ARC Raiders Buried City Guide: Districts, Keys and Exits

What's the short ARC Raiders Buried City guide? It's an old Italian town, once called Marano, half buried in sand, and it plays as rooftops and alleys. Learn where Old Town starts, know which streets the Bastions and Bombardiers patrol, and bring a Raider Hatch Key so you aren't stuck walking to a metro station with a full bag.

Updated 2026-10-14: rewritten against the ARC Raiders Wiki, arc-raiders.org's map and a Shacknews Old Town guide. The old guide said every exit on Buried City is a metro station (there are four Raider Hatches too), put Bastions in Old Town and around "Research" (the wiki lists Market Ruins, Marano Park and north of Plaza Rosa), and split the map into four regions including an "Outskirts" and a "New District" that we couldn't source. Its Rocketeer spawns and loot rankings had no source either.

Buried City at a glance

The wiki describes "crowded villas" with "a sprawl of sun-bleached rooftops perfect for seamless traversal", and the combination of "tight corridors and overlooking heights". That's the whole map in one line: you'll move faster and more safely over the roofs than through the streets.

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Old Town and the landmarks worth knowing

Old Town is the district Trials keep sending you to, and it isn't marked on the map. Shacknews puts it in the southwest: "from the area south of the bridge near Grandioso Apartments to around the eastern edge of the Santa Maria Houses". The bridge across the south of the map splits the West Villages to the north from Old Town to the south, and an area name appears on the left of your screen when you cross. Shani's quest Communication Hideout sends you to the Red Tower there, and the "Damage ARC enemies in Old Town" Trial only counts damage inside it.

The other names you'll see in quests:

• Grandioso Apartments: quests send you to its rooftop, and its antenna is a quest objective too.
• Library: in the City Center; Apollo's quest Building A Library sends you there.
• J Kozma Ventures (Space Travel) building: the JKV Employee Access Card opens a room on its fourth floor.
• Hospital: a locked room on the second floor, northwest corner, opens with the Hospital Key. One Trial is just opening containers in here.
• Town Hall: the key door is on the north side at ground level.
• Marano Park, Plaza Rosa, Market Ruins, Parking Garage: where the heavy ARC patrol (see below).

Key doors

Keys are single use, so open the room you came for. The Town Hall Key is the rarest of the four, so we'd save it for a run where you're already heading north.

Where the heavy ARC are

The wiki's Bastion and Bombardier pages list fixed patrol spots on Buried City:

• Bastions: Market Ruins, Marano Park, north of Plaza Rosa.
• Bombardiers: the Parking Garage roof, Marano Park, north of Plaza Rosa, and west of the Red Tower by the eastern entrance. Shacknews calls Old Town "a fairly common Bombardier spawn".

Marano Park and north of Plaza Rosa appear on both lists, so those are the two places most likely to have a walker plus its escort. Fireballs, which usually stay underground, can turn up at the metro entrances. Our machine types guide covers how to kill each of them.

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Getting out

Buried City has four metro stations and four Raider Hatches on arc-raiders.org's map. A Raider Hatch needs a Raider Hatch Key, stays open for roughly 10 to 15 seconds, and has no shutdown timer. Shacknews notes there's an Old Town hatch "at the western edge of the zone". If you're running Old Town Trials, that's the exit to plan around. The extractions guide covers how metro stations and hatches work.

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Conditions on Buried City

The wiki lists Lush Blooms, Bird City, Uncovered Caches, Prospecting Probes, Husk Graveyard, Night Raid, Cold Snap and Hurricane, plus the Close Scrutiny and ARC Frigate ARC Operations. Bird City is exclusive to Buried City: trinkets stashed in rooftop chimneys, extra deployable ziplines across the roofs, and "significantly greater numbers" of ARC drones in the sky. It suits the rooftop routes this map already rewards, as long as you watch the air. Close Scrutiny brings Surveyors guarded by Vaporizers and turns off locked doors, so leave your keys at home for it.

Our take

Buried City is the map where a Raider Hatch Key earns its slot. The streets funnel you, the heavy ARC sit on known corners, and the hatch doesn't care how late you are. Route over the roofs, give Marano Park and Plaza Rosa a wide berth unless you're hunting a Bastion, and pick your exit before you go looking for a key room.

How we checked this

We rewrote this guide in October 2026 from the ARC Raiders Wiki's Maps, Buried City, key, quest and ARC pages, arc-raiders.org's Buried City map, and Shacknews's Old Town guide. We haven't run these routes ourselves.

Related Reading

• ARC Raiders Maps Guide: every map, how it unlocks and what it's for.
• ARC Raiders Spaceport Guide: the next map in the unlock order.
• ARC Raiders Dam Guide: the starter map.
• ARC Raiders Best Solo Loadouts: kits for running maps alone.
• ARC Raiders Stella Montis Guide: the late-unlock map.
• ARC Raiders Blue Gate Guide: the mountain map.
• ARC Raiders Riven Tides Guide: the coastal map.

References

• Maps, ARC Raiders Wiki and Buried City, ARC Raiders Wiki: unlock rounds, description and conditions.
• Keys, ARC Raiders Wiki: every key and its door.
• Bastion and Bombardier, ARC Raiders Wiki: patrol locations.
• Buried City interactive map, arc-raiders.org: extraction counts and loot zones.
• Where is Old Town in ARC Raiders, Shacknews: Old Town's boundaries and hatch.