Materials

Materials are useful for equipment upgrades and more

Name Rarity Location

Armor Materials

Plating, wire and materials used to upgrade Guardian armor.
Basic
  • Gunsmith
  • King's Fall
  • Patrol
  • Queen's Wrath Quests
  • Quest
  • Raid Reprise
  • Shiro-4
  • Strike
  • The Dawning
  • The Taken King
  • Vanguard Quartermaster

Ascendant Energy

The boiling energies of the zero-point field trapped in a stasis capsule.
Legendary
  • The Speaker
  • Unknown
  • Vault of Glass

Ascendant Shard

A self-stabilizing knot of spacetime geometry.
Legendary
  • The Speaker
  • Unknown
  • Vault of Glass

Blue Chroma

Recovered technology that can alter armor with Chroma multi-channel heat sinks.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible
  • Eververse
  • Guardian Outfitter
  • Prison of Elders
  • Silver Dust

Crux of Crota

Their god is now our power.
Exotic
  • Crota's End

Essence of the Oversoul

"Feed the Eidolon Ally, and it will be transformed." —Eris Morn
Exotic
  • Quest

Etheric Light

A volatile synthesis of energized matter and self-modifying energy constructs.
Legendary
  • Nightfall
  • Prison of Elders
  • Unknown

Exotic Shard

A remnant that almost seems to have a life of its own. Can be used to unlock the full power of Exotic gear.
Exotic
  • Xûr, Agent of the Nine

Glass Needles

Slivers of glassy material that appear to alter the flow of time around them. Said to be used by the Nine to transform the properties of Exotic gear.
Rare
  • The Taken King
  • Xûr, Agent of the Nine

Green Chroma

Recovered technology that can alter armor with Chroma multi-channel heat sinks.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible
  • Eververse
  • Guardian Outfitter
  • Prison of Elders
  • Silver Dust

Hadium Flake

Shards of a reactive metal that stores whatever energy it is exposed to.
Basic
  • Oryx's Dreadnaught
  • Raid Reprise
  • The Taken King

Hadronic Essence

A dense lattice of exotic baryons and mesons, used as an infusion in Warlock fieldweave.
Basic
  • Unknown

Helium Filaments

Filaments of helium-3 fusion fuel, gathered from the lunar regolith by a helium coil.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible Quartermaster
  • Ocean of Storms
  • Patrol
  • Prison of Elders
  • Quest
  • Rise of Iron Record Book
  • The Dawning
  • Unknown
  • Vanguard Quartermaster

Magenta Chroma

Recovered technology that can alter armor with Chroma multi-channel heat sinks.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible
  • Eververse
  • Guardian Outfitter
  • Prison of Elders
  • Silver Dust

Moldering Shard

If you hold at least 20 shards, you will earn extra rewards when you defeat Oryx in the Taken King version of King's Fall.
Legendary
  • Crota's Bane
  • King's Fall
  • The Taken King

Orange Chroma

Recovered technology that can alter armor with Chroma multi-channel heat sinks.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible
  • Eververse
  • Guardian Outfitter
  • Prison of Elders
  • Silver Dust

Paper Glue

This glue has dried up. Dismantle into Silver Dust.
Basic
  • Festival of the Lost
  • The Taken King

Plasteel Plating

A durable hybrid plastic favored by Titans for its balance of strength and workability.
Basic
  • Unknown

Radiant Energy

The light of particle-antiparticle annihilation, trapped in a stasis capsule.
Legendary
  • Crota's End
  • The Speaker

Radiant Shard

A primordial singularity frozen on the edge of evanescence.
Legendary
  • Crota's End
  • The Speaker

Red Chroma

Recovered technology that can alter armor with Chroma multi-channel heat sinks.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible
  • Eververse
  • Guardian Outfitter
  • Prison of Elders
  • Silver Dust

Relic Iron

A post-Collapse material of extraordinary density.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible Quartermaster
  • Meridian Bay
  • Patrol
  • Prison of Elders
  • Quest
  • Rise of Iron Record Book
  • The Dawning
  • Unknown
  • Vanguard Quartermaster

Sapphire Wire

A favorite of Hunters because of its versatility, this wire is incorporated into almost all Hunter gear.
Basic
  • Unknown

SIVA Key Fragments

Used to upgrade Wrath of the Machine raid gear. 10 of these can also be consumed to create a SIVA Cache Key, which opens SIVA Caches in the Wrath of the Machine raid.
Basic
  • Rise of Iron
  • Wrath of the Machine

Spinmetal

A filigree of bubbled metal grown by wild colonies of Golden Age cytoconstructors.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible Quartermaster
  • Old Russia
  • Patrol
  • Prison of Elders
  • Quest
  • Rise of Iron Record Book
  • The Dawning
  • Unknown
  • Vanguard Quartermaster

Spirit Bloom

Shavings from flower-shaped crystals with pharmaceutical and chemical applications.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible Quartermaster
  • Ishtar Sink
  • Patrol
  • Prison of Elders
  • Quest
  • Rise of Iron Record Book
  • The Dawning
  • Unknown
  • Vanguard Quartermaster

Weapon Parts

For weapon upgrades and repairs.
Basic
  • Gunsmith
  • King's Fall
  • Patrol
  • Queen's Wrath Quests
  • Quest
  • Raid Reprise
  • Shiro-4
  • Strike
  • The Dawning

White Chroma

Recovered technology that can alter armor with Chroma multi-channel heat sinks.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible
  • Eververse
  • Guardian Outfitter
  • Prison of Elders
  • Silver Dust

Wormspore

A concentrated transmutation catalyst that reacts to both the Light and the Darkness.
Basic
  • King's Fall
  • Oryx's Dreadnaught
  • Patrol
  • Quest
  • Raid Reprise
  • Rise of Iron Record Book
  • The Dawning
  • The Taken King
  • Vanguard Quartermaster

Yellow Chroma

Recovered technology that can alter armor with Chroma multi-channel heat sinks.
Basic
  • Challenge of the Elders
  • Crucible
  • Eververse
  • Guardian Outfitter
  • Prison of Elders
  • Silver Dust

 




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