Atlas — Rubble Heap

Don’t build this yet

First Punches first

This loadout sits at Optimised. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.

Why this build?

Optimised for Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.

Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.

• Path of Statues plus Rubble Heap is the Atlas engine.
• Tectonics is the Helminth slot on almost every 2026 guide.
• 1,400 rubble is not optional for Heap. Path of Statues is how you get there without babysitting Petrify.

Don’t use this for: new accounts · Star Chart only · players without Helminth · frames played as a gun platform only

Helminth, shards, and a finished configuration

You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.

Bring: Landslide Fists — Blood Rush, Weeping Wounds, Condition Overload, Gladiator Might, Organ Shatter, primed elementals. Melee Influence if you want tiles to explode.

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Your next step

Next: Rubble Heap — Endgame

Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.

Plan

Today → next → later

Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.

1. TodayPlay First PunchesThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
2. NextGet Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
3. After that4–5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
4. LaterViolet · Melee crit damageHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
5. FinalRubble Heap — OptimisedOptimised · Endgame · 4–5 Forma

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

• 2–3 Tauforged Violet · Melee crit damage — Fists crit harder.Archon locked
• 2 Crimson · Strength — Punch and Petrify.Archon locked

Tonight

What is actually up

30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.

1. 30 minutes

   Farm Steel Charge

   One named gap. Invasion / Nightwave

2. 60 minutes

   Steel Charge, then Forma

   Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.

3. 120 minutes

   Subsume Nourish (Grendel) or Tharros Strike (Styanax)

   If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.

• Farm Steel Charge

  Invasion / Nightwave

Dependencies

28 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

1. 1●atlasframe
2. 2○Steel Chargemod
3. 3○Cunning Driftmod
4. 4○Rubble Heapaugment
5. 5○Path of Statuesaugment
6. 6○Blind Ragemod
7. 7○Umbral Intensifymod
8. 8○Archon Stretchmod
9. 9○Equilibriummod
10. 10○Primed Continuitymod
11. 11○Blood Rushmod
12. 12○Weeping Woundsmod
13. 13○Condition Overloadmod
14. 14○Gladiator Mightmod
15. 15○Organ Shattermod
16. 16○Primed Fever Strikemod
17. 17○Sacrificial Pressuremod
18. 18○Primed Reachmod
19. 19○Arcane Persistencearcane
20. 20○Arcane Batteryarcane
21. 21○Molt Augmentedarcane
22. 22○Violet · Melee crit damageshard
23. 23○Crimson · Strengthshard
24. 24○Nourishhelminth
25. 25○Tharros Strikehelminth
26. 26○Helminth · Nourish (Grendel) or Tharros Strike (Styanax)unlock
27. 27○Steel Pathunlock
28. 28○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock

Depends on

What this loadout needs

Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.