The Bully Fragmenter is an Epic recyclable item that drops only from the Bully, the heavy four-legged machine added to ARC Raiders with the Frozen Trail update. You cannot buy it or craft it from raw materials. The only way to get one is to destroy a Bully and search the pieces it leaves scattered on the snow.
Quick answer: Drop into Pendola Pass, track a Bully by its galloping sound, break its yellow leg joints with a high-penetration weapon, then search its torso and scattered limbs for the Bully Fragmenter.
Where Bullies spawn on Pendola Pass
Pendola Pass, the frozen mountain map, is the only place Bullies appear right now. They do not show up on the Rust Belt maps, so this is where you farm Fragmenters. A Bully patrols a route rather than guarding one fixed point, and it uses eight possible spawn sites, so comb the surrounding terrain instead of chasing a precise marker.
- Around the train north of Railroad Junction and the nearby ground
- Both sides of the Commissary Supermarket
- East of the Fallen Emperor
- The Northern Tracks, with its open valleys and wide snowfields
Your ears are the most reliable way to find one. On patrol the Bully makes a deep, pounding gallop that carries far across open snow. When it locks onto you it lets out a hornlike shriek, and by then it is already charging. If a few raids pass with no contact, stop sprinting and follow the hoofbeats. A Bastion sometimes takes a Bully’s slot, so a silent valley is not proof one is nearby.
Set up next to solid cover before you make any noise. In exposed rocky areas the Bully keeps its speed and catches you, while buildings and narrow lanes slow its charge and make its cluster bombs easier to avoid.
How to defeat the Bully
The Bully cycles through attacks: it rushes forward, fires, sweeps past, then loops back to line up again. A body-check deals 85 damage, and its point-blank shotgun burst is the attack that kills, firing again with almost no cooldown. At range it lobs cluster grenades that split and rain down after a short pause. Its turret rotates a full 360 degrees even as the body moves the other way, so getting behind it gives you nothing.
The torso is heavily plated and eats ammo for almost no return. Target the three exposed spots instead:
- The yellow leg joints, one on each of the four legs. Destroy one to sever that leg and slow the machine, the same way a Leaper comes apart.
- The mounted cannon. Strip the head housing to expose its yellow weak point; destroy it and the Bully can no longer hurt you, though it still charges.
- The exposed canisters. For about half a second before it fires, the head opens to show two yellow canisters. A hit there cancels the attack and freezes the Bully for several seconds.
Bully part health
Each light armor plate and the head armor carry only 48 health, so stripping the cannon or a joint is far quicker than grinding down the 3,000-health body.
| Part | Health |
|---|---|
| Body | 3,000 |
| Head | 1,600 |
| Upper leg | 500 |
| Lower leg | 400 |
| Leg joint | 400 |
| Heavy armor plate | 90 |
| Light armor plate | 48 |
| Head armor | 48 |
Weapons that cut through its armor
Because the joints are small and the Bully rarely stops, pick a weapon with strong armor penetration that still lets you aim accurately. The figures below are per-shot damage against ARC armor.
| Weapon | Penetration | Armor damage |
|---|---|---|
 Jupiter | Very strong | 180 |
 Aphelion | Strong | 125 |
 Dolabra | Strong | 75 |
 Anvil | Strong | 60 |
 Ferro | Strong | 60 |
 Bettina | Strong | 32 |
 Equalizer | Very strong | 20 |
The Hullcracker is a common opener. Its explosive rounds detonate only on contact with ARC, which makes them well suited to stripping plates from a distance. During the brief canister window, the Aphelion fires two beams at half-second intervals. A charged Jupiter shot can take a limb off, but hitting a moving Bully is hard, so save it for when the machine is tethered or stopped. The Equalizer’s sustained beam only pays off against a stationary target, which the Bully rarely gives you. Skip light ammo entirely, since Stiletto and Bantam rounds ricochet without dealing damage.
Gadgets shorten the fight. A Tether Launcher pins a leg for a moment, a Showstopper stalls its erratic movement, two Deadline mines will kill one, and a Snap Blast Grenade sticks to it or to the ground along its charge path. The cleanest kill is a tether on one leg with a Deadline set underneath, then stay clear and keep the tether active until the countdown ends.
A kill is not required if you only need the Outpost objective. Dealing 300 damage to a Bully completes the “Distract and destroy ARC enemies” task, with the on-screen counter reaching 300/300.
Looting the Bully Fragmenter from the wreck
When a Bully dies it detonates and breaks into several separate pieces, any of which can hold the Fragmenter. The item does not always sit in the central hull, so you may need to check more than one chunk of scrap.
Nearby Raiders can hear the whole fight. As soon as the Bully goes down, grab the Fragmenter and stash it, then get out. Extracting safely matters more than lining up a second kill.
You know the run worked when the Fragmenter shows up in your stash after extraction, listed as a Recyclable Epic.
Bully Fragmenter stats and uses
The Bully Fragmenter is an Epic recyclable that doubles as a throwable. When thrown it breaks into eight bursts, each dealing 40 damage across a 5-meter radius, mirroring the Bully’s own cluster attack. It is poor in open ground, so aim it into a doorway, a cramped room, or directly under another ARC. Each throw consumes the item.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Epic (Recyclable) |
| Damage | 40 × 8 |
| Radius | 5 m |
| Weight | 0.4 |
| Coin value | 5,000 |
| Found in | ARC (Bully, ARC Courier) |
Beyond combat, the Fragmenter feeds several Outpost needs. Apollo’s quest Bait, Fetch, Blast asks for one at turn-in. The workshop needs more to upgrade the Research Station: reaching Research Station 2 takes five Bully Fragmenters alongside Research Points and Rusted Tools, while the Research Station 3 upgrade needs six, plus Differential Microphones and Exodus Technical Handbooks. Any copies beyond those recycle into crafting supplies such as Explosive Compound and ARC Alloy, so keep spares in your stash rather than spending them.
