Trading Tips for Arc Raiders

Before you sell an Arc Raiders item, see what uses it: the ingredients recipes use most often, and the ARC Alloy and ARC Powercells the wiki says to pick up.

Published 28 March 2026. Updated 7 November 2026.

Check What Uses an Item First

Before you sell an item to a trader, check what uses it: its page in the item database lists the quests that use it and what it crafts into, where any do, and the keep or sell page gives a keep, sell or recycle call for the items that have one on file. The wiki's Getting Started page, which says some of its details come from its editors' experience rather than official sources, says to collect everything to begin with, since everything you find will have a use sooner or later. The same page also says to sell as much as you can when you are starting out, because the currency buys more stash slots, and marks Trinkets with a diamond symbol as having no other use than bragging rights or selling for Coins. It adds that once you start crafting you will have to prioritize what to keep.

Which Ingredients Recipes Use Most

The ingredients the recipes on file call for most often are Mechanical Components, then Advanced Mechanical Components, then Simple Gun Parts. The crafting page lists every recipe on file with its station and ingredients.

ARC Alloy and ARC Powercells

Getting Started calls ARC Alloy and ARC Powercells critical materials that can only be obtained from downed ARC, says it is always worth picking them up, and adds that you do not have to destroy the ARC yourself, since there is wreckage everywhere. ARC Alloy's own item text puts it differently: it says ARC Alloy comes from ARC enemies or activities, or from recycling certain ARC parts. ARC Powercell's own text says it drops from all ARC enemies. On file, ARC Alloy goes into level 1 of the Explosives Station, the Medical Lab and the Utility Station, and into the recipes for ARC Circuitry, ARC Motion Core, Rascal Blueprint and Seeker Grenade; ARC Powercell goes into level 1 of the Refiner, and into the recipe for Shield Recharger.

Selling or Recycling

Measured in coins alone, an item's parts almost always sell for less than the whole item, so recycle when you need the materials and sell when you need coins. The recycling page lists each confirmed recycling chain and its outputs.

What This Guide Does Not Set

The pages this guide cites give no price trends, no market between players and no rule for which rarity to keep, so it sets none.