A rare find
By Echo Apsey 23rd November 2025
Credit: Embark
Arc Raiders players are on the hunt for some of the rarest items and loot to be able to fully upgrade their benches and items as we approach the end of the first Expedition period. One key items players are struggling with are the Rusted Gears.
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Here is where you can find them and how to boost your chances of getting one.
AdvertisementRusted Gears can be found in any mechanical items around the game’s maps. This includes cars, generators, and machinery. Some key locations include Buried City’s Parking Garage, Vehicle Maintenance in Spaceport, the Warehouse Complex in Blue Gate, and the Loading Bay in Stella Montis.
With the Parking Garage, you want to explore the Raider Camp at the bottom of it, which can often house gears in the generators down there.
Elsewhere, you can also find gears in cars right when you spawn. These are rarer than gears found in rare loot areas, or high traffic zones in the center of the map. But, you can get lucky and find one while you looting the hoods of cars at the beginning of a round. You may also find some on dead Raiders, but this is pretty rare.
Rusted gears are one of several important items in the game and as new materials get added they will become just as important, especially when you send your Raider off on an Expedition and have to restart your progression.
For even more on Arc Raiders, check out the game’s scores on Metacritic so far, as well as details on how solo queue works in matches. You can also find out how to get a dog collar to make earlier upgrades to Scrappy here. You can also find out where to collect lemons and apricots to rank up Scrappy’s abilities.
