Arc Raiders – Flickering Flames Winter Event Guide

Arc Raiders devs keep the new content rolling in order to keep the player base excited. For the end of the year, they introduced the Flickering Flames update.

This new update brings a whole lot of content and prepares players for the upcoming season. So if you’re curious about what’s all available, then this guide will break down every single thing.

Note

This is part of our Arc Raiders – Guides Hub, so we suggest that you start from there if you haven’t already.

Gathering Candleberries Event

The first thing that you will be able to see in the main menu after you launch the game following the download and install of the update is a new event called Gathering Candleberries.

Similar to the previous Stella Montis event, you can progress the Gathering Candleberries event by earning Merits.

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For every 100 XP, you will get one Merit, and you will be able to redeem multiple rewards using them.

XP is easy to earn in the game as any action you do grants XP, either by looting containers or killing arcs, so make sure to maximize it to earn a lot of Merits.

There are 25 rewards that you can obtain, and these vary from a new outfit and its variant, to raider tokens, and of course, a bunch of Candleberries, which you will need, and we’ll explain why later.

Reward	Type	Merits Needed
Hi Tech Hiker	Outfit	600
10 Candleberries	Nature	1,200
Scanner	Outfit Variant	1,800
10 Candleberries	Nature	2,400
Check Compass	Emote	3,000
20 Candleberries	Nature	3,600
50 Raider Tokens	Premium Currency	4,200
Blue Camo Hi Tech Hiker Color	Color Variant	4,800
30 Candleberries	Nature	5,200
Field Phone Hi Tech Hiker Variant	Outfit Variant	6,000
30 Candleberries	Nature	6,600
Sprayed Eyes Red	Face Style	7,200
50 Raider Tokens	Premium Currency	7,800
Orange Hi Tech Hiker Color	Color Variant	8,400
40 Candleberries	Nature	9,000
Mask Hi Tech Hiker Variant	Outfit Variant	9,600
50 Raider Tokens	Premium Currency	10,200
Yellow Camo Hi Tech Hiker Color	Color Variant	10,800
40 Candleberries	Nature	11,400
Headgear Hi Tech Hiker Variant	Outfit Variant	12,000
50 Raider Tokens	Premium Currency	12,600
White Hi Tech Hiker Color	Color Variant	13,200
Goggles Hi Tech Hiker Variant	Outfit Variant	13,800
50 Raider Tokens	Premium Currency	14,400
Space Wrench	Raider Tool Skin	15,000

Note

The event is live until January 13th, so you should have plenty of time to earn all the rewards.

The Flickering Flames Project

Now you may be wondering what you will be doing with all the Candleberries that you’ll be collecting from the event, which brings us to the second part of this new update, The Flickering Flames Project.

This expedition-style quest will require you to donate a variety of materials and items, including Candleberries, to help with the preparation for your banquet.

There are five stages, and each one requires a specific type of material or item to donate. Whenever you fully commit the resources to one specific material or item, you will receive a corresponding reward for it.

Stage	Materials Required	Reward
Stage 1	20 Candleberries 5 Durable Cloth 1 Empty Wine Bottle 25 Plastic Parts	50 Raider Tokens 1,000 Merits 1,000 Merits 5 Firecrackers
Stage 2	50 Candleberries 3 Candle Holders 3 Light Bulbs 1 Industrial Battery	50 Raider Tokens Red Light Stick Blueprint 1,000 Merits 1,000 Merits
Stage 3	60 Candleberries 10 Duct Tape 1 Film Reel 5 Snap Blast Grenades	50 Raider Tokens 1,000 Merits 1,000 Merits 3 Trailblazers
Stage 4	60 Candleberries 2 Coffee Pots 10 Fireball Burners 2 Water Filters	50 Raider Tokens Vita Spray 1,000 Merits 1,000 Merits
Stage 5	70 Candleberries 7 Mushrooms 2 Frying Pans 2 Music Albums	50 Raider Tokens Snap Hook 1,000 Merits 1,000 Merits

Note

Once you complete all five stages, you will get one last set of rewards that includes: Snowglobe backpack charm, Bettina 3, Extended Barrel, and Kinetic Converter weapon modifications.

How To Find Candleberries

If you didn’t notice, the number of Candleberries that you will get from the event is not sufficient to fully complete the project. This means that you need to go out and farm some more Candleberries by yourself.

The only event in which they spawn is the new event Cold Snap. This is basically a major map condition that covers the whole map with snow and brings some exciting new mechanics.

Cold Snap Event Overview

At first, the snow does look good and all of that, but when you stay outside longer, your character will start shivering and eventually take damage.

So while looking for berries outside, be sure to keep an eye on your character. If they start shivering a lot or are covered in a lot of snow, you must go to a nearby building and warm yourself up before going back out into the snow.

Note

Unlike other major map conditions, all extraction points and hatch hatches are available for you to use to extract safely, so you don’t have to worry about that.

Candleberries don’t have a specific spawn, but one thing is for sure: they spawn in nature areas, given that they are a plant. So all you have to do is go to a nature area in any map and just run around and look for them.

For example, the swamp area in the Dam Battlegrounds, Marano Park in Buried City and the surrounding of Spaceport or Blue Gate.

Note

Stella Montis does not have any Candleberries.

You can easily recognize the Candleberries by the plant with red berries on it; it’s hard to miss.

When you obtain some, be sure to put them in your safepocket so you won’t lose them if you encounter hostile raiders or an arc attacks you.

Lucky for you, the Cold Snap event is happening every hour and rotating on all maps, so you won’t have to wait for it.

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