Cash Farming Guide for Expedition

Overview: Expedition Requirements

To maximize skill points for your next Raider in the upcoming expedition (deadline December 22nd), you need to accumulate 5 million in stash value. This guide provides strategies to achieve that goal quickly by both minimizing losses and maximizing gains.

Minimizing Losses

Before focusing on making money, it's crucial to understand how to stop losing it. Every item used or lost in a raid represents a decrease in your overall stash value.

Avoid Overspending on Raids

• Every bullet fired, every bandage used, and every broken shield costs money. Going into a raid with expensive gear means a higher potential loss if you die or use up your supplies.
• Run with minimal loadouts: Start with a basic or 'free' loadout. If you extract successfully, you've gained resources without risking your valuable stash. If you die, the loss is negligible.

Rethink Weapon Crafting & Upgrades

• Crafting weapons and fitting them with attachments actually diminishes their overall value compared to the raw crafting materials.
• Sell crafting materials directly: The base materials required to craft weapons and attachments are often worth more than the completed items. Avoid crafting unless you specifically need the item for a run.

Beware of Resource Sinks

• Certain activities and enemies can be massive drains on your resources with minimal reward.
• Avoid the Queen and Matriarch: These enemies require a significant amount of ammo and medical supplies to defeat. The loot they drop often doesn't justify the resources expended.
• Approach PvP strategically: If you engage in player-versus-player combat with an expensive loadout, you risk losing substantial value. Consider running cheaper loadouts for PvP encounters to minimize potential losses.

Maximizing Gains

Once you've minimized your losses, you can focus on efficient money-making strategies.

Stella Montis Runs

• Stella Montis is an excellent choice for consistent profit due to its constant availability and high-value loot containers.
• Target specific areas: Focus on the Assembly Workshop, Medical Research, and Lobby areas.
• Loot containers: Search all containers in these high-density loot zones. You can quickly accumulate 50-80k in value within a few minutes.
• Minimal entry: Go in with just a hatch key in your safe pocket to minimize risk. If you die, you've only lost a couple of minutes of your time. If you extract, you have a backpack full of items to sell.

Lush Blooms Event

• This event spawns fruit baskets around the map, offering significant value that can stack in your inventory.
• Find locations: Use online maps like Metaforge to identify fruit basket spawn locations, especially on larger maps like Spaceport.
• Collect fruit: Fruit items stack, allowing you to carry a large amount of value per run.
• Be cautious: Lush Blooms can attract other players, making it a riskier play than Stella Montis.

Queen Harvester (Specific Strategy)

• While fighting the Queen directly is generally inefficient, a specific strategy can yield profit.
• Low loadout approach: Go in with a cheap loadout to minimize risk.
• Target the harvester puzzle: Complete the Queen Harvester puzzle and loot the breachable containers inside. These often contain ARC parts and energy ammo.
• Shoot legs and escape: If you have time and the Queen is not heavily contested, you can shoot off her legs for additional loot, then wait for her to de-aggro and escape via a nearby Raider hatch (Dam Battlegrounds is a good spot for this).

High-Density Loot Locations (Day Raids)

• Certain buildings across various maps are packed with containers, providing consistent value.
• Dam Battlegrounds: Focus on Research & Administration for many lootable containers.
• Spaceport: The Departure Building and Arrival Building have multiple floors filled with containers for quick looting.
• Buried City: The Plaza Rosa area, Grandioso Apartments, Space Travel, and Research buildings are excellent for finding abundant loot.
• Utilize Day Raids: Running these maps during the day often has less competition from other players who might be focused on night raids for rare blueprints.

ElectroMagnetic Storm Event

• During an electrostorm, ARC Husks and Probes appear, offering decent loot with less player competition.
• Loot ARC Husks and Probes: These yield ARC parts and other valuable components.
• Spaceport Advantage: Spaceport is often ideal due to the large, open areas where these spawns typically occur.
• Metaphorge map: Use online tools like the Metaphorge map to identify the spawn locations for ARC Husks.
• Consistent profit: Depending on luck, you can make 80-100k per run, potentially 200-300k/hour if you get rare drops like Rocketeer Drivers.