Outpost furniture in ARC Raiders is more than decoration. Any piece with an “Attached Slots” tag under its name can hold items. Anything you attach to it leaves your Speranza stash and stops counting against the 328-slot limit. You can also put a loaded piece into Outpost Storage without losing what’s on it, so a handful of cupboards and racks can hold far more than the walls alone.
Quick answer: Install a furniture piece marked Attached Slots, right-click it, select Decorate, and add items. Then choose Put in storage to bank the loaded piece and reclaim its slot.
ARC Raiders Outpost furniture that stores items
Most furniture is cosmetic. Before you spend Planks or Sheet Metal, check the build menu for the Attached Slots number. That number is how many items the piece holds. If there’s no tag, the piece holds nothing.
| Furniture | Attached slots | Holds | Crafting cost |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sturdy Shelf | 24 | Trinkets, collectibles | 25 Sheet Metal, 5 Plastic Parts |
 Diner Cupboard | 16 | Scrappy food, trinkets, recyclables | 20 Planks, 1 Metal Brackets |
 Chambers Shelf | 12 | Eligible items | — |
 Cafeteria Table | 10 | Eligible items | — |
 Ornate Den Shelf | 7 | Eligible items | — |
 Polished Den Shelf | 6 | Eligible items | — |
 Warehouse Dresser | 5 | Trinkets, collectibles | 20 Sheet Metal, 4 Plastic Parts |
 Sturdy Weapon Rack | 4 | Weapons | 10 Sheet Metal |
 Polished Weapon Rack | 4 | Weapons | 20 Sheet Metal, 10 Plastic Parts |
 Battered Weapon Rack | 3 | Weapons | 10 Sheet Metal |
 Clinic Medical Cabinet | 3 | Eligible items | 10 Planks, 2 Chemicals |
 Diner Sofa | 3 | Eligible items | — |
 Sturdy Den Shelf | 3 | Eligible items | — |
 Battered Den Shelf | 2 | Eligible items | — |
 Battered Stash | 1 | Eligible items | 10 Sheet Metal, 2 Chemicals |
Both Sturdy and Polished racks accommodate four guns. A Sturdy rack uses half the Sheet Metal and zero Plastic Parts. The Battered rack has the same cost as Sturdy but holds only three weapons. You can build the Polished Weapon Rack without finding a blueprint, and unlocking the Outpost makes all three rack designs available.
For non-weapon storage, the Diner Cupboard gives the most slots per material. Twenty Planks and one Metal Brackets get you 16 slots. The Warehouse Dresser costs Sheet Metal plus Plastic Parts and holds only five items. Low-capacity pieces like the Clinic Medical Cabinet and Battered Stash are poor value if storage is the goal.
Furniture holds trinkets such as Rubber Ducks, radios and toasters, plus instruments, collectibles and Scrappy’s food. It won’t accept ammunition, healing supplies, keys, quest items or loose crafting materials.
How to store weapons on an Outpost weapon rack
Fit each gun with every mod you can before placing it on a rack. Its attachments remain fitted, so a fully modified rifle also removes those mods from your stash. Verify the result by checking your Stash: displayed guns no longer appear in the grid, and each occupied weapon slot on a rack frees one stash slot. Displayed weapons cannot be equipped or modified, so retrieve them at the Outpost before a raid.
Stacking loaded furniture in Outpost Storage
Outpost Storage holds furniture rather than loose loot, and stored racks, cupboards, or dressers retain everything attached to them. This opens the slot for another piece. Select the loaded furniture, open its pop-up menu, and choose Put in storage. The piece appears in storage with its attached slots and contents intact.
Storage has six spaces, and every stored piece uses one. Six full Diner Cupboards add 96 item slots on their own. Six loaded four-gun racks add 24 weapons. To reach a stored piece, swap it with one on the wall. Put the displayed piece away, then place the stored one.
| Layout | Four-weapon racks | Weapons held |
|---|---|---|
| Base Room only | 6 on walls | 24 |
| Base Room plus three rooms | 9 on walls | 36 |
| Full layout plus storage | 9 on walls, 6 stored | 60 |
These totals assume a four-gun rack in every slot; Battered racks reduce them. The Base Room has six wall slots: four together and two in the bedroom area. One bedroom slot is easy to overlook, so rotate through every camera view. Each expansion room adds another wall slot. In the Panoramic Room, the build menu can obscure the slot beside its door. Alternatively, nine Sturdy Shelves across the walls hold 216 eligible items. Racks and shelves cannot share the same walls.
Storing loaded furniture is an undocumented interaction. Weapons have also gone missing from racks, including racks left on the wall. Test with a cheap duplicate first, and keep irreplaceable guns in your regular stash.
Diner Cupboard storage for Scrappy food and recyclables
Scrappy’s food
Load Apricots, Lemons, Prickly Pears, Agave and Roots into a Diner Cupboard through Decorate. Scrappy the Rooster’s feeding menu pulls food straight from Outpost furniture, so it never has to go back to your stash. Olives, Mushrooms and Fruit Mix can’t go into the cupboard right now.
Stored fruit doubles as compressed seed storage. Lemons, Apricots, Agave and Roots each recycle into three Assorted Seeds, so ten fruit become 30 seeds when you need them. Celeste trades one Sheet Metal for three Assorted Seeds, and she sells Planks for seeds too.
