Candle Holders in ARC Raiders are a great example of loot that went from useless to essential overnight, since before the Cold Snap content dropped, most players only recycled, sold, or ignored them because they weren’t used in crafting.
With the launch of the Cold Snap event, however, Candle Holders became suddenly important due to the Flickering Flames project, where Stage 2 requires you to donate three Candle Holders along with other materials.
That’s why they feel rare now, not because the game removed them, but because players are rushing and hoarding them, making spawn knowledge and farming routes more important than ever.
What Loot Category Are Candle Holders?
The most important thing to know is that Candle Holders are Residential loot, meaning you’ll find them far more reliably by farming map areas labeled Residential instead of searching randomly.
Residential areas include apartments, abandoned homes, villages, and settlement-style POIs, and they use home-themed containers—so loot like you’re scavenging a house, not a warehouse.
Candle Holders can theoretically appear outside these zones, but it’s inconsistent and inefficient.
If you want to finish Flickering Flames without wasting raids, Residential POIs are the correct approach almost every time.
How Do You Identify Residential Locations for Candle Holders?
When deciding where to go next, avoid relying on guesswork because ARC Raiders highlights Residential POIs using a specific Residential icon (usually a person/house-like symbol depending on the UI).
Any POI with this Residential marker can spawn Candle Holders more reliably because you are rolling from the correct loot pool.
This explains why loot runs vary so much: one player can check industrial crates and get nothing, while another clears a residential block and finds multiple Candle Holders in one raid.
In practice, the smartest move is to load into a raid and decide right away if you’re doing a Candle Holder farm run or a regular loot run.
If you’re farming for the event, treat it like a dedicated mission: push Residential POIs, loot fast, secure the Candle Holder, then extract instead of sticking around for PvP or extra loot.
Where Are the Best Candle Holder Locations?
Although Candle Holders can spawn anywhere Residential loot appears, Ruby Residence and Pale Apartments are the most reliable spots on Dam Battlegrounds because they have dense housing and tons of loot containers.
These areas are packed with apartment buildings, usually multi-storey, which means you get access to multiple apartments per building and a very large number of lootable objects in a short time.
Since Candle Holders frequently appear in “home container” loot, these complexes are perfect for farming them.
Many players say they find Candle Holders fast here, sometimes getting one or two on their very first run, especially if they fully loot the apartments instead of just checking the first rooms.
That said, these places are also popular right now, which means you should assume other raiders are likely to arrive early.
If you want to avoid PvP, pop the “Don’t Shoot” emote before pushing into an apartment building to signal peaceful intent.
It won’t guarantee peace, but it sometimes reduces random fights when two players are clearly there for the same material grind.
In Buried City, Grandioso Apartments and Santa Maria Houses are the most reliable choices, with Red Tower sometimes mentioned too because the map has more compact residential zones that make it easy to chain looting routes.
The drawback is that Buried City tends to be riskier since the layout funnels everyone into narrow paths and encourages a PvP-heavy mindset, meaning you’ll want to loot fast, avoid extended noise, and map out an early escape.
When farming Candle Holders at The Blue Gate, the most commonly recommended spots are Village, Raider’s Refuge, and Ruined Homestead.
Village stands out because many players consider it the most efficient Residential POI purely due to how loot-dense it is.
The buildings in Village usually contain multiple rooms, sometimes multiple floors, and lots of furniture loot spawns, giving you many more chances per raid to roll a Candle Holder spawn.
Some players report finishing the entire requirement (all three Candle Holders) in a single session here, especially when looting thoroughly across several buildings rather than committing to just one.
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