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Quest Guide: Stable Housing
Quest guide 9 Mar 2026

Quest Guide: Stable Housing

Area Objective walkthrough for Stable Housing with objectives, prep, route order, and extract notes.

Stable Housing is a fetch & deliver 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#65
Map laneArea Objective
Objective count7
Same raid?Usually no

Objective list

  • Go to the Security Bridge
  • Search for the safe in the side room by the third-floor staircases
  • Head upstairs to the fourth-floor control room
  • Use the Access Card Printer to print a key to the safe
  • Search for alternate ways into the safe
  • Retrieve the contents of the safe
  • Deliver the Project Heartwood Blueprints to Tian Wen

What to bring

  • A reliable mid-range primary and a sidearm or close-range backup; most quest deaths happen while rotating, not while looting.
  • Stamina-friendly utility like smoke or a distraction item, because recon steps usually force you into exposed rooftops, offices, or dead-end rooms.

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: Go to the Security Bridge

    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: Search for the safe in the side room by the third-floor staircases

    Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.

  3. Step 3: Head upstairs to the fourth-floor control room

    Treat this as a hard objective, not a side stop. Finish the interaction, confirm the quest tracker updates, then rotate before the next squad arrives.

  4. Step 4: Use the Access Card Printer to print a key to the safe

    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.

  5. Step 5: Search for alternate ways into the safe

    Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.

  6. Step 6: Retrieve the contents of the safe

    Treat this as a hard objective, not a side stop. Finish the interaction, confirm the quest tracker updates, then rotate before the next squad arrives.

  7. Step 7: Deliver the Project Heartwood Blueprints to Tian Wen

    Do not queue extra looting on the way back. Once the item is in your bag, your next win condition is simply getting out alive.

Where players usually throw this quest

  • Finishing the item step and then greed-looting instead of extracting while the objective is still fresh and uncontested.
  • Running past the actual interaction prompt. Slow down for five seconds, clear the room, and let the tracker update before leaving.
  • 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 Area Objective.