and work the cactus lines, checking around each plant and along the ground. After that, head north on the road fork from the Hydroponic Dome Complex near the unnamed ruins; there is another big cacti spot. Another spots are located near Raider Outpost East and right on Raider Hatch across the Red Lakes Balcony.

On Buried City, run to the center of the southern edge of the map (bottom of the Old Town), location shown in the screenshot below. There is a giant patch of cacti, and you are likely to compete for fruits with other players.

How to get Olives in ARC Raiders

Olives work just like Lemons and Aprikots, and are generally easier to collect, but with a catch, that you have to visit Blue Gate, the hardest map for now.

On Blue Gate, go to the Farm Lands part of the map. Your target is Olive Grove, where, even with little luck, you can collect all 6 Olives in a single run (interact with trees and look on the ground near them). Very close to the grove, northwest, Raider Hatch is placed for fast extraction.

How to get Cat Bed in ARC Raiders

Once again, check the Residential areas, the method from the Dog Collar part works perfectly for the Cat Bed too, because it’s a Residential item. Cat Bed also has the Commercial tag, which helps to find in Spaceport.

On Dam Battlegrounds: Pale Apartments, Ruby Residense, and Pattern House locations, with the addition of the Research and Administration building (be wary of other Raiders).

On Buried City: West Village and Old Town, with the addition of Library and Space Travel locations (high chance of PvP).

Since you’re more geared and experienced at this point in the game, the other good option is the Spaceport map. Your target is the Arrival Building and the Departure Building. There are tons of high-value loot, so be ready for tense PvP encounters.

Methodically check every generic container and shelf in each house and apartment until you find the Trinket. Choosing the Night Raid option helps here, too.

Where to find Mushrooms and Pillows in ARC Raiders

For maximum Scrappy upgrade, level 5, you need to collect 12 Aprikots, 12 mushrooms, and 3 Very Comfortable Pillows.

The Apricost instruction is in the block above, so let’s focus on Mushrooms first. It’s another type of Nature loot, but trickier to find. They can be on living or fallen trees, on trunks, or even on the ground in random spots. And, as usual for Nature-type loot, in Wicker Baskets during the Lush Blooms event.

How to get Mushrooms in ARC Raiders

Getting 12 Mushrooms is probably the hardest part of leveling up Scrappy.

On Dam Battlegrounds, go to the Hydroponic Dome Complex. Start inside the dome and scan the edges of stagnant pools, then circle the exterior perimeter. After that, check nearby fallen trees and trunks, as caps can grow here. When you’re done exploring domes and the surrounding area, you can check other parts of the Swamp. While it’s slow and inefficient, you still may find a lot of shrooms while simply going to the closest extraction point.

On Blue Gate, run to Trapper’s Glade in the Forest. There are many living trees with Mushrooms, plus some baskets, during the nature event. Nothing to add here, it’s just a forest filled with shroms, ARC enemies (including potential Rocketeer), and other Raiders, who will also want Mushrooms. Be ready for fights.

How to get Very Comfortable Pillow in ARC Raiders

Pillows come from Residential and Commercial areas, so the same steps and places as the Cat Bed in the previous section.

• On Dam Battlegrounds: Pale Apartments, Ruby Residense, Pattern House, and Research and Administration.
• On Buried City: West Village, Old Town, Library, and Space Travel.
• On Spaceport: Arrival Building and Departure Building.

Search every shelf and standard container in each house and apartment until the Trinket appears. Choosing the Night Raid variant helps.

ARC Raiders guides

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Next, we will focus on early ARC Raiders quest walkthroughs and item and looting tips.

About Arc Raiders

ARC Raiders is a third-person PvPvE extraction shooter from Embark Studios, the team behind The Finals and staffed by Battlefield veterans. It launched globally on October 30, 2025, on Windows PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, as well as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

The standard edition is $39.99, and the deluxe is $59.99. On Steam, it reached 154,731 concurrent players in its first three hours. Unusual for both extraction shooters and Unreal Engine 5 titles, ARC Raiders has perfect optimization.

The developers recently published a detailed roadmap for 2025, and the game hit 350,000 concurrent players on Steam.

Embark frames progression around an optional wipe system called the Expedition Project. It functions as a seasonal prestige-style reset you trigger yourself, while cosmetics and account entitlements persist between cycles.