Where do you farm Carbides in Warframe?

The highest drop chance for Carbides is from Common Grineer Storage Container at 100.00%. We list all 84 sources, ranked, taken from Digital Extremes' official drop tables.

How many sources drop Carbides?

84 sources drop Carbides according to the official drop tables.

What is Carbides used for?

Carbides is an ingredient in 7 blueprints, including Protea Chassis, Protea Telema Helmet, Basmu. The heaviest consumers are listed on this page.

Are these drop rates current?

Yes. We re-parse Digital Extremes' official drop tables every day, so these rates track the live game rather than whenever a guide was last edited.

Carbides Farming

Every source that drops Carbides, ranked by drop chance, from Digital Extremes’ official drop tables.

Where do you farm Carbides?

Common Grineer Storage Container is the best source of Carbides, dropping it 100.00% of the time.

84 sources in total. Drop chances are the item-specific rate within each source’s reward table.

Best sources

Sources that drop Carbides
#	Source	Rarity	Chance
1	Common Grineer Storage Container	very common	100.00%
2	Orokin Storage Container	very common	77.44%
3	Uncommon Grineer Storage Container	very common	75.88%
4	Rare Grineer Storage Container	very common	75.88%
5	Reinforced Grineer Storage Container	very common	75.88%
6	Reinforced Orokin Storage Container (Level 51 - 75)	common	59.68%
7	Apex Membroid (Level 51 - 75)	common	59.68%
8	Reinforced Orokin Storage Container (Level 76 - 100)	common	51.19%
9	Apex Membroid (Level 76 - 100)	common	51.19%
10	Infested Ramsled	common	50.00%
11	Rare Orokin Storage Container (Level 51 - 75)	common	45.35%
12	Mature Membroid (Level 51 - 75)	common	45.35%
13	Cannon Battery	common	37.94%
14	Hellion Dargyn	common	37.94%
15	Dreg	common	37.94%
16	Orm Ranger	common	37.94%
17	Corpus Mining Turret	common	37.94%
18	Exo Carabus	common	37.94%
19	Bloodfrenzy Trencher	common	37.94%
20	Bloodfrenzy Orm Gox	common	37.94%
21	Bloodfrenzy Ramsled	common	37.94%
22	Bloodfrenzy Raptor	common	37.94%
23	Bloodfrenzy Exo Cutter	common	37.94%
24	Bloodfrenzy Dreg	common	37.94%
25	Bloodfrenzy Elite Outrider	common	37.94%
26	Bloodfrenzy Harpi	common	37.94%
27	Bloodfrenzy Gox	common	37.94%
28	Asteroid Raknoid	common	37.94%
29	Taro Crewship	common	37.94%
30	Orm Basilisk	common	37.94%
31	Elite Orm Harpi	common	37.94%
32	Orm Harpi	common	37.94%
33	Elite Orm Weaver	common	37.94%
34	Orm Weaver	common	37.94%
35	Elite Taro Weaver	common	37.94%
36	Corpus Ramsled	common	37.94%
37	Elite Kosma Flak	common	37.94%
38	Kosma Flak	common	37.94%
39	Elite Exo Flak	common	37.94%
40	Exo Flak	common	37.94%
41	Elite Exo Taktis	common	37.94%
42	Exo Taktis	common	37.94%
43	Exo Outrider	common	37.94%
44	Elite Exo Cutter	common	37.94%
45	Exo Cutter	common	37.94%
46	Elite Kosma Taktis	common	37.94%
47	Kosma Taktis	common	37.94%
48	Kosma Outrider	common	37.94%
49	Elite Kosma Cutter	common	37.94%
50	Elite Gyre Flak	common	37.94%
51	Gyre Flak	common	37.94%
52	Elite Gyre Taktis	common	37.94%
53	Gyre Taktis	common	37.94%
54	Gyre Outrider	common	37.94%
55	Elite Gyre Cutter	common	37.94%
56	Kosma Ramsled	common	37.94%
57	Rare Orokin Storage Container (Level 76 - 100)	common	37.28%
58	Mature Membroid (Level 76 - 100)	common	37.28%
59	Anu Brachiolyst	common	33.33%
60	Anu Mantalyst	common	33.33%
61	Anu Pyrolyst	common	33.33%
62	Anu Symbilyst	common	33.33%
63	Orokin Storage Container (Level 76 - 100)	uncommon	27.33%
64	Juvenile Membroid (Level 76 - 100)	uncommon	27.33%
65	Orokin Storage Container (Level 51 - 75)	uncommon	26.84%
66	Juvenile Membroid (Level 51 - 75)	uncommon	26.84%
67	Nascent Membroid (Level 0 - 50)	uncommon	25.81%
68	Nascent Membroid (Level 51 - 75)	uncommon	25.81%
69	Nascent Membroid (Level 76 - 100)	uncommon	25.81%
70	Rare Orokin Storage Container (Level 0 - 50)	uncommon	25.49%
71	Mature Membroid (Level 0 - 50)	uncommon	25.49%
72	Reinforced Orokin Storage Container (Level 0 - 50)	uncommon	24.64%
73	Apex Membroid (Level 0 - 50)	uncommon	24.64%
74	Orokin Storage Container (Level 0 - 50)	uncommon	22.47%
75	Juvenile Membroid (Level 0 - 50)	uncommon	22.47%
76	Ionyx	uncommon	19.36%
77	Gyrix	uncommon	19.36%

Making the farm faster

Drop chance is only half the equation — the other half is how many rolls you generate per hour. Resource boosters from the market double every pickup, and the drop-chance booster stacks with it multiplicatively; both apply to Carbides. Warframes that force extra drop rolls compound this further: Nekros’ Desecrate re-rolls corpses, Hydroid’s Pilfering Swarm and Khora’s Pilfering Strangledome squeeze a second drop from captured enemies. A full squad built this way routinely multiplies an hour’s haul several times over the listed rates.

Kill density beats a marginally better drop chance: a 5% source you can kill two hundred times an hour out-yields a 50% source you meet twice. That is why endless missions — Survival, Defense, Excavation — against the right faction usually beat hunting a single high-percentage enemy from the table above, and why the sortable chances here are a starting point rather than a verdict.

What Carbides is used for

Carbides is an ingredient in 7 blueprints in Digital Extremes’ recipe data. The heaviest consumers below tell you how much to stockpile — farming past what you can spend is time you could put into relics instead.

Crafted item	Carbides needed
Protea Chassis	×2,750
Protea Telema Helmet	×2,000
Basmu	×800
Sirius & Orion Chassis	×600
Wrath Handle	×300
Pride Handle	×300
Ambassador Receiver	×200

Other resource farms

About these numbers

These are Digital Extremes’ own published drop chances, re-parsed from the official drop tables every day. The percentage is the item-specific rate within that source’s reward table — it is not the chance that the enemy drops something at all, and the two are different numbers.

We deliberately do not multiply DE’s two published figures together into a single “real” drop rate. They measure different things and DE does not document how they compose, so a combined number would look more precise than it is.

If you are farming to sell rather than to build, check what platinum is actually worth first — for many resources, selling Prime parts is a faster route to the same goal.