The best Elden Ring mods (2024)
From quality-of-life to enormous overhauls, these are the 20 best mods in Elden Ring to date
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What are the best Elden Ring mods to download? Elden Ring already has a gigantic expansion DLC in the form of Shadow Of The Erdtree , but that isn’t the only way to inject a bit of fresh new life into the Lands Between. If you want to customise your journey as a Tarnished, then mods are the best way forward.
Elden Ring has had a blossoming modding community from day one, and there’s a wealth of excellent mods out there nowadays, ranging from minor fixes and cosmetic tweaks to enormous overhauls, new weapons and animations, difficulty options, and much more. Below we’ve selected 20 of the best mods in Elden Ring and explained why we think they’re so fantastic. You’ll also find download links for each Elden Ring mod below.
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The best Elden Ring mods
The 20 best Elden Ring mods right now are:
- Seamless Co-op
- First Person Souls
- Quest Log
- Item And Enemy Randomizer
- Easy Mode
- Prepare To Die (Hard Mode)
- The Convergence
- Elden Ring Reforged
- Map For Goblins
- Grand Merchant
- Posture Bar Mod
- Clever’s Moveset Modpack
- Magic Overhaul (Sorceries)
- Transmogrify Armor
- Unlock The Framerate
- PS4 And PS5 Controller UI
- Pause The Game
- Remove Weight Limitations
- Disable Rune Loss On Death
- Elden Ring Ultimate Cheat Engine Table
Seamless Co-op
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Seamless Co-op is one of the best-known and most popular Elden Ring mods. This mod allows you to bypass the usual restrictions of co-op multiplayer in Elden Ring, allowing you to play through the entire game with your friends. No need to summon them in for individual fights. You can invite up to 5 other players into The Lands Between with you, and play through one of the grandest open-world games of all time together.
Download link: Elden Ring Seamless Co-op mod Author: LukeYui
First Person Souls
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First Person Souls allows you to play through all of Elden Ring in first-person instead of third-person perspective. It’s a simple but gigantic change to the base game, and it’s amazing how much the first-person view changes the entire feel of the game. Suddenly, that Ulcerated Tree Spirit looks a lot larger. And don’t get me started on the Fire Giant . Whew. It’s a great mod, it works well, and it’s a must-try for players more familiar with first-person than third-person games.
Download link: Elden Ring First Person Souls mod Author: Dasaav
Quest Log
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Quest Log is a lifesaver of an Elden Ring mod. As with most FromSoftware games, Elden Ring has a variety of optional quests, many of them with very obscure and opaque win and loss conditions. It’s not at all uncommon to find that an NPC’s side-quest has been failed for some unknown reason. And while our Elden Ring quests walkthrough is your best bet for players who don’t want to use mods, the Quest Log is another great tool that simply opens an in-game menu to help keep track of every side-quest and your next steps for each one.
Download link: Elden Ring Quest Log mod Author: TheEldenRingQuestGiver
Item And Enemy Randomizer
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Item And Enemy Randomizer is perfect for players who are ready for a new challenge in Elden Ring. This sophisticated and extremely popular mod randomises key items, merchant shops, enemy loot drops, and - most excitingly - the enemies themselves, so you’ll never quite know what the next area has in store for you until you’re there. It’s reliable, customisable, and heaps of fun - except when you see Malenia, Hand Of Miquella strutting down the Tree Sentinel’s path as you first set foot in Limgrave.
Download link: Elden Ring Item And Enemy Randomizer mod Author: thefifthmatt
Easy Mode
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Easy Mode has long been sought-after by players who find Elden Ring’s infamous difficulty to be a bit much after a long day’s work. Download this mod, and you’ll get to pick between three different difficulty settings, each of which tweaks your incoming and outgoing damage to varying levels. There are also options which increase the rate at which you earn runes, along with plenty more tweaks to make Elden Ring much less punishing.
Download link: Elden Ring Easy Mode mod Author: odashikonbu
Prepare To Die (Hard Mode)
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Prepare To Die is a mod for Elden Ring veterans which dramatically ups the difficulty - but not in a totally unfair manner. A lot of work has been put into this mod which touches upon nearly every enemy in the game, making them quite a bit smarter and cannier than before. The best part is that while it does increase enemies’ damage a little, it doesn’t rely on this for the increased difficulty. The mod author has said that enemy stats have only been increased up to similar levels that you would find in New Game Plus. The real danger comes from the enhanced enemy AI - exactly as it should be.
