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  "description": "Where to place the bird trap near the buoys on the Seabed to clear stage one of the Avian Alarm project.",
  "path": "/arc-raiders-initial-flock-intake-bird-trap-location-on-riven-tides/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-29T05:22:13.000Z",
  "site": "https://allthings.how",
  "tags": [
    "@Karpo",
    "@GuchiFin"
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  "textContent": "Initial Flock Intake is the first stage of the Avian Alarm project in Arc Raiders, added with the Riven Tides update. Unlike previous projects, it does not start by asking you to hand over materials. Instead, you have to head out to the new map and lay a bird trap next to the buoys along the Seabed.\n\n🪤\n\nQuick answer: Drop into Riven Tides, head to the dried Seabed northeast of the Port Authority Building (between it and Wavebreaker), approach the large beached buoy, and interact with the holographic prompt to lay the bird trap. You do not need to extract for it to count.\n\nImage Credit:__Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Karpo Gaming)__\n\n* * *\n\n### What Initial Flock Intake is\n\nThe Avian Alarm is a five-stage Speranza project tied to the Riven Tides map. Stages two through five follow the usual format of submitting resources for rewards, but stage one is the first project step in Arc Raiders that works like a quest objective. The in-game title for the task is \"Lay a bird trap next to the buoys along the Seabed in Riven Tides.\"\n\nYou complete it once, anywhere along the marked interaction zone next to the buoy. There is no resource cost and no special item to bring with you, the trap is provided by the prompt itself.\n\nImage Credit:__Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Karpo Gaming)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Bird trap location on Riven Tides\n\nThe Seabed sits in the northwest corner of Riven Tides, next to the Port Authority Building. The exact spot for the trap is not directly at the building. Look northeast of Port Authority, in the open dried-up seabed between it and the Wavebreaker point of interest.\n\nYou are looking for a single, large beached buoy lying on the sand. It is rusted, bell-shaped, and stands out clearly against the flat landscape. Some players see it as orange, others as red, depending on the lighting, but there is only one, and it is hard to miss once you are on the seabed.\n\nWhen you get close, a blue holographic outline appears on the ground around the buoy, showing valid placement spots. Any of those spots works.\n\nYou are looking for a single, large beached buoy lying on the sand | Image Credit:__Embark Studios (via YouTube/@Karpo Gaming)__\n\n* * *\n\n### Steps to complete stage one\n\n**Step 1:** From Speranza, queue into Riven Tides and load into a match. The objective is tracked under the Avian Alarm project, so make sure the project is active in your menu before deploying.\n\n**Step 2:** Travel to the Seabed in the northwest of the map. The fastest reference point is the Port Authority Building. From there, move northeast across the exposed seabed toward Wavebreaker until you spot the beached buoy.\n\nTravel to the Seabed in the northwest of the map | Image Credit:__Embark Studios (via YouTube/@GuchiFin)__\n\n**Step 3:** Approach the buoy until the blue hologram and the \"Lay Bird Trap\" prompt appear. Hold interact on any of the highlighted spots to place the trap.\n\nApproach the buoy until the blue hologram and the \"Lay Bird Trap\" prompt appear | Image Credit:__Embark Studios (via YouTube/@GuchiFin)__\n\n**Step 4:** Return to Speranza. Open the Avian Alarm project page and confirm the stage as complete to claim the rewards. You do not have to extract from the raid for the placement to register.\n\n* * *\n\n### Initial Flock Intake rewards\n\nFinishing stage one pays out the following:\n\nReward| Amount\n---|---\nDockmaster's Detector| 1\nRaider Tokens| 25\n\nThe Dockmaster's Detector behaves like a metal detector tuned for Riven Tides, locating foreign objects buried in the sand around the map. Holding onto it is worth the inventory slot if you plan to keep running the new map.\n\nImage Credit:__Embark Studios (via YouTube/@GuchiFin)__\n\n* * *\n\n### How to know it worked\n\nTwo confirmations make it clear the stage is done. In-match, the \"Place Bird Trap\" quest line under the Avian Alarm objective ticks off as soon as you interact with the prompt. Back in Speranza, the Initial Flock Intake page in the Project menu shows a Complete button, and claiming it adds the Dockmaster's Detector to your stash and credits the 25 Raider Tokens.\n\nIf the stage does not register, the usual reason is that the Avian Alarm project was not selected as active before you deployed, or you interacted with a different object near the seabed. Re-select the project, drop back in, and place the trap again on the highlighted spots next to the beached buoy.\n\n* * *\n\n### What stage two needs next\n\nOnce Initial Flock Intake is cleared, Preliminary Signal Birds opens up and switches back to material submissions. To plan your next runs, the stage two requirements are:\n\nResource| Amount\n---|---\nTick Pod| 7\nCanister| 20\nMoss| 12\n\"Twilight Compass\" Ship Model| 5\n\nThe Stacking Yard area is close to the bird trap location, so it is reasonable to chain the trap placement with early steps of the Shoring Up Defenses and Battening Down quests on the same drop into Riven Tides.",
  "title": "Arc Raiders Initial Flock Intake: Bird trap location on Riven Tides",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-29T05:22:15.215Z"
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