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Quest Guide: Deciphering The Data
Quest guide 9 Mar 2026

Quest Guide: Deciphering The Data

Spaceport walkthrough for Deciphering The Data with objectives, prep, route order, and extract notes.

Deciphering The Data is a objective run in ARC Raiders. This version is written as a practical raid plan: what to bring, the order to run the steps in, and what usually kills the run once the quest is technically done.

Quest#26
Map laneSpaceport
Objective count3
Same raid?Usually no

Objective list

  • Use the Magnetic Decryptor in the Fuel Control Building
  • Reach the Arrival Building in Spaceport
  • Use the Magnetic Decryptor on the top floor of the Arrival Building

What to bring

  • A reliable mid-range primary and a sidearm or close-range backup; most quest deaths happen while rotating, not while looting.
  • Enough meds and shields to survive two rotations; multi-location quests punish players who arrive at the final step with no resources left.

How to run it

Plan the raid around the first named objective and your nearest safe extract, not around the fattest loot route. If the quest item drops into your inventory, the raid is now an escort mission and everything else is optional.

  1. Step 1: Use the Magnetic Decryptor in the Fuel Control Building

    These interactions keep you still and make noise. Heal first, clear the immediate area, complete the interaction, then move off the objective instead of admiring it.

  2. Step 2: Reach the Arrival Building in Spaceport

    Make this your opening waypoint. Move quickly, clear only what blocks the path, and do not burn utility before you reach the named area.

  3. Step 3: Use the Magnetic Decryptor on the top floor of the Arrival Building

    These interactions keep you still and make noise. Heal first, clear the immediate area, complete the interaction, then move off the objective instead of admiring it.

Where players usually throw this quest

  • Taking a fight on the way out just because you hear it. Quest raids are won by discipline, not by K/D.

Miswired note

Use the named area as your anchor, then plan your extract before you touch the objective. That matters more than another backpack worth of salvage on Spaceport.