Download link: Elden Ring Prepare To Die (Hard Mode) mod Author: Silentverge02
The Convergence
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The Convergence is a mighty Elden Ring overhaul mod which adds a mind-boggling array of new content. New weapons, spells, enemies, bosses, and even whole new sections of the map have been added, providing a fresh new challenge for long-time Elden Ring players. This mod has got a lot of attention recently, not only for the vast amounts of new content but also the unerring quality of those changes. Give it a try if the vanilla experience is starting to feel a bit stale.
Download link: Elden Ring The Convergence mod Author: AronTheBaron
Elden Ring Reforged
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Elden Ring Reforged is another gigantic Elden Ring overhaul mod, which focuses less on adding new weapons and items (though it still adds many new ones) but more so on entirely new mechanical elements like deflecting, ducking, dyeing armour, gathering knowledge of enemies via a bestiary system, using spell and weapon combos, overhauling the classes system so it’s not just a fire-and-forget choice during character creation, and much more besides. It’s a truly staggering mod.
Download link: Elden Ring Reforged mod Author: Kirnifr
Map For Goblins
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Map For Goblins is a very useful little map mod for Elden Ring which automatically adds hundreds of markers to the map, giving you a lot more information than is available in vanilla Elden Ring. With this mod you can see the locations of all unvisited Sites Of Grace , all undefeated bosses, and all unique item drops - including some of the best weapons and best armor sets in the game.
Download link: Elden Ring Map For Goblins mod Author: Harmonixer123
Grand Merchant
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Grand Merchant is a simple but excellent timesaving mod, which gives Kalé every item in the game to sell for free. Kalé is the merchant you meet at the Church of Elleh in Limgrave at the start of the game, so the mod allows you to easily procure any item in the game from the very beginning of Elden Ring. It’s quite cheaty, obviously, and certainly not for use in online mode. But it’s a godsend for players who want to try a particular thing with a particular item.
Download link: Elden Ring Grand Merchant mod Author: Xylozi
Posture Bar Mod
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The Posture Bar Mod adds a secondary bar below the health bar of every enemy in Elden Ring. This yellow-ish bar, as you might have guessed, displays the enemy’s posture, which is a hidden value which determines when an enemy can be staggered by your attacks, rendering them vulnerable to a critical hit. It’s a great mod for helping you to understand the calculations going on behind Elden Ring’s complex combat system.
Download link: Elden Ring Posture Bar mod Author: Mordrog
Clever’s Moveset Modpack
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Clever’s Moveset Modpack is a compendium of Elden Ring mods all created by the same author, who has put out some of Elden Ring’s highest-quality new weapon and animation mods since the game’s release. Each of the mods in this modpack comes with a new moveset of attacks that you can use with each new weapon. They’ve all been made to an exceptional standard, and while they’re tuned to be pretty powerful compared to most vanilla weapons, they don’t look at all out of place in terms of quality.
Download link: Elden Ring Clever’s Moveset Modpack mod Author: cleverraptor6
Magic Overhaul (Sorceries)
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Magic Overhaul implements a number of changes to several major sorceries from vanilla Elden Ring. Some of these changes are minor or even purely cosmetic, but many of them completely change the nature of the spell, with excellent visual effects and character animations to boot. After playing around with it, I very highly recommend this mod for anyone who wants to feel like a true mage in Elden Ring.
Download link: Elden Ring Magic Overhaul (Sorceries) mod Author: Tellah9
Transmogrify Armor
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Transmogrify Armor is a mod that does exactly what it says on the tin without any fuss. This mod allows you to transmog your armour, which means to give your armour pieces the appearance of different armour, while keeping the former’s stats and effects. Simply put: you no longer have to walk around looking like an absolute joke in order to get the best possible armour effects.
Download link: Elden Ring Transmogrify Armor mod Author: tomclark
Unlock The Framerate
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Unlock The Framerate is a simple but arguably essential Elden Ring mod which unlocks the game’s built-in FPS (Frames Per Second) lock of 60, and allows you to set your own custom FPS limit (or just keep it entirely unlocked). In this day and age, PC players are moving beyond 60fps as a standard framerate for today’s games, which is why this is one of the most downloaded mods for Elden Ring.
Download link: Elden Ring Unlock The Framerate mod Author: TechieW
PS4 And PS5 Controller UI
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The PS4 and PS5 Controller UI mod is another extremely simple but very useful mod that does exactly what it says on the tin. By default, Elden Ring will only display control prompts in the form of keyboard or Xbox controller icons, which is bad news for players who use a PS5 controller on PC . But with this mod, you can get the native prompts to your own device, with all those easily understandable circles, squares, and triangles.
