Mechanical Components in ARC Raiders are mainly obtained through crafting, scavenging loot, and recycling certain items, and they become essential fairly early for weapon upgrades and Gunsmith improvements. Focusing on refiner recipes and breaking down spare gear is the most reliable way to farm them steadily as you progress.

What Mechanical Components Are

  • Mechanical Components are an uncommon refined material used to craft, repair, and upgrade a wide range of weapons and attachments.
  • They are also a key requirement for upgrading the Gunsmith workshop, so you will need a lot of them over time.

Main Ways To Get Them

  • Scavenging: You can find them as loot in the world (especially in containers and industrial or mechanical-themed areas), though this is less consistent than crafting.
  • Crafting: The core method is using the Refiner to convert basic materials (Metal Parts and Rubber Parts) into Mechanical Components.
  • Recycling/Salvaging: Breaking down mods, weapon parts, and certain crafted items will return Mechanical Components or the base materials used to craft them.

Exact Crafting Recipe

  • To craft 1 Mechanical Component at the Refiner, you need:
    • 7× Metal Parts
    • 3× Rubber Parts
    • Refiner level 1 (or access to a basic refiner).
  • When you recycle a Mechanical Component, you get back 3× Metal Parts and 2× Rubber Parts, while salvaging yields 3× Metal Parts, so it is usually better to use them for upgrades rather than recycling them back down.

Best Farming Tips

  • Prioritize looting: Open every container in industrial zones and areas with lots of scrap, since Metal Parts, Rubber Parts, and sometimes Mechanical Components drop frequently there.
  • Recycle spare gear: Old attachments, early-game mods, and some weapon parts can be recycled into Mechanical Components or into the Metal/Rubber needed to craft them, so dismantle what you do not plan to use.
  • Use downtime at base: Queue Mechanical Components in the Refiner whenever you return to base so that you are passively building a stockpile while you run other activities.

What You Use Them For

  • Weapon upgrades: Many weapon upgrade paths and attachments (grips, stocks, magazines, compensators, silencers, etc.) consume 1–2 Mechanical Components plus extra materials like Oil, Wires, or Steel Springs.
  • Advanced crafting: They are a component in higher-tier items like Advanced Mechanical Components and some endgame mods, which in turn feed into your best guns and builds.
  • Workshop/Gunsmith upgrades: For example, upgrading the Gunsmith from level 1 to level 2 costs 5 Mechanical Components plus other rare items, unlocking stronger recipes.

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