Items to Keep, Sell, and Recycle in ARC Raiders

Items to Keep, Sell, and Recycle TL;DR

• Keep all workshop upgrade items and quest items until every station and quest is completed. After upgrades, only keep materials directly tied to crafting weapons, gear, and ammo you actually use. Keep Scrappy food and residential items only until Scrappy reaches max level.

• Recycle complex or broken items that return valuable components instead of selling them raw. Good recycling targets include Damaged Heat Sinks, Alarm Clocks, Spectrometers, and Microscopes.

• Sell unused weapons, throwables, ammo, and surplus crafting parts to save stash space.

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ARC Raiders Best Loot to Keep

If you are at the beginning of your raider journey, workshop upgrade items and quest items are what you should stash away until the upgrade and quest objectives are cleared. If you sell these items right away, you might regret it later while having to run extra runs and going out of your way to find some stupid Snitch drone or a Sentinel turret.  Here is the shortlist that covers ARC Raiders' best loot to keep:

Once you turn in all entries from the ARC Raiders quest item list above and upgrade all of your workshops, there’s usually not much use for these items anymore, and your priorities should shift. Now, besides the shields, augments, and weapons, the items you keep should be exclusively tied to crafting:

If you don’t utilize these items in craft, consider selling them. There is no point in stacking assembly parts for the items you’ll realistically never use. BTW, you can refer to our weapon tier list to get an idea of which weapons are worth crafting.

ARC Raiders Scrappy Upgrade Items

There’s one more thing we should not forget about upgrading: our favourite rooster, Scrappy. His upgrade items are tied to food and Residential valuables, so they might be quite tricky to find. Here’s a full list of ARC Raiders Scrappy upgrade items:

After you upgrade Scrappy to the max lvl, there’s no use for these food items anymore. If you happen to collect them in your raids, they are quite costly - fruits sell for around 1000 credits each.

Items to Recycle in ARC Raiders

ARC Raiders employs a deep and complicated loot system that includes refining and recycling your items. Recycling certain items is great - you’re getting useful crafting components or simply more credit value than by selling an unrecycled item. Here’s a table of the best items to recycle in ARC Raiders:

Everything is dependent on your current situation - ask yourself, do you need the magnets to craft augments, do you need more metal for ammo and weapon components? Sell whatever feels unused or unnecessary at any given moment to keep your stash tidy.

What to Sell in ARC Raiders

When it comes to deciding what’s worth selling, it gets tricky. Besides the Trinkets, whose sole purpose is to be sold and maybe high-tier arc cores that are not worth recycling, there are no items that are always worth selling. To decide what to sell in ARC Raiders, consider your current needs - if you have a lot of explosives, it’s worth selling some crude explosives; if you have lots of ammo and weapons, it might be worth selling excess metal part stacks and so on. 

There’s also no point in stacking too many commonly found items - like cloth and rubber. If you’ll ever run low on these, just run raids in the corresponding areas. You can check out our loot locations guide for some neat spots. Once again, stash space is very restricted, so don’t hesitate to sell everything that you don’t use in your playstyle right now.

Sometimes I even find myself selling weapons I actually like using, like Anvil and Il Toro - I just got too many of them. If it’s not realistic in your situation that you’ll actually use the item in the near future and you’re running low on cash, it’s probably worth selling right away.