How to get Candleberries in Arc Raiders

As part of the Arc Raiders Flickering Flames holiday live event, you’re tasked with finding Candleberries in preparation for the Candleberry Banquet project. Much like Prickly Pears, this forageable fruit can be annoyingly difficult to find, not least because you’re competing for them with other raiders. You’ll also need a lot of them, 260 to be exact, if you plan on completing the project.

All this is made rather more difficult by the fact that they only grow on bushes in Cold Snap map conditions, where lingering in the cold gives you Frostbite, not to mention the usual threat of Arc robots and trigger-happy raiders. To save you prowling about too long in the cold, we’ll walk you through how to get Candleberries in Arc Raiders.

Where to find Candleberries in Arc Raiders

You can harvest Candleberries from bushes on maps with the Cold Snap modifier active. The bushes consist of shoots with green leaves with red berries at the end, making them reasonably easy to spot amid the snow. They tend to spawn in areas with lots of trees and other vegetation. Here are a few prime Candleberry hunting locations on each map. Note that they don’t spawn on Stella Montis.

• Dam Battlegrounds: Swamp, Formicai Hills, Red Lakes
• Buried City: Buried Properties, Marano Park, Abandoned Highway Camp, Piazza Arbusto
• Spaceport: Jiangsu Warehouse, Communications Tower, Maintenance Hangar
• The Blue Gate: The Forest, Ruined Homestead, Highway Collapse, Ridgeline

Aside from harvesting Candleberries during raids, you can also unlock them as part of the Gathering Candleberries live event. XP from raiders and progress in the Candleberry Banquet project earns you Merits, which unlock milestones and rewards, including 180 Candleberries if you unlock more or less the full reward track. 100XP equates to one Merit, so it’s a bit of a slog.

• 1,200 Merits: x10 Candleberries
• 2,400 Merits: x10 Candleberries
• 3,600 Merits: x20 Candleberries
• 5,400 Merits: x30 Candleberries
• 6,600 Merits: x30 Candleberries
• 9,000 Merits: x40 Candleberries
• 11,400 Merits: x40 Candleberries

For the best results, combine both methods and favor maps with the Lush Blooms modifier enabled for a chance to find fruit baskets full of forageables like lemons and apricots, along with Candleberries. It’s also best to avoid a Free Loadout when out Candleberry foraging since you’ll want a Safe Pocket to safely stow away any you come across.

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