Arc Raiders: How to Get Radial Press (Pendola Pass Locations)

Radial Press is an Epic topside material that arrived in ARC Raiders with the Frozen Trail update. Most raiders go looking for it for one reason. The Gunsmith won’t go from level III to level IV without three of them, and Gunsmith IV is the station level that lets you amplify weapons. No recipe makes it, and no trader sells it. You have to find it lying around topside.

Quick answer: Deploy into Pendola Pass and check the metal shelves on Almatera Station’s second floor, then the train-car tables and seats below it. After the 25-minute mark, raid Storm Huts.

Radial Press stats and loot tags

Before you spend time searching a train station, it helps to understand the item. Its loot tags are Industrial and Mechanical, putting Radial Press in machinery-filled spaces and freight zones, not houses or stores. It weighs very little, so carrying a full stack barely affects your load.

Property	Value
Category	Topside Material
Rarity	Epic
Loot tags	Industrial, Mechanical
Weight	0.5
Max stack	3
Added in	Frozen Trail update
Recycles into	1x Advanced Mechanical Components
Salvages into	1x Mechanical Components

A single stack holds exactly the three you need for the Gunsmith, which is convenient. Its tooltip simply notes that it’s used in crafting.

Where Radial Press spawns on Pendola Pass

The regular map spawns for Radial Press are on Pendola Pass, the snowbound observatory map with a disused rail network running through it. Pendola Pass unlocks after 25 rounds played and is rated 3 out of 5 for difficulty. If you haven’t hit that count yet, finding a Radial Press has to wait.

Nearly every spawn point sits at Almatera Station, which accounts for 304 of the item’s 308 spots on the map. Porta Benvenuti holds the other four. Every one of those spots is loose loot, out in the open on a surface. Ordinary containers in the open world don’t roll it, so prying open every crate along the way won’t help. Watch the shelves and tabletops instead.

Spawn surface	Share of spots
Shelves and storage racks	54%
Train car tables and seats	35%
Tables, chairs and counters	7%
Parked vehicles	2%

None of these locations guarantees a Radial Press; another item may appear instead. Check the tactical map right after spawning: each raid marks several loot areas, with yellow indicating Medium value and red indicating High value. The marked areas shift between raids. Almatera Station offers better finds when marked yellow or red, and a red zone contains a larger quantity of loot.

Almatera Station shelf room route

Almatera Station sits directly east of the Fallen Emperor, the giant ARC walker stuck in the snow. The station itself carries the Commercial loot tag. The room you want is on the second floor, in the northern part of the building, and it’s packed with metal shelving.

Travel to Almatera Station and go in through the main entrance. Use the Fallen Emperor as a landmark if you’re coming from the west.

Ride the escalators up to the second floor. The shelf room opens up right at the top.

Walk every row and look at each shelf, top to bottom. Radial Press sits loose on the racks, and anything with a red outline is high-value loot worth grabbing.

This room pays off even when Radial Press doesn’t show. On a red-zone raid the same shelves can turn up a Laser Level, Insulation Roll, Thermal Shaker, Hand Drill, Steel Cable, and Sheet Metal next to it. On a yellow-zone raid it still rolled a Radial Press, a Hand Drill, and a Calculator. Several of those feed the Outpost expansions you need before Gunsmith IV anyway.

A raider in a red jumpsuit and goggles sits on a cot in a dim, worn room with menu tabs above and icons below. — The Raider tab shows a raider sitting on a cot in a dim room, with shortcut icons along the bottom and the Play, Workshop, Outpost, Traders, Reward Pass and Store tabs on top.

Train cars at Almatera Station and the Railyard

About a third of all Radial Press spots are inside parked passenger cars, mostly the trains running beneath and through Almatera Station. These are available from the first minute of a raid, which makes them the natural thing to loot before Storm Huts open. The Railyard, an Industrial and Mechanical area with a threat level of 1, is the other stretch of track worth walking. The same carriages also hand out Synthesized Fuel, Springs, Epoxy Buckets, and Hand Drills.

Top-down snowy Pendola Pass destinations map with labelled areas and a legend of location categories on the right. — The Destinations map shows Pendola Pass, with a legend listing Gondola Transceiver, ARC, Mechanical, Electrical, Commercial, Medical, Industrial, Residential, Old World, Exodus, Nature and Technological, and labelled areas such as Fallen Emperor, Old Town, Railyard and Cielo Sereno Observatory.

Follow the rail lines down to the trains under Almatera Station, or out to the Railyard. Check the map first to see if either is flagged as a loot zone that raid.