Download link: Elden Ring PS4 And PS5 Controller UI mod Author: losh11
Pause The Game
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Pause The Game fixes an important issue for many Elden Ring players. If you’re in-game, then while you’re in the map or a crafting screen - or even the settings menu - the game will not pause. Which often leads to frustrating and unnecessary deaths if you don’t see the enemy sneaking up behind you while you’re preoccupied. This mod allows you to set a customisable keybind which pauses the game at will.
Download link: Elden Ring Pause The Game mod Author: TechieW
Remove Weight Limitations
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Remove Weight Limitations is a mod which isolates one of the effects of the Easy Mode mod featured previously on this list, and allows you to activate it on its own. This mod sets the player’s weight to zero no matter what they have equipped, allowing them to gain the benefits of the lightest-weight dodges and rolls while still carrying the heaviest, most protective armour. Slightly cheaty, but a very welcome mod for those who find no joy in the compromise between protection and mobility.
Download link: Elden Ring Remove Weight Limitations mod Author: ImAxel0
Disable Rune Loss On Death
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Disable Rune Loss On Death makes the entire experience of Elden Ring a little more forgiving for players who don’t have a good knack for rune management. By default, when you die in Elden Ring, you’ll drop all your runes on the spot where you died, and you’ll need to collect them in your next life before you die or they’ll be lost forever. This mod allows you to keep all your runes when you die, so you no longer have to waste valuable seconds at the start of each boss fight dodging attacks and trying desperately to reach your rune-strewn spirit-corpse.
Download link: Elden Ring Disable Rune Loss On Death mod Author: TechieW
Elden Ring Ultimate Cheat Engine Table
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The Elden Ring Ultimate Cheat Engine Table is an addon which is designed to be used in conjunction with the well known Cheat Engine software. As the name implies, this Cheat Engine is used for cheating in Elden Ring (along with many other games). And the Ultimate Cheat Engine Table gives you a very handy list of tickboxes in the Cheat Engine that are specific to Elden Ring, allowing you to very easily spawn items and enemies, change your level and stats, unlock all sites of grace, teleport yourself, and much more besides.
Download link: Elden Ring Ultimate Cheat Engine Table mod Author: TeamHexinton
That concludes our list of the 20 best Elden Ring mods that are available to download right now. If you’re looking to start another playthrough ready for Shadow Of The Erdtree, why not check out our list of the best builds in Elden Ring , or our Elden Ring walkthrough to help you get off to a roaring start in the Lands Between.
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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them
These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints
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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.
This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.
We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.
In this guide:
- What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
- Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
- Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations
What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).
To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.
It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.
Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:
| Blueprint | Type | Recipe | Crafted At |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bettina | Weapon | 3x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Heavy Gun Parts 3x Canister | Gunsmith 3 |
| Blue Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
| Aphelion | Weapon | 3x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Complex Gun Parts 1x Matriarch Reactor | Gunsmith 3 |
| Combat Mk. 3 (Flanking) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Combat Mk. 3 (Aggressive) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Complex Gun Parts | Material | 2x Light Gun Parts 2x Medium Gun Parts 2x Heavy Gun Parts | Refiner 3 |
| Fireworks Box | Quick Use | 1x Explosive Compound 3x Pop Trigger | Explosives Station 2 |
| Gas Mine | Mine | 4x Chemicals 2x Rubber Parts | Explosives Station 1 |
| Green Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
| Pulse Mine | Mine | 1x Crude Explosives 1x Wires | Explosives Station 1 |
| Seeker Grenade | Grenade | 1x Crude Explosives 2x ARC Alloy | Explosives Station 1 |
| Looting Mk. 3 (Survivor) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Angled Grip II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 2 |
| Angled Grip III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Hullcracker | Weapon | 1x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Heavy Gun Parts 1x Exodus Modules | Gunsmith 3 |
| Launcher Ammo | Ammo | 5x Metal Parts 1x Crude Explosives | Workbench 1 |
| Anvil | Weapon | 5x Mechanical Components 5x Simple Gun Parts | Gunsmith 2 |
| Anvil Splitter | Mod | 2x Mod Components 3x Processor | Gunsmith 3 |
| ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| Barricade Kit | Quick Use | 1x Mechanical Components | Utility Station 2 |
| Blaze Grenade | Grenade | 1x Explosive Compound 2x Oil | Explosives Station 3 |
| Bobcat | Weapon | 3x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Light Gun Parts | Gunsmith 3 |
| Osprey | Weapon | 2x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 7x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Burletta | Weapon | 3x Mechanical Components 3x Simple Gun Parts | Gunsmith 1 |
| Compensator II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Compensator III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Defibrillator | Quick Use | 9x Plastic Parts 1x Moss | Medical Lab 2 |
| ??? | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| Equalizer | Weapon | 3x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Complex Gun Parts 1x Queen Reactor | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Barrel | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Light Mag II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 2 |
