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Quest Guide: Digging Up Dirt
Quest guide 9 Mar 2026

Quest Guide: Digging Up Dirt

Buried City walkthrough for Digging Up Dirt with objectives, prep, route order, and extract notes.

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Digging Up Dirt is a quest 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#27
Map laneBuried City
Objective count2
Same raid?Usually no

Objective list

  • Locate the Santa Maria Houses in Old Town
  • Locate the Dead Drop inside the Santa Maria Houses in Old Town

What to bring

  • A reliable mid-range primary and a sidearm or close-range backup; most quest deaths happen while rotating, not while looting.

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: Locate the Santa Maria Houses in Old Town

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

  2. Step 2: Locate the Dead Drop inside the Santa Maria Houses in Old Town

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

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 Buried City.