Understanding the Olive Requirement
Olives are one of Scrappy's favorite foods in Arc Raiders. Your pet rooster needs these items for his Level 4 upgrade, which requires 6 Olives, 6 Prickly Pears, and 1 Cat Bed. Gathering six olives might sound simple enough, but the competitive farming spots and spawn mechanics make proper preparation worthwhile.
Primary Farming Location: Blue Gate Olive Grove
Location Details
The Olive Grove on Blue Gate is your best bet for farming olives. You'll find it in the southern part of the map, featuring multiple olive trees where fruit naturally spawns. This is probably the same spot you visited for Scrappy's earlier upgrades that needed lemons and apricots, though olive trees are slightly larger than those fruit trees.
The Olive Grove works because it's the only confirmed location where olives spawn on the ground outside special event modifiers. You'll find the trees concentrated in this orchard area, making it easy to farm multiple olives during a single run.
Collection Methods at Olive Grove
You can grab olives two ways at the Olive Grove. First, look for olives on the ground around the trees, especially around the outskirts of the orchard. Walk up and interact to pick them up. Second, you can kick some olive trees to make additional olives drop. Not every tree responds to kicks, and not every kick drops fruit, but it's worth trying when you find a tree.
Spawn rates aren't guaranteed. A thorough search of the grove should get you a few olives per run, but you might need to extract and start a new round to refresh the spawns if you come up short.
Understanding the Competition Factor
Blue Gate's Olive Grove attracts tons of players. People farm here for olives, lemons, apricots, and to complete quests like With a Trace, A First Foothold, or Reduced to Rubble. This heavy traffic means you should expect PVP encounters. Ambushes are common in open areas, so you're balancing farming efficiency against staying alive.
Preparation Strategy for Blue Gate Farming
Loadout Recommendations
Your equipment choices matter here, especially what happens if you die before extracting. Use a custom loadout with Safe Pockets via your augment selection. This augment auto-extracts your collected Olives back to Scrappy's Hideout if you get killed, protecting your farming progress.
Free loadouts exist, but a cheap custom kit is better because Safe Pockets gives you insurance against losing items. When you're hunting specific things like olives, that protection beats the savings from free gear.
For handling other players, you've got two options. Either bring strong gear to defend yourself and fight for farming priority, or approach other players peacefully and coordinate your fruit collection. Since most people are farming for similar reasons, cooperation can work out for everyone. The diplomatic approach tends to work better since it cuts down on conflict while letting both parties finish their farming.
Route Planning
Before entering Blue Gate, plan your approach to the Olive Grove using map resources. Set a waypoint once you load in to help with navigation. When you get close, move carefully and check your surroundings constantly. Stay out of open areas where ambushes happen most often. The zone gets contested regularly, so good positioning prevents you from getting caught off guard.
Alternative Farming Method: Lush Blooms Event
Event Overview
The Lush Blooms modifier changes how you get olives and other nature items. This event can activate on any map, including Dam Battlegrounds. During Lush Blooms, your chances of finding olives, lemons, apricots, and mushrooms go up significantly.
Nature Basket Mechanic
When Lush Blooms is active, small woven baskets called Nature Baskets spawn throughout the map. These baskets contain nature items and can include olives. The Nature Basket system has several advantages over traditional Olive Grove farming.
First, baskets spawn across the entire map instead of concentrating players in one area, which means fewer PVP encounters. Second, you can potentially grab both Olives and Prickly Pears during the same event since both items appear in Nature Baskets. This matters because you need 6 of each for Scrappy's Level 4 upgrade. Third, the scattered spawn pattern gives you multiple farming locations instead of forcing you to fight over one grove.
When to Use This Method
Go with the Lush Blooms event method when you're struggling to find enough olives in Blue Gate due to competition or bad spawn luck. It's also better if you prefer lower risk farming that doesn't pin you in a known PVP hotspot. If you need both Olives and Prickly Pears at the same time, this method saves time. The main downside is waiting for the modifier to activate, so you can't use this approach on demand like Blue Gate farming.
Extraction and Storage Process
Completing Your Farming Run
Once you've collected your olives, head to the nearest extraction point and leave the raid. If you're using Safe Pockets like you should be, your items stay secure even if you die before reaching extraction. You don't have to choose between risky extended farming and bailing early for safety.
Managing Multiple Runs
If you don't get enough olives in your first run, extract safely and reload into a new round. Each fresh round refreshes the spawns, giving you more chances to collect olives. This multi-run approach makes Safe Pockets increasingly valuable. Each successful extraction adds to your total, and the augment means even runs where you die still count toward your progress.
Applying Your Olives
After extracting with your olives, return to Scrappy to apply them toward the Level 3 to Level 4 upgrade. Remember you need all the required items (6 Olives, 6 Prickly Pears, and 1 Cat Bed) before completing the upgrade.
Quest Synergy Opportunities
The Blue Gate Olive Grove offers efficiency beyond just olive farming. Several quests can be completed during the same run if you have them active: With a Trace, A First Foothold, and Reduced to Rubble. Your farming runs can serve multiple progression purposes at once, making the competitive environment more worthwhile despite the increased risk.
Key Takeaways for Efficient Olive Farming
Farm the Olive Grove in the southern area of Blue Gate, collecting ground olives and kicking trees for extra drops. Always use Safe Pockets augment to protect your collected olives if you get killed. Be ready for PVP encounters, either through strong equipment or working with other farmers.
For a safer option, wait for Lush Blooms event to farm Nature Baskets, which carry lower risk and can drop both Olives and Prickly Pears. Plan for multiple farming runs since spawn rates vary and you might not collect all 6 olives in one raid. Combine olive farming with quest completion at Blue Gate to get more value from each run despite the competition.