ARC Raiders Buried City Loot: Streets Full of Containers

Buried City (the buried port city of Marano) unlocks at 8 rounds. It is compact, urban, and built from narrow streets, sand, and tightly packed buildings — and tightly packed buildings mean tightly packed containers. If Dam taught you the basics, this is where container runs get efficient.

Where the loot clusters

Almost everything worth grabbing is inside the buildings: apartments, the town hall, the hospital, and the J Kozma Ventures company building. The metro station is the extract, not a loot zone, and the tactics page covers why the station is a third-party trap. Loot the interiors, then move.

Keys worth carrying

Buried City has four keys:

• Buried City Town Hall Key — the door to the Town Hall.
• Buried City Residential Master Key — certain apartment doors.
• Buried City JKV Employee Access Card — a door in the J Kozma Ventures building.
• Buried City Hospital Key — the Hospital.

Those doors hide the key-room containers (Weapon Case, Medical Duffel, Ammo Case). Residential and Town Hall are the easy wins; JKV and Hospital are the deeper runs.

When loot value goes up

Buried City has the most frequent Night Raid windows of any map on the community-reported timetable (UTC times below are community-sourced and pending official confirmation — see research/real-sources.md §3):

• Night Raid (Major) at 00, 03, 06, 09, 12, and 21 UTC — six slots, the densest value-raising coverage in the game.
• Husk Graveyard (Minor) at 05 and 14 UTC — ARC machines drop on their own, a free parts window.
• Uncovered Caches (Minor) at 02 and 20 UTC — buried caches surface, listen for the ticking timer.

Off those hours it runs Lush Blooms or Prospecting Probes, which are steady but not boosted.

How to run it

Because Night Raid is so common here, you can plan around it instead of waiting for it. Hit the four key rooms during a Night Raid slot, keep the bag moving toward the metro, and do not over-fight — the death penalty math is the argument for extracting with a full bag rather than one more POI. The container guide lists exactly what each crate pays.