Get inside an open carriage you can enter, for example one bearing the A158 marking. Go all the way down its aisle rather than checking only from the entrance.

Look down at every bay. Each one has a small window table and seats, and Radial Press tends to rest on those surfaces rather than the floor, so it’s easy to run straight past.

Storm Huts after the 25-minute mark

Storm Huts are small shelters that open late in a Pendola Pass raid when a Flash Freeze hits. They start appearing once the match passes 25 minutes and keep popping up every two to three minutes after that. Inside are high-tier gear and hideout materials, and Radial Press turns up there regularly.

Zoomed topographic map of Pendola Pass with a destination card describing the summit observatory and an Inspect button. — The Destinations screen shows the Pendola Pass card, with its Rounds played counter at 6/25 and Inspect and Select Destination options.

Survive past the 25-minute mark, ideally after looting the station and train cars. Your early run isn’t wasted while you wait.

Watch the map for a new Storm Hut marker. Huts cluster on the hillsides west and northwest of the Dispatch Tower, just north of Almatera Station.

Head to the marker and confirm the hut is open. You’ll hear a radio broadcast as you get close, and a red beacon lights up on its roof.

Step inside and close the door behind you. That keeps other raiders from walking in on your loot, which matters in PvPvE.

Check the wooden crates, floor, and rear shelf. Look for Radial Press on the metal rack near an Epoxy Bucket or beneath a duffel bag. Huts contain a weapon crate, grenade tube, and medical bag as well.

Storm Hut markers appear to every raider, making other players likely to show up this late in the match. Put the Radial Press in your safe pocket as soon as you collect it; it will remain yours if you get knocked out.

Key rooms and other maps

Key rooms use loot tables distinct from the open-map spawns described earlier, and Radial Press has appeared in them as well. One has turned up in both the Almatera Station key room and the Old Town key room—the basement beyond the green keycard door. The Cielo Sereno Observatory key room yields related Frozen Trail materials, including Laser Levels, Insulation Rolls, and Epoxy Buckets. If you have the appropriate key, detouring into these rooms is worthwhile.

Off Pendola Pass, Radial Press isn’t a reliable find. Occasional pickups in bags on Riven Tides or in Bird City nests on Buried City come from event or container rolls, not fixed spawns, so don’t plan a farming route around them. Industrial areas on Dam Battlegrounds and Spaceport match the item’s loot tags, but neither map is a dependable source. If you do try them, Night Raids raise high-tier drop rates.

Topographic Destinations map with labeled locations and rounds played counters such as 6/25 for Pendola Pass. — The Destinations map lists Pendola Pass, Spaceport, Stella Montis, The Blue Gate, Riven Tides, Buried City, Dam Battlegrounds, ARC Frigate and the Practice Range, with rounds played shown on the locked ones.

What Radial Press is used for

The Gunsmith III-to-IV upgrade requires 3 Radial Press, 3 Magnetic Accelerators, and 1 Emperor Modulator, a legendary material found inside the Fallen Emperor. Your Outpost must also reach level 4 for the upgrade. Gunsmith IV unlocks amplification, the weapon tier beyond IV.

Beyond the Gunsmith, it’s a single-unit ingredient in a handful of furniture recipes. No quests or Projects ask for it.

Use	Radial Press needed
Gunsmith level III to IV	3
Chambers Nightstand Design	1
Sturdy Faculty Chair Design	1
Diner Table	1
Sturdy Aviary Table	1

Once your Gunsmith is upgraded and any designs you want are built, spares can go to the Recycle Station. Recycling returns one Advanced Mechanical Components, a part that’s much harder to find on its own than the plain Mechanical Components you get from salvaging it in the field.

Confirming your Radial Press made it out

A good pickup shows the interaction prompt reading “Radial Press.” The item lands in your bag with an Epic frame, and its tooltip lists it as a Topside Material found in Mechanical and Industrial areas. If your loadout is full, the prompt says so, so make room before you leave the shelf behind.

Inventory screen with stash grid and a cream tooltip for Metal Parts listing crafting uses and where it is found. — The Inventory screen shows the Stash with a tooltip for Metal Parts, a common basic material used to craft Hairpin, Heavy Ammo, Ferro, Kettle and Medium Ammo.

None of that counts until you extract. On Pendola Pass the return points are the Glacial Transceiver, Northern Transceiver, Reckless Transceiver, and Supermarket Transceiver. Reach one with the Radial Press still on you and it moves into your stash, ready for the Gunsmith back at the Outpost. Repeat until your stash shows three, and the Gunsmith IV upgrade button stops being a tease.