Resource farming: get there faster

Resources drop from enemies, crates and lockers. You need them for almost every blueprint in the Foundry. Common resources come in on the side. For rare ones like Orokin Hücresi or Sinir Sensörleri it pays to farm on purpose and use the right helpers.

The key terms in short:

Farming

Playing a mission several times to collect specific loot.

Drop chance

The chance that an enemy or a container drops something.

Rare resource

Resources like Orokin Cells that mostly drop one at a time. They are often the bottleneck when building.

Booster

A temporary bonus. It runs in real time, even when you are not playing.

Loot ability

A Warframe ability that makes enemies drop extra loot.

Extractor

A drone you deploy on a planet. It collects resources for a few hours, even while you are offline.

Every planet has its own resource list. You see it in the Star Chart when you select a planet. These resources are the biggest bottleneck for many players:

Resource	Location	Note
Orokin Hücresi	Ceres, Saturn, Deimos	Rare, usually drops one at a time.
Sinir Sensörleri	Jupiter	Rare, only on this planet.
Argon Kristali	Void	Partly decays every day. Farm it right before you build.
Kontrol Modülü	Europa, Neptune, Void	Rare.
Neurode	Earth, Lua, Eris, Deimos	Rare, comes in small stacks.
Galyum	Mars, Uranus	Rare, usually drops one at a time.
Morphics	Mercury, Mars, Phobos, Europa, Pluto	Also from containers.
Plastid	Phobos, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Eris	Comes in large stacks.
Tellurium	Archwing missions on Uranus	Only in space.
Kriyotik	Excavation missions	Comes from the excavators, not from enemies.
Oxium	Corpus missions on many planets	Drops from Oxium Ospreys.

There are two resource boosters. Both only affect loot you pick up during the mission, not end-of-mission rewards.

• Both boosters are sometimes free as a login reward.
• Sorties can reward a 3 Day Resource Drop Chance Booster.
• Both boosters together are strongest: more drops, and every drop counts twice.

On the How to unlock and master the Steel Path every mission has +100% resource drop chance. This adds up with the Resource Drop Chance Booster, so together resources drop much more often than in the normal game.

Eximus enemies on the Steel Path also drop Riven Slivers more often. More on that in Riven Mods: get, unveil and cycle them.

Some Warframes make enemies roll their loot a second time. That covers everything in their drop table, resources included.

Warframe	Ability or augment	Effect
Nekros	Desecrate	Nearby corpses have a 54% chance to roll their loot again. Strength and duration do not change this, range and efficiency help.
Khora	Pilfering Strangledome	Enemies held in Strangledome have a 65% chance for extra loot.
Hydroid	Pilfering Swarm	Enemies held by Tentacle Swarm have double drop chance.
Atlas	Ore Gaze	Petrified enemies have a 25% chance to roll their loot again. Ability strength raises it.
Ivara	Prowl	She pickpockets enemies without killing them. Slow, but targeted.

Desecrate can be combined with the other effects. Pilfering Swarm and Pilfering Strangledome do not work on the same enemy at the same time, though.

The Smeeta Kavat used to be a must because of its double resource bonus. That has changed: the bonus is now its own mod that every beast companion can wear.

• Loyal Retriever: 13% chance that a resource or credit pickup counts twice.
• Resourceful Retriever: 18% chance for double resources. You buy it from Son on Deimos.
• Prosperous Retriever: 18% chance for double credits.
• You can only equip one of these three mods. Khora’s Venari cannot use them.

The Smeeta Kavat is still useful. Its Charm has a 40% chance every 27 seconds to give a buff. One of them is a rare resource: Argon Kristali in the Void, Entrati Lanthorn in the Zariman and Orokin Hücresi in the Sanctum Anatomica.

Extractors are drones you deploy on a planet in the Star Chart. When the timer ends, you collect the resources. You buy the blueprints in the Market for 50,000 credits each and can reuse them.

• You can only deploy an Extractor on planets where you have unlocked all missions.
• Drones at once: 1 at the start, 2 from Mastery Rank 5, 3 from Mastery Rank 10.
• Recalling an Extractor early loses its progress.
• Extractors can take damage. Collect them in time, or they are destroyed.

• Break crates and containers. The Thief's Wit mod shows them on the minimap.
• Look out for resource deposits. These are special containers with just one resource, often rare ones.
• Farm alone or with a squad that has the same goal. Rushing through leaves a lot of loot behind.
• Weapons with big area damage open many crates at once.
• Stack it all: Steel Path, both boosters, Nekros and a Retriever mod together give a lot more loot.