Empty Wine Bottles look like throwaway trinkets in Arc Raiders until the Cold Snap update and Flickering Flames project turn them into a bottleneck. You only need one for the event, but finding it can be awkward if you’ve been selling or recycling every “junk” item on sight.
Empty Wine Bottles are a common trinket that:
- Spawn in Commercial and Residential loot areas
- Weigh 0.2, stack to 5, and sell for 1,000 coins
- Are used in crafting Agave Juice and in the Flickering Flames event
Where Empty Wine Bottles spawn in Arc Raiders
Empty Wine Bottles only come from scavenging. They do not drop from enemies and they are not sold by traders.
They are tagged as both Commercial and Residential loot, which means you want dense clusters of apartments, hotels, and shops rather than industrial zones or open fields. On the map, these areas are often marked with:
- A double-arrow style icon for commercial complexes
- A human figure icon for residential blocks
Inside these POIs, focus on small interior containers:
- Lockers in office blocks, stations, and staff areas
- Cabinets and fridges in kitchens
- Dressers and drawers in bedrooms and living spaces
These are the containers that consistently roll the trinket loot pool Empty Wine Bottle belongs to.
Best locations to farm Empty Wine Bottles
Several specific POIs stand out as efficient bottle farms because they combine the right loot types with lots of interiors to clear in a short time.
| Map | POI | Why it’s good |
|---|---|---|
| The Blue Gate | Village | Very dense apartments, mixed Commercial and Residential loot, many kitchens and closets. |
| Buried City | Grandioso Apartments, Plaza Rosa | Stacks of lootable homes; strong if you can survive the PVP pressure. |
| Buried City | Library (north side) | Extra Residential-style containers, but highly exposed to other players. |
| Dam Battlegrounds | Ruby Residence, Pale Apartments | Apartment clusters just northwest of Hydroponic Dome Complex, good for common valuables. |
| The Spaceport | Departure Building | Locker room with a high chance for a bottle in the lockers. |
Method 1: Loot heavy residential blocks (Village, apartments, library)
Step 1: Load into a match on a standard map condition, not during Cold Snap. Event conditions push the loot table toward rarer items, which makes common trinkets like Empty Wine Bottles less likely to appear.
Step 2: In The Blue Gate, route straight to Village. Start on the north side, where there are more apartment towers and fewer storefronts. Clear each building from bottom to top, entering every individual apartment.
Step 3: Inside each apartment, prioritize the kitchen and bedroom. Open every cabinet, refrigerator, dresser, and bedside drawer. These container types roll Residential/Commercial loot and are the most consistent source of bottles.
Step 4: If Blue Gate is hot or already being farmed, switch to Buried City and target Grandioso Apartments and Plaza Rosa. The layout is similar – lots of stacked housing – but you should be prepared for more frequent PVP encounters.
Step 5: For an extra sweep in Buried City, detour to the Library on the northern side. It offers additional containers tied to Residential loot, but its open layout makes it easy to get third-partied while looting.
Method 2: Farm the Departure Building lockers (Spaceport)
The Spaceport map has one especially efficient route if you want to minimize time invested in searching.
Step 1: Spawn into a Spaceport match and move directly to the large Departure Building, the main terminal-like structure on the map.
Step 2: Head down to the locker room inside the building. You are looking for rows of metal lockers clustered together.
Step 3: Open every locker in this room. There is a high chance that at least one locker will contain an Empty Wine Bottle, alongside other trinkets and small valuables.
Step 4: Once you pick up a bottle, decide whether to continue looting or leave. If you only needed the item for Flickering Flames, extracting early reduces the risk of losing it to other players or ARCs on the way out.
Method 3: Convert Agave Juice back into an Empty Wine Bottle
You can also go backwards from a crafted item. Agave Juice recycles into one Empty Wine Bottle.
Step 1: While you’re looting Residential and Commercial POIs, grab any Agave Juice you see, whether from containers or enemy bodies.
Step 2: Extract and return to base. At the recycling station, select Agave Juice in your inventory.
Step 3: Recycle one Agave Juice to receive 1× Empty Wine Bottle. This is a guaranteed way to get the trinket if you’re struggling to find it directly.
Note: Recycling works in one direction here. You can always break down Agave Juice into a bottle, but you cannot craft bottles from scratch.
How to keep Empty Wine Bottles safe while farming
Because you only need a single bottle for Flickering Flames, losing it to a random firefight feels worse than passing up a rare weapon. A few habits make that much less likely.
Step 1: When your focus is on trinket farming rather than high-end loot, start runs with a free loadout. That way, if a run goes bad before extraction, you only lose the time you spent, not expensive gear.
Step 2: The moment you pick up an Empty Wine Bottle, move it into your safe pocket. Items in this slot survive death, so you keep the bottle even if you fail to extract.
Step 3: Once you have your bottle secured, consider peeling off toward outskirts buildings near the POI clusters. These quieter structures often still count as Residential/Commercial and give you more chances at extra bottles with less risk.
Tip: Treat the bottle as “done” as soon as it’s in your safe pocket. If you stay in the hotspot, do it only for extra loot, not because you still need the trinket.
Empty Wine Bottle stats and item data
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Category | Trinket |
| Rarity | Common |
| Loot types | Commercial, Residential |
| Weight | 0.2 |
| Stack size | 5 |
| Sell price | 1,000 coins |
Crafting with Empty Wine Bottles
Empty Wine Bottles have one direct crafting use and one recycle loop.
| Recipe | Output | Where crafted |
|---|---|---|
| 1× Agave + 1× Empty Wine Bottle | 1× Agave Juice | Inventory / Workshop |
Agave Juice can then be recycled back into 1× Empty Wine Bottle, so you never permanently lose the bottle by crafting this drink. That loop lets you safely experiment with Agave Juice as a consumable without worrying about having to hunt for another bottle later.
Event and quest use: Flickering Flames
Empty Wine Bottles matter most during the Flickering Flames Expedition Project introduced alongside the Cold Snap map condition.
During the “Candlelight” stage of Flickering Flames, you must commit:
- 1× Empty Wine Bottle
Handing in that bottle grants five unique grenades and counts as one step toward completing the overall project. The requirement is one bottle per account for the event stage, not one per match, which is why securing a single copy is such a priority.
After you have contributed the required bottle, any extras become pure economy and crafting fodder. You can:
- Sell them for 1,000 coins each
- Turn them into Agave Juice if you have Agave on hand
Once you’ve done the event hand-in and crafted at least one Agave Juice, it’s usually safe to treat further bottles as coin stacks unless a future quest calls for more.
If you clear one or two Residential/Commercial hotspots per run, keep an eye out for Agave Juice as a backup path, and always pocket your first bottle, you can knock out the Flickering Flames requirement quickly and turn what looks like scrap glass into a reliable little income stream.
