The Green Hand Initiative

A GREENHOUSE CONCEPT SYSTEM

here's a quick overview of this new mechanic

A NEW PROJECT: THE GREENHOUSE

A permanent and upgradable project

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CULTIVATE AND HARVEST

Grow your own plant indoors

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COOK MEALS

New cooking station
Cook meals, receive small buffs

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HELP SPERANZA

Donate your harvest or topside plants
Receive Rewards and Merits

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Nature Icon A PEACEFUL LOOP

The Green Hand Initiative is a concept gameplay loop focused on adding more purposes towards plants in general. It adds a peaceful and pleasing layer to your underground life, giving a new purpose to your extractions and a way to actively lore-friendly support Speranza's survival !

This concept also emphasizes giving projects AN ACTUAL PURPOSE.

Icon Availabe Project
GREENHOUSE

REBUILD NATURE INSIDE OF SPERANZA

Unlock a personal, instanced Greenhouse Project next to your raider's Den.
This isn't just a prop; it is an interactive project that comes with multiple upgrades (click on the image to see a preview).

SEEDS OF TOMORROW

Plants or seeds that you scavenge topside now can be cultivated in your greenhouse:

They grow in real times.

You can only grow 24 plants at a time.

Some plants can be found in special condition or rarely in the seed vault of Stella Montis.

Food Icon SURVIVAL GASTRONOMY

"A well-fed Raider is a deadly Raider."
Use your harvested crops at the new Cooking Station to prepare meals before or in-raids. They are small buff items, providing another gameplay purpose for plants. Here are some examples:

Keep you more warm outside in a cold snap.
CANDLEBERRY SYRUP 5/5
Slightly increased stamina recovery for 15 minutes.
SMASHED VEGETABLES 3/3
Minor boost to sprint speed when out of combat.
TOPSIDE TEA 5/5
Slow passive health regeneration over time.
SHROOM SOUP 2/2
Have slightly more chance to find rarer items.
SPERANZA SPECIALTY 1/1
DAILY CONTRACT
NORMAL

HARVEST GREAT MULLEIN

Find and harvest Great Mullein.

0/20
Rewards:
Materials 9k
Merits 100
THE GREEN HAND INITIATIVE

With the recent shortage of food, Celeste is sponsoring a reward program for raiders who donates their crops.

DONATION PROGRESS BAR:

WEEKLY DONATION
RESETS IN: --d --h --m
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74 / 100 CROPS DONATED
WHEN FULL:
  • +6kg carrying capacity for your Raider.
  • Better items found by Scrappy.
  • +5% maximum stamina.
You can always give more than 100 crops per week.

HELPING SPERANZA


Celeste heard that raiders are now growing their own plants and has establish a new program: the green hand initiative, a milestone-type system based on your total number of crops donated ! Earn Merits and buffs through her new program, and help rebuilding and reinforcing Speranza.

About me

Hi i'm Gogneau, I initially designed this concept to see how a non-combat loop could fit into ARC Raiders. I know there's 99% chance that my concept will never see the day but i don't care, i'm loving to share some concept of my favorite game with you all !

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