If you've been hunting the Wolfpack blueprint in ARC Raiders and coming up empty raid after raid, you're not unlucky — you're probably looting the wrong map at the wrong time. The Wolfpack is one of the best anti-ARC tools in the game: an Epic-rarity grenade that splits into 12 homing missiles and shreds machines that would otherwise force you to burn a full magazine. But the blueprint only realistically drops under specific conditions, in specific buildings, on a specific map.
This guide covers exactly where to find the Wolfpack blueprint, why Night Raids dramatically improve your odds, the fastest farming route through Buried City, and how to craft the grenade once you've learned it. Every stat and mechanic here is checked against the official ARC Raiders Wiki and arcraiders.com — not secondary trackers.
Quick answer (TLDR): The Wolfpack blueprint is a scavenged drop found in residential-style containers — cabinets, drawers, lockers, safe deposit boxes, even trash cans and suitcases — most reliably in Buried City (also reported on Dam Battlegrounds and Stella Montis). Your single biggest lever is the map condition: load into a Night Raid, when Major Map Conditions double Epic blueprint drops. Hit dense residential blocks like Grandioso Apartments, breach every container, and don't skip the "already looted" rooms — overlooked trash cans and suitcases are exactly where these hide. Once you loot it, Learn it in Speranza (it's consumed permanently), then craft Wolfpacks at a Level 3 Explosives Station. Read on for the full farm route and crafting breakdown.
What Is the Wolfpack in ARC Raiders?
The Wolfpack is an Epic-rarity quick-use grenade built for one job: deleting ARC machines. Throw it, and on impact it bursts into a cluster of 12 homing missiles that lock onto nearby ARC targets and chase them down. Per the official wiki, each missile deals 166 explosive damage, and the cluster homes in on machines within a 100-meter behavior radius.
Do the math and that's up to ~1,992 total damage spread across a group — which is why the community calls it the premier anti-ARC grenade. Because the damage is split across many guided projectiles, the Wolfpack excels at three things a normal frag can't: disrupting packs of small ARC, finishing weakened enemies scattered around a fight, and tagging fast, evasive machines (Hornets, Wasps, Tick swarms) that are a nightmare to hit with direct explosives.
| Wolfpack | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Epic |
| Type | Grenade (quick-use) |
| Missiles per throw | 12 |
| Damage per missile | 166 |
| Max potential damage | ~1,992 |
| Homing / behavior radius | 100 m |
| Weight | 1 kg |
| Targets | ARC machines only (homes onto ARC, not players) |
One thing to set expectations on: the Wolfpack's missiles lock onto ARC machines, not human Raiders. It is an anti-PvE tool first. Against other players you're better served by a standard frag or impact grenade — save your Wolfpacks for Bastions, Queen fights, and machine-dense extraction zones.
Where Do You Find the Wolfpack Blueprint?
The Wolfpack blueprint is a scavenged loot drop, not a vendor unlock. That means it spawns inside lootable containers out in the world, and you have to physically find one, extract with it, and learn it.
Community findings (and our own runs) consistently point to Buried City as the most reliable map, with corroborating drops reported on Dam Battlegrounds and Stella Montis. Within those maps, focus on dense residential interiors — the apartment blocks and housing where the game seeds gear and explosives blueprints:
- Grandioso Apartments (Buried City) — a standout blueprint-loot haven, especially behind the Residential Master Key door.
- Ruby Residence and Pale Apartments (Buried City) — high container density, lots of rooms to breach.
- General residential housing and the surrounding streets — don't tunnel-vision on one POI.
As for what to open: hit every cabinet, drawer, locker, and safe deposit box, plus the small stuff most players walk past — trash cans, suitcases, and cardboard boxes. One veteran raider described finding a high-value drop in "one trash can — the entire place was looted except that one." That's the pattern: the players ahead of you grab the obvious chests and leave the breakable junk untouched. Those are your blueprints.
Why Is Night Raid the Best Time to Farm the Wolfpack?
Here's the lever almost everyone misses. The map condition matters more than the map.
ARC Raiders runs Major Map Conditions — special raid states like Night Raid, EM Storm, and locked-gate events — that change loot rules. The key fact from the official systems: during a Major Map Condition, rare and Epic blueprint drops are doubled. Since the Wolfpack blueprint is Epic, loading into a Night Raid roughly doubles your chance of pulling it from any given container versus a standard daytime run.
So the optimal farm isn't "go to Buried City." It's "go to Buried City on a Night Raid." Check the map-select screen for the active condition before you queue. If Night Raid (or any Major Condition) is live on a residential-heavy map, that's your window. If it isn't, you can still farm — your per-container odds are just lower, so expect more raids.
The Fastest Wolfpack Blueprint Farm Route (Buried City)
Put it together into a repeatable loop:
- Queue Buried City on a Night Raid (or any Major Map Condition). Wait for the right condition rather than forcing daytime runs.
- Drop near a residential cluster — Grandioso, Ruby Residence, or Pale Apartments. Residential blocks are where Epic gear/explosives blueprints concentrate.
- Breach everything. Open cabinets, lockers, drawers, safe deposit boxes — and don't skip trash cans, suitcases, and boxes. Overlooked junk containers are where blueprints survive after a room's been picked.
