ARC Raiders Wipe Recovery Bundle

Four things get rebuilt, and they're the four that gate everything else.

Set the targets you want in the calculator, or use the custom offer form and tell us what your Raider looked like before you departed — most customers want roughly what they had, not a theoretical maximum.

Because you chose this, and the timing is unusually favourable.

You just earned buffs. Every completed Expedition stacks, up to three times: +10% weapon repair each to a maximum of +30%, +5% XP each to a maximum of +15%, and +6% materials from Scrappy each to a maximum of +18%.

That means the rebuild immediately after departing is faster and cheaper than the same rebuild at any other point in the cycle. Your XP buff is live, your repair costs are down and Scrappy is producing more. A booster rebuilding a Raider with three Expeditions banked moves considerably quicker than one starting cold.

Right now, Expedition 5's departure window is open and closes on 29 September 2026 at 10:00 CEST.

Which means one of two things applies to you. Either you've already departed, in which case this is the order to place today while your buffs are fresh. Or you're about to depart before the 29th, in which case the sensible move is to book the recovery bundle now and have it run the moment you're through — booster queues get long in the week after a window closes, because everyone hits the same wall at the same time.

If you're not departing this cycle, this isn't your page yet. Leveling or coins probably are.

Worth describing honestly, because it's the thing this order removes and most people have forgotten it between cycles.

You load in at level 1. Your stash is a handful of slots. You have no coins, so you can't buy a kit, so you take whatever the game gave you. That means low-tier raids, because anything else kills you and takes the nothing you had with it.

Low-tier raids pay low-tier loot. Low-tier loot sells for very little. So the funding climbs slowly, and until it climbs you can't craft — the benches are back to base level and upgrading them wants materials you haven't got the stash space to hold.

Everything is gated behind everything else. It resolves eventually, and the resolution takes somewhere between ten and twenty hours of the least interesting version of the game.

That's the product. Not the level number — the removal of a week where ARC Raiders is at its worst.

The other thing worth saying before you pick a package.

Most players ask for a rebuild considerably larger than the Raider they actually departed with, because a fresh start invites ambition. It's also the fastest way to overpay.

Tell us what you genuinely used: the level you were comfortable at, the coin balance you actually operated on, the three benches you opened rather than the six that exist, the stash size that felt fine. We price that. It's almost always cheaper than the preset, and it's the Raider you'll actually recognise when you take it back.

The most important thing to understand, and the thing most coverage gets wrong.

Embark do not run mandatory wipes. Their stated position is that they don't intend to. What exists instead is the Expedition Project: at level 20 or above you choose to build and stock a caravan across six preparation stages, commit stash resources to it, and depart.

So nobody takes your Raider. You trade it.

That reframes this entire service. A wipe recovery bundle in most games is damage control after something bad happened to you. Here it's the second half of a decision you made deliberately — and because it's planned, it can be planned for. You know the date. You know what you'll lose. You know what you'll get.

Those buffs are the strategic reason to keep departing every cycle rather than hoarding a Raider, and they're why the post-wipe rebuild gets cheaper every time you do it.

Two windows, and they're both short.

If you're departing before the 29th, that's the move.

One thing worth knowing this month specifically.

Cred expires on 8 October 2026. Embark are removing it entirely, replaced by a new reward system with the Frozen Trail update. Cred survives an Expedition — it's on the carry-over list — but it won't survive October.

So if part of your rebuild plan involved banking Cred, drop it. Spend what you have with Shani or on Raider Deck tiles before the 8th, and don't pay anyone to farm a currency with three weeks left on it. We'll say the same in live chat if you ask.

This is the strategic argument the game never makes clearly, and it's the reason this page exists as a recurring service rather than a one-off.

The buffs cap at three completions. Until you've hit that cap, every Expedition permanently improves every cycle that follows it — cheaper repairs, faster levelling, more materials out of Scrappy. A player who has departed three times is running a fundamentally better version of the game than one who has never departed, and the gap never closes for the second player unless they go through it.

Which means the rational pattern is: depart, rebuild fast, play the cycle, depart again. Three times minimum.

The rebuild is the friction in that loop. It's the bit that makes people think "I'll skip this one" and then never quite get round to it — and skipping costs them a permanent upgrade they'll want in six months. Removing the friction is what this order is for.

After three completions the calculation changes. The buffs are capped, and what remains is skill points, stash space and cosmetics from the damage ladder. Still worth doing if you enjoy the reset; no longer close to mandatory. We'll tell you which category you're in if you ask.