Companions: Sentinels, Kubrows, Kavats, MOAs and more

A companion is a small helper you equip in the Arsenal and take into every mission. Depending on the type, it fights, pulls items to you, scans enemies or gives you buffs. You can only bring one companion at a time. Like Warframes and weapons, companions level up to rank 30 and get their own mods.

The most important terms in short:

Sentinel

A floating robot companion. It brings its own weapon and follows you everywhere, even through the air.

Beast companion

Living companions such as Kubrows, Kavats, Predasites and Vulpaphylas. They fight in melee with their claws.

Precepts

Special mods that define what a companion can do. They have the Penjaga polarity.

Companion weapon

The weapon of Sentinels, MOAs and Hounds. You install normal rifle, shotgun, pistol or melee mods.

Modular companions

MOAs, Hounds, Predasites and Vulpaphylas are built from several parts you choose yourself.

Gilding

A modular companion at rank 30 is gilded at its vendor. Only then does it give mastery and unlock all features.

Incapacitated

When your companion runs out of health, it is out for a while. It no longer dies for good.

There are seven classes. Three are robots, four are living animals. Robots carry a companion weapon, beasts fight with claws.

Type	Kind	Examples	How to get them
Sentinel	Robot, floating	Helios, Carrier, Taxon, Oxylus	Blueprints from the Market, the Clan Dojo or vendors
MOA	Robot, modular	Lambeo Moa, Para Moa, Nychus Moa	From Legs in Fortuna for Solaris United standing
Hound	Robot, modular	Dorma Tazı, Bhaıra Tazı, Hec Tazı	From a vanquished Sister of Parvos
Kubrow	Beast	Sunika Kubrow, Chesa Kubrow, Raksa Kubrow	Hatch a Kubrow Egg in the Incubator
Kavat	Beast	Smeeta Kavat, Adarza Kavat, Vasca Kavat	Kavat Genetic Codes in the Incubator
Predasite	Beast, modular	Medjay Predasite, Vizier Predasite, Pharaoh Predasite	Conservation in the Cambion Drift, then Son
Vulpaphyla	Beast, modular	Panzer Vulpaphyla, Sly Vulpaphyla, Crescent Vulpaphyla	Conservation in the Cambion Drift, then Son

Sentinels are the easiest start. Every Sentinel brings its own weapon. That is why it takes two companion slots: one for itself and one for the weapon.

• Taxon: You get the blueprint for the Junction between Earth and Venus. More copies cost 5,000 Credits in the Market.
• Carrier, Dethcube, Diriga, Shade and Wyrm: blueprints for 100,000 Credits each in the Market.
• Helios and Djinn: research in the Clan Dojo (Helios in the Energy Lab, Djinn in the Bio Lab).
• Oxylus: blueprint from The Business in Fortuna, at the top rank with Solaris United.
• Nautilus: parts from Railjack missions in the Neptune Proxima.
• Prime Sentinels: parts from Void Relics: farming Prime parts or by trading.

Kubrows and Kavats grow up in your Orbiter’s Incubator. You unlock the Incubator with the quest “Howl of the Kubrow”. It starts from the Codex after the Junction between Venus and Mercury.

1. 01

   Play the quest

   In “Howl of the Kubrow” you grab the Incubator Segment on Unda (Venus) and install it in your Orbiter.

2. 02

   Build an Incubator Power Core

   The blueprint is in the Market. It costs 100,000 Credits, 4,500 Nano Spores, 2 Control Modules and 1 Argon Crystal and takes 8 hours.

3. 03

   Kubrow: get an egg

   A Kubrow Egg sometimes drops when you destroy Kubrow Dens in Earth’s forest tileset, for example on Mantle. In the Market it costs 10 Platinum.

4. 04

   Kavat: scan codes

   Scan Feral Kavats in the Orokin Derelict on Deimos, for example on Horend. You need 10 Kavat Genetic Codes and a Kavat Incubator Upgrade Segment.

5. 05

   Hatch and mature

   Hatching takes 48 hours, or is instant for 15 Platinum. Then you name your pet and mature it in the Incubator. Only then can it join missions.

The Vasca Kavat is a special case: let your Kavat get infected by a wild Vasca Kavat at night in the Plains of Eidolon, then take a code from it in the Incubator. Two such codes guarantee a Vasca Kavat.

You build these four types from parts. The model (the head) decides the abilities, the other parts decide the stats and the look.

You get your Sister’s complete Hound directly when you vanquish her. How that works is in Sisters of Parvos: Candidate, Hounds and Tenet weapons. How to collect the standing you need is explained in Syndicates, open worlds and standing.

Companions have no ability keys. You control what they do with Precepts. These are mods with the Penjaga polarity. Every companion has its own Precepts, which you get automatically when you build or hatch it. Others work for a whole class, for example all robots or all beasts.

• Order matters: the top left slot has the highest priority, the bottom right slot the lowest.
• Precepts do not have to sit in a Penjaga slot. There they just cost less capacity.
• Sentinels only attack when an attack Precept such as Assault Mode is installed.

Mod	For	Effect
Vacuum	Robots (Sentinels, MOAs, Hounds)	Pulls items and mods to you from 13.5 m
Fetch	Beasts	The beast version of Vacuum
Animal Instinct	All companions	Shows enemies and loot on the minimap
Loyal Retriever	Beasts	Chance for resource and credit pickups to count twice
Assault Mode	Sentinels	The Sentinel fires its weapon on its own
Sacrifice	Sentinels	Revives you when you are downed

Sentinels, MOAs and Hounds carry their own weapon. It has unlimited ammo and takes normal weapon mods of its class. A mod can sit in your own weapon at the same time. These weapons have no Exilus slot and no Arcanes.

Weapon	Comes with	Takes mods for
Sweeper	Carrier	Shotgun, e.g. Point Blank
Deconstructor	Helios (only Helios can use it)	Melee (a glaive)
Deth Machine Rifle	Dethcube	Rifle, e.g. Serration
Laser Rifle	Wyrm	Rifle
Artax	Taxon	Rifle
Stinger	Djinn	Rifle
Multron	Oxylus	Rifle
Vulklok	Diriga	Sniper rifle
Burst Laser	Shade	Pistol
Cryotra, Tazicor, Vulcax, Helstrum	Blueprints from Legs, for Sentinels and MOAs	Rifle
Akaten, Batoten, Lacerten	Hounds (only they can use them)	Melee

Since the 2024 companion rework, companions no longer die for good. When their health hits 0, they are incapacitated. After 60 seconds (base value) they come back on their own and are invulnerable for 5 seconds. This can happen as often as needed.

• Kubrows, Kavats, MOAs and Predasites collapse on the ground. You can revive them to get them back sooner.
• Sentinels cannot be revived. They fly along damaged and repair themselves.
• Vulpaphylas transform for a short time and then recover.
• Vacuum and Animal Instinct keep working while the companion is incapacitated.

There are two ways to make your companion tougher. Link mods give it a share of your Warframe’s stats. The other mods raise the companion’s own base stats.

Stat	Link mod (not for Sentinels)	Own stat (also for Sentinels)
Health	Link Vitality	Enhanced Vitality
Shields	Link Redirection	Calculated Redirection
Armor	Link Fiber	Metal Fiber