Where do you farm Tellurium in Warframe?

The highest drop chance for Tellurium is from Comet Shredder Captain at 7.27%. We list all 87 sources, ranked, taken from Digital Extremes' official drop tables.

How many sources drop Tellurium?

87 sources drop Tellurium according to the official drop tables.

What is Tellurium used for?

Tellurium is an ingredient in 71 blueprints, including Outrider Greaves, Vent Rat Greaves, Haztech Greaves. 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.

Tellurium Farming

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

Where do you farm Tellurium?

Comet Shredder Captain is the best source of Tellurium, dropping it 7.27% of the time.

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

Best sources

Sources that drop Tellurium
#	Source	Rarity	Chance
1	Comet Shredder Captain	rare	7.27%
2	Orm Stropha Crewman	rare	2.58%
3	Orm Nullifier Crewman	rare	2.58%
4	Orm Crewman	rare	2.58%
5	Orm Shield Osprey	rare	2.58%
6	Orm Detron Crewman	rare	2.58%
7	Orm Railgun Moa	rare	2.58%
8	Orm Tech	rare	2.58%
9	Ancient Protector	rare	2.58%
10	Ratel	rare	2.58%
11	Brood Mother	rare	2.58%
12	Nauseous Crawler	rare	2.58%
13	Leaper	rare	2.58%
14	Electric Crawler	rare	2.58%
15	Tar Mutalist Moa	rare	2.58%
16	Swarm Mutalist Moa	rare	2.58%
17	Toxic Crawler	rare	2.58%
18	Juggernaut	rare	2.58%
19	Mine Osprey	rare	2.58%
20	Scavenger Drone	rare	2.58%
21	Deimos Saxum Rex	rare	2.58%
22	Deimos Leaper	rare	2.58%
23	Ryoku	rare	2.58%
24	Bladeswarm Power Carrier	rare	2.58%
25	Bladeswarm Scrambus	rare	2.58%
26	Bladeswarm Bailiff	rare	2.58%
27	Bladeswarm Eviscerator	rare	2.58%
28	Bladeswarm Derivator	rare	2.58%
29	Bladeswarm Roller Sentry	rare	2.58%
30	Bladeswarm Sniper Crewman	rare	2.58%
31	Ryoku Shadow Clone Master	rare	2.58%
32	Bladeswarm Shield Osprey	rare	2.58%
33	Ravenous Golden Maw	rare	2.58%
34	Bloodfrenzy Sister	rare	2.58%
35	Elite Bursa	rare	2.58%
36	Orm Nemes	rare	2.58%
37	Mawbound Director	rare	2.58%
38	Bloodfrenzy Trencher	rare	2.58%
39	Bloodfrenzy Expired	rare	2.58%
40	Vena	rare	2.58%
41	Bloodfrenzy Hyena	rare	2.58%
42	Bloodfrenzy Bailiff	rare	2.58%
43	Bloodfrenzy Vertec	rare	2.58%
44	Bloodfrenzy Powerclaw	rare	2.58%
45	Bloodfrenzy Crewman	rare	2.58%
46	Bloodfrenzy Machinist	rare	2.58%
47	Bloodfrenzy Optio	rare	2.58%
48	Ancient Undying Flyer	rare	2.58%
49	Ancient Maggot	rare	2.58%
50	Exo Raider	rare	2.58%
51	Exo Raider Carver	rare	2.58%
52	Exo Raider Eviscerator	rare	2.58%
53	Kosma Raider	rare	2.58%
54	Kosma Raider Carver	rare	2.58%
55	Gyre Raider	rare	2.58%
56	Gyre Raider Carver	rare	2.58%
57	Gyre Raider Eviscerator	rare	2.58%
58	Kosma Raider Eviscerator	rare	2.58%
59	Exo Gokstad Officer	rare	2.58%
60	Kosma Gokstad Officer	rare	2.58%
61	Gyre Gokstad Officer	rare	2.58%
62	Kosma Butcher	rare	2.58%
63	Exo Butcher	rare	2.58%
64	Exo Elite Lancer	rare	2.58%
65	Exo Eviscerator	rare	2.58%
66	Exo Supressor	rare	2.58%
67	Kosma Elite Lancer	rare	2.58%
68	Kosma Eviscerator	rare	2.58%
69	Gyre Butcher	rare	2.58%
70	Gyre Elite Lancer	rare	2.58%
71	Gyre Eviscerator	rare	2.58%
72	Gyre Supressor	rare	2.58%
73	Kosma Supressor	rare	2.58%
74	Exo Gokstad Pilot	rare	2.58%
75	Kosma Gokstad Pilot	rare	2.58%
76	Gyre Gokstad Pilot	rare	2.58%
77	Exo Roller Sentry	rare	2.58%
78	Gyre Roller Sentry	rare	2.58%
79	Kosma Roller Sentry	rare	2.58%

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 Tellurium. 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 Tellurium is used for

Tellurium is an ingredient in 71 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	Tellurium needed
Outrider Greaves	×30
Vent Rat Greaves	×30
Haztech Greaves	×20
Kubrodon Ventkid Greaves	×20
Smelter Greaves	×20
Vent Pobber Ventkid Greaves	×20
Hawk Bishamo Greaves	×10
Imperator Vandal	×10
Slaytra	×8
Grattler	×5
Krohkur	×5
Astilla	×4
Quellor	×4
Valkyr Prime Systems	×3
Titania Prime Systems	×3
Nekros Prime Systems	×3
<ARCHWING> Kaszas	×3
Nezha Prime Systems	×3
Gunsen	×3
Styanax Prime Systems	×3
Dual Keres	×3
Inaros Prime Systems	×3
Khora Prime Chassis	×2
Lavos Prime Chassis	×2
Limbo Prime Systems	×2

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.