ARC Raiders Weapon Stencils: Every Design and How to Get Them

Weapon stencils are the paint jobs for your guns in ARC Raiders. Finding a design is only half the job. To put one on a weapon you spend Stencil Parts, a material you have to collect in raids, and the rarer the stencil, the more parts each application eats. Knowing which containers hold parts, and which maps pack the most of them together, is the difference between painting one gun and painting your whole stash.

Quick answer: Stencil Parts are an Epic material that drops in Commercial, Residential and Industrial loot. Farm suitcases, drawers and trash bins. The Stella Montis Lobby can hand over 15 or more parts in one sweep.

What Stencil Parts are and where they drop

Stencil Parts are a Basic Material of Epic rarity, used for one thing only: applying stencils to weapons. They weigh almost nothing at 0.1 each and stack up to 500, so you can hoard a deep supply without filling your pack. They appear as random loot inside Commercial, Industrial and Residential points of interest, which is why residential-heavy maps return the most per run.

Because the drops are random, no route guarantees a set number. The goal is to open as many of the right containers as possible. Prioritise these: suitcases and luggage, wardrobes and clothing cabinets, bedside tables, dressers and drawers, kitchen cabinets, green lockers and storage cabinets, and any breachable container. The same furniture also hides new stencil designs, so a residential sweep doubles as a design hunt.

How many Stencil Parts each application costs

The cost scales with the stencil’s rarity, and it applies every single time you paint a gun. Each application covers one weapon, so a second gun needs its own batch of parts. A Legendary design costs more than seven times what an Uncommon one does.

Reward Passes menu with a stencil-painted Serac weapon previewed on a dark circle, reward track levels 43 to 48 at left. — The Reward Passes screen shows level 47 and 48 rewards, with the legendary Serac stencil previewed on a weapon and a prompt to earn another 7,050 and get Premium Pass to collect it.

Rarity	Stencil Parts per weapon
Common / Uncommon	2
Rare	4
Epic	7
Legendary	15

Rarity never has to match the weapon tier. You can drop a Legendary stencil onto an Uncommon gun as long as that specific weapon model accepts the design.

Best farming routes for Stencil Parts

Stella Montis Lobby and Business Center

Stella Montis delivers the most reliable haul because its trash bins and blue hard-shell suitcases have fixed, consistent spawns and cluster tightly together. A single sweep of the central multi-level Lobby and the adjoining Business Center can yield around 15 to 17 Stencil Parts.

Enter the Lobby from the metro tunnels. Use a snap hook to reach the lower deck, then deal with the ARC units by the entrances or sneak past them. Search all blue suitcases on couches, benches and in floor corners, along with the tall slatted trash bins beside doors, posters and pillars. Travel among the ground level, mezzanine and upper balconies by escalator, zipline or snap hook, checking bins on every floor. Wrap up in the restricted section of the Business Center, searching its reception counters, lounge seating and information booth. Then head down to the Lobby Metro Station, summon the train and extract. Stella Montis becomes available after 24 rounds.

Pendola Pass: Freight Terminal, Commissary Supermarket, Old Town

Pendola Pass brings together cargo yards, shops and homes, making it the strongest general-purpose farming map. At the Freight Terminal, target green cabinets around cargo-handling areas instead of opening every container. Next, search the Commissary Supermarket’s shelves, boxes and cabinets, then check the loading bay and delivery area for more containers. End in Old Town by searching alley boxes near the Church, then visiting each house for kitchen cabinets, wardrobes, dressers and bedside tables; these furnishings yield parts and designs most often. The map becomes available after 25 rounds.

Riven Tides: hotel and crane yards

For a run focused on hotels and industrial cargo, head to Riven Tides. Search Hotel Panorama Azzurro and its outskirts for wooden cabinets, drawers and wardrobes, and check lockers by the Pool and Tennis Court. At the Customs House, spend time only on breachable containers near the cranes. Follow the Railyard tracks and breach every container you can before finishing at the Stacking Yard. Start there with ground-level containers and their green drawers. Then enter every crane control room to search the desks and breachable containers. Riven Tides is the toughest map and opens after 20 rounds.

Buried City and Blue Gate also work well thanks to their dense residential zones. Adapt any route to your spawn, start with the nearest promising building, and head for extraction once you are carrying a stack of parts or a new design rather than risking a fight.

