Warframe

Warframe

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Updated Resource Farming Guide
By Mictlantecuitli and 1 collaborators
A fairly comprehensive (and simple) guide to where to get the most resources in the shortest amount of time using the least amount of effort.
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General Tips

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1. The best way to farm is to find people to farm with, whether it is for experience farming, weapon or warframe part farming, or resource farming. This is due to higher spawn rates, and in a mission like survival, nearly all resource drops come from enemy kills. More enemies = more loot.

2. Bosses have a high chance of dropping rare materials from their respective planet. For example, if you are in need of a neural sensor, you might want to farm "Alad V", the boss of Jupiter. Keep in mind that that resource is not guaranteed and usually boss farming for resources can be time consuming depending on your luck with the drop rates. If you are with friends or in a group, it would be more advisable to do a defense, mobile defense, or survival mission.

3. All data listed below comes from completing missions without the use of loot-altering warframes or abilities, like nekros' desecrate or hydroid's tentacle swarm since some players do not have access to those warframes. Take this into consideration when planning how much time it will take you to farm a certain resource if you or a teammate does own those warframes. Furthermore, we are always careful to not have resource boosters enabled for the sake of accurate data collection.

4. All data is recorded on Google Sheets, and the things we track are: size of party, time / waves, type of mission, level of mission, and the faction of the mission. Each mission is completed 5 times, and if that is not enough to judge the average resource yield of that mission, we will repeat the mission until we can. The Google Sheet containing information on the resource of each section will be included at the top of each section.
Alloy Plate
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Link To Alloy Plate Sheet [docs.google.com]
Argon Crystals

Link To Argon Crystals Sheet [docs.google.com]

Argon Crystals are aptly classified as rare resources, and are the first resource that decays. You will lose 1 crystal every day at midnight GMT (meaning, for example, if you acquire one at 3:00 PM GMT on Sunday, you will lose it at midnight of the next day (Tuesday), 33 hours from then[24 hours + 9 hours until midnight, in this example]), so it's best to go on a farming rampage and get exactly as many as you need and use them ASAP.
Circuits
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Link To Circuits Sheet [docs.google.com]
Control Modules
Cryotic

Link To Cryotic Sheet [docs.google.com]

Cryotic is a resource found mainly from excavation missions. For every extractor that you successfully defend, you are rewarded 100 cryotic regardless of difficulty. Because of this, we highly recommend you farm cryotic along with another resource, and if you just require cryotic, do the lowest level mission. A good tip for cryotic missions is to bring a Frost / Frost Prime, due to his 3rd ability. Listed below are all the excavation missions in warframe. If you do not need to farm any other resources, Cervantes on Earth is your best bet due to it being extremely low level.
Ferrite
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Link To Ferrite Sheet [docs.google.com]
Fieldron
1. The most common way to obtain Fieldrons is from invasions.

2. You can also obtain them as a drop from rare or reinforced corpus storage containers.

3. This method is not recommended. Crafting the Fieldrons from blueprints researched in the energy lab of your clan dojo. The blueprints are NON-REUSEABLE and a single fieldron will take 10 Fieldron Samples, 1 Control Module, 500 Salvage, 250 Plastids, 30,000 Credits, and 12 hours. If you do not have the Fieldron researched in your Energy Lab, it will take 5 Fieldron Samples, 100 Rubedo, 500 Nano Spores, 200 Polymer Bundles, 5,000 Credits, and 72 hours.
Fieldron Samples
Gallium
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Link To Gallium Sheet [docs.google.com]
Morphics
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Link To Morphics Sheet [docs.google.com]
Mutagen Mass
1. The most common and easy way to recieve Mutagen Mass is to complete invasions.

2. Doing Orokin Derelict missions drop Mutagen Masses rarely.

3. This method is not recommended. The third method of obtaining Mutagen Mass is building it in the foundry with a blueprint bought from the Bio Lab of your clan dojo. This is not recommended because it requires 10 Mutagen Samples, 1 Control Module, 500 Salvage, 250 Plastids, 15,000 Credits, and 12 hours, although you can speed this up with 25 platinum. Along with the 15,000 Credits to build, you will have to purchase the blueprint for 15,000 Credits, and if your dojo does not have the research complete, you will have to research it, and depending on the size of your clan, the research costs may get quite expensive.
Mutagen Sample
Nano Spores
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Link To Nano Spores Sheet [docs.google.com]
Neural Sensor
Neurodes
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Link To Neurodes Sheet [docs.google.com]
Nitain Extract
1. The most common and recommended method of obtaining Nitain Extract is from alerts. It is guaranteed for 4 Nitain Extract alerts to occur every 24 hours.

2. If you are wanting to farm this resource in bulk (Vauban Prime much? :P), while waiting for the alerts to surface, do Reactor Sabotage Missions, as it has a chance to drop from a cache when all 3 are found.
Orokin Cell
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Link To Orokin Cell Sheet [docs.google.com]
Oxium

Link To Oxium Sheet [docs.google.com]

Have Fun
Plastids
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Link To Plastids Sheet [docs.google.com]
Polymer Bundle
Rubedo
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Link To Rubedo Sheet [docs.google.com]
Salvage
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Link To Salvage Sheet [docs.google.com]
Tellurium

Link To Tellurium Sheet [docs.google.com]
Special Thanks
Thanks to "~tRojAnkNigHt" for assisting in the collection of data.
907 Comments
Ole Sammy Nades 4 Feb, 2023 @ 1:20pm 
Make sure you guys send any information Fawzis way so he can update the list in the inevitable future :steamthumbsup:
Sneak 18 Mar, 2021 @ 1:30pm 
For anyone still looking for relevant information (as of March 2021), I've had the best luck with Oxium on Io, Jupiter. With a 3 day resource boost and Nekros, I was getting roughly 300-500 Oxium per 5 rounds (150-250 without boost, roughly to 100-180 without boost or Nekros)

For Mutagen Samples, anywhere on Deimos. I usually prefer camping a dead end on survival. Derelicts are a decent alternative I believe, and they almost don't exist on Eris.

Another method to obtain Nitain in bulk is to get cred from Nightwave Intermission and dump it into Nitain Extract.
Fawzi  [author] 25 Feb, 2021 @ 1:12pm 
yes
⛧SammonFoxxo 24 Feb, 2021 @ 6:34am 
You guys know this is hella out dated right
Donut 1 Jun, 2020 @ 4:32am 
No Hexenon :(
󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡 30 Mar, 2020 @ 12:58am 
Also, Why is Tethys not shown in Orokin Cell farm?
󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡 30 Mar, 2020 @ 12:11am 
Why did you clear the old run information? it might have been outdated but at least it served as a pointer.
crowbarzero 22 Nov, 2019 @ 5:35pm 
oxium?
Ember_Hatteruné 18 Oct, 2019 @ 3:45pm 
Good place to farm Circuits?
Fawzi  [author] 14 Jul, 2019 @ 8:45am 
@Wyncemeister yeahhhhhhhhhhh ive been pretty busy but i am working on it whenever I have the spare time, planning a full revamp, it should be out soon :)