Cubic Diodes Farming
Every source that drops Cubic Diodes, ranked by drop chance, from Digital Extremes’ official drop tables.
Where do you farm Cubic Diodes?
Common Grineer Storage Container is the best source of Cubic Diodes, dropping it 100.00% of the time.
Best sources
| # | Source | Rarity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Common Grineer Storage Container | very common | 100.00% |
| 2 | Uncommon Corpus Storage Container | very common | 77.44% |
| 3 | Rare Corpus Storage Container | very common | 75.88% |
| 4 | Reinforced Grineer Storage Container | very common | 75.88% |
| 5 | Infested Ramsled | common | 50.00% |
| 6 | Kosma Cutter | common | 50.00% |
| 7 | Gyre Cutter | common | 50.00% |
| 8 | Gox Scavenger | common | 37.94% |
| 9 | Cannon Battery | common | 37.94% |
| 10 | Elite Bladeswarm Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 11 | Bladeswarm Crewship | common | 37.94% |
| 12 | Bladeswarm Outrider | common | 37.94% |
| 13 | Bladeswarm Cannon Battery | common | 37.94% |
| 14 | Bladeswarm Ramsled | common | 37.94% |
| 15 | Bladeswarm Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 16 | Bladeswarm Gox | common | 37.94% |
| 17 | Bladeswarm Dreg | common | 37.94% |
| 18 | Elite Bladeswarm Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 19 | Bladeswarm Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 20 | Corpus Cargo Ship | common | 37.94% |
| 21 | Taro Crewship | common | 37.94% |
| 22 | Axio Crewship | common | 37.94% |
| 23 | Vorac Crewship | common | 37.94% |
| 24 | Orm Crewship | common | 37.94% |
| 25 | Elite Taro Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 26 | Taro Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 27 | Elite Orm Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 28 | Orm Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 29 | Orm Gox | common | 37.94% |
| 30 | Elite Orm Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 31 | Orm Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 32 | Elite Orm Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 33 | Orm Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 34 | Taro Gox | common | 37.94% |
| 35 | Elite Taro Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 36 | Taro Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 37 | Elite Axio Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 38 | Axio Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 39 | Axio Gox | common | 37.94% |
| 40 | Elite Axio Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 41 | Axio Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 42 | Elite Axio Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 43 | Axio Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 44 | Taro Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 45 | Elite Vorac Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 46 | Vorac Basilisk | common | 37.94% |
| 47 | Vorac Gox | common | 37.94% |
| 48 | Elite Vorac Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 49 | Vorac Harpi | common | 37.94% |
| 50 | Elite Vorac Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 51 | Vorac Weaver | common | 37.94% |
| 52 | Corpus Ramsled | common | 37.94% |
| 53 | Anu Brachiolyst | common | 33.33% |
| 54 | Anu Mantalyst | common | 33.33% |
| 55 | Anu Pyrolyst | common | 33.33% |
| 56 | Anu Symbilyst | common | 33.33% |
| 57 | Orokin Storage Container (Level 76 - 100) | uncommon | 27.33% |
| 58 | Rare Orokin Storage Container (Level 51 - 75) | uncommon | 27.33% |
| 59 | Mature Membroid (Level 51 - 75) | uncommon | 27.33% |
| 60 | Juvenile Membroid (Level 76 - 100) | uncommon | 27.33% |
| 61 | Orokin Storage Container (Level 51 - 75) | uncommon | 26.84% |
| 62 | Juvenile Membroid (Level 51 - 75) | uncommon | 26.84% |
| 63 | Nascent Membroid (Level 0 - 50) | uncommon | 25.81% |
| 64 | Nascent Membroid (Level 51 - 75) | uncommon | 25.81% |
| 65 | Nascent Membroid (Level 76 - 100) | uncommon | 25.81% |
| 66 | Rare Orokin Storage Container (Level 0 - 50) | uncommon | 25.49% |
| 67 | Mature Membroid (Level 0 - 50) | uncommon | 25.49% |
| 68 | Reinforced Orokin Storage Container (Level 0 - 50) | uncommon | 24.64% |
| 69 | Apex Membroid (Level 0 - 50) | uncommon | 24.64% |
| 70 | Orokin Storage Container (Level 0 - 50) | uncommon | 22.47% |
| 71 | Rare Orokin Storage Container (Level 76 - 100) | uncommon | 22.47% |
| 72 | Mature Membroid (Level 76 - 100) | uncommon | 22.47% |
| 73 | Juvenile Membroid (Level 0 - 50) | uncommon | 22.47% |
| 74 | Reinforced Orokin Storage Container (Level 51 - 75) | uncommon | 20.16% |
| 75 | Apex Membroid (Level 51 - 75) | uncommon | 20.16% |
| 76 | Ionyx | uncommon | 19.36% |
| 77 | Gyrix | uncommon | 19.36% |
| 78 | Reinforced Orokin Storage Container (Level 76 - 100) | uncommon | 17.29% |
| 79 | Apex Membroid (Level 76 - 100) | uncommon | 17.29% |
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 Cubic Diodes. 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 Cubic Diodes is used for
Cubic Diodes is an ingredient in 2 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 | Cubic Diodes needed |
|---|---|
| Protea Neuroptics | ×1,250 |
| Ambassador Barrel | ×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.