Search Raider Caches Trial Guide: Best Score Route

The arc raiders search raider caches trial is the laziest way to climb the leaderboard this week: open containers, don't die, collect points. Each Raider Cache searched awards 1600 score, and you only need three of them to lock in your 3-star reward at 4000 score. No boss fights, no clever tactics, just a man with a crowbar and questionable priorities.

This trial belongs to the wider arc raiders trials season 5 rotation, where five weekly objectives decide your climb up the arc raiders trial rank ladder. Season 5 runs from July 7, 2026 to September 30, 2026, so there's no excuse for showing up unprepared. It can be run solo, duo, or trio, and none of those group sizes require you to actually cooperate.

Scoring Breakdown

Every Raider Cache you search counts toward the objective, whether it has already been looted by someone else or not. The cache still ticks, still counts, still pays out. Score doubles under specific map conditions, which is the entire point of this guide, since wandering around hoping for loot is not a strategy.

Best Loadout

You do not need your best gear for a container scavenger hunt, and bringing it anyway is how people lose their favorite guns to a Vaporizer that was minding its own business. A best loadout for raider caches setup prioritizes mobility and survival over firepower.

• Anvil IV works best here because the fire rate keeps small ARC off your back while you loot.
• Any Augment is acceptable since this trial does not punish flexibility.
• A Light Shield keeps you alive without slowing you down.
• Five Shield Rechargers and five Bandages cover the basics of not dying.
• Forty to eighty Heavy Ammo is enough to swat away nuisances without hoarding.
• Ten to fifteen Adrenaline Shots let you sprint the map instead of jogging like a tourist.

Using a Free Loadout is the smart move here, since you're only searching containers and risking gear you actually like would be an act of self-sabotage. The only real cost is a shortage of Adrenaline Shots, which slows your rotation between cache clusters.

The dam battlegrounds map is the recommended stage for this trial, ideally loaded during a hurricane event arc raiders window for the doubled payout. Raider Cache spawns are clustered, but usually only one cache actually spawns per cluster, so checking every cluster instead of assuming is worth the extra few seconds.

Listen for the mechanical alarm tick that grows louder as you approach a cache during Hurricane. It's not subtle, and if you're still walking past caches without hearing it, that's a headphones problem, not a game problem.

Solo players should spawn on the southern side of the map, follow the cluster route toward the Raider Hatch, and extract once the caches dry up. Duo and trio parties should split the map into three sections and comb each individually instead of following each other around like ducklings.

Score Potential

A solo run through a full route nets roughly 20,000 to 25,000 score, and a coordinated trio can push double that if nobody wastes time arguing over loot. Anyone chasing the top of the arc raiders leaderboard should treat this as one of the easier five objectives to farm hard.

Fast 3-Star Option

If the leaderboard grind doesn't interest you, load into any 2x modifier, search three caches, and extract. That's the entire strategy for players who just want the reward and nothing to do with the ranked system.

For the rest of this week's objectives, check a full arc raiders weekly trials guide covering point values, refresh timers, and strategies for every active trial, not just this one.