ARC Raiders Guide | How to Find Surveyor Vaults and Probe Crate Drops

Surveyor Vaults and Probe Crate Drops help you secure vital components for hideout station upgrades. Locating these high-value mechanical rewards across surface maps allows players to complete quests like Mixed Signals and upgrade the Medical Lab.

Tracking active machine patrols and inspecting fallen surface capsules provides the highest loot yields during raids.

Tracking ARC Surveyors and Surface Probes

To find Surveyor Vaults and Probe Crate Drops in Arc Raiders, you have to hunt rolling Surveyor units across maps like Dam Battlegrounds and Buried City. Occasionally they stop to show us their glowing blue core, and they shoot a bright beam skyward, exposing themselves to concentrated rifle fire or explosive blasts.

You can also hack down fallen probes that land near you for more rare parts, but there is no full-blown machine combat.

Leveraging Electromagnetic Storm Events and Couriers

During server-wide electromagnetic storm events, it is much easier to find Surveyor Vaults and probe crate drops. These storms in the atmosphere greatly increase the spawn rate of harmless white ARC couriers and crashed probe crates in places like Scrapyard and Old Battleground.

Black smoke markers over open terrain enable solo scavengers to bypass multiple containers and steer clear of heavy enemy patrols.

Safe Pocket Management and Extraction Tips

Make sure these components are secured as best as possible so that your hard-earned crafting materials make it to Speranza without a problem. As soon as you find any vault items, place them into your inventory's Safe Pocket to prevent losing them if your character gets killed by hostile raiders.

Once you’ve mined out these rare items, you can upgrade your medical lab workbench or recycle excess parts into vital building materials.

FAQ

Q. What is the safest way to get Surveyor Vaults in Arc Raiders? 

A. The safest method is looting white ARC Couriers and probe crates in Dam Battlegrounds during electromagnetic storm events.

Q. Why are Surveyor Vaults so important in Arc Raiders? 

A. They are required to complete the Mixed Signals quest and upgrade your medical lab to Level 3 in Speranza.

Q. How do you defeat an ARC Surveyor to get its vault? 

A. Wait for the Surveyor to stop and fire its blue beam, then attack its exposed glowing core using explosives or high-penetration rifles.

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