The Stella Montis Medical Storage Key is one of the new map-specific keys in ARC Raiders, quietly sitting in your inventory long before it has an obvious use. It is a small, single-use style progression item that opens a locked door in the Stella Montis area, specifically tied to the medical wing of the facility.
Stella Montis Medical Storage Key basics
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Item type | Key |
| Rarity | Uncommon / map-specific key |
| Name | Stella Montis Medical Storage Key |
| Primary use | Unlocks a specific medical storage door in Stella Montis |
| Weight | 0.25 kg |
| Stack size | 1 |
| Sell price | 100 Raider Credits |
| Acquisition | Scavenging loot in existing maps |
The key behaves like other named keys in ARC Raiders: it corresponds to a single, named location on a specific map. In this case, that location is the medical facilities inside Stella Montis. The key takes up very little weight but cannot be stacked, so every copy occupies its own inventory slot.
Where the Stella Montis Medical Storage Key is used
The Stella Montis Medical Storage Key is tied directly to a locked door in Stella Montis’ medical area. In item descriptions, this is described as a door in Medical Research or medical storage within the Stella Montis complex.
That line matters for two reasons:
- It confirms the key is not a generic “any door” key. It targets a specific medical room in Stella Montis.
- It puts the door in one of the named interior sub-areas of the Stella Montis map, similar to how other keys call out “Hospital in Buried City” or “Water Treatment Control building in The Dam”.
In other words, if you are not physically on the Stella Montis map, there is nothing for this key to interact with. It will sit in your stash or on your character until that environment is playable.
Why you are finding Stella Montis keys before the map
Players are already looting Stella Montis keys — including the Medical Storage Key — from scavenging runs on existing maps. That can make the item feel bugged or unfinished, because there is currently no visible door for it in Dam, Spaceport, Buried City, or Blue Gate.
The timing is intentional. Stella Montis is being rolled out as a new map tied to a community event. Keys like:
| Key name | Destination |
|---|---|
| Stella Montis Medical Storage Key | Medical Research / medical storage in Stella Montis |
| Stella Montis Assembly Admin Key | Assembly section in Stella Montis |
| Stella Montis Archives Key | Archives area in Stella Montis |
| Stella Montis Security Checkpoint Key | Security checkpoint area in Stella Montis |
are seeded in the general loot pool ahead of time. They’re effectively future content tickets: you can earn and hold them now, but the doors they open only exist once Stella Montis is live and fully unlocked.
Players who have already picked up these keys cannot currently walk up to a functioning door for them on the live maps. The intended behavior is that they become usable once the community has completed the relevant Stella Montis event and the map is available in the rotation.
How ARC Raiders’ key system frames Stella Montis
The Medical Storage Key follows the same pattern as older keys tied to The Dam, Spaceport, Buried City, and Blue Gate. Those keys all share a structure:
- They name a specific interior or structure (for example, a hospital, town hall, bunker, or tower).
- They open exactly one locked door, sometimes two, within that named area.
- They can be looted by scavenging or in containers, and sold to traders for Raider Credits.
Looking at those patterns, the Stella Montis Medical Storage Key fits neatly into the same category: a map-specific key that unlocks a single medical storage door, likely with concentrated medical or high-tier loot inside, once you can reach that part of the map.
In the broader key list, Stella Montis now sits alongside the other core regions, with multiple named keys targeted at different sub-areas. That’s a clear sign that Stella Montis is meant to be a full-featured destination with its own internal loop of locked rooms, not a one-off event location.
Can you use the Stella Montis Medical Storage Key right now?
If you are holding the Stella Montis Medical Storage Key before the Stella Montis map appears in your deployment options, you cannot currently use it on any existing doors. No extraction hatch, bunker, or building on the Dam, Spaceport, Buried City, or Blue Gate responds to this key.
The intended flow looks like this:
- You loot the key through normal scavenging runs on current maps.
- The community completes the Stella Montis event and unlocks the new map.
- Stella Montis enters the playable rotation as a destination.
- You deploy to Stella Montis, navigate to the medical facility area, and use the key on its matching locked door.
Until that third step happens, the key is effectively an investment. It takes up space and has a modest sell value, but it has no immediate in-match use.
Should you stash it or sell it?
On paper, the Stella Montis Medical Storage Key is worth 100 Raider Credits at traders. That’s the same order of magnitude as other standard location keys. The decision is simple but not trivial: do you want instant currency, or a guaranteed shot at a locked medical loot room later on?
The trade-off breaks down like this:
| Option | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|
| Keep the key | Access to a targeted locked room in Stella Montis once live, potentially denser medical loot | Consumes stash space, offers no immediate benefit before the map unlocks |
| Sell the key | Instant 100 credits, frees up inventory space | Permanently lose access to that key-specific medical storage door unless you find another copy |
Given the low weight (0.25 kg) and single-slot footprint, most players with reasonable stash capacity will get more long-term value from holding onto at least one copy. If your storage is cramped or you are leaning heavily into other maps instead of Stella Montis, cashing it out is still a rational choice.
How to get the Stella Montis Medical Storage Key
The key drops through general scavenging, meaning it appears as part of the broader loot pool rather than as a guaranteed reward from a specific quest or trader. In practice, that means:
- You can find it in random loot containers, caches, or world spawns during normal runs.
- You do not need to be in any special event or quest to see it drop.
- Multiple players in a squad can independently find and extract with their own copies.
There is no official callout for a specific guaranteed spawn container for the Medical Storage Key yet; it behaves like other location keys that simply mix into the late-game loot ecosystem over time.
How Stella Montis keys compare to existing map keys
The Stella Montis Medical Storage Key is part of a broader family of keys that carve out small, high-value pockets in each region. To put it in context with what you might already be using, here is how it mirrors older examples:
| Key | Map | Destination type |
|---|---|---|
| Dam Hospital-style keys (e.g., Staff Room, Testing Annex) | The Dam | Technical and admin interiors with mixed loot |
| Buried City Hospital Key | Buried City | Medical building with healing-focused loot |
| Blue Gate Communication Tower Key | Blue Gate | Strategic tower with tech and combat loot |
| Stella Montis Medical Storage Key | Stella Montis (upcoming) | Medical research / storage interior with medical loot focus |
The pattern is clear: each map gets a small set of keys that anchor you to high-yield, themed interiors. Stella Montis follows that playbook with distinct keys for medical, archives, assembly, and security spaces.
For now, the Stella Montis Medical Storage Key is a promise more than a tool: a compact item in your stash that turns into a guaranteed door and a curated loot room once Stella Montis is fully in play. If you can spare the space, it is worth holding on to at least one copy — when the map finally opens, you will have a head start on cracking into its more secure corners.
