Warframe Crafting Guide

Warframe Crafting Guide by Vorpal Rend

This guide is to help people with crafting of Warframes and all blueprints.
Where do you find the blueprints to Warframes?
Where do you find a “Chassis”?
Can I Wear a “Chassis”?
WHERE THE HELL IS THE BUILDY THING THAT DOES THAT THING THAT I WANT!?

Answers are here.

Basics of Building

I have read over some of the discussions and pleas for help.
Most common ones are asking “where do you get blueprints and how do you build them?”

Well let us start at the start.
In your over view screen, at the top (Just after you login) there are 7 buttons (5 named)
4 of these are screen tabs.
The one named “Foundry” is the Crafting tab.

This is a screenshot of what the Foundry looks like.
Obviously its not a raw start but it gives a pretty good idea of how this all starts.

In the image there are 4 blueprints.
2 are able to be started while the other 2 are missing components.
Green means it’s ready to build and get going.
Red means you are missing some components.

In the image the first blueprint “Orokin Catalyst” has 3/4 pieces ready for the creation to start.
The red image beside it lets us know that is what we are missing. In this case its a component called a “Control Module”.

So that’s the blueprints list. Next to this list is another called the “Component” list. This shows us exactly what we have already, whether it’s used in blueprints we have or not.
So in this i have Polymer Bundles, Rubedo, Salvage and the Banshee Systems and Banshee Chassis.

To start building you simply press the Build button on the green lit and ready to go blueprints.
Before you ask “WHY ISNT IT WORKING”.
!!!THERE IS A BUILD TIME!!!
For instance, the Cronus sword takes 12 hours.
The Orokin devices take 1 day.
All Warframe components take 12 hours.
And all Warframe builds take 3 days.

I am well aware that the build time is a pain in the ♥♥♥ but the good news is you can build more than one thing at a time.

Just to touch on it (because i don’t enjoy spending money and this game to me is more fun if you don’t spend money except to buy colors)
You can speed up builds with Platinum. Each build varies but if you’re going to spend money to speed up a build on something like Warframe components then you’re going to be better off spending real money on the actual frame in the first place (Play thrifty people!)

That is pretty much it. Complexity at its simplest

Components Overview

Components are the very base items you need
This part of the crafting guide I will give you a link to another guide that has been helping me very much.
All blueprints need something to be able to be built, pretty simple, but what are these things?
Lets use the blueprint you are most likely to find first.

This is the Cronus sword.
Reason you are most likely to find this first is because it has a pretty high drop rate off the boss you’re going up against first.
Captain Vor in Tolstoj on Mercury.
As the image says we need:
1 Morphics.
500 Ferrite.
75 Polymer Bundle.

There is also a manufacturing cost of 15,000 Credits.
Never stress about credits, they come and they go but they are easy to come by, just play and you will get all the money you need in no time.

But where do we get these components?
Here is a link to the most useful guide on where to get components and how rare they are.
Warframe Resources and Locations List

Warframe components are a little different.

As you can see here I have the Ash and Banshee Blueprints along with the blueprints for the Ash Helmet and the Ash Chassis.
Warframes require you to build their Chassis, Helmet and Systems before you can build the Warframe.

All components for a Warframe will take 12 hours and the Warframe itself will take 3 days.
Please note you cannot wear any of the pieces of the Warframe, you can only wear the Warframe itself.

In the image you can see i have the Banshee and most of her components (yes her, she is a female frame) but the Ash frame says i have none of them. This is because Warframes only take their own chassis, systems and helmets.

Each component of Warframes require 1 Rare component.

Blueprints

Now for the list.

Every frame needs a Warframe blueprint, Chassis, System and Helmet.
Heres where to get them

Ash Blueprint
– Market for 35,000 Credits
Ash Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Tyl Regor (Titania, Uranus)
Ash Chassis Blueprint
– Drop from Tyl Regor (Titania, Uranus)
Ash Systems Blueprint
– Drop from Tyl Regor (Titania, Uranus)
– Lower Drop Rate than other components

Banshee Blueprint
– Market for 35,000 Credits
Banshee Helmet Blueprint
– Random Bonus from Defense and Raids
– Highest chance (Reported) from Xini, Eris
– Running joke “It doesnt exist”
Banshee Chassis Blueprint
– Random Bonus from Defense and Raids
– Easiest run is to solo M-Prime, dont bother with killing, just speed run it. (personal experiance. gotten 5 so far from there)
Banshee Systems Blueprint
– Random bonus from Defense, Spy and Raids
– Experianced higher drop rate from Spy missions

Ember Blueprint
– Market for 25,000 Credits
Ember Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from General Sargas Ruk (Tethys, Saturn)
Ember Chassis Blueprint
– Drop from General Sargas Ruk (Tethys, Saturn)
Ember Systems Blueprint
– Drop from General Sargas Ruk (Tethys, Saturn)

Excalibur Blueprint
– Market for 35,000 Credits
Excalibur Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Ambulas (Hades, Pluto)
Excalibur Chassis
– Drop from Ambulas (Hades, Pluto)
Excalibur Systems
– Drop from Ambulas (Hades, Pluto)

Frost Blueprint
– Market for 25,000 Credits
Frost Helmet Blueprint
– Drop From Lieutenant Lech Kril (Exta, Ceres)
Frost Chassis
– Drop From Lieutenant Lech Kril (Exta, Ceres)
Frost Systems
– Drop From Lieutenant Lech Kril (Exta, Ceres)
– Reported Rare Drop

Loki Blueprint
– Market for 35,000 Credits
Loki Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Hyena (Psamathe, Neptune)
Loki Chassis
– Drop from Hyena (Psamathe, Neptune)
Loki Systems
– Drop from Hyena (Psamathe, Neptune)
– Reported Rare Drop

Mag Blueprint
– Market for 25,000
Mag Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Sgt. Nef Anyo (War, Mars)
Mag Chassis
– Drop from Sgt. Nef Anyo (War, Mars)
Mag Systems
– Drop from Sgt. Nef Anyo (War, Mars)
– Reported Rare Drop

Nyx Blueprint
– Market for 25,000 Credits
Nyx Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Phorid (Naeglar, Eris)
Nyx Chassis
– Drop from Phorid (Naeglar, Eris)
– Reported Rare Drop
Nyx Systems
– Drop from Phorid (Naeglar, Eris)

Rhyno Blueprint
– Market for 35,000
Rhyno Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Jackal (Fossa, Venus)
Rhyno Chassis
– Drop from Jackal (Fossa, Venus)
Rhyno Systems
– Drop from Jackal (Fossa, Venus)

Saryn Blueprint
– Market for 35,000
Saryn Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Kela De Thaym (Merrow, Sedna)
– Reported Rare Drop
Saryn Chassis
– Drop from Kela De Thaym (Merrow, Sedna)
Saryn Systems
– Drop from Kela De Thaym (Merrow, Sedna)
– Reported Rare Drop

Trinity Blueprint
– Market for 25,000 Credits
Trinity Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from Councilor Vay Hek (Everest, Earth)
Trinity Chassis
– Drop from Councilor Vay Hek (Everest, Earth)
Trinity Systems
– Drop from Councilor Vay Hek (Everest, Earth)

Volt Blueprint
– Market for 35,000 Credits
Volt Helmet Blueprint
– Drop from The Golem (Themisto, Jupiter)
Volt Chassis
– Drop from The Golem (Themisto, Jupiter)
Volt Systems
– Drop from The Golem (Themisto, Jupiter)

All reports of Rare drops have been from Wikipedia.