If you've been running raids topside in ARC Raiders, you already know that managing your stash is just as brutal as surviving the machine drops. Among the rare topside materials you'll drag back to Speranza, Light Gun Parts are a critical asset. Weighing in at 0.3 kg and stacking up to 5 per slot, these green-tier components are the literal backbone for light weaponry and essential economy conversions.

Here is exactly how Light Gun Parts function, how to calculate their value in your crafting loops, and the most reliable ways to secure them.

Weapon Crafting and Upgrades

If you prefer highly mobile, high-cadence weapons like pistols and submachine guns, Light Gun Parts are your primary progression gate. They are heavily utilized at the Gunsmith bench to pull weapons out of your blueprint book and push them through subsequent power tiers.

The Bobcat Loop

The primary weapon tied to this material is the Bobcat submachine gun. Building and maxing out a Bobcat requires a steady influx of parts:

• Bobcat I: Crafting the initial base weapon requires Gunsmith level 3 and consumes 3× Light Gun Parts, 1× Magnetic Accelerator, and 2× Exodus Modules.

• Tier Progression: Pushing the gun through its upgrades (Bobcat I to II, II to III, and III to IV) scales cleanly, requiring between 1 and 3 Light Gun Parts per tier right at Gunsmith level 1.

Handgun Scaling

For sidearms, the scaling is equally direct. For example, upgrading a Burletta III to a Burletta IV demands 1× Light Gun Part paired with 4× Mechanical Components. If you are consistently losing kits in high-threat zones, keeping a baseline stash of these components ensures you can re-kit your lightweight run-and-gun builds without falling back on basic, unupgraded pea-shooters.

Material Refining and Recycling

Aside from direct weapon applications, these parts serve an important role in managing your overall resource economy. Understanding how to convert your gun parts can save you hours of target-farming other materials.

Crafting Complex Gun Parts

When transitioning to late-game, heavy-hitting armaments like the Equalizer or Jupiter, simple components won't cut it. You will need to take your raw weapon components to the Refiner. At Refiner level 3, you can combine a balanced recipe of lower-tier components:

This specific synthesis is vital because Complex Gun Parts are an uncraftable myth out in the world—they must be built in Speranza.

Farming Simple Gun Parts

Conversely, you can use Light Gun Parts to solve a common bottleneck: running completely dry on basic green-tier materials. If you need standard parts to upgrade basic gear, you can dismantle your rare drops. Recycling 1× Light Gun Part breaks down directly into 2× Simple Gun Parts. This is highly useful since Simple Gun Parts are widely required but heavily time-gated or locked behind active combat drops. For context, high-tier weapons like the Tempest require up to 40 Simple Gun Parts just to reach tier IV. Breaking down a rare Light Gun Part is often the fastest way to bridge a minor deficit when you don't want to go hunting flying ARC drones.

How to Acquire More

Because of their rarity, relying purely on stumbling across Light Gun Parts will leave your armory stagnant. You need to combine passive vendor loops with targeted extraction routes.

1. Daily Trader Limits

The easiest, zero-risk method to accumulate these components is through Celeste, the seed trader in Speranza. Celeste sells a maximum of 3 Light Gun Parts per day, priced at 15 Assorted Seeds each. If you log in every 24 hours and max out this trade, you spend 45 seeds for 3 rare parts—by far the safest investment in the game.

2. High-Value Loot Zones

If you are hunting for raw drops, skip the low-tier camps and head straight for the map's designated red zones, which feature heavily upgraded loot tables.

• The Spaceport: Focus heavily on the Spaceport arrival and departure buildings. These interiors are dense with weapon cases, suitcases, and raider caches that pull frequently from the rare component pool.

• The Formicle Outpost: A secret hidden container located high up on the shelving units near a bird's nest at the Formicle Outpost serves as a fixed drop location for the permanent Light Gun Parts Blueprint.

3. Blueprint Refining

Once you extract that blueprint safely and consume it from your inventory, you can bypass drops entirely by refining 4× Simple Gun Parts into 1× Light Gun Part at Refiner level 2.

Given that standard blueprint drop rates across general containers average a brutal 1% to 2%, extracting this recipe transforms your crafting economy. Because the grind can be incredibly punishing, many players choose to bypass the RNG entirely; you can skip the security routes and dangerous extractions by choosing to buy arc raiders blueprints online through platforms like U4N, allowing you to instantly unlock the recipe at your workbench and focus your playtime on running high-tier end-game content instead.