If you haven’t already figured it out by now, **ARC Raiders** can be a lot to manage. If you’re not going into a round ready to fight for your survival nonstop, you might not end up having the best of times. One way to combat this is by making use of the game’s various keys.
As you’d imagine, keys open locked doors. What’s behind these doors is a random loot drop, but you can be certain that these areas are always worth tracking down, as they hold the highest concentrations of top-tier gear in the entire game.
One such key you can locate is the **Blue Gate Village Key**, which opens up a house containing four entire rooms full of loot. Not only is all of this salvaging a great way to bank a ton of XP at once, but you’ll also get to go back home with more useful gear than the average round—assuming, of course, that you’re able to extract safely after raiding this locked room.
If you need tips for anything relating to the Blue Gate Village Key in ARC Raiders, I’ve got you covered below.
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### How to Find the Blue Gate Village Key
Keys in ARC Raiders are randomized finds, but here’s where I personally found the Blue Gate Village Key. After spawning into the **Buried City**, I started out at the **Maintenance Depot**.
It didn’t take long to find this specific key, as it was located right in this same location. I took the time to loot the buildings in the Maintenance Depot, and the Blue Gate Village Key was waiting for me in a searchable filing cabinet, right next to a desk with a computer.
There’s no guarantee you’ll find it here too, but it’s definitely possible.
Other players have reported finding this specific key in the **Ruby Residence apartments** in **Dam Battlegrounds**, which seems to be a hotbed for key drops.
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### Important Tip: Secure Your Keys
Each and every time you find a key in ARC Raiders, be sure to throw it into a safe pocket if you have one. If not, consider immediately extracting from the round.
Keys are arguably the most valuable items in the game, so there’s no shame in picking one up and then immediately getting the heck out of dodge.
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### Where to Use the Blue Gate Village Key
Putting the Blue Gate Village Key to use is actually pretty straightforward compared to many other keys in the game. This isn’t a hard locked room to get to at all—if you know where to look.
You’ll be headed to the **Village on the Blue Gate map**, with the locked room located at the green lock symbol on the map.
You’ll know you’re at the correct building when it matches the image above—it has a barred front door. Luckily, your trusty Blue Gate Village Key is all you need to crack it open.
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### Tips for Looting the House
Once you unlock the door and head inside, I highly recommend shutting the door behind you. This helps prevent any nearby wandering Raiders from coming in with you and either taking you out or looting the interior themselves.
Inside this house are **four separate rooms to loot**, so make sure you search the entire interior carefully. There’s a gun case in the first room, and many cabinets and drawers throughout the rest of the building that hide all manner of goodies.
You’ll want to throw whatever piece of new loot you’re most attached to into your safe pocket(s), just in case things go south quickly at any point.
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### Extracting After Looting
Once you’ve looted the whole place, the smart move is to get off the map ASAP.
– If you have a **hatch key**, you can extract from the hatch on the east side of the Village.
– If not, your best bet is the **Cliffside Airshaft** just to the southeast, assuming it’s still operational.
The Cliffside Airshaft was my manner of escape. Just be cautious, as there are many ARCs roaming the area between the Village and the Cliffside Airshaft. I actually got downed by an airborne ARC just after calling for my extraction but was thankfully still able to fall down the airshaft and get back home with my gear.
If you’re downed at the top of an airshaft, just crawl to the edge and fall all the way down to the bottom. There’s no fall damage when you’re downed anyway, so dropping down and extracting is much quicker than crawling all the way down the stairs.
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### Blue Gate Village Key Rewards
The loot you grab from this locked room will be random, just like any other locked room in the game. Still, I found that I was able to come away with even more cool and useful gear than I expected, especially considering the Blue Gate Village Key is only of **Uncommon** rarity.
In total, I had over **50,000 coins’ worth of loot** once I returned, which was also enough to earn a trophy/achievement called **“The Big Haul.”**
For your own reference, so you can decide if this mission is worth the risk to you, here’s the best gear I walked away with:
* [List your best gear here if desired]*
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Using the Blue Gate Village Key can dramatically boost your gear haul and XP in ARC Raiders, but remember—the keys are valuable, so secure them and extract wisely. Good luck out there, Raider!
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