Void based radioactive resource that decays every day it is out of the Void.—In-Game Description Argon Crystals are a rare resource that drops in the Orokin Void tileset, Isolation Vault Bonus stage and from certain Assassination targets. Unlike other resources, Argon Crystals decay after a period of time. After this period the resources will disappear from the user's inventory and must be re-acquired if needed.  The timer points towards midnight UTC +0 time indefinitely. Farming Locations[] These are based on opinions and may not be 100% true. These should be viewed as advice for finding the resource until better facts are proven. Target Planet Name Type Level Tile Set Void Teshub Exterminate 10 - 15 Orokin Tower Void Hepit Capture 10 - 15 Orokin Tower Void Ani Survival 20 - 25 Orokin Tower Void Stribog Sabotage 20 - 25 Orokin Tower Void Ukko Capture 30 - 35 Orokin Tower Void Oxomoco Exterminate 30 - 35 Orokin Tower Void Mot Survival 40 - 45 Orokin Tower Void Marduk Sabotage 40 - 45 Orokin Tower Drop Locations[] Mission Drop Tables Mission Type Source RotationsorDrop Table Chance[1] Quantity[2] Avg. per roll[3] Star Chart Nodes Annihilation Annihilation (Conclave) B 0.25% 1 0.0025 Annihilation, Saturn Cephalon Capture Cephalon Capture (Conclave) B 0.25% 1 0.0025 Cephalon Capture, Saturn Exterminate Kuva Fortress Exterminate Resource Caches C 3.67% 1 0.0367 Dakata, Kuva Fortress Exterminate Lua Exterminate Resource Caches C 10.82% 1 0.1082 Plato, Lua Exterminate Jupiter Exterminate Resource Caches C 1% 1 0.01 Carpo, Jupiter Lunaro Lunaro (Conclave) B 0.25% 1 0.0025 Lunaro Arena, Saturn Sabotage Tier 4 Void Sabotage Resource Caches C 4.42% 1 0.0442 Marduk, Void Sabotage Tier 1 Reactor Sabotage C 0.67% 1 0.0067 Ishtar, Venus Terminus, Mercury Gradivus, Mars Sabotage Orokin Derelict Resource Caches C 19.36% 1 0.1936 Formido, Deimos Sabotage Tier 2 Void Sabotage Resource Caches C 3.67% 1 0.0367 Stribog, Void Sabotage Tier 3 Reactor Sabotage C 3.67% 1 0.0367 Rusalka, Sedna Cypress, Pluto Sabotage Tier 2 Reactor Sabotage C 1% 1 0.01 Ker, Ceres Thon, Ceres Adrastea, Jupiter Calypso, Saturn Sabotage Orokin Derelict Resource Caches C 3.76% 2 0.0752 Formido, Deimos Team Annihilation Team Annihilation (Conclave) B 0.25% 1 0.0025 Team Annihilation, Saturn Weekly Conclave Challenge Reward Weekly Conclave Challenge Reward B 12.5% 10 1.25 Complete all weekly Conclave challenges to get this reward in your in-game inbox: Match Won: Win 6 matches of any game type. Match Complete: Complete 20 matches of any game type. Conditioning: Complete 10 Daily Challenges. Enemy Drop Tables Enemy Drop Table Chance[4] Item Chance[5] Chance[6] Expected Kills[7] Quantity[8] Avg. per roll attempt[9] Corrupted Vor 100% 50% 50% 2 1 0.5 Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki. Blueprints Requiring Argon Crystals[] Gathering Tips[] These are based on trial and error and may not be completely true. These should be viewed as advice for finding the materials until better facts are proven. Argon Crystals can be found in Argon Pegmatite deposits. They can also drop from containers, lockers, and enemies. Bringing a Smeeta Kavat with  Charm into Void maps has a chance at giving you one or multiple Argon Crystals when it triggers. Bringing a  Nekros with  Desecrate can improve your chances of finding Argon Crystals, particularly with weapons that deal a majority of their damage as slash (Desecrate counts each severed part as a separate entity). Bringing a  Hydroid with the  Pilfering Swarm augmentation or  Khora with the  Pilfering Strangledome augmentation can improve your chances of finding Argon Crystals. Bringing an  Ivara with  Prowl can improve your chances of finding Argon Crystals. Bringing a  Limbo with  Cataclysm modded for maximum range can destroy all containers in a room by quickly activating and deactivating the ability, making it easier to pick up Argon Crystals without specifically looking for them. The Jordas Golem on Eris is a good place to find Argon as well. Just break the containers in and around the boss area. The Weekly Ayatan Sculpture Mission from Maroo's Bazaar is a good place to find Argon Crystals but only if it is a Void map and not a Derelict map. Exterminate, Capture, and Sabotage missions are generally the best nodes to explore for Argon Crystals on inside the Void, as the objectives are easy, and allow unrestricted access to the entire tileset upon completion. Additionally, the increased volume of enemies that spawn in these mission types will grant more chances to acquire crystals from killing said enemies. Bringing a Warframe such as  Ember,  Nova,  Hydroid or any other with an AOE damage skill will allow you to break containers behind closed/locked walls and triggered container capsules found in some void tiles.  