What to know

  • Blueprints in ARC Raiders function as the knowledge base or recipe for creating specific items.
  • Collecting a blueprint doesn’t give you the item itself but unlocks the recipe needed to craft it at the appropriate workshop station.
  • For the Heavy Gun Parts blueprint, once acquired, it unlocks the recipe to craft Heavy Gun Parts, a crucial component for upgrading heavy ammunition weapons.
  • Crafting station (workshop level): Refiner II — the recipe is unlocked and craftable at Refiner level 2.
  • Recipe: 4 × Simple Gun Parts → 1 Heavy Gun Parts (per heavy part).
  • Heavy Gun Parts are essential for mid-to-late game weapon blueprints like Il Toro, Anvil, and other high-caliber guns.

In ARC Raiders, blueprints are essential for advancing your crafting capabilities and unlocking the ability to produce advanced items. Among these, the Heavy Gun Parts blueprint stands out for its role in empowering players to fabricate high-impact components necessary for heavy weaponry upgrades.

Heavy Gun Parts Blueprint: Location

The Heavy Gun Parts blueprint is a rare and valuable find, typically looted from locked containers and high-tier enemy drops.

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  • On the Dam Battlegrounds map: focus on relay stations, abandoned structures & the water-treatment zone; these are flagged as “hidden caches” with higher blueprint spawn odds.
  • In the Buried City map: narrow streets and key POIs (e.g., old town hall, hospital) have high-loots; map guides mark them with higher chance of rare cache spawns.
  • Look for red/green lockers, weapon cases, revealed locked containers in high-tier zones. These container types are often where blueprints drop.

How to get Heavy Gun Parts Blueprint

Step 1

Enter the map, head straight to one of those high-value loot zones instead of looting everything.

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Step 2

Prioritize unlocking and checking containers in these zones before extraction. Looting hidden caches.

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Step 3

If you don’t get it, extract and try again, these are repeatable loops.

How to craft Heavy Gun Parts

Once you possess the blueprint, crafting Heavy Gun Parts becomes possible at the Refiner 2 workshop level. The crafting recipe is straightforward but resource-intensive:

  • 4 Simple Gun Parts → 1 Heavy Gun Parts
Step 1

Refiner 2 must be unlocked by upgrading your workshop, typically after progressing through several early quests and crafting jobs.

Step 2

Simple Gun Parts are gathered primarily by dismantling basic tier weapons and looting weapon caches.

Step 3

Using the blueprint at Refiner 2 allows you to convert these simpler components into the more valuable Heavy Gun Parts, essential for crafting and upgrading powerful heavy-class weapons such as the Anvil, Bettina, Il Toro, and Vulcano series.

Mastering blueprint hunting and the subsequent crafting processes in ARC Raiders is vital to building a superior arsenal. The Heavy Gun Parts blueprint, in particular, elevates your ability to maintain and enhance heavy weaponry, providing a critical edge in raids and combat engagements. Progressing through these steps ensures that you can create, upgrade, and sustain some of the most formidable weapons in the game.