Coffee Pot is a common trinket in ARC Raiders that suddenly matters a lot during the Cold Snap update. The Flickering Flames project (often referred to as the Candleberry Project) asks you to donate two Coffee Pots in its fourth stage, so knowing where they appear saves a lot of wasted raids.
What the Coffee Pot is and how it works
Coffee Pot is a common, old-world trinket with a rusted look and a weight of 0.3. It stacks up to three per inventory slot and sells for 1,000 Coins, but its main value during Cold Snap is as a project requirement rather than as vendor trash.
There is no way to buy Coffee Pots from vendors or obtain them by recycling other items. They only enter the game through scavenging, then leave permanently when you donate them to the Flickering Flames project.
Where Coffee Pots spawn in ARC Raiders
Coffee Pots come from Residential loot. On the map, that means points of interest marked with the Residential icon (a circular symbol with a person). Within those POIs, the item is pulled from the same loot pool as other household trinkets.
Loot is still random, but certain locations contain dense clusters of apartments, kitchens, or food spaces that dramatically improve the odds of seeing a Coffee Pot in a single raid.
Best Coffee Pot locations by map
| Map | Point of interest | Why it’s good |
|---|---|---|
| The Blue Gate | Village | High density of houses and kitchens, lots of Residential containers |
| Buried City | Grandioso Apartments | Many separate rooms and kitchens stacked vertically |
| Buried City | Plaza Roza (E Apartment) | Residential block with multiple apartments |
| Dam Battlegrounds | Pale Apartments | Residential complex with repeated apartment layouts |
| Dam Battlegrounds | Ruby Residence / Red Apartments | Another apartment-heavy zone with many containers |
| Stella Montis | Cafeteria | Food-focused interior with strong trinket and kitchen-item drops |
How to farm Coffee Pots in the Blue Gate Village
The Village on The Blue Gate is one of the most efficient Coffee Pot farms because almost every structure is a home or small apartment, and most of those have a kitchen.
Step 1: Spawn into The Blue Gate and move toward the Village POI with the Residential icon. Approach from the north side if possible.
Step 2: Prioritize the northern half of the Village, which is made up mostly of homes instead of businesses. These usually contain more lootable drawers and cabinets per building.
Step 3: In each house, head directly to the kitchen area. Open every drawer, cabinet, and countertop container before checking other rooms. Coffee Pots tend to appear either inside kitchen storage or sitting on counters and tables.
Step 4: Clear an entire cluster of buildings, then decide whether to rotate to the next block or extract and reset the raid. If you are only chasing Coffee Pots, frequent extractions keep your time-to-drop low.
How to farm Coffee Pots in Buried City
Buried City is another strong map for Residential loot. The Grandioso Apartments and Plaza Roza both supply long runs of near-identical flats, which translates into a lot of kitchen containers in a compact footprint.
Step 1: Spawn into Buried City and move toward Grandioso Apartments in the southwest corner of the map. Look for the tall residential towers.
Step 2: Work floor by floor. On each level, move from apartment to apartment, heading straight to every kitchen. Open cupboards, drawers, and any small containers near sinks and stoves.
Step 3: Once you finish one tower, either swap to an adjacent building in the Grandioso complex or rotate to Plaza Roza and focus on the E Apartment section there, which also uses a compact residential layout.
How to farm Coffee Pots in Dam Battlegrounds
Dam Battlegrounds offers multiple named residential blocks that can be chained together in one outing, which is useful if you prefer to stay on a single map.
Step 1: Head to the Residential-marked Pale Apartments or Ruby Residence POIs. Some players also refer to nearby buildings as Red Apartments; treat them as part of the same apartment cluster.
Step 2: Clear each building systematically. As with other maps, always check kitchens first, then work outward to bedrooms and hallways if you still have time or space in your backpack.
Step 3: After you finish one block, move laterally to any neighboring residential buildings that share the same layout. Repeated floor plans make it easy to memorize quick routes between kitchens and main loot spots.
Stella Montis Cafeteria: high risk, good odds
The Cafeteria on Stella Montis is a smaller POI but has a strong concentration of cooking and food-related items, which makes it attractive if you are comfortable with PvP pressure.
Step 1: Load into Stella Montis and make a direct line to the Cafeteria. Expect other players to be nearby; plan your route with cover in mind.
Step 2: Once inside, sweep every serving counter, back kitchen space, and storage room. Coffee Pots can appear both on surfaces and inside drawers.
Step 3: Equip an Augment that unlocks a Safe Pocket slot, then move any Coffee Pots you find into that Safe Pocket as soon as you pick them up. If you die on the way out, the Safe Pocket preserves the item.
General Coffee Pot farming tips
- Chase the Residential icon. If a POI is not marked as Residential, your chances of seeing Coffee Pots drop sharply. Always favor POIs with the person-shaped icon.
- Target kitchens first. Nearly all high-yield runs start in kitchens. Two or three containers in a single kitchen can compete with searching an entire small house.
- Use low-risk loadouts for repeats. If you expect to reset often, a free loadout keeps the stakes low while you sprint between residential zones.
- Accept randomness. Coffee Pots are still random drops. Even in the best locations, it can take several raids to see two copies.
Using Coffee Pots for the Flickering Flames (Candleberry) Project
The fourth stage of the Candleberry/Flickering Flames project, often labeled around beverages, asks for two Coffee Pots as part of its donation requirements. After you successfully extract with the trinkets, they appear in your project donation screen.
Step 1: Complete a raid and extract with one or more Coffee Pots in your inventory (or Safe Pocket).
Step 2: In Speranza, open the Cold Snap event interface and navigate to the Flickering Flames project track.
Step 3: Select the relevant step in stage four, choose the Coffee Pots in your inventory, and confirm the donation. The game permanently removes the items once you accept.
Be sure you are ready to commit them; once donated, Coffee Pots cannot be recovered, and you will need to raid again if another requirement calls for them.
Focusing on Residential icons, repeatedly clearing apartment-heavy POIs like the Blue Gate Village, Grandioso Apartments, and Dam’s residential blocks is the most reliable way to secure the two Coffee Pots needed for Flickering Flames without burning entire evenings on bad rolls.
