ARC Raiders Best Rusted Gear Farm Spots on Every Map Explained

If you have been trying to push your Gunsmith weapons workbench to Tier 3 in ARC Raiders, you already know the pain of looking for Rusted Gear. It is one of those high-value, brutally rare upgrade materials that feels like it never drops when you actually need it. Even though the game officially labels it as an Industrial or Mechanical zone spawn, the reality is that you cannot just run around opening random boxes and hoping for the best.

Rusted Gear shares its spawn pool with the incredibly common Rusted Tools. If you want to find the good stuff, you have to target specific objects and run precise routes. You are primarily looking to breach car hoods, trucks, buses, yellow electric trailers, and certain cube-shaped industrial machines. To save you some time and a lot of frustrating extractions, here is a complete breakdown of the absolute best farming spots across every single map in the game.

If you are looking for pure volume, Blue Gate is the undisputed king. It is widely considered the absolute best map for farming Rusted Gear simply because of how many vehicle spawns are packed into it. However, high reward means high risk, so keep your eyes peeled.

This is arguably the single best gear-per-minute farming spot in the entire game. It is a massive underground parking facility that holds over 40 breachable vehicles crammed into one tight area. The sheer density here gives you the highest mathematical chance of walking away with multiple gears in a single run. To get in safely, look for the zipline inside the main Warehouse Complex—it drops you right down into the action.

Located right next to the underpass, The Checkpoint is a high-tier loot zone. The beautiful thing about high-tier zones in ARC Raiders is that the baseline loot pool gets an upgrade. This means the game frequently swaps out those annoying, low-value Rusted Tools for the rarer Rusted Gears you actually want. Just be careful—this is a notorious PvP hot zone, and you are highly likely to run into other squads trying to do the exact same thing.

If Blue Gate is feeling a bit too sweaty or heavily contested by full squads, the Dam map is your best alternative. It does not have the massive, concentrated vehicle clusters of Blue Gate, but it offers highly specific, isolated spawns that are incredibly reliable for solo players.

Found near the North Exit elevator, you will find two abandoned buses sitting parallel to each other. Don't just walk past them. If you go to the back of these buses and breach the luggage compartments, they have a near 90% drop rate for Rusted Gear. Because it is right next to an extraction point, this makes for a perfect "spawn in, check the buses, and instantly extract" solo rotation.

Make your way into the underground loading dock section by using the Floodgate catwalks. Once you are down there, ignore the generic loot and focus your attention on the cube-shaped breachable machinery. You should also search the open-sided storage containers that house searchable drawer units; they are hidden goldmines for mechanical components.

This is a highly specific single-spawn location. Right between the two largest domes, there is a lone junk car sitting in the open. Make sure to breach both sides of this specific vehicle. For whatever reason, its spawn rate for high-tier mechanical loot is exceptionally high compared to other random cars on the map.

Tucked away on the southern side of the map, the Scrapyard is exactly what it sounds like—an area littered with broken-down cars and piles of mechanical trash. It is a slower, more tedious farm because the spawns are a bit more spread out, but it features very low player traffic. If you want a peaceful run, this is where you go.

Spaceport is highly industrial, which means you will be dealing with a lot of heavy containers and specialized facility infrastructure rather than standard civilian cars.

When you enter this area, focus strictly on the large service vehicles, heavy trucks, and those distinct yellow electrical trailers parked inside and around the main garage. Breaching these industrial-grade targets gives you a much cleaner shot at Rusted Gear than standard crates.

As you move through these massive warehouse spaces, get into the habit of checking the long sides of the shipping containers. Many of them feature built-in loot drawers that players frequently overlook while sprinting through the area.

Buried City lacks the heavy industrial infrastructure of Spaceport or the massive vehicle density of Blue Gate, but it is an absolute haven for passive solo players who want to avoid fights.

This is a multi-level structure filled with regular, everyday cars. Now, to be fair, the individual drop rate per car here is noticeably lower than what you will find in the Blue Gate underpass. However, because it is tucked away, it is an amazing place for a solo player to quietly crack open hoods, scoop up gears, and gather extra mechanical parts and metal scrap without drawing half the lobby to their position.

Located near the Buried Properties landmark, you need to head directly under the bridge. Look for the large, yellow generator machines. Breaching these specific industrial units gives you a significantly upgraded tier drop chance, making it well worth the detour.