- Clear ARC quietly. Use cover and avoid drawing a third party; you want loot time, not a firefight. (A Wolfpack itself, once you have one, makes clearing machine packs trivial — a nice flywheel.)
- Extract with the blueprint. Blueprints only count if you survive the raid — a scavenged blueprint you die holding is gone. Bank it, then learn it back in Speranza.
- Repeat per Night Raid window. Epic blueprints are RNG; the doubled drop rate is what makes it efficient, not guaranteed.
Pro tip: the "A Little Extra" perk from the skill tree drops a bonus resource every time you breach a container. It won't drop blueprints directly, but it pads every farm run with extra crafting mats so the raid isn't wasted even when the Wolfpack doesn't show.
How Do Blueprints Work in ARC Raiders?
If this is your first chase blueprint, two mechanics matter:
- Learn and Consume. When you bring a blueprint back to Speranza, you Learn it — which permanently unlocks the ability to craft that item but consumes the physical blueprint. You don't keep it; you trade the paper for the permanent recipe. As the official wiki puts it, blueprints are "learned and consumed" — one and done.
- Duplicates have value. Already know the Wolfpack and pull a second blueprint? It's not wasted. Duplicate blueprints sell for 5,000 Raider Coins, can be gifted to teammates, or donated to Expedition progress. So a Wolfpack blueprint is never a dead drop.
There's also a non-RNG route worth knowing: the Wolfpack appears as a reward in the Raider Deck "ARC Hunter Pack" progression, granting copies of the blueprint outside of pure scavenging. If you're grinding Decks anyway, you may unlock it without farming Buried City at all.
How Do You Craft the Wolfpack?
Once learned, the Wolfpack is crafted at the Explosives Station in your Speranza hideout — and you'll need that station upgraded to Level 3 (the max tier) before the recipe unlocks. That's the firm, agreed requirement across sources.
The recipe itself is built around Explosive Compound plus ARC machine cores/components, but be aware: third-party trackers currently disagree on the exact quantities, and Embark tunes crafting costs between updates. Trust the in-game Explosives Station screen for the live recipe rather than any single tracker. What you can prep regardless of the exact count is the ingredient supply:
- Explosive Compound — found in Industrial and Security loot areas, or crafted at a Refiner (commonly from Crude Explosives + Oil). Stockpile it; most explosives recipes lean on it.
- ARC Motion Cores — drop from heavier machines including Bastion, Leaper, Rocketeer, Sentinel, Surveyor, and the Queen, or refine them from ARC Alloy at the Refiner. These are the bottleneck — farm bosses or buy them in.
Because the Wolfpack is anti-ARC, there's a neat loop here: the machines you kill to farm ARC Motion Cores are exactly the targets the finished Wolfpack is best at clearing. Build a stockpile of cores, craft a stack of Wolfpacks, and your boss runs get faster — which farms more cores.
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Is the Wolfpack Worth Crafting?
Yes — situationally, and it's one of the highest-ceiling consumables in the game. Where it earns its slot:
- Boss and elite fights. Against a Bastion or during a Queen encounter, a single Wolfpack tags multiple weak points and adds-clearing missiles at once, saving you a magazine and a lot of exposure.
- Machine-dense extraction zones. When a Night Raid throws a wall of small ARC between you and the hatch, one throw thins the swarm instantly.
- Tagging evasive ARC. Fast flyers and skittering machines that dodge direct throws can't outrun homing missiles inside 100 m.
Where it isn't worth it: PvP. The missiles home onto ARC, not players, so against human Raiders it's largely wasted — bring frags or impact grenades for those fights. Treat the Wolfpack as a specialist anti-machine tool, carry one or two on PvE-heavy runs, and you'll wonder how you cleared boss rooms without it.
ARC Raiders Wolfpack Blueprint — FAQ
Where is the Wolfpack blueprint in ARC Raiders? It's a scavenged drop from residential-style containers — cabinets, drawers, lockers, safe deposit boxes, trash cans, and suitcases — most reliably in Buried City (notably Grandioso Apartments, Ruby Residence, Pale Apartments), with reports on Dam Battlegrounds and Stella Montis too.
Do I need a Night Raid to get the Wolfpack blueprint? No, but it's strongly recommended. Major Map Conditions like Night Raid double Epic blueprint drop rates, and the Wolfpack blueprint is Epic — so a Night Raid roughly doubles your odds per container.
What does the Wolfpack do? On impact it releases 12 homing missiles that lock onto ARC machines within 100 m, each dealing 166 explosive damage — up to ~1,992 total. It's the best anti-ARC grenade for clearing packs and bosses, but it does not home onto players.
How do I craft the Wolfpack after finding the blueprint? Learn the blueprint in Speranza (it's consumed permanently), then craft at a Level 3 Explosives Station using Explosive Compound and ARC Motion Cores. Check the in-game station for the exact current material counts.
Is the Wolfpack good against other players? Not really — its missiles target ARC machines, not Raiders. Use it for PvE and boss fights; bring frags or impact grenades for PvP.
What if I find a second Wolfpack blueprint? Duplicates aren't wasted — sell them for 5,000 Raider Coins, gift them to a teammate, or donate to Expedition progress.
Stats and mechanics verified against the official ARC Raiders Wiki and arcraiders.com. In-game recipes and drop rates can change between updates — always confirm against the live game.
