Nokko
Nokko builds
First Cap
Starter0–2 FormaStarterHigh confidenceStar ChartLevel capShards optional

Nokko — First Cap

Starter build. Throw Brightbonnet. Stand in the pulse. Stinkbrain sleeps a pack. Reroot if you would have died. Sporespring can wait.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

Star Chart, first Nokko, anyone who just crawled out of the Deepmines

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Why this build?

Starter for Star Chart, first Nokko, anyone who just crawled out of the Deepmines

Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.

Play this in Star ChartPlay this in Level cap
  • Brightbonnet is Nokko. Energy plus a Strength buff that the whole squad can stand in. Plant it where the fight is.
  • You are not a health tank. Reroot and the passive mushroom-revive are the survivability plan.
  • Sporespring waits until Range and Strength are real. The starter lesson is 'put down the battery mushroom.'

Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content

0 Forma, basic mods, no Helminth or shards required

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

Bring: Any gun — Brightbonnet is energy and Strength for you and the squad. Your starter rifle is enough. Plant the mushroom where you actually fight.

Instead: First Cap — Star ChartInstead: Squad Greenhouse — Steel PathInstead: Squad Greenhouse — OptimisedInstead: Squad Greenhouse — Endgame

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Readiness

Inventory unknown

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  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/2 · required — 2 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth · optional — Not required
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 2 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

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Your next step

Open First Cap — Star Chart

The next rung on this frame is unlocked. Mark I run this, then step up.

First Cap — Star Chart

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. NextGet Energy SiphonNightwave / alerts
  2. After that0–2 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  3. LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  4. FinalFirst CapStarter · Starter · 0–2 Forma

Upgrade from here

First Cap — Star Chart

Throw Brightbonnet. Stand in the pulse. Stinkbrain sleeps a pack. Reroot if you would have died. Sporespring can wait. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

Open First Cap — Star Chart

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Plant 2, plant 1, bounce 4 later.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 Energy Siphon

    One named gap. Nightwave / alerts

  2. 60 minutes

    Energy Siphon, then Forma

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

  3. 120 minutes

    One Archon Hunt

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

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

You just crawled out of the Deepmines with 150 health and a handful of mushrooms.

Time to a playable copy
Same day. Intensify, Stretch, Continuity. Press 2 at your feet.
First mission to practice in
A Venus or Earth Exterminate. You want a room you can plant in, not a sprinting Capture.

3 button drills · 11 parts · tick the lists as you go

Before you start

0 of 3 done

Put it on the Warframe

0 of 4 done

Keep this up

Plant loop

Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.

  1. 1Brightbonnet (2) at your feet. Wait for the pulse. Energy ticks. A Strength buff lands. Recast when you change rooms — the mushroom does not follow you.
  2. 2Stinkbrain (1) into a packed hall. Viral plus sleep. Enemies nap. Finishers are open. You can bounce on it like a trampoline.
  3. 3Reroot (3) is a panic sprodling: untargetable, heals, speed orbs. Also your passive — if you would have died with a mushroom down, you shrink and have to touch a glowing cap to get up.
  4. 4Sporespring (4) is a bouncing explosive. Starter can throw it at the Brightbonnet to make the pulses faster. Learn 2 first.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Plant Brightbonnet on the fight

    2

    Press 2 where enemies actually are. Wait for the pulse. Energy and a Strength buff.

    You will know it worked when: A glowing cap. A pulse ring. Energy ticking.

  2. 2

    Stinkbrain a hallway

    1

    1. They sleep. Viral numbers. You can bounce on it.

  3. 3

    Throw 4 at your 2

    4

    Sporespring should bounce off Brightbonnet and make it pulse faster. That is the whole trick.

Common mistakes

  • Pressing 3 as your first button

    Reroot is a costume and a panic. 2 is the frame.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Range modsSquad Greenhouse is next. Overextended is a Brightbonnet mod.
  2. 2Do not skip planting before a bossPassive revive needs a cap on the floor.

Parts checklist

0 of 11 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

13 dependencies

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

  1. 1●nokkoframe
  2. 2○Energy Siphonmod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Intensifymod
  5. 5○Continuitymod
  6. 6○Stretchmod
  7. 7○Streamlinemod
  8. 8○Flowmod
  9. 9○Vitalitymod
  10. 10○Redirectionmod
  11. 11○Arcane Energizearcane
  12. 12○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  13. 13○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.

Required

Recommended

  • Arcane Energize

    missing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth

    Optional. Brightbonnet is already an energy mushroom.

Optional

Watch it played

YouTube for this loadout

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The kitTheKengineer · Oct 2025

Nokko - Exponential Mushroom Power!

Brightbonnet, Stinkbrain, Sporespring. The fungus kit from launch.

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Strength

~145% (Intensify) — Brightbonnet's Strength buff and energy pulse both scale

Duration

155% mushroom lifetime

Range

145% pulse radius

You can park several mushrooms. Brightbonnet pulses on a timer. Stand in the circle.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength
145%
Duration
130%
Range
145%
Efficiency
130%
Energy
+156%
Capacity
42 / 67

Open slots

Weapon HUD

Arsenal numbers

Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.

Damage
35
Crit
12% × 2.00
Status
26%
Fire rate
9.58
Multishot
1.00
Avg hit
39
Arsenal DPS
376

Toggle common mods

Nokko mods

  • AuraEnergy SiphonNightwave / alerts
  • ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
  • 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
  • 2ContinuityEnemy drops / Saturn
  • 3StretchEnemy drops
  • 4StreamlineEnemy drops
  • 5FlowEnemy drops
  • 6VitalityEarth / drops
  • 7RedirectionEnemy drops

Any gun

Brightbonnet is energy and Strength for you and the squad. Your starter rifle is enough. Plant the mushroom where you actually fight.

Arcanes

Arcane Energize

Optional. Brightbonnet is already an energy mushroom.

Eidolon / trade

Archon shards

  • 1Amber · Casting SpeedPlant 2, plant 1, bounce 4 later.1 · Archon Hunt
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