Recyclables, stored whole
Loose crafting materials won’t fit on furniture, but many recyclables will. Keeping them whole saves far more space than recycling early. One recyclable takes a single slot. Break it down, and you’re left with several stacks of parts.
| Recyclable | Rarity | Recycles into |
|---|---|---|
 Spring Cushion | Rare | 6 Steel Spring, 6 Durable Cloth |
 Broken Taser | Rare | 6 Battery, 6 Wire |
 Power Cable | Common | 9 Wire |
Other recyclables the cupboard accepts include:
- Power Bank, Radio, Alarm Clock, Portable TV
- Broken Flashlight, Broken Handheld Radio, Projector
- Ruined Parachute, Ruined Riot Shield, Ripped Safety Vest
- Bicycle Pump, Expired Respirator, Tattered Clothes, Handcuffs
Where to farm Metal Brackets and Spring Cushions
Every Diner Cupboard needs one Metal Brackets, and Spring Cushions are worth hoarding for their recycling yield. These spots are the ones to run.
| Target | Map | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Metal Brackets | Stella Montis | Seed Vault | Breach the electrical boxes on the walls |
| Metal Brackets | Stella Montis | Loading Bay, Logistics Admin | Industrial loot |
| Spring Cushion | Pendola Pass | Commissary Supermarket | Breach Room, Underground Room, Staff Room |
Metal Brackets is an Uncommon recyclable with Electrical and Mechanical loot categories. It weighs 0.8 and stacks to three, and recycling it gives metal parts. Don’t scrap the ones you need for cupboards.
Stella Montis is a difficulty 4 of 5 map that unlocks after 24 rounds played. Its Communications area also carries Electrical and Technological loot. The Commissary Supermarket on Pendola Pass is a threat level 1 location with Commercial and Medical loot, so it’s a low-risk run for cushions.
Unlocking the Outpost, rooms and storage designs
The Outpost arrived with the Frozen Trail update. It opens at Raider level 18 through the three-stage Sheltered Retreat project in the Outpost tab. Claim each stage before you start the next.
- Stage 1: Photograph a farmhouse around the Ruined Homestead on The Blue Gate, using a Basic or Advanced Camera.
- Stage 2: Deliver 3 Planks, 5 Sheet Metal, 10 ARC Alloy and 3 Advanced Electrical Components.
- Stage 3: Deal 800 damage to flying ARC and 300 damage to a Bully, which roams Pendola Pass.
The Blue Gate unlocks after 18 rounds played. The Advanced Camera is a Rare quick-use item that Shani sells for 3,000 Coins. Advanced Electrical Components is a Rare refined material that stacks to five. When the last stage is claimed, an Outpost entry appears in Speranza’s main menu.
Frozen Trail added 100 furniture designs. Seventy-three drop Topside, 22 come from Outpost upgrades, four are exclusive to the Frozen Trail Pass, and one comes from DLC. If you haven’t found the larger storage designs, you can research them instead. The Research Station I costs 35 Planks, 5 Battered Paperbacks and 3 Mini Pumps. Studying Battered Paperbacks gives 50 Research Points each, and Raider Logbooks give 100.
| Design | Research Station level | Research cost |
|---|---|---|
| Sturdy Shelf | II | 1,000 RP, 1 Rusted Bolts |
| Diner Cupboard | II | 1,000 RP, 40 Planks |
| Warehouse Dresser | II | 1,000 RP, 30 Sheet Metal |
Expansion rooms provide additional wall slots. You can install three of the four types: Panoramic, Timeless, Chalet, and Studious. The Studious Room needs a connection to a room that’s already built. Once constructed, a room cannot be replaced or removed.
| Outpost level | Required materials |
|---|---|
| Level 2 | 3 Steel Cable, 20 Sheet Metal, 3 Cable Strippers |
| Level 3 | 3 Epoxy Buckets, 35 Planks, 3 Hand Drills |
| Level 4 | 40 Sheet Metal, 3 Laser Levels, 3 Insulation Rolls |
Removing items from Outpost furniture before crafting
Scrappy is the sole exception. Crafting blueprints, including the Refiner, do not draw materials from furniture in Outpost Storage. To reclaim stored items, place the furniture, open its pop-up menu, and select Clear All Attached Items. All attached items return to your stash. You can also retrieve items individually from the furniture’s item menu. When the items reappear in your stash, the recipe can use them.
If something doesn’t appear when you try to store it, check the furniture’s own Decorate list. Outpost Storage only shows stored furniture, never loose items. If an item isn’t in a piece’s Decorate list, that piece doesn’t accept it.
Reorder Workshop benches using the Outpost Base Room
The order of tabs in the Workshop menu follows where each bench sits in the Outpost Base Room. That covers the Workbench, Refiner, Gear Bench, Gunsmith, Utility Station, Research Station, Explosives Station and Medical Lab. Swapping two benches changes the toolbar order.
Once racks hold your guns and cupboards hold food, trinkets and whole recyclables, give each room or cupboard one category of materials. Your 328 stash slots then go to the ammo, meds and loose parts that furniture won’t take.
