In ARC Raiders, Safe Pockets are special protected inventory slots that let you keep a few items even if you die or fail extraction, and you can increase them mainly through augments that modify your loadout.

What Safe Pockets Are

  • Safe pockets are a separate section in your inventory that “protects” items from loss on death or failed extraction.
  • You usually start with a very small safe pocket capacity (often just one slot), and then scale it up through progression and gear choices.

How to Get / Increase Safe Pockets

  • Equip looting-focused augments in your loadout; these augments are what actually grant extra safe pocket slots.
  • Early on, a basic/green augment typically gives 1 safe pocket, blue-style/rare augments give 2, and higher-tier/purple or epic variants can push you to 3 safe pockets.
  • These augments drop from:
    • Weapon crates and loot caches
    • Scrap piles and enemy drops in mid- to higher-tier zones
    • High‑risk areas and special event locations, where better tiers are more likely

Step‑by‑Step: Setting Up Safe Pockets

  1. Open your character inventory/loadout screen.
  1. Find the augment slot (often shown as a box‑like icon near your shield/inventory section).
  1. Equip a looting/safe‑pocket augment (e.g., MK.2 or higher) to increase your safe pocket count.
  1. Confirm the safe pocket counter has updated in the UI before deploying into a raid.
  1. In‑raid, move valuable items into the safe pocket section via drag‑and‑drop on PC or the “move to safe pocket” action on controller.

What to Put in Your Safe Pocket

  • High‑value items: rare loot, expensive sellables, or crafting components.
  • Key items like Raider Hatch keys or extraction-enabling tools, which can save a run when extractions are camped or risky.
  • Early game, prioritize items worth a lot of credits or that unlock key progression (blueprints, strong augments, etc.).

Extra Tips and Current Meta Feel

  • Treat safe pockets as your mini “insurance system” while the game has no full insurance feature; they are currently the main way to protect loot on risky drops.
  • Players discussing the game on forums recommend:
    • Practicing quick transfers into safe pockets on low‑threat maps
    • Only pocketing items over a certain value threshold to avoid wasting the limited space
    • Keeping an emergency extraction key or similar escape tool in at least one slot

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.