Are there contracts in ARC Raiders?

No. Traders hand out quests, and the repeatable goals are weekly Trials and Feats. The 'contracts' some guides describe, with vendor relationship XP and contract boards, aren't in the game.

Why aren't my weekly Trials counting?

Trial points are tallied when you extract. If you go down before you get out, that run's points don't count. Only your best score in each challenge is kept for the week.

When do Feats reset in ARC Raiders?

Feats rotate daily. The three milestones they feed (250 Reward Points each) run on a weekly timer, and once you've hit all three, more Feats don't pay milestone rewards until it resets.

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ARC Raiders Weekly Reset: Trials, Feats and Envoy Offers

ARC Raiders weekly reset explained: there are no contracts. What turns over each week instead: Trials, Feats milestones and the Nomadic Envoys' offers.

Apr 27, 20269 min readLast reviewed October 14, 2026By Dani TorresUpdated 11 days ago

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Ten ARC Raiders Trials rank badges in two rows, from the orange Rookie I tower to the red Cantina Legend crest

What resets each week

System	Opens at	What you do	What it pays	Resets
Trials	Level 15	Five challenges, scored when you extract	A random uncommon, rare or epic item or blueprint per challenge, plus season cosmetics by rank	Weekly
Feats	Not listed	Easy, medium and hard tasks	Reward Points, plus three weekly milestones	Feats daily, milestones weekly
Nomadic Envoys	Level 25	Barter ARC materials or spare weapons	A rotating list of blueprints, weapons, cosmetics and Raider Tokens	Weekly
Quests	Not listed	Trader quests in a long chain	Coins, items, blueprints and XP	Never

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Trials: the closest thing to weekly contracts

Trials are what most "contract" searches are really after. You get five challenges a week in the Trials menu, and each one scores a single kind of action: opening containers in one area, damaging one ARC type, dealing damage with one weapon. Points are tallied when you extract, and only your best run in each challenge counts. A bad raid can't drag your score down, but a good one only counts if you get out.

The rewards are where Trials earn their spot at the top of your week. Each challenge pays out at 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000 points: a random uncommon, rare and then epic item or blueprint. They're claimed for you after extraction, once per tier per week. Every blueprint in the scavenging loot pool can drop as a Trial reward, which makes this the steadiest blueprint source you can plan for. Our guide to what actually unlocks gear covers why blueprints matter more than any trader.

This week's Trials

The wiki lists these five for October 13 to 19, 2026:

Open containers in the Commissary supermarket
Harvest plants
Damage Bullies
Deal damage using a Skulker Targeter
Damage ARC using a Bantam

Harvest Plants is the cheap one on paper. It pays 250 points a plant, so four plants clear the first reward and a dozen clear all three. The Bantam challenge wants the Bantam in your loadout, and our Anvil and Bantam guide covers where it sits after 2.0. The Bully and Skulker Targeter challenges are the season's hook: Embark says Season 6 asks you to deal damage with the Skulker Targeter and Bully Fragmenter and to scavenge Pendola Pass hotspots. If you haven't been up there yet, start with our Pendola Pass guide.

Trial card art for Harvest Plants: a cluster of pale oyster mushrooms growing from the side of a tree in low sunlight Image: Trial_Harvest_Plants.png, ARC Raiders Wiki. Game art is the property of Embark Studios.

Ranks and the season

Score once in a week and you're dropped into a division of 100 raiders at your rank, filled first come, first served. Your combined best scores decide whether you go up or down when the week ends. There are 14 ranks in all, and the top 1,000 Hotshots become Cantina Legends. A new season starts you two ranks below where you finished.

Trials Season 6 runs from October 8, 2026 to January 12, 2027. The grand prize is the Maestro Outfit, and reaching Hotshot and Cantina Legend unlocks its Yellow and Red colors. If you only care about blueprints, ignore the ladder. The item rewards don't depend on your rank.

GODEEPER: How Trials fit with the rest of the late game, from purple loadouts to Expeditions. ARC Raiders Endgame Guide →

Feats: the weekly milestone track

Feats are small rotating daily tasks, and since Frozen Trail 2.0 they feed the Reward Pass instead of paying Cred, which is gone. An easy Feat pays 15 Reward Points and one step of weekly milestone progress, a medium one 25 points and two steps, a hard one 50 points and three steps. The three weekly milestones sit at 4, 8 and 12 progress and pay 250 Reward Points each. Once you've hit the third, extra Feats stop paying milestone rewards until the weekly timer resets.

So the efficient week is short: hard Feats first, and four of them fill all three milestones. Our Reward Pass guide has what those points buy.

Nomadic Envoys: the weekly shop

From level 25 you can trade with the Nomadic Envoys. Cassio replaced Ermal in 2.0, and he barters for ARC materials and sometimes guns; any mods on a gun you trade in are stripped. With Expeditions paused, he also takes the Bronze Statuette for every trade that doesn't ask for a specific item.

His weekly list mixes cosmetics, blueprints, Raider Tokens and gear. This matters more since 2.0, because Tian Wen no longer sells the Anvil or the Hullcracker. Both moved into this rotation. For October 13 to 19, 2026 the wiki lists Anvil II at 20k in barter value, Hullcracker II at 30k, the Dolabra at 60k and a stack of 25 Raider Tokens at 150k. The list turns over at 6 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. UTC).

Wiki portrait of the masked Nomadic Envoy Cassio beside renders of the Anvil II, Hullcracker II, Dolabra and Wolfpack from this week's offers Image: Trader_Cassio_Vertical and item renders (Anvil_II, Hullcracker_II, Dolabra, Wolfpack) from the ARC Raiders Wiki, arranged by GameBrief. Game art is the property of Embark Studios.

Our pick: if this week has the gun you build around, buy it here. If not, keep your high-tier ARC parts for the stash expansions, which our stash size guide prices out.

Quests don't reset

Quests are the part of the old "contracts" idea that's real, but they aren't weekly. The main line is one interconnected chain of 115 quests handed out by the traders. They pay coins and items, some hand you gear when you accept them, and since 2.0 quests and quest objectives also grant XP. Frozen Trail added 22 new ones. Cassio asks for help with certain quests too. Nothing expires, so take quests that fit the map you were already going to run. If you're still finding your feet, our beginner guide covers the first chain.

GODEEPER: Coins, Seeds and Reward Points after Cred was removed, and where each one comes from. ARC Raiders Currency and Progression Guide →

Do you have to do any of it?

No, and plenty of players don't. In an r/ArcRaiders thread from the week before Frozen Trail, when no Trials were running, u/KawaiiTadpole wrote that they "have not done a single trial (on purpose)" and skipped most projects too (comment). Another commenter, u/Mudd4, pushed back on the idea that the weekly grind is a trap: "having weekly content is not malicious design" (comment).

Our routine sits between the two. Get every Trial to 1,000 points first, starting with cheap ones like Harvest Plants, and push further only on the challenges that suit your loadout. Clear the Feats milestones with hard Feats. Look at Cassio's list once after the reset. Everything else can wait.

How we checked this

We rewrote this guide on October 14, 2026 from the ARC Raiders Wiki's Trials, Feats, Quests and Nomadic Envoys pages (Trials and Envoys pages last edited October 13, 2026) and Embark's Frozen Trail 2.0 update notes and Trials Season 6 post. We haven't played this week's Trials ourselves. Every point value, reward and offer comes from those pages, and this week's lists will be out of date after October 19.

ARC Raiders Battle Pass: Reward Pass Levels and Points: what Feats points buy on the Frozen Trail Pass.
ARC Raiders Vendor Leveling: What Actually Unlocks Gear: Workshop stations, blueprints and quests instead of trader levels.
ARC Raiders Endgame Guide: Trials and what comes after.
ARC Raiders Stash Size Guide: what the Envoys' stash expansions cost.
ARC Raiders Pendola Pass Guide: the new map behind Season 6's challenges.
ARC Raiders Enemy Types Guide: the ARC you'll be shooting for damage Trials.

References

Trials, ARC Raiders Wiki: weekly challenges, points, ranks and rewards
Trials Season 6: Frozen Trials, Embark Studios
Frozen Trail 2.0 update notes, Embark Studios: Feats rework, Reward Pass, traders, quests
Feats, ARC Raiders Wiki
Nomadic Envoys, ARC Raiders Wiki: barter rules and items of the week
Quests, ARC Raiders Wiki
ARC Raiders on Steam

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