The Staking Our Claim event is the second phase of Arc Raiders’ Breaking New Ground community event. The community has already opened the tunnels to Stella Montis; now the focus shifts to an XP-driven reward track that pays out a mix of gear, cosmetics, and currency simply for playing.
Everything on this track is free. There is no paid tier, and you unlock progress entirely through in-game XP.
How the Staking Our Claim event works
Staking Our Claim runs for 23 days starting November 14, 2025, and ends on Sunday, December 7. During this window, you earn a special event currency called Merits just by playing raids.
- Every 100 XP you earn becomes 1 Merit.
- The full track requires 3,600 Merits, which equals 360,000 XP.
- XP from any map, including Stella Montis and the rest of the Rust Belt, counts toward Merits.
If you took part in the first phase (donating resources to reopen the tunnels), you start Staking Our Claim with up to 900 Merits pre-earned. That’s a quarter of the total track, effectively unlocking the sixth reward immediately and pushing you toward the mid-track items the moment the event goes live.
Event progression is linear and evenly spaced: you unlock a new reward every 150 Merits. Because the XP conversion is automatic, you do not need to manage Merits manually—just play raids, complete objectives, and your Merits accumulate in the background.
How to earn Merits efficiently
Merits are tied directly to XP, so the fastest way to move the event track is to stack actions that generate XP in a single deployment. Core activities include:
- Eliminating ARC enemies
- Looting containers and points of interest
- Completing quests and event objectives
- Surviving and extracting from raids
Because any map contributes XP, you can choose the environments and enemy types you know best. Stella Montis offers dense, close-quarters combat and new ARCs, while older maps can provide more predictable routes and farming patterns. Both options work equally well for Merits.
Where to find the Staking Our Claim reward track
The event has its own progression screen in the game’s front-end.
- From the main hub, look to the top-right corner of the home screen for the live event tab.
- Open the Staking Our Claim tab to view your current Merits and the three reward pages.
- Each page contains a cluster of rewards; you claim everything on one page before moving to the next.
Rewards are claimed in fixed order along the track, but there’s no secondary currency or premium lane to manage—Merits are the only requirement.
All Staking Our Claim rewards and Merit requirements
The Staking Our Claim track includes 24 rewards spread evenly from 150 to 3,600 Merits. The structure combines functional items (weapons, grenades, mods) with cosmetics (outfit variants, colors, face styles) and Raider Tokens.
| # | Reward | Type | Merits required |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiker Backpack | Backpack | 150 |
| 2 | 100 Raider Tokens | Currency | 300 |
| 3 | 3 Door Blockers | Consumable utility | 450 |
| 4 | Combat Mk. 2 | Weapon | 600 |
| 5 | Il Toro I shotgun | Weapon (uncommon) | 750 |
| 6 | Striker outfit | Outfit | 900 |
| 7 | 3 Seeker Grenades | Tactical grenade | 1,050 |
| 8 | Bag (Striker variant) | Outfit attachment | 1,200 |
| 9 | 2 Trailblazers | Consumable | 1,350 |
| 10 | Bucket (backpack attachment) | Backpack attachment | 1,500 |
| 11 | Deadline | Mine | 1,650 |
| 12 | Can't Hear You | Emote | 1,800 |
| 13 | 100 Raider Tokens | Currency | 1,950 |
| 14 | Dirt Full | Face style | 2,100 |
| 15 | Extended Barrel | Weapon mod (epic) | 2,250 |
| 16 | Orange (Striker color) | Outfit color variant | 2,400 |
| 17 | 100 Raider Tokens | Currency | 2,550 |
| 18 | Padding (Striker variant) | Outfit variant | 2,700 |
| 19 | Snap Hook | Gear (legendary) | 2,850 |
| 20 | Red (Striker color) | Outfit color variant | 3,000 |
| 21 | 100 Raider Tokens | Currency | 3,150 |
| 22 | Helmet (Striker variant) | Outfit variant | 3,300 |
| 23 | 100 Raider Tokens | Currency | 3,450 |
| 24 | Gas Mask (Striker variant) | Outfit variant | 3,600 |
How the event ties into Breaking New Ground
Staking Our Claim does not sit in isolation; it’s the follow-up to the Breaking New Ground community push that reopened the tunnels and unlocked the Stella Montis map.
- Phase 1 (Stella Montis): players donated metal parts, fabric, plastic, rubber, and chemicals to advance a global progress bar and earn Merits.
- Phase 2 (Staking Our Claim): those Merits roll straight into an XP-based event track with 24 rewards.
During Phase 1, every batch of five donated resources awarded 20 Merits, capped at 900. That cap now functions as an early injection of progress in Phase 2, letting contributors skip the slowest part of the grind and dive straight into the more desirable mid-track rewards such as Seeker Grenades, Extended Barrel, and the Striker variants.
Even if you skipped the donation stage, the event is designed so that regular play across the 23-day window can still push you to the end of the 3,600-Merit track, as long as you engage consistently.
Staking Our Claim is essentially a time-limited, XP-only battle pass with no premium tier and no extra currencies to juggle. If you want the Striker cosmetics, the Snap Hook, or the weapon upgrades like Extended Barrel, the requirement is straightforward: deploy often, earn XP, and reach 3,600 Merits before December 7.