| Extended Light Mag III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Medium Mag II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 2 |
| Extended Medium Mag III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Extended Shotgun Mag II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 2 |
| Extended Shotgun Mag III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Remote Raider Flare | Quick Use | 2x Chemicals 4x Rubber Parts | Utility Station 1 |
| Heavy Gun Parts | Material | 4x Simple Gun Parts | Refiner 2 |
| Venator | Weapon | 2x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 5x Magnet | Gunsmith 3 |
| Il Toro | Weapon | 5x Mechanical Components 6x Simple Gun Parts | Gunsmith 1 |
| Jolt Mine | Mine | 1x Electrical Components 1x Battery | Explosives Station 2 |
| Explosive Mine | Mine | 1x Explosive Compound 1x Sensors | Explosives Station 3 |
| Jupiter | Weapon | 3x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Complex Gun Parts 1x Queen Reactor | Gunsmith 3 |
| Light Gun Parts | Material | 4x Simple Gun Parts | Refiner 2 |
| Lightweight Stock | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Lure Grenade | Grenade | 1x Speaker Component 1x Electrical Components | Utility Station 2 |
| Medium Gun Parts | Material | 4x Simple Gun Parts | Refiner 2 |
| Torrente | Weapon | 2x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 6x Steel Spring | Gunsmith 3 |
| Muzzle Brake II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Muzzle Brake III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Padded Stock | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Shotgun Choke II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Shotgun Choke III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Shotgun Silencer | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Showstopper | Grenade | 1x Advanced Electrical Components 1x Voltage Converter | Explosives Station 3 |
| Silencer I | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 4x Wires | Gunsmith 2 |
| Silencer II | Mod | 2x Mod Components 8x Wires | Gunsmith 3 |
| Snap Hook | Quick Use | 2x Power Rod 3x Rope 1x Exodus Modules | Utility Station 3 |
| Stable Stock II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 2 |
| Stable Stock III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Tagging Grenade | Grenade | 1x Electrical Components 1x Sensors | Utility Station 3 |
| Tempest | Weapon | 3x Advanced Mechanical Components 3x Medium Gun Parts 3x Canister | Gunsmith 3 |
| Trigger Nade | Grenade | 2x Crude Explosives 1x Processor | Explosives Station 2 |
| Vertical Grip II | Mod | 2x Mechanical Components 3x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 2 |
| Vertical Grip III | Mod | 2x Mod Components 5x Duct Tape | Gunsmith 3 |
| Vita Shot | Quick Use | 2x Antiseptic 1x Syringe | Medical Lab 3 |
| Vita Spray | Quick Use | 3x Antiseptic 1x Canister | Medical Lab 3 |
| Vulcano | Weapon | 1x Magnetic Accelerator 3x Heavy Gun Parts 1x Exodus Modules | Gunsmith 3 |
| Wolfpack | Grenade | 2x Explosive Compound 2x Sensors | Explosives Station 3 |
| Red Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
| Smoke Grenade | Grenade | 14x Chemicals 1x Canister | Utility Station 2 |
| Deadline | Mine | 3x Explosive Compound 2x ARC Circuitry | Explosives Station 3 |
| Trailblazer | Grenade | 1x Explosive Compound 1x Synthesized Fuel | Explosives Station 3 |
| Tactical Mk. 3 (Defensive) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Tactical Mk. 3 (Healing) | Augment | 2x Advanced Electrical Components 3x Processor | Gear Bench 3 |
| Yellow Light Stick | Quick Use | 3x Chemicals | Utility Station 1 |
Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.
Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders
Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:
- Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
- Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
- Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
- High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
- Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
- Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
- Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
- Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
- Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.
Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios
Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.
Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .
In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.
Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.
Blueprints obtained from quests
One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.
Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:
- Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
- Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
- Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
- Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.
Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.
One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios
Blueprints obtained from Trials
One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.
Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.
Best Blueprint farming locations
The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.
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Dam Battlegrounds
The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.
There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.
Buried City
The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.
Spaceport
The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.
The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.
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Blue Gate
Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .
All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.
Stella Montis
On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.
In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.
That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.
While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.
ARC Raiders
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