ARC Raiders Dead Flowers and Rock Salt have no fixed spawn. Both are new Uncommon trinkets added in Live Update 2.3.0 on October 27, 2026, and both turn up in ordinary household storage: kitchen drawers, cupboards, desks and bins in residential buildings. The most reported spots are Old Town on Pendola Pass, Grandioso Apartments in Buried City and Ruby Residences on Dam Battlegrounds.
You need 4 Dead Flowers and 2 Rock Salt for the limited-time Soul’s Offering project, which the ARC Raiders Wiki lists as running until November 16, 2026. Below are the reported locations for both, the rest of the project’s shopping list, and a three-map farming plan that covers every stage. All locations are player reports collected by guide sites since launch day, not developer-confirmed spawns. Checked October 29, 2026, 19:00 UTC.
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Quick answer
- Dead Flowers (4 needed): house drawers and supermarket storage in Old Town (Pendola Pass), Grandioso Apartments and desk drawers in the space-travel building (Buried City), Ruined Homestead (Blue Gate), southern houses (Riven Tides), the Departure Building (Spaceport).
- Rock Salt (2 needed): kitchen drawers and green cabinets in Ruby Residences (Dam Battlegrounds), kitchen storage in Grandioso Apartments (Buried City), tables and kitchen drawers in Old Town (Pendola Pass), village houses (Blue Gate), southern houses (Riven Tides).
- Not a world pickup: you do not harvest flowers or mine salt. Both items come from containers or loose loot inside buildings.
- Cannot be recycled or salvaged (wiki), so the only uses are the project or selling for 640 coins each. Keep them.
- Deadline: November 16, 2026, according to the wiki. One early preview showed November 15, so check the countdown in your Projects tab.
Embark's Soul's Offering art shows several of the project items: dried flowers, a bronze mask and a fancy plate. Image: Embark Studios
Where to find Dead Flowers in ARC Raiders
The wiki tags Dead Flowers with the Old World, Residential and Commercial loot categories, which matches what players report: homes first, then shops and offices. Its only listed source is scavenging. The table below combines the named reports from Game Rant and The Click. Where both outlets name an area, that is noted.
| Map | Area | What to search | Reported by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pendola Pass | Old Town | House drawers, kitchen storage, supermarket storage | Game Rant, The Click |
| Buried City | Grandioso Apartments | Apartment homes | Game Rant |
| Buried City | Space-travel office building | Desk drawers | The Click |
| The Blue Gate | Ruined Homestead | Household containers | Game Rant |
| Riven Tides | Southern houses | Residential drawers, rubbish bins | The Click |
| Spaceport | Departure Building | Indoor desks and storage | The Click |
| Dam Battlegrounds | Residential and office blocks | Drawers, office storage | The Click |
Old Town on Pendola Pass is the only Dead Flowers area that both outlets name, so it is the best first route. You need one flower for Stage 1 and three more for Stage 2, but you can bank all four before Stage 2 opens: they stack to 5 and weigh 0.5 each.
Where to find Rock Salt in ARC Raiders
Despite the name, Rock Salt is a kitchen item. Its wiki description reads “Decorative, not dinner.” Every named report so far is household storage. The Click’s Rock Salt guide notes that the idea of mining cliffs on Riven Tides started as a joke reply on Reddit.
| Map | Area | What to search | Reported by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dam Battlegrounds | Ruby Residences | Kitchen drawers, green cabinets | The Click |
| Buried City | Grandioso Apartments | Kitchen cabinets and drawers, bins | Game Rant, The Click |
| Pendola Pass | Old Town | Surface loot on tables, kitchen drawers | Game Rant |
| The Blue Gate | Village houses | Household cabinets | The Click |
| Riven Tides | Southern houses | Residential drawers, bins | The Click |
Grandioso Apartments is the only Rock Salt area that both outlets name. Rock Salt is also needed only in Stage 1 (2 units), so once you have two, any extra is only worth 640 coins.
Dead Flowers vs Rock Salt: item stats
| Stat | Dead Flowers | Rock Salt |
|---|---|---|
| Rarity | Uncommon | Uncommon |
| Type | Trinket | Trinket |
| Weight | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Stack size | 5 | 5 |
| Sell price | 640 | 640 |
| Recycle / salvage | No / No | No / No |
| Needed for Soul’s Offering | 4 (1 in Stage 1, 3 in Stage 2) | 2 (Stage 1) |
| Added in | Update 2.3.0 | Update 2.3.0 |
Source: ARC Raiders Wiki item pages for Dead Flowers and Rock Salt, checked October 29, 2026.
Both are light enough for your safe pocket. PowerUp Gaming recommends putting project items there so they reach your stash even if you go down topside. The trade-off: a safe pocket slot used for a 640-coin trinket is a slot you can’t use for a blueprint you might find later in the same raid. Since you need several of each, extracting early once you have one is the lower-risk play.
Soul’s Offering: every stage and what it needs
Embark’s patch notes describe Soul’s Offering only as a new player project honoring fallen Raiders. They don’t list the requirements. The stage list below comes from the wiki and matches PowerUp Gaming, Game Rant and The Click. Stages unlock in order, and you hand items in through the Projects tab, not to a trader.
| Stage | Requirements | Rewards |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Construct Vaulto’s Offering | 1 Dead Flowers, 2 Rock Salt, 15 ARC Alloy, 1 Expired Respirator | Stiletto II, Extended Barrel I, Angled Grip II, Stable Stock II |
| 2. Construct Ferrovia’s Offering | 3 Dead Flowers, 2 Railway Lantern, 15 Advanced ARC Powercell, 10 Remote Raider Flare | Torrente II, Compensator III, Extended Medium Mag III, Stable Stock III |
| 3. Construct Murteta’s Offering | 2 Fancy Plate, 1 Mask Fragment, 1 Insulation Roll, 5 Fertilizer | Vulcano I, Shotgun Silencer, Extended Shotgun Mag III, 3 Fireworks Box |
| 4. Honor The Fallen | Set off a firework on the rooftop of the Santa Maria Houses | Pilgrim backpack cosmetic, Offering Display Table design |
That’s 58 items across Stages 1 to 3: 19 for Stage 1, 30 for Stage 2 and 9 for Stage 3. Stage 2 is the volume grind, mostly the 15 Advanced ARC Powercells from large ARC. Stage 3 is the luck check, because Fancy Plate and Mask Fragment are Epic trinkets.
Where to find the other Soul’s Offering materials
| Item | Rarity | Where to get it |
|---|---|---|
| ARC Alloy (15) | Uncommon | Looted from ARC machines and wreckage, plus recycling (wiki) |
| Expired Respirator (1) | Rare | Medical loot: Buried City Hospital, Stella Montis Medical Bay (Game Rant), Dam Testing Annex medical rooms (The Click) |
| Railway Lantern (2) | Rare | New trinket; reported at Almatera Station on Pendola Pass and around Cielo Sereno Observatory (Game Rant, The Click) |
| Advanced ARC Powercell (15) | Rare | Larger ARC: Bastion, Bombardier, Rocketeer, Sentinel, Leaper, Matriarch, Queen and others (wiki). Ordinary ARC Powercells don’t count |
| Remote Raider Flare (10) | Common | Sold by Shani for 810 coins each (wiki); also looted or crafted once you learn its blueprint |
| Fancy Plate (2) | Epic | New trinket; kitchen cabinets, most reported in Grandioso Apartments and Old Town (Pendola Pass) |
| Mask Fragment (1) | Epic | New trinket; Game Rant points to surface loot in a two-story house on the north side of the housing complex it calls “Santa Monica Houses” in Buried City (the named area there is Santa Maria Houses); The Click cites a player find on Pendola Pass. No confirmed spawn |
| Insulation Roll (1) | Epic | Pendola Pass train cars (seats and end compartments), Almatera Station shelves, Snow Shelters |
| Fertilizer (5) | Uncommon | Garden beds in the Village greenhouses on Blue Gate and the Hydroponic Domes on Dam Battlegrounds, plus Wicker Baskets (wiki) |
Two of the four Stage 2 items can be bought rather than found. Ten Remote Raider Flares from Shani cost 8,100 coins in total. That is small next to the Stage 3 Epic trinkets, which the wiki values at 7,000 coins each, so buying flares is the faster route unless you already have the blueprint.
Residential blocks like these are where players report both trinkets: search kitchens and drawers, not the scenery. Image: Embark Studios
Fastest route: one map per stage
Every reported location above is a residential or industrial cluster, so you can group the shopping list by map instead of chasing single items. This plan is our own grouping of the reported spots. It is not an official route, and loot is random on every visit.
- Stage 1, Buried City: Grandioso Apartments for Rock Salt and Dead Flowers (and any early Fancy Plates), then the Hospital for an Expired Respirator. Kill ARC on the way for Alloy.
- Stage 2, Pendola Pass: Old Town houses for the three extra Dead Flowers, then Almatera Station for Railway Lanterns. Buy the 10 flares from Shani before you drop in, and hunt one or two big ARC for Advanced Powercells.
- Stage 3, Pendola Pass again, then Dam: on Pendola, Old Town kitchens for Fancy Plates, plus train cars and Almatera shelves for the Insulation Roll. On Dam Battlegrounds, the Hydroponic Domes for 5 Fertilizer, with Ruby Residences on the way if you still lack Rock Salt.
- Stage 4, Buried City: take a Fireworks Box to the Santa Maria Houses rooftop. If you still need a Mask Fragment for Stage 3, Game Rant’s reported house is in the same housing complex, so scout it on an earlier Buried City run.
If you are stuck at Stage 1 waiting on the respirator, keep looting kitchens anyway. Fancy Plates for Stage 3 come from the same cabinets, and items you bank early still count when their stage opens.
How to finish Honor The Fallen on the Santa Maria Houses rooftop
Stage 3 pays out three Fireworks Boxes, and Stage 4 needs one. According to The Click’s rooftop route, the ground-floor entrances look sealed by sand. Go round to the rear alley, climb the sand drift onto the neighbouring building, and cross the narrow roof bridge. Place the box on the Santa Maria Houses roof itself, set it off, and check that the objective registers in Projects before you extract. A firework set off from the street or a neighbouring roof may not count. If you used all three boxes, the wiki lists Fireworks Boxes at Shani for 6,000 coins, limited to 3 a day.
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FAQ
Can you harvest Dead Flowers from plants in ARC Raiders?
No. Dead Flowers are a trinket found by scavenging containers and loose loot indoors. They are separate from the plants you harvest on the maps. The wiki lists scavenging as the only source.
How many Dead Flowers do you need for Soul’s Offering?
Four in total: one for Construct Vaulto’s Offering (Stage 1) and three for Construct Ferrovia’s Offering (Stage 2). Stage 3 doesn’t use any.
Is Rock Salt needed after Stage 1?
No. The project uses two Rock Salt, both in Stage 1. Any extra is a 640-coin trinket.
When does Soul’s Offering end?
The wiki gives October 27 to November 16, 2026, 20 days in all. The Click notes that an earlier preview showed November 15, so use the timer in your Projects tab for the exact cutoff in your time zone.
Can you sell or recycle Dead Flowers and Rock Salt?
You can sell them for 640 coins each, but you can’t recycle or salvage them, according to the wiki. Don’t sell them until the project is done.
Sources: Embark Studios, Live Update 2.3.0 (Steam, Oct 27, 2026); ARC Raiders Wiki (Soul’s Offering, Dead Flowers, Rock Salt, Fertilizer, Fireworks Box); Game Rant; The Click (Soul’s Offering, Dead Flowers, Rock Salt); PowerUp Gaming.
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