🚨 EXPEDITION DOOMSDAY: Last Hours Before TOTAL WIPE! 😱 Blueprints VANISHED, Skills RESET, Stash EMPTIED… But These SECRET LOCATIONS Drop GOD-TIER Prints NON-STOP Post-Reset! 💥🔥
You’re about to lose EVERYTHING – legendary Anvil GONE, Aphelion DREAMS crushed, back to ZERO… While pros are already stacking 50+ BPs and dominating with bonus skill points? 🥶
EXPOSED: Hidden Stella Montis vaults printing rares, Buried City night routes for Wolfpack JACKPOTS, Surveyor exploits, quest chains unlocking essentials INSTANTLY… Plus exact skill priorities to snowball ahead BEFORE the herd wakes up!
Skip this and you’re FROZEN in newbie hell FOREVER. Who’s surging to the top this cycle? 👇
As the clock ticks down on the first Expedition departure window—closing today at 9:30 a.m.—thousands of ARC Raiders players are making the fateful choice: send their Raider into the unknown for permanent perks or hold out and risk falling behind in future cycles. Embark Studios’ voluntary reset system, introduced with the game’s October 30, 2025 launch, has dominated community discourse, with Reddit and X buzzing over blueprint losses, stash value calculations, and optimal post-wipe strategies.
The Expedition Project requires level 20+ raiders to complete a multi-stage caravan build, contributing materials like metal parts, rubber, and advanced components. Upon departure, players sacrifice nearly all progress: character level, skill allocations, blueprints, inventory, stash contents, workshop upgrades, coins, and quest lines reset to zero. In return, successful departures grant permanent account-wide bonuses: +12 stash slots, up to +5 extra skill points (scaled by 1 point per million coins in stash value), exclusive cosmetics like the Patchwork Raider outfit and Scrappy Janitor cap, and temporary buffs to XP gain, repairs, and Scrappy yields.
Dev notes confirm these bonuses stack across multiple Expeditions, creating a prestige loop where repeated resets yield progressively stronger starts—potentially maxing expanded skill trees long-term. Yet controversy lingers: many veterans decry blueprint resets as too punishing, given their RNG-heavy acquisition, while others praise the fresh-start incentive amid Cold Snap’s blueprint rate tweaks.
For those wiping today—or newcomers entering a post-Expedition meta—this guide compiles community-verified locations and priorities to accelerate recovery, drawing from YouTube breakdowns, Reddit megathreads, wikis, and patch data.
Understanding the Reset: What You Lose vs. Keep
Post-departure, your new Raider retains:
Unlocked maps and workshop stations (rebuilt from level 1).
Codex entries, Raider Tokens, Cred, cosmetics, leaderboards, and trials progress.
All earned bonus skill points and stash slots.
Lost:
All blueprints (75 total, including Cold Snap additions like Deadline and Firework Box).
Player level, skills, gear, coins, and quests.
The December 1.7.0 Cold Snap update initially spiked blueprint drops (players reported 8+ per raid on affected maps), prompting a 1.7.2 hotfix nerf—rates remain elevated overall versus pre-patch but more balanced.
Priority 1: Essential Early Items & Money Farms
Post-wipe, coins fuel stash expansions and buys. Focus low-risk routes:
Buried City Short Loop: Compact urban map; hit floors 1-3 in key buildings, rooftop hops to Santa Maria Houses. Sell trinkets/naturals instantly for 100K+ hourly.
Dam Battlegrounds Beginner Zones: Hydroponic Dome/Power Generation for industrials; low PvP in Water Treatment.
Crafting Flip: Farm batteries/ARC Powercells, refine into Energy Clip ammo, sell for steady profits.
Daily Celeste Trades: Wires/springs for consistent income.
Stash expansion first—critical for scaling. Use Looting Mk1 augment early.
Early Item Priority
Source
Value Post-Wipe
Metal Parts/Rubber
Basic farms (Dam/Blue Gate)
Workshop rebuild
ARC Powercells
ARC kills
Shield charges/ammo
Trinkets
Buried City diamonds
Quick sales
Priority 2: Skill Tree Optimization – Leverage Bonus Points
New Raiders start with standard points plus Expedition bonuses. Post-Cold Snap, cheap resets (2K coins/point) enable experimentation.
Core branches:
Mobility: Sprint-roll chains, stamina for escapes.
Survival: Looting speed, downed regen (Survivor Mk3 augment meta).
Conditioning: Health/shield sustains.
Post-reset meta favors hybrids: Mobility/Survival for solos, Conditioning for PvE bosses.
Skill Branch
Key Unlocks
Post-Wipe Priority
Mobility
Roll distance, snap hook tech
High (evasion)
Survival
Looting Mk2, self-heal
#1 Solo
Conditioning
Stamina regen, aggro
PvP burst
Bonus points from 5M+ stash value accelerate mid-tree access, snowballing farms.
Priority 3: Blueprint Hunting – Locations & Farms
75 blueprints unlock crafting depth; duplicates sell well. Post-wipe, rates favor events/night raids.
Guaranteed starters via Speranza quests:
“Sparks Fly” → Trigger Nade.
“Greasing Her Palms” → Lure Grenade.
Top farms (post-1.7.2 balanced rates):
Stella Montis: Highest density; Medical Research/Assembly Workshop, breach rooms. Aphelion now map-wide (no Matriarch required).
Buried City Night: Raider caches, security lockers; Wolfpack/Anvil hotspots.
Blue Gate: Pilgrim’s Peak/Raider’s Refuge during events; Surveyors for rares.
Dam Battlegrounds: Ruby Apartments (Skyhook), Tower Control (Anvil).
Spaceport: Rocket Assembly towers; Il Toro in storms.
Events boost: Cold Snap indoors for safety, Electromagnetic Storm for multipliers. Trials (Lv15+) reward 3-star BPs.
Hidden mechanics:
Raider containers/security lockers: 2-3x base rate.
Surveyors: Stun (Showstopper/Seeker grenades) for drops.
Night/Storm conditions: +50-150% odds.
Blueprint Tier
Example
Best Map/Spot
Essential
Looting Mk2, Stitcher
Speranza quests/Stella
Mid
Pharaoh, Snap Hook
Blue Gate nights
Rare
Anvil, Wolfpack
Dam/Buried City
Legendary
Aphelion, Deadline
Stella events/Surveyors
Community reports: Focus raider caches; avoid open spawns.
Advanced Recovery Tactics
Augment Rush: Survivor Mk3 (80 weight, regen) via early Gear Bench.
Workbench Sequence: Refiner Lv3 → Gunsmith → Gear Lv3.
PVE Kiting: Lures for Queens/Matriarchs; mines on weakspots.
Multitasking: Combine money routes with events/dailies.
With roadmap teases for new maps and events in 2026, early blueprint/skill mastery positions raiders for endgame dominance. Veterans wiping today report optimism: “The bonuses make rebuilds faster—worth the RNG chase.”
Whether departing or delaying, these locations—crowd-sourced from 300+ hour players—turn reset chaos into calculated ascent. The Rust Belt awaits your return.
