ARC Raiders continues to enjoy great popularity in the new year and reaches a new milestone. To celebrate the occasion, there is an exclusive gift, but you have to hurry to receive it.
What is the gift? If you log in today, on January 13, 2026, between 11:00 AM and 11:59 PM CET, you will receive a special golden pickaxe with an exclusive engraving on the handle. You will receive it automatically in your in-game mailbox as soon as you log in during the promotional period.
You have only one day to secure the gift. If you log in too late, you will no longer receive the item. You can see the pickaxe on the title image, and it is purely a cosmetic item. The promotion is to celebrate a new milestone that ARC Raiders has reached, as stated in the email newsletter.
Since release, particularly passionate Raiders have caused some curious stories:
12 million players, but the item states something else
What milestone has been reached? The pickaxe is given as a gift to all active players to celebrate the milestone of 12 million players reached. Originally, the item was created to thank for reaching 10 million players.
However, in the meantime, the player numbers have likely increased so much over the holidays that a larger goal has already been reached. The item has not been changed afterwards, so attentive Raiders may notice that 10,000,000 is engraved on the handle of the golden pickaxe and not 12,000,000 players.
ARC Raiders has been very popular since its release on October 30, 2025. This shows that the game resonates with its player base, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t criticism. MeinMMO editor Dariusz Müller has addressed a camp of critics in his article and is convinced that giving in to them would mean the death of the game: ARC Raiders will die if it listens to the whiny gamers demanding PvE servers
