ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests arrived with Update 2.0 on October 8, 2026. Embark confirmed 22 new assignments, but the missions branch across multiple traders and maps instead of following one single campaign. You’ll be sent to Pendola Pass, the Frigate, Riven Tides, Blue Gate and several older facilities.
This tracker lists the mission names that can be checked against current quest records, who gives them, what opens them and what rewards to expect. Existing and newly drafted walkthroughs are linked directly. It also separates two older Riven Tides quests from the October additions, so you can follow the real progression without getting sent after the wrong prerequisite.
ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests: mission list and unlocks
Embark’s patch announced 22 new quests. The table below tracks twenty named missions across the current and connected trader questlines, including some that began before Frozen Trail. It is not a verified list of the 22 October-only additions. The rewards column gives the quest payouts where documented, including the current Boarding the Frigate item list. Follow each mission link for the individual route and requirements. Each linked guide covers the actual interactions without turning this tracker into a wall of shortened walkthroughs.
| Mission | Trader | After | Map | Key rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploring Pendola Pass | Celeste | Off The Radar | Pendola Pass | Snow Globe, Medium Shield, Osprey I |
| Clean Hands | Nomadic Envoy | Off The Radar | Pendola Pass | Sextant, Shield Recharger, Paperback |
| Tracks of the Beast | Shani | Exploring Pendola Pass | Pendola Pass | Showstoppers, Grappling Hook |
| Sizing Things Up | Celeste | Off The Radar | Pendola Pass | Bettina I, Adrenaline Shots, Handbook |
| Celeste’s Childhood Drawings | Lance | Shoring Up Defenses | Riven Tides | Mixtape charm, Sterilized Bandages |
| Celeste’s Teenage Rebellion | Celeste | Childhood Drawings | Riven Tides | Heavy Shield, Looting Mk. 2 |
| Wires Crossed | Celeste | Celeste’s quest chain | Pendola Pass | See quest card |
| To the Skies | Apollo | Off The Radar | Multiple | ARC Performance Steel, Lining, Resin |
| Bait, Fetch, Blast | Apollo | Tracks of the Beast | Pendola Pass | Bully Fragmenter, Wolfpack |
| Ruins and Reverberations | Celeste | Wires Crossed | Pendola Pass | Smoke Grenades, Safekeeper, components |
| Taking Stock | Nomadic Envoy | Clean Hands | Four maps | Jolt Mines, Advanced Electrical Components |
| Boarding the Frigate | Celeste | Off The Radar | Frigate | Snap Hook, Wolfpack, Rascal I, 3 Launcher Ammo; 10,000 XP |
| Belly of the Beast | Shani | Tracks + Sizing | Pendola Pass | Snap Hook, Observatory Key, supplies |
| Home to Roost | Shani | Shani’s investigation | Blue Gate | See quest panel |
| A Path Not Yours | Nomadic Envoy | Taking Stock | Blue Gate | Tellurion, magnets, batteries, cables |
| Someone Else’s Shoes | Celeste | Celeste’s quest chain | Stella Montis | See quest panel |
| Empathetic Prototypes | Lance | Someone Else’s Shoes | Spaceport | Canto I, 2 Vita Shots |
| When Everything Falls | Shani | Shani’s investigation | Multiple | See quest panel |
| Disrupting the Frigate | Celeste | Boarding the Frigate | Frigate | Hullcracker I |
| The First Nomads | Shani | Shani’s investigation | Multiple | Bobcat I, Surge Coils, Tactical Mk. 3 |
ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests: Where to begin the new missions
ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests become available from different traders, often after a basic assignment such as Off The Radar. Visit Celeste, Shani, Apollo, Lance and the Nomadic Envoy in Speranza rather than expecting one person to hand you every mission. Completing objectives now grants XP, while final turn-ins give the items shown on each quest card. A reward table is useful for choosing what to chase, but the prerequisite column matters more when your next mission hasn’t appeared yet.
Shani’s route towards the Emperor
Exploring Pendola Pass gets you familiar with the Observatory and Railyard, while Tracks of the Beast leads into the Northern Tracks to meet the Bully and Skulker. Finish Tracks of the Beast and Celeste’s Sizing Things Up to unlock Belly of the Beast. That takes you inside the fallen Emperor and requires a gateway, power-source investigation, Harvester Payload storage, five container searches and unique loot. ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests share locations but ask for different interactions, so the photos needed in Sizing Things Up won’t satisfy the dungeon objective.
The Observatory repair route
Wires Crossed leads into Ruins and Reverberations at Cielo Sereno Observatory. Bring a Spotter Relay, attach it to the roof antenna, go beneath the control room to weld the electrical panel, then climb back and activate the antenna. All three repairs must happen within one raid. ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests can be failed through missing gear before you’ve even reached the location; checking for the relay in your stash is quicker than finding yourself stuck on the Observatory roof.
ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests: Boarding versus sabotaging the Frigate
The two Frigate assignments are very different. Boarding the Frigate is about getting aboard and dealing damage to a Hydra, a Vaporizer and a Rocketeer. The follow-up Disrupting the Frigate has a three-core reactor objective, lower cargo puzzles and multiple enemy kills. The central reactor has three simultaneous controls, so bring teammates if you want a reliable clear. ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests on the flying ship also require the active Frigate map condition, which disables Raider Hatches and Free Loadouts.
The Nomadic Envoy’s three-part story
Clean Hands begins under the Pendola Pass Railyard. Taking Stock follows with camera work on Stella Montis and Spaceport, a ping on either a Bombardier or a Bastion, and delivery of three Industrial Batteries. The final assignment, A Path Not Yours, moves to Blue Gate’s Highway Collapse, where you follow Nomad markers to Bilguun’s hideout and recover a Broken Compass. ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests aren’t all restricted to the frozen new map. A Path Not Yours in particular requires the real buried cache, not simply looting the optional stash.
Lance’s Android and research chain
Home to Roost and Someone Else’s Shoes examine old technology on Blue Gate and Stella Montis. Finish Someone Else’s Shoes to unlock Empathetic Prototypes at Spaceport’s Trench Towers. There you can release a suspended cargo crate with a key-operated terminal or by grappling onto it and manually disabling the Magnetic Lock. Recover the Project Pathos Empathy Core and bring it to Lance to get a Canto I and Vita Shots. When Everything Falls follows. ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests sometimes provide a Grappling Hook for a very specific reason, so inspect the granted kit before buying duplicate items.
ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests: Which missions actually arrived with October’s update?
Embark says Frozen Trail added 22 quests, but its patch notes don’t print a full name-by-name list. The tracker includes twenty missions from several connected questlines, including earlier Riven Tides progression. The 22 new missions mentioned in Embark’s patch notes have not been conclusively matched to twenty-two individual names; older quests must not be counted as new merely to reach that number. These are twenty tracked missions, not a claim that the original 22 have all been independently identified. That is better than padding the count with unrelated missions. ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests listings sometimes include Battening Down and Shoring Up Defenses, but both actually came with April’s Riven Tides update. They’re still worth completing, and each has its own guide below.
Old Riven Tides quests that connect to newer stories
Battening Down sends Apollo’s Raiders to the seawall, hotel beach and leaking northeast oil pipe. Shoring Up Defenses needs five Wasp kills, three Firefly kills, one ARC Alloy for a Stacking Yard crane and boarding at the hotel windows. The latter helps unlock Celeste’s Childhood Drawings, which in turn leads to Teenage Rebellion. ARC Raiders Frozen Trail Quests connect to earlier map stories without retroactively making those April missions new October releases.
Related Guides
Official update: Embark’s Frozen Trail 2.0 patch notes.
