Hydroid Prime · Acquisition
How to get every piece
Vay Hek on Earth/Oro. Cephalon Suda or New Loka for Viral Tempest and Pilfering Swarm. Vaults for Blind Rage.
If you just want Hydroid
Hydroid
Buy Hydroid's main blueprint from the Market for credits. Neuroptics, Chassis, and Systems drop from Councilor Vay Hek on Earth/Oro. Hydroid Prime is vaulted on the usual Prime cycle.
Fastest route: Councilor Vay Hek. Unlock Earth/Oro → Run the assassination
Need: Earth boss
Everything else — mods, arcanes, shards — is below. Don’t farm those to craft the Warframe.
Warframe Market
Hydroid Prime set
Live sell orders. Whisper a seller in trade chat, meet in a Dojo or Maroo’s Bazaar. Platinum moves in the trade window.
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Where to go
Councilor Vay Hek · Earth / Oro
Gold ring is the body to open when this farm lives on the Star Chart. Dojo, Nightwave, and 1999 farms are called out in the walk below.
You start here. Open Navigation from the Orbiter chair.
From the Orbiter
Earth
- 1Earth / Oro is Vay Hek. You need a decent rifle — he flies.
- 2Hydroid parts drop from the assassination.
- 3Early-game legal. Public groups help with the air phase.
Build requirements
Everything the five loadouts name
One list for the frame. Tick “I own this” on the item page. Farm the rest.
Amber · Casting Speedshard- Arcane Blessingarcane
Arcane Energizearcane
Azure · Durationshard
Blind Ragemod- Breach Surgehelminth
Continuitymod
Corrosive Projectionmod
Crimson · Strengthshard
Cunning Driftmod- Emerald · Ability damage on Corrosive statusshard
- Equilibriummod
Flowmod- Gloomhelminth
Growing Powermod
Intensifymod
Molt Augmentedarcane- Molt Efficiencyarcane
- Narrow Mindedmod
- Nourishhelminth
Overextendedmod- Pilfering Swarmaugment
Power Driftmod
Primed Continuitymod
Primed Flowmod- Rolling Guardmod
Steel Fibermod
Streamlinemod
Stretchmod
Transient Fortitudemod
Umbral Intensifymod- Viral Tempestaugment
Vitalitymod
Hydroid Prime
Buy Hydroid's main blueprint from the Market for credits. Neuroptics, Chassis, and Systems drop from Councilor Vay Hek on Earth/Oro. Hydroid Prime is vaulted on the usual Prime cycle.
- 1Buy the main blueprintMarket, credits. No platinum required.
- 2Kill Councilor Vay HekEarth/Oro assassination. You need a Vay Hek Frequency Triangulator from a Grineer Settlement (Ceres) spy or the Market. He is a bouncing loudspeaker with two phases — break the faces, then the body.
- 3PartsNeuroptics and Chassis are common (~39%). Systems is uncommon (~23%). Expect a handful of runs.
- 4Prime is optionalHydroid Prime when unvaulted. Base Hydroid Plunders the same.
Hydroid Prime relics rotate through Prime Resurgence. Do not crack random relics hoping for a vaulted H-series.
Farm routes
Hydroid Neuroptics · Chassis · Systems
Councilor Vay Hek
Fastest ~30–45 min · typical ~1 hour · Variable if the drop is stingy
A public group makes the bouncing phase less annoying. The parts are not rare.
Viral Tempest · Tidal Impunity · Rousing Plunder · Pilfering Swarm
Hydroid augments
Fastest ~1 hour · typical ~2 hours · Variable if the drop is stingy
Pilfering Swarm is the farm purchase. Viral Tempest is the Steel Path purchase.