Where do you find the Thermal Shaker in Arc Raiders?

Only on Pendola Pass, the Frozen Trail map. Most of its spots are loose loot: check shelves, train-car tables and seats, counters and tables, or consoles and desks, and search containers on the way. The areas with the most spots are Commissary Supermarket, Almatera Station and Cielo Sereno Observatory.

What is the Thermal Shaker used for?

3 for the Research Station upgrade to level IV.

Can you find the Thermal Shaker on other maps?

No. Its drop rules tie it to the Frozen Trail map, so it only spawns on Pendola Pass.

Why is the Thermal Shaker so rare?

It's a high-tier drop, so it rolls less often than the rare Frozen Trail materials even in the same spots. Loot zones give better odds: each raid marks some areas yellow or red on the map, and red zones roll more and better loot than yellow.

Where to Find the Thermal Shaker in Arc Raiders

The Thermal Shaker (epic, worth 3,000) spawns on Pendola Pass only. You need it for upgrading the Research Station to level IV: 3 Thermal Shakers, 3 ARC Data Modules and 1 Frigate Inductor. The Calculator and Differential Microphone spawn in exactly the same places, so you'll farm all three on one route.

Quick Answer

Map: Pendola Pass only.
Best areas: Commissary Supermarket, Almatera Station, Cielo Sereno Observatory and Freight Terminal.
Search: shelves, train-car tables and seats, counters and tables, or consoles and desks.
Loot type: Technological and Electrical.
Loot zones: check the map at raid start. Areas marked yellow (Loot value: Medium) roll better loot, and red ones (Loot value: High) more and better still.
You need: 3 for the Research Station upgrade to level IV.

What Kind of Places to Search

Most of its spawn spots are loose loot, lying out in the open, so look at surfaces as you move through a building. Containers (cabinets, desks, bags, breachable boxes) can hold it too. Share of all its spawn spots on Pendola Pass:

Where	Share of spots
Shelves and storage racks	51%
Train cars: tables and seats	10%
Tables, chairs and counters	7%
Consoles, desks and control panels	5%
Office desks and filing cabinets	5%
Parked vehicles	4%

Where we and other Raiders have picked it up:

Thermal Shaker pickup prompt on a table in a parked train car under Almatera Station — Loose on a table in the parked trains under Almatera Station, a minute after the Laser Level. Almatera Station was a yellow loot zone that raid; as a red zone it rolls more and better loot. Screenshot: Arc Raiders Hub.

Thermal Shaker pickup prompt on a low shelf in the Commissary Supermarket — Loose on a low shelf in the Commissary Supermarket aisles. Screenshot: Arc Raiders Hub.

Raider searching a metal pigeonhole cabinet next to old monitors — In a pigeonhole cabinet in the Almatera Station key room. The same drawer also gave an Anvil. Screenshot: Millzaa.

Raider searching a trash can just inside a doorway — In a trash can by the door of a small building behind an iced-up door. A Calculator came out of the same building. Screenshot: Millzaa.

How to Get to the Almatera Station Shelf Room

The best single room we've found for Frozen Trail materials is on the second floor of Almatera Station, inside the station building. Walk in through the main entrance, take the escalators up, and the room full of metal shelves is right at the top. Walk every row and look at each shelf.

From outside the station, up the escalators and into the shelf room. Footage: Arc Raiders Hub.

On a raid where Almatera Station was a red zone (Loot value: High), these shelves alone gave a Radial Press, Laser Level, Insulation Roll, Thermal Shaker, Hand Drill, Steel Cable and Sheet Metal. As a yellow zone (Loot value: Medium) the same room still gave a Radial Press, Hand Drill and Calculator.

Thermal Shaker pickup prompt on the metal shelves of the Almatera Station shelf room — The Thermal Shaker on the shelves of that room, on the red-zone raid. Screenshot: Arc Raiders Hub.

Best Areas on Pendola Pass

The places with the most spots where the Thermal Shaker can spawn:

Commissary Supermarket (985 spots)
Almatera Station (402 spots) · how to reach the shelf room
Cielo Sereno Observatory (268 spots)
Freight Terminal (207 spots)
Railyard (149 spots)

Open the Pendola Pass map to plan a route through them. Spots are only chances: every spot can roll many other items too.

Tips

Train cars are quick wins. Parked passenger cars have a table and seats per bay; walk the aisle and look down.
Head for the loot zones. Each raid marks some areas yellow or red on the map, and they change every raid. Yellow already rolls better loot; red rolls more and better loot still.
It weighs 0.5. Keep picking them up; three is all a project asks for.
Key rooms pay off. In the footage we went through, the Almatera Station, Cielo Sereno Observatory and Old Town key rooms gave Laser Levels, Insulation Rolls, Epoxy Buckets, Thermal Shakers, Calculators and a Radial Press.

Related Guides

Where to find the Calculator (same spots)
Where to find the Differential Microphone (same spots)
Where to find the Epoxy Bucket
Where to find the Hand Drill
Where to find the Laser Level
Where to find the Insulation Roll
Where to find the Radial Press
Where to find the Mini Pump
Where to find Planks and Sheet Metal
Everything the Outpost asks for: our Needed Items guide and the Outpost steps in our amplified weapons guide

Spawn data from the Arc Raiders 2.0 game files; screenshots: Arc Raiders Hub, Millzaa.