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Here’s where you can find this rare item.
Upgrading the workshop is of the utmost importance to all ARC Raiders players. However, doing so isn’t so easy, given that many of the workstations require tons of rare and hard-to-obtain materials to be improved.
The Explosives Station needs a peculiar item called Laboratory Reagents, which can prove daunting to obtain.
Here’s where you should look to consistently find this crucial item.
ARC Raiders Laboratory Reagents location

Laboratory Reagents are a random drop found in the world and cannot be purchased from any vendor at the moment. This means you can solely get it by looting specific containers, with some areas having a greater chance to drop them.
Thus, you should look for the Laboratory Reagents in areas marked as Medical, such as the Hospital in the Buried City map, which has high odds of dropping several of these items per run. Additionally, the Arrival Building on Spaceport tends to contain a lot of Medical items, including Laboratory Reagents. Scour all the wings of the structure to maximize loot, as this place also drops a lot of cool stuff from other categories.
If Embark decides to add Laboratory Reagents as a purchasable item, we’ll update the article with that information, but for now, you’ll just have to pray for the best while checking out the two recommended areas above. Naturally, any Medical area also works, but those with High Loot labels tend to produce the best results overall.








Published: Nov 5, 2025 02:41 pm