In ARC Raiders, feeding your Scrappy the right food increases resource acquisition and unlocks rare loot drops after each raid. Everyone seems amazed by new Scrappy feeding mechanic in Flashpoint's update - getting valuable items with random fruits sounds fantastic.
Now, you can add olives and lemons to your food queue, giving your Scrappy two bonuses simultaneously: a fixed amount of extra specific resources and a random reward item from a dedicated food loot pool.
Each food lasts only one match, after which Scrappy will consume the next food in the queue. Scrappy's level directly affects the quality of the feeding rewards. Increase your Scrappy's level to increase your chances of getting better items from each food's loot pool!
How to Feed Your Scrappy?
You can use the feeding system starting at Scrappy level 1. Leveling up your Scrappy directly improves the quality of its Feeding Reward items. So, how do we feed your Scrappy?
Head to Workshop, select Scrappy from the menu, and then switch to "Feed" tab. Add food from your Stash to the queue. Scrappy will eat one type of food in each match, in queue order, and gain the bonus from that food during that match.
Also, remember to check Scrappy's collection box after each match to ensure it's at its capacity limit, and periodically sell unwanted ARC Raiders Items to free up space so Scrappy can acquire more resources next time.
What to feed it?
There are seven types of food that can be fed to Scrappy, and each food has its own specific resource type and unique loot pool.
1. Olives
- +5 Resource Bonus: Fabric
- Feeding Bonus Category: Medical lab materials or equipment
2. Mushroom
- +5 Resource Bonus: Plastic Parts
- Feeding Bonus Category: Gear Bench materials, or equipment
3. Agave
- +5 Resource Bonus: Assorted Seeds
- Feeding Bonus Category: Mods or mod crafting materials
4. Apricot
- +5 Resource Bonus: Metal Parts
- Feeding Bonus Category: Gunsmith materials or equipment
5.Lemon
- +5 Resource Bonus: Chemicals
- Feeding Bonus Category: Explosive Station materials or equipment
6. Prickly Pear
- +5 Resource Bonus: Rubber Parts
- Feeding Bonus Category: Utility Station materials or equipment
7. Fruit Mix
- +5 Resource Bonus: All resource types (+5 each)
- Feeding Bonus Category: Mixed loot from all Categories
If you have Fruit Mix, it's the highest priority feeding option. Fruit Mix can only be crafted in the wild.Fruit Mix provides a +5 bonus to each resource type and draws loot from a pool containing high-value items, such as Matriarch Reactor (0.68% chance) and Queen Reactor (0.68% chance).
Dropped items
1. Agave (Focus: mods & crafting materials)
- Common drops: Duct Tape, Mechanical Components, Wires
- Rare drops: Tier‑3 weapon attachments; Legendary mods
2. Apricot (Focus: gunsmith materials)
- Common drops: Magnet, Oil, Simple Gun Parts, Steel Spring, Wires
- Rare drops: Matriarch Reactor, Queen Reactor
Note: Best single-food source for reactor components without raiding
3. Lemon (Focus: explosive & electrical crafting materials)
- Common drops: ARC Alloy, Battery, Canister, Crude Explosives, Oil, Wires
- Rare drops: Grenade; Deadline, Wolfpack
4. Mushroom (Focus: gear & shield components)
- Common drops: ARC Alloy, Battery, Magnet
- Rare drops: Combat Mk.2, Looting Mk.2, Tactical Mk.2 chips ; Tier‑3 chips
5. Olives (Focus: medical supplies)
- Common drops: ARC Powercell, Canister, Great Mullein
- Rare drops: Vita Shot, Vita Spray ; Herbal Bandage, Sterilized Bandage
6. Prickly Pear (Focus: utility & traversal tools)
- Common drops: Canister, Electrical Components, Mechanical Components, Rope, Sensors, Speaker Component
- Rare drops: Photoelectric Cloak, Power Rod ; Snap Hook
7. Fruit Mix (Broad all-category pool, drops 2 of each item)
- Common drops: ARC Alloy, ARC Powercell, Battery, Canister, Wires ×2
- Rare drops: Matriarch Reactor, Queen Reactor
How to choose feeding resources?
If you need Matriarch Reactor or Queen Reactor drops, choose Mushroom or Fruit Mix; if you need chip upgrades, such as Combat Mk. 3 or Looting Mk. 3 variants, choose Mushroom.
If you want utility tools like Snap Hook or Photoelectric Cloak passively, choose Prickly Pear; if you need to stockpile grenades and explosive station materials, choose Lemon.
If you want broad resource coverage across all types without being limited to one, choose Fruit Mix.
Strategy
Prioritize leveling up Scrappy to improve reward quality. You should also prepare plenty of food and take full advanttem to ensure Scrappy is always in a buffed state.
Buried City is an excellent location for obtaining Fruit Mix. The open space between the town hall and library is full of lemon and apricot trees, a few more near the solar panels outside the condos, and plenty of cactus fruit. There's a cactus patch about south of the station in the old town on the edge of the map, where you can usually find some cactus fruit, and some are scattered around the town's edge as well.
The resource bonuses and rewards from feeding only apply to a single match. Remember to check Scrappy's collection box, or you might miss out on valuable items. Regularly sell or use resources from your collection box to avoid reaching its capacity limit.
Fruit Mix is a rare commodity; save it for when you need to fully replenish general crafting materials. Keep a record of the food you prepare before each raid so you know what food will be in your collection box on your next return.
The new version's Scrappy feeding system may become a key strategy for efficiently farming high-quality ARC Raiders Items. While the rewards are somewhat random, as long as you choose food precisely according to your needs, prioritize upgrading your Scrappy's level, plan your feeding queue effectively, and clear your collection box promptly to maximize your rewards in each match, this feeding system can provide you with a rich loot output.