Vacuum equipped on pets will also collect those resources through walls. Bringing a Weapon with large AoE such as a variety of explosive weapons (particularly those capable of equipping either  Primed Fulmination or  Primed Firestorm, or the  Ignis/ Ignis Wraith fitted with punch through will allow one to rapidly clear rooms of any containers. Void Defense missions may average one crystal every 5 rounds, making them a slow but sure way of acquiring them if one doesn't feel like exploring. A drop chance booster or blessing can improve the drop rate of Argon Crystals. Completing the third phase of an Isolation Vault bounty has a chance of yielding Argon Crystals, among other resources. Decaying Mechanics[] Time until Argon Crystal decays: 00 days 04 hours 38 minutes 23 seconds  Each Argon Crystal in a Tenno's inventory is either stable or decaying at any given time; beyond this, the age of a single crystal does not matter. "A full 24 hours from when you acquire it and then when GMT 00:00 hits, is when it’s considered in its decaying period." [10] Having the countdown started on one Argon Crystal, then obtaining another does not reset the countdown for the former. Each day at GMT 00:00, two things happen: The quantity of decaying Argon Crystals (the ones older than today) is cut in half and rounded down (in other words, performing an integer division by two) All stable Argon Crystals (the ones you collected on that day) shift to the decaying state For example: 11 crystals are collected on day 1. They are all stable. GMT 00:00 hits, and all 11 crystals are decaying. Their quantity remains unchanged. 10 crystals are collected on day 2. The Tenno now has 21 crystals (11 from day 1 + 10 from day 2). GMT 00:00 hits. The 11 decaying crystals decay to 5 (11/2 = 5.5 ≈ 5 rounded down). The 10 additional crystals are now in the decaying state. The Tenno currently has 15 crystals (5 + 10). GMT 00:00 hits again without the Tenno collecting any other crystals. All 15 crystals decay to a total of 7 (5/2 = 2.5 ≈ 2 + 10/2). As a table: Day # New Crystals Collected Argon Crystal State Inventory Total Calculation 1 11 11 stable 11 — 2 10 11 decaying, 10 stable 21 = 11 (from day 1) + 10 (from day 2) 3 0 15 decaying 15 = 11/2 + 10= (round down) 5.5 + 10= 5 + 10= 15 4 0 7 decaying 7 = 5/2 + 10/2= (round down) 2.5 + 5= 2 + 5= 7 Notes[] Corrupted Vor will always drop either an Orokin Cell or an Argon Crystal. Chances seem to be equal for both. Currently, Argon Crystals are not available for purchase in the Market. Unlike other resources, Argon Crystals cannot be refunded when an item is canceled in the Foundry. Trivia[] Argon (symbol: Ar) is the 18th element in the periodic table. Its properties in-game are wildly different from those demonstrated in real life. It's likely these unusual properties are caused by the physics-defying nature of the Void. It is a noble gas whose most commonly occurring isotope on Earth, 40Ar, is stable and does not undergo radioactive decay as the Argon Crystal does. Argon has a number of unstable isotopes that do decay, though none of their half-lives match up with the Argon Crystal's rate of decay. Argon is a gas at room temperature, and does not form crystalline solids until reaching −189.4 °C (−308.9 °F). Solid argon does sublimate in real life, but as a physical property rather than a radioactive one sublimation doesn't resemble the half-life pattern of radioactive decay. Argon is the third-most abundant gas on Earth, so presumably, it is also abundant in the Void, or it was introduced into it by the Orokin towers. Reflecting a real-world use of argon, argon crystals may not be used directly in the manufacture of items in the foundry, but instead, provide a perfectly unreactive atmosphere for the creation of extremely fine-tuned equipment. This is the first, and so far only resource that has the ability to degrade over time. Due to a DDoS Attack on Warframe's PC Servers on April 15, 2014, Argon Crystals didn't decay until servers stabilized – although their countdown remained active. This lasted until Hotfix 13.1.2 (2014-04-25) was launched, as the servers had fully recovered by that time.[11] Previously, Argon Crystals would drop from Infestation Outbreaks (particularly from Phorid), and was considered a much more efficient way to collect them. This bug was removed (albeit undocumented in the patch notes) in Hotfix 14.7.4 (2014-09-20). Argon Crystals were used to irradiate Infested Pherliac Pods during The Jordas Precept quest, making them more potent. This alludes to the idea that Argon Crystals have enhancing properties. Previously, there was a rare bug that caused argon crystals to multiply in the players inventory instead of decaying. This has since been patched. Media[] PickupDeposit Best Argon Crystal Farm Warframe Argon Crystal Farming GuideWarframe Argon Crystal Farming Guide 2021 Patch History[] Update 36.0 (2024-06-18) Argon Crystals are now automatically waypointed when dropped by enemies or resource containers in-mission. 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