All 14 weapon stencils and how to get them

Across the game, 14 stencils are available. Topside raids can yield eight at random; the Frozen Trail Premium Reward Pass grants five, and Dragon’s Breath is exclusive to the Collector Set DLC. A stencil affects looks alone, not weapon performance. Because it overlays a weapon’s individual parts, the same pattern can look different on different weapons. Legendary versions go further, modifying the model and introducing a glow. Each stencil is limited to a specific weapon set, although Garnet and Ochre fit almost every weapon.

Stencil	Rarity	Source	Compatible weapons
Verdigris	Uncommon	Topside	Osprey, Canto, Stitcher, Bobcat, Vulcano, Il Toro, Hairpin, Stiletto
Garnet	Uncommon	Topside	Nearly every weapon
Ochre	Uncommon	Topside	Nearly every weapon
Cerulean	Rare	Topside	Osprey, Bobcat, Vulcano, Venator, Anvil, Bantam, Bettina, Arpeggio
Dusty Camo	Rare	Topside	Il Toro, Burletta, Torrente, Stiletto, Rattler, Tempest
Milky Terraccota	Rare	Topside	Canto, Hairpin, Burletta, Renegade, Ferro, Kettle
Slipstream	Epic	Topside	Il Toro, Anvil, Rattler
Tortoise	Epic	Topside	Anvil, Rattler
Fortuna	Epic	Premium Reward Pass	Anvil
Sacrifice	Epic	Premium Reward Pass	Renegade
Empyrean	Epic	Premium Reward Pass	Osprey
Serac	Legendary	Premium Reward Pass	Bobcat
Bulwark	Legendary	Premium Reward Pass	Hullcracker
Dragon’s Breath	Epic	Collector Set DLC	Tempest

The eight Topside designs

Stencils found in the world can randomly appear in containers, lockers and key rooms during regular raids. Open containers as you play, and you may find them over time. Key rooms require keys and often contain better drops, so bring one along and search these rooms when possible. A few confirmed locations on Pendola Pass can help focus your search.

Look for Tortoise in the Commissary Supermarket’s second-floor office; it can be inside a green trash can.

Search the boxes in the Staff Room of that same building to find Dusty Camo.

Finding Cerulean in the Pendola Pass Observatory’s key room reinforces why you should focus on locked rooms whenever you have the matching key.

The five Reward Pass designs

Only the Frozen Trail Premium Reward Pass grants Bulwark, Serac, Empyrean, Sacrifice and Fortuna; it is priced at 1,150 Raider Tokens. None of these stencils can be found Topside. After purchasing Premium, complete Feats to progress along the pass until you reach the levels that award them. Bulwark and Serac are Legendary, changing a weapon’s shape rather than only its color. At certain pass levels, you can also collect Stencil Parts in sets of three.

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.

Dragon’s Breath from the Collector Set DLC

Dragon’s Breath is the one stencil you cannot earn through play or the pass. It ships only with the Frozen Trail Collector Set, which also bundles the Renzo cosmetic set, the Bob hairstyle, 2,400 Raider Tokens, a Retro Sofa Outpost recipe, the Banjo blueprint and access to the Premium Reward Pass. Weigh the full bundle against the single stencil before buying.

How to learn and apply a stencil

When you’re outside a raid, return to the lobby and enter the Workshop. Choose Blueprints at the lower left to open Collections, where your Blueprints, Stencils and Designs are stored.

In your inventory, right-click the stencil and select Learn to use it up. The design is then permanently unlocked, so you won’t have to obtain that pattern again.

From your stash, right-click a weapon that supports the stencil and open the Stencils menu. Choose the design you’ve learned, then view its preview at screen center.

Reward Passes menu showing a rifle with a purple web-pattern stencil called Empyrean, beside a column of level rewards 55 to 60. — The Reward Passes screen previews the Empyrean epic stencil, a purple-patterned rifle design, at level 57 and asks for 8,550 more to collect it with the Premium Pass.

On PC, press E to apply the design. The process uses Stencil Parts matching its rarity and attaches the finish to that gun alone.

Check the weapon’s tooltip for a new Stencil entry to verify the application. Only that firearm carries the finish, so if you are downed and another Raider takes it, they get the weapon with the design. The pattern remains unlocked in your collection, and you can apply it to a replacement gun whenever you have enough parts.

Once applied, a stencil can’t be removed to restore the gun’s original finish. You may cover it with another stencil, but its unpainted appearance cannot be recovered.