Stash Management: What to Keep, Sell, and Recycle

The definitive guide to managing your Arc Raiders stash. Never run out of space again.

Category: Strategy · Updated 4 October 2026

Your stash in Speranza fills up fast. Without a system for managing it, you will constantly run out of space and make bad decisions about what to drop. Here is the definitive framework for keeping your stash lean and your crafting pipeline full.

Priority Tier 1: Always Keep

Never sell or recycle these items regardless of stash pressure. ARC Alloy is the single most important material in the game and gates every endgame recipe. ARC Circuitry is equally critical for high tier crafting. Keep quest items until you turn them in, because re acquiring them wastes raid time. Bastion Cells are extremely rare drops that you will regret selling. If your stash is full and you have these items, make room by clearing lower priority materials.

Priority Tier 2: Keep If You Have Space

Uncommon materials like Steel Springs and Wires are valuable but farmable. Keep a healthy stockpile of 20 to 30 of each. Beyond that threshold, you can safely sell extras. Keys for locked rooms and containers are worth holding if you plan to run the relevant map soon. If a key has been sitting in your stash for more than a week, sell it and farm a new one when you actually need it.

Priority Tier 3: Safe to Sell

Valuables like Watches, Jewelry, and Electronics are usually best sold for Coins: for most of them the vendor price is more than their parts sell for. Excess common materials beyond what you need for your next 3 to 5 crafts can be sold. If you have 80 Metal Parts and only need 20 for your next project, sell 40 and keep a buffer.

Priority Tier 4: Recycle

Recycle common weapons you will never use when you need the materials they break into; for coins alone, the whole item almost always sells for more than its parts. One critical rule: never recycle items Topside during a raid. Salvaging an item Topside returns less than recycling it at Speranza. Always bring items home first and recycle them at your station for full value.

The Topside Salvage Penalty

This catches new players constantly. Breaking an item down during a raid salvages it, and salvage returns less than recycling it in Speranza. At home a Ferro I recycles into 2 Metal Parts and 1 Rubber Parts; salvaged in a raid it gives only 2 Metal Parts. A Ferro II recycles into 4 Metal Parts and 3 Rubber Parts; salvaged, it gives 2 Metal Parts. The only time Topside recycling makes sense is when your backpack is completely full and you need to free a slot for something more valuable.

Stash Expansion

Your stash has a base capacity that can be expanded through Expedition rewards and Speranza upgrades. Completing Expedition milestones grants permanent stash size increases. Prioritize these rewards over cosmetics when given the choice. Every additional slot means one more rare material you can stockpile.

Use the Keep or Sell Tool

Not sure about a specific item? Visit arcraidersai.com/keep-or-sell for a keep, sell or recycle call on most items in the game. It shows the call on file for the item, with its vendor value.