Ranta
Details
- Diet
- Mineral feeder — its gut bacteria digest minerals from the cave environment.
- Habitat
- Rocky, low-atmosphere caves and caverns on the moons of Stanton (and now Pyro).
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A large isopod-like crustacean from Star Citizen lore that shelters in rocky, low-atmosphere caves — currently a "creature in name only": the animal itself does not yet spawn in-game, and players only ever encounter its harvestable, cube-shaped dung.
Appearance
The Ranta is described in lore as a large crustacean resembling a terrestrial isopod (the body plan of a woodlouse / pill bug, scaled up). It is hardy enough to survive in thin, low-atmosphere environments, which is consistent with its habitat inside airless or near-airless moon caves. No finished in-game model of the living creature is currently shown to players; the only Ranta-related object you actually see is its dung — a dry, cube-shaped pellet.
Behavior & temperament
Lore frames the Ranta as a cave-dwelling grazer/processor rather than a predator. Its biology centers on digesting minerals out of its rocky environment via a specialized gut. Because the creature does not currently spawn, there is no in-game aggression/passive/pack behavior to report — there is no Ranta entity to encounter, fight, or flee from at this time.
Where to find
You cannot find the Ranta creature itself, but you can find the sign it leaves behind — Ranta Dung — in caves and caverns. Reported locations: - Inside caves/caverns on the moons of Stanton, as small patches on the cave floor. - Inside blue supply boxes at Distribution Centers and at Onyx (ASD) facilities — frequently cited as a more reliable source than wandering caves, since boxes can hold several units and can be cleared across multiple centers or via server hopping. - The commodity is also seeded into deposits across both Stanton and the Pyro system (e.g., locations such as Stag's Rut, Sunset Mesa, Golden Riviera in Pyro; Onyx facilities, an ArcCorp security post, and Jumptown-type sites in Stanton).
Diet
The Ranta is essentially a mineral feeder. Lore states its dung carries a distinctive bacterial biome that helps the animal break down and digest minerals from its cave surroundings — i.e., it processes rock/mineral matter rather than eating other animals or plants. That same bacterial content is why researchers find the dung scientifically interesting.
Combat & danger
None applicable. The Ranta is not a spawnable hostile and has no published health, threat rating, or kill method. Harvesting its dung carries only the usual cave-exploration risks (oxygen management, falls, and rival players), not danger from the creature.
Loot & drops
The only "drop" associated with the Ranta is Ranta Dung, an Organic Remains commodity: - Description in data: a dry, cube-shaped dung from a large isopod-like crustacean; valued for its bacterial biome. - Container sizes from 1 to 32 SCU; density ~1 g/cc; signature 2000. - Sell value is high for a hand-collected harvestable: roughly 33,000 aUEC at the low end up to about 47,000–49,000 aUEC at the best terminals (e.g., Bloom in Pyro, and Shepherd's Rest have both been cited near the top), with a ~15-day average around 37,000 aUEC per SCU.
Hunting & harvesting tips
Since you "hunt" dung rather than the animal: - Bring an FPS tractor-beam tool to pick up and stow pellets — e.g., a Pyro multitool fitted with a TruHold Tractor Attachment. Multitools and attachments are sold at large derelict outposts (Maker's Point, Rappel, Astor's Clearing, Dunboro) and at equipment shops like Cubby Blast / Providence Surplus under Personal Weapons. - In caves, dung is scattered loosely, so sweep the floor; while you're there, mine any Hadanite or other mineral veins you pass for extra value. - For faster, more predictable yields, loot blue boxes at Distribution Centers / Onyx facilities and server-hop or rotate between sites when one is picked clean (these boxes also drop meds, ammo, and multitool attachments).
Lore & discovery
The Ranta exists in the fiction as established fauna of the Stanton/Pyro region — a hardy cave isopod whose dung is prized because its bacterial content might unlock industrial or medical advances. In practice the creature has been a "harvestable-first" entry: it entered the game world through its collectible dung (a harvestable resource going back to early harvestable passes) well before any creature model, and as of the current builds players still only interact with the dung, not a living Ranta. It is best described as concept/lore for the animal and in-game only for the dung commodity.
Trivia
- It is one of several Star Citizen species known to players almost entirely through a by-product rