We consider the activated random walk model on $\mathbb{Z} ^d$, which undergoes a transition from an absorbing regime to a regime of sustained activity. A central question for this model involves the estimation of the critical density $\mu _c$. We prove that if the jump distribution is biased, then $\mu _c < 1$ for any sleeping rate $\lambda $, $d \geq 1$, and that $\mu _c \to 0$ as $\lambda \to 0$ in one dimension. This answers a question from Rolla and Sidoravicius (2012) and Dickman, Rolla and Sidoravicius (2010) in the case of biased jump distribution. Furthermore, we prove that the critical density depends on the jump distribution.
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