The Home to Roost quest log in ARC Raiders sends you underground into the belly of Blue Gate to recover MANTIKOR’s final records for Shani. To find out what MANTIKOR’s paramilitaries were covering up before the Exodus, you are required to get through the pitch-black Traffic Tunnels, breach a barricaded locker room, and crack a locked security depot.
Even though the quest requires you to have a rare Confiscation Room Key to see it through, you do not need to rely on random container drops since a guaranteed spare key can be found along your objective path, which we’ll tell you where to pick up. Clear your inventory for loot, bring a shotgun or SMG for close-quarters Shredders, and head underground.
Reach the Back of the Blue Gate Tunnels
On the Blue Gate map, make your way underground toward the Traffic Tunnel network. You can enter through the main Checkpoint gates found on the southern end where a lot of wrecked vehicles are found inside, drop down the elevator shaft near Reinforced Reception, or slip in through the Outer Gates. I entered through the Outer Gates I’ve marked on the map above.
Once inside the dark subterranean, sprint all the way north toward the dead end of the tunnel to complete the first objective.
Scan Any Android at the Back of the Tunnels
This tunnel part has many Androids here and there, and you just have to get to one and interact with it to complete that part of the quest.
Here’s where I found one to proceed with this task. Turn on the flashlight for a better view of the dark, then go to the security booth near the back wall. Slumped on the pavement beside the booth and a junked car is a deactivated Android. Approach and interact with the chassis to scan the Android, which will update the quest log to investigate the security personnel quarters.
Reach the MANTIKOR Locker Room
Turn around from the Android and head back south through the tunnels, then veer right toward the Security Wing.
As you take the small stairs to the raised platform, you will come across a heavy blast door stamped with a blue MANTIKOR logo. Ignore it for now (we’ll come back later) and take the staircase on its right up to the second level. Follow the catwalk around the corner, dealing with any Shredders or Fireballs lurking in the hallway.
Hang another right to find the doors to the locker room. Someone might have already opened it before you, but if you’re the first raider through here this run, the doorway will be locked, and you’ll have to breach it.
Search for Any Clues in the Locker Room
Inside, move past the looted lockers or sweep through if they are still untouched, then walk to the back corner. You will find a faded red mural painted onto the concrete wall. Interact with the painting to log the clues and finish this objective.
Read the Last Vehicle Weighing Logs (and Grab the Key)
The mural points you back toward the vehicle checkpoints. Retrace your steps out of the locker room, head down the stairs, and return to the lower ground.
Directly across from the platform, there’s a vehicle weighing station with a rusted sedan. Squeeze between the car and the wall to the far side of the inspection booth pointed out in the image above, where a terminal is mounted to the pillar.
Interact with the computer to read the last vehicle weighing logs.
Before leaving, look down immediately to the right of the terminal along the concrete barrier where you’ll find a small container to get a Blue Gate Confiscation Room Key if you haven’t picked one or take it as spare. After that, place it into your Safe Pocket so you don’t lose it even if being killed in the tunnels.
Enter the Confiscation Room
Return to the same ramp onto the Security Wing where you earlier passed the locked door with the stairs on its right. Use the Blue Gate Confiscation Room Key on the console next to the MANTIKOR door to breach open the door. Step inside, loot the lockers no one has looted so far, and go inside the back storage room.
Transmit MANTIKOR Security’s Last Recordings to Shani
Climb onto the wire shelving unit in the center of the room. Climb the rack to find a small white-and-red recording box near the ceiling ductwork. Interact with the box to transmit MANTIKOR’s security recordings to Shani to wrap up the Home to Root quest.
With the data transmitted, you don’t need to carry any physical quest items out. Head to the nearest Raider Hatch or call down a Cargo Elevator to extract back to Speranza. Return to Shani to talk to her and claim your rewards:
- 5,000 XP
- 1x Surge Shield Recharger
- 2x Sterilized Bandages
- 2x Antiseptic
