In ARC Raiders, scavenging and looting efficiently is key to upgrading companions and progressing smoothly. One of the lesser-known but essential upgrade materials is the item Very Comfortable Pillow. Despite its humble name, this pillow plays a pivotal role in upgrading your companion Scrappy to its highest tier. In this article, I will explain exactly what the pillow does, where and how you can reliably get it, and give you practical tips so you don’t waste precious raids chasing after it.
The Very Comfortable Pillow is classified as a “trinket.” It has a modest in-game weight and stack size, making it easy to carry. More importantly, you need exactly three pillows — plus some other items — to upgrade Scrappy from Tier 4 to Tier 5. This final level unlocks improved resource drops, making future raids more profitable and efficient. If you skip gathering pillows, you block a crucial part of long-term progression.
Because of that, the pillow is far more than a cosmetic oddity — it’s a core part of building up your crafting and resource-gathering capabilities via Scrappy.
Where Very Comfortable Pillows Spawn
The spawn of pillows in ARC Raiders is random and depends heavily on interior loot pools. The pillow tends to appear in both residential and commercial interiors. That means apartments, houses, shops, hotels, medical wards, or any building that once housed civilians — these are your prime targets.
That said, certain areas have proven more reliable than others. These high-density zones are usually better bets if you want to farm pillows quickly:
- Dense apartments or housing clusters in urban-style maps.
- Residential buildings with beds, sofas, drawers, nightstands — places where people once lived or slept.
- Commercial interiors attached to residential zones: shops, small boutiques, medical wards, or mixed-use buildings.
Because the loot system is random, you won’t always find a pillow during every raid. Instead, success usually comes from hitting many interiors in a single run or looping routes across several buildings.
Top Locations to Farm Very Comfortable Pillows
If you want to maximize your chances, prioritize these locations and zones. They currently rank among the best for pillow farming:
- Urban apartment clusters — maps with many apartments, houses, or buildings packed close together.
- Interior-heavy zones — buildings with many private rooms, storage containers, drawers, or furniture like beds and sofas.
- Mixed residential / commercial areas — places where both living quarters and shops/wards exist.
In practice, these zones include older city-style neighborhoods, apartment-block clusters, and mixed-use buildings. Wherever you see many doors, bedrooms, and small containers — that’s exactly where you want to be.
Because the spawn is unpredictable, it helps to move quickly — sweep multiple rooms, then move to another building if nothing appears. Do not linger in one building hoping for a pillow; instead, spread your search across many interiors for better odds.
How to Farm Efficiently: Strategy + Best Practices
Here’s a step-by-step approach to get your three pillows reliably and safely:
- Enter a map area with many buildings: apartments, houses, or shops.
- Prioritize searching bedrooms, living rooms, and any room with soft furniture like beds, sofas, or chairs. Pillows tend to spawn where people once rested.
- Open drawers, cabinets, nightstands, small crates — don’t skip furniture even if you find nothing for a while.
- Cover many interiors in a loop rather than thoroughly over-searching one building: volume improves odds more than depth.
- If one neighborhood yields nothing, rotate to a different cluster of buildings — sometimes rotation triggers new loot spawns.
- Once you find a pillow, stash it immediately — many players recommend using “safe pocket” or any secure inventory slot before moving to extraction, to avoid losing it if you get killed.
- Combine your pillow runs with other resource runs (natural resources or other loot), so each raid yields maximum benefit.
