Oxium

"Oxium is a rare lighter than air alloy of Orokin origin."

- In-Game Description

Oxium is an uncommon component. Dropped by the uncommonly encountered Oxium Osprey with a guaranteed drop rate, it can be found in quantities of 7-12 and will only drop if the Osprey is killed before it destroys itself by charging against the player, an ally, or a wall.

Oxium can also be found as alert rewards, by destroying Storage Containers, and by opening Caches in Orokin Derelict Sabotage missions.

Blueprints Requiring Oxium
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Gathering Tips
Tips collected from common player experience and should be viewed as advice rather than fact.
 * Baal, Europa can provide over 400 units of Oxium should the mission be run with a full squad, with at least one Nekros desecrating.
 * Playing Corpus Excavation, Defense, Survival and Mobile Defense missions can offer a decent amount of Oxium as well, lowest level being Kiliken, Venus.
 * 20 waves of Defense on Tessera, Venus is able to grant around 50 Oxium if extracted properly.
 * Cerberus on Pluto is still a somewhat reliable choice, offering about 60-140 Oxium for 4 Rounds.
 * Keeping enemies in an alerted state in Sabotage and Capture missions brings a fair amount of Oxium, especially on lower level missions, where more demanding enemies do not spawn right away.
 * Corpus alerts often spawn a larger amount of ospreys compared to same level corpus missions of the regular variety.
 * Recommended manner of dealing with Oxium Ospreys before they self-destruct without dropping the desired resource is incapacitating them before they are able to see the enemy and attack. Otherwise focusing on diverting their attention from fighting (Terrify, Radial Blind, Rest and similar abilities) is a good way of approaching the situation.
 * Ivara can use Prowl on the ospreys, potentially doubling the amount of Oxium dropped by a single unit.
 * Io, Jupiter can yield around 200 Oxium in 20 waves.

Market
"By purchasing this item you can directly exchange for 300 Oxium."

- In-Game Description

Oxium was added to the Market in.