Spend enough time scavenging Buried City and you'll eventually loot a little white keycard called the JKV Employee Access Card — and then spend the next three raids wondering where on earth you're supposed to use it. There's exactly one door it fits, it's tucked four floors up inside one of the map's tallest buildings, and the card vanishes the moment you swipe it. Burn it on the wrong run and you've thrown away a loot room that can cough up epic weapons and blueprints. This guide gives you the verified facts straight from the ARC Raiders Wiki — exact location, how to get inside, and what's actually behind the door.
Quick answer (TLDR): The JKV Employee Access Card is an Uncommon, single-use key (weight 0.25, sells for 100 coins) found by scavenging in Buried City. The wiki states it "Opens a locked room in the North side of the J Kozma Ventures (Space Travel) building in Buried City on the Fourth Floor." Get to Floor 04 of the Space Travel building (the fastest route is the zipline from the Galleria building to the east, onto Space Travel's roof, then down the stairwell), turn right off the staircase and the locked door is on your right down the hallway. Inside: cabinets, drawers and lockers full of high-tier loot, a backpack on top of the cabinets/server racks, and a corner weapon crate with a chance at epic guns (Tempest, Bobcat, Vulcano) plus the odd blueprint. The card is consumed on use, so one card = one room. Worth it if you're already raiding Buried City with a card in your pocket.
Buried City map: the J Kozma Ventures (Space Travel) building sits in the centre of the map — take the zipline from the Galleria building to the east to reach it.
What is the JKV Employee Access Card in ARC Raiders?
The JKV Employee Access Card is one of ARC Raiders' map-specific access keys — consumable items that unlock a single sealed door and then disappear from your inventory. "JKV" stands for J Kozma Ventures, the in-world space-travel corporation whose Buried City office tower the card belongs to. The wiki's function line is blunt about what you're buying: it "Opens a locked room in the North side of the J Kozma Ventures (Space Travel) building in Buried City on the Fourth Floor" (arcraiders.wiki).
Here are the verified item stats — pull these from the in-game card, not from third-party trackers:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Uncommon |
| Type | Single-use access card (consumed on use) |
| Weight | 0.25 |
| Vendor value | 100 coins |
| Map | Buried City |
| Source | Scavenging |
| Opens | One locked room, J Kozma Ventures (Space Travel) building, Floor 04 |
Two numbers do the work here. Uncommon rarity means it sits low in the loot pool — you'll bump into one far more often than an Epic vault key — and at 0.25 weight it costs you essentially nothing to carry "just in case." Treat it exactly like that: a cheap pocket item you cash in opportunistically, not a trophy to grind for.
Where do you find the JKV Employee Access Card?
There's no guaranteed spawn — the wiki lists the source simply as "Scavenging" (arcraiders.wiki). In practice the card is a random pull from residential-style loot containers (cabinets, drawers, desks and lockers), and like most Uncommon keys it surfaces more reliably in a few specific places:
- Residential interiors across the maps — the card rolls in apartment-style furniture, not industrial crates. It's not strictly locked to Buried City loot; it can drop wherever residential containers spawn.
- High-density residential POIs — community guides point at Grandioso Apartments in Buried City and the apartment blocks on Dam Battlegrounds (the Ruby Residence area) as the most productive farming spots for residential keys like this one.
- Amber/orange high-loot zones and Night Raids — as with every key, higher-tier loot regions and the Night Raid condition raise your overall odds of pulling one.
- Other players — a raider who looted the card and didn't extract will drop it on death.
The honest play: don't dedicate a raid to fishing for the card. Loot residential interiors normally, keep an eye on Buried City and Dam apartment blocks, and one will turn up. Because it's Uncommon and weighs almost nothing, hoarding a spare is free.
What does the JKV Employee Access Card open?
One door — and it takes a little climbing to reach. The card unlocks a locked room on the north side of the J Kozma Ventures (Space Travel) building, one of the tall towers in Buried City, up on Floor 04 (Floor 04 is the in-game label; it's the fourth floor). The room itself is enclosed and packed with containers, which is exactly why it's worth the trip.
How to get to the door
There are two ways up, and the zipline is the smart one:
- Fast route (recommended): the Galleria zipline. The Galleria building sits east of Space Travel. Take the zipline that connects Galleria to Space Travel's roof, land on the roof, then take the interior staircase down to Floor 04. Coming off the stairwell, turn right and follow the hallway — the locked door is on your right. Riding in from the roof skips most of the building's interior ARC patrols and the lower-floor traffic.
- Ground route: the main stairs. Enter the building at street level and climb the main staircase up to the fourth floor. Off the stairs, turn right and the access-card room is the first locked door down the corridor.
Because it's a small enclosed room with one entrance, it's a natural spot to get third-partied while you loot. Dropping a Door Blocker or a Jolt Mine behind you while you clear the containers is a common safety play — it buys you the seconds you need to breach cabinets without eating a back-shot.
JKV Employee Access Card loot breakdown
Here's the part thin guides gloss over: the loot is randomized. ARC Raiders doesn't hand-place a fixed item list behind the door, so anyone promising you a guaranteed gun is guessing. What's confirmed is the container set and the loot tiers you're rolling from — and on a good roll this room punches well above an Uncommon key's price. Here's the realistic breakdown:
| Loot source in the room | What it rolls | Typical tier |
|---|---|---|
| Corner weapon crate | A firearm — chance at epic variants (Tempest, Bobcat, Vulcano reported) | Rare–Epic |
| Cabinets & drawers | Valuables, components, high-value items, occasional blueprints | Uncommon–Epic |
| Lockers & storage furniture | Crafting materials, attachments, mods | Uncommon–Rare |
| Backpack (spawns on cabinets / server racks) | Loose loot — consumables, valuables, misc | Common–Rare |
| Loose shelf / desk items | Sellable junk and components for coins | Common–Uncommon |
A few things players consistently report from this room: the corner weapon crate has a chance to roll epic-rarity weapons — Tempest, Bobcat and Vulcano are the names that come up most — and the cabinets and drawers can produce weapon blueprints (community reports cite Osprey and Bettina turning up here) alongside crafting materials for station and weapon upgrades. None of that is guaranteed on any single run, but the ceiling is high: a single blueprint or epic weapon pays back the 100-coin card hundreds of times over.
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Is the JKV Employee Access Card worth it?
Yes — when you already have one and you're raiding Buried City anyway. At 0.25 weight the card costs you nothing to carry, and a fully-cleared room reliably returns far more than its 100-coin sell value, with genuine upside on the weapon crate and blueprint rolls. The fourth-floor location keeps the room less contested than ground-level POIs, and the zipline-in route lets you hit it on the way to an extract.
No — don't build a raid around it. It's an Uncommon key feeding a randomized room. Don't sprint across a hot map and die on the stairs to reach it, and don't burn an entire run hunting the card itself. The smart pattern is opportunistic: card in pocket, Space Travel building on your route, breach the room, grab the crate, get out.
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FAQ
Where do you use the JKV Employee Access Card in ARC Raiders? It opens a single locked room on the north side of the J Kozma Ventures (Space Travel) building in Buried City, up on Floor 04. The fastest way in is the zipline from the Galleria building (east of Space Travel) onto the roof, then down the interior stairs — turn right off the stairwell and the locked door is on your right (arcraiders.wiki).
Where does the JKV Employee Access Card drop? It's an Uncommon card found by scavenging residential-style containers — cabinets, drawers and lockers. It appears most often in high-density apartment POIs like Grandioso Apartments in Buried City and the Ruby Residence apartments on Dam Battlegrounds, and more frequently in amber/orange high-loot zones and during Night Raids.
Is the JKV Employee Access Card single-use? Yes. The card is consumed the moment you open the door, so one card equals one room. If you want to hit the room on two separate raids, you need two cards.
What loot is inside the JKV room? Randomized residential-grade loot: cabinets and drawers (up to epic-rarity items), lockers with crafting materials and attachments, a backpack on top of the cabinets/server racks, and a corner weapon crate with a chance at epic guns like Tempest, Bobcat or Vulcano. Players also report weapon blueprints (such as Osprey and Bettina) turning up in the cabinets — none of it guaranteed.
Is the JKV Employee Access Card worth using? Yes, if you already have one and you're in Buried City — at 0.25 weight it's free to carry and the room usually returns well over its 100-coin value, with epic-weapon and blueprint upside. Just don't build an entire raid around reaching it.
How rare is the JKV Employee Access Card? It's an Uncommon-rarity key, so it drops far more often than the Epic keys in the loot pool. You'll realistically find one through normal looting in residential areas without farming for it.
