ARC Raiders Coffee Pot locations for the Flickering Flames project

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.

Coffee Pot is a common, old-world trinket | Image credit: *Embark Studios (via Arc Raiders wiki)*

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.

Coffee Pots come from Residential Loot | Image credit: *Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Ditech Gaming)*

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.

Spawn into The Blue Gate and move toward the Village POI with the Residential icon. Approach from the north side if possible.

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.

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.

Check drawers, cabinets, and other containers in the kitchen area | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Ditech Gaming)

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.

Spawn into Buried City and move toward Grandioso Apartments in the southwest corner of the map. Look for the tall residential towers.

Move toward Grandioso Apartments in Buried City | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Ditech Gaming)

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.

Check cupboards, drawers, and other small containers | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Ditech Gaming)

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.

Tip: Hospitals and towers in Buried City often have rows of red lockers that can drop trinkets, including Coffee Pots. If you are nearby, it is worth sweeping a locker row as part of a run.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Check each building systematically | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Ditech Gaming)

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.

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.

Once inside, sweep every serving counter, back kitchen space, and storage room. Coffee Pots can appear both on surfaces and inside drawers.

Check serving counters, the back kitchen space, and storage room | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Ditech Gaming)

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.

Note: Stella Montis is very PvP-heavy compared to other maps. If you only care about Coffee Pots and not high-end loot or fights, the safer option is usually Blue Gate or Buried City.

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.

Complete a raid and extract with one or more Coffee Pots in your inventory (or Safe Pocket).

Extract with one or more coffee pots | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Christian Konopatzki)

In Speranza, open the Cold Snap event interface and navigate to the Flickering Flames project track.

Navigate to the Flickering Flames project track | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@The Beard Guys)

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.

Donate the Coffee Pots from your inventory | Image credit: Embark Studios (via YouTube/@The Beard Guys)

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.