Carbides are a common Resource dropped by Eximus units found in the Grineer Shipyard tileset, primarily Ceres. They can also be found in Empyrean missions as a possible loot drop. They are used in constructing, upgrading, and maintaining the Railjack.
Blueprints Requiring Carbides
| Blueprints | Type | Quantity (Research) |
|---|---|---|
| Carcinnox | Ship Turret | 500 |
| Cryophon | Ship Turret | 500 |
| Galvarc | Ship Ordnance | 500 |
| Lavan Apoc Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Lavan Carcinnox Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Lavan Cryophon Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Lavan Engines Mk II | Ship Component | 5,600 |
| Lavan Photor Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Lavan Pulsar Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Lavan Reactor Mk II | Ship Component | 5,600 |
| Lavan Shield Array Mk II | Ship Component | 5,600 |
| Milati | Ship Ordnance | 500 |
| Photor | Ship Turret | 500 |
 Protea Chassis |
Component | 2,750 |
| Protea Telema Helmet | Cosmetic | 2,000 |
| Railjack Propulsion Systems | Component | 20 |
| Railjack Port Nacelle | Component | 20 |
| Squad Ammo Restore (Large) x100 | Gear | (6,750) |
| Vidar Apoc Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Vidar Carcinnox Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Vidar Cryophon Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Vidar Engines Mk II | Ship Component | 5,600 |
| Vidar Photor Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Vidar Pulsar Mk II | Ship Turret | 5,600 |
| Vidar Reactor Mk II | Ship Component | 5,600 |
| Vidar Shield Array Mk II | Ship Component | 5,600 |
| Zetki Apoc Mk II | Ship Turret | 7,000 |
| Zetki Carcinnox Mk II | Ship Turret | 7,000 |
| Zetki Cryophon Mk II | Ship Turret | 7,000 |
| Zetki Engines Mk II | Ship Component | 7,000 |
| Zetki Photor Mk II | Ship Turret | 7,000 |
| Zetki Pulsar Mk II | Ship Turret | 7,000 |
| Zetki Reactor Mk II | Ship Component | 7,000 |
| Zetki Shield Array Mk II | Ship Component | 7,000 |
| Total | 152,890 (+6,750) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research |  x1  x3  x10  x30  x100
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Last updated: Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)
Gathering Tips
- Carbides are significantly more common in Empyrean than in the Grineer Shipyard tileset.
- Kuva Lich and Arbitrations missions can spawn Eximus units more often as a result of their higher level, allowing for easier farming.
- Any Endless mission types on Ceres is a great source for Eximus units, with higher waves spawning more Eximus units.
- Seimeni, Ceres is a Dark Sector Defense mission that is very good for farming, yielding 100 or more at wave 20 due to high Eximus spawn rate.
- The Mobile Defense node Kiste on Ceres can be good for a quick way to farm due to the high chance of Prosecutors spawning. These Prosecutors are considered as Eximus units and can drop the resource.
- Carbides may be dropped as an end mission reward of Railjack missions at amounts of 1200, 1500 or 2700 depending on luck. (Empyrean Rewards)
Notes
- Carbides can be found on Berehynia and Marid, Sedna, which use the Grineer Shipyard tileset.
- When running Empyrean missions to farm Carbides, all Carbides, Cubic Diodes, Pustrels and Copernics are stored in the Railjack's Resource Forge in order to manufacture consumable items. The Forge holds a default of 200 of each resource, after which additional gathering is automatically distributed to the squad, until the mission is completed. Pressing the "Refine" button from one of the Forge station will distribute the resources to the entire squad.
Trivia
- A carbide is a compound of carbon and a metal. As per the resource's description, some real-life carbides are incredibly durable and very heat-resistant compared to other metals.
- This resource is presumably used for riveting.
Media
Warframe Farming Cubic Diodes & Carbides Rising Tides Update 26.1.2
Patch History
Hotfix 26.1.2 (2019-11-25)
- Swapped the planet locations of Cubic Diodes and Carbide to match their Resource type:
- Cubic Diodes = Eximus units on Europa Ice Planet tileset
- Carbides = Eximus units on Ceres Shipyard tileset
- Fixed Cubic Diodes and Carbide Resources not dropping 50% of the time. For further clarification, on-kill extra drops (like Khora and Hydroid) do not apply to these Resource drop type: Cubic Diodes and Carbides have a 100% chance to roll the table for a 50% chance, can't boost that 100% any further!
- Fixed various issues with ground-mission Cubic Diodes and Carbide pickups, such as: Waypointing them resulted in a generic waypoint and not an item specific tag, and pickup FX being removed as soon as someone picked them up resulting in confusion as to where the Resource actually is on the ground.
Update 26.1 (2019-11-22)
- Introduced.
