Voruna — Lycath's Pantry
Steel Path build. Melee kills drop health orbs. Headshots drop energy orbs. 5-status kills extend Hunt. Equilibrium turns the floor into infinite energy.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Farming, orb engines, Helminth donors who steal this ability for other frames
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Farming, orb engines, Helminth donors who steal this ability for other frames
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Lycath's Hunt is also the best Helminth in the game after Nourish for melee frames. On Voruna it is free.
- Headshot energy orbs are the part people forget. Bring something that can click heads.
- Hold-3 parks Lycath as heavy-attack efficiency. Tap 3 is the pantry.
Don’t use this for: timed Exterminate as the damage · solo level-cap · players without Helminth
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Melee that can headshot — Throwing melee, gunblade, or just shoot heads and melee the rest. Equilibrium is the actual build.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Pack
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Pack — Star Chart
- You wanted to fight, not farm → Ulfrun's Pack — Steel Path
My test
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Readiness
Inventory unknown
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 1 specialised mods. 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
Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Ulfrun's Pack — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Ulfrun's Pack — OptimisedPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
- After that3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalLycath's PantrySteel Path · Advanced · 3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Ulfrun's Pack — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Ulfrun's Pack — OptimisedHelminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Recast Hunt.Archon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Steel Charge
One named gap. Invasion / Nightwave
60 minutes
Steel Charge, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
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.
- Farm Steel Charge
Invasion / Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You want the floor to be orbs.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Equilibrium. Hunt works at unranked.
- First mission to practice in
- A long Survival you intended to farm.
2 button drills · 12 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 5 done
Keep this up
Hunt loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Hunt (3) on cooldown.
- 2Fangs (2) so kills are 5-status and extend Hunt.
- 3Melee everything. Health orbs drop. Equilibrium feeds Ulfrun and Shroud.
- 4This is a farm engine. Take Ulfrun to war.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Hunt on
33. Melee a pack. Health orbs should drop.
- 2
Equilibrium them
Every health orb is energy. Ulfrun becomes free.
Common mistakes
Only using guns
Then Hunt is just headshot energy orbs. The health pile never happens.
When this feels easy
- 1Arcane BlessingOrb pickup is also max HP. Greedy, good.
Parts checklist
0 of 12 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
15 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●vorunaframe
- 2○Steel Chargemod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Equilibriummod
- 5○Primed Continuitymod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Intensifymod
- 8○Flowmod
- 9○Steel Fibermod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Arcane Blessingarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 14○Steel Pathunlock
- 15○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
- Steel Charge
missing · Invasion / Nightwave
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Flowmissing · Enemy drops
Steel Fibermissing · Enemy drops
- Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Recommended
Optional
Strength
~145%
Duration
180%+
Range
145%
Duration is Hunt uptime. Fangs exists so melee kills count as 5-status and extend it.
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
- 155%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 100%
- Energy
- +150%
- Capacity
- 48 / 69
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
Voruna mods
- AuraSteel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
- ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
- 1EquilibriumHealth orbs become energy. The whole engine.The New Strange
- 2Primed ContinuityBaro
- 3StretchDrops
- 4IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 5FlowDrops
- 6Steel FiberDrops
- 7Rolling GuardArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Steel Charge | Invasion / Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Equilibrium Health orbs become energy. The whole engine. | The New Strange | |
| 2 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 3 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 4 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 5 | Flow | Drops | |
| 6 | Steel Fiber | Drops | |
| 7 | Rolling Guard | Arbitrations |
Melee that can headshot
Throwing melee, gunblade, or just shoot heads and melee the rest. Equilibrium is the actual build.
Arcanes
Arcane Blessing
Health on orb pickup. Hunt prints them.
Cavia / Isolation Vaults
Arcane Energize
If you are also headshotting for energy orbs.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1
Amber · Casting SpeedRecast Hunt.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Casting Speed Recast Hunt. | 1 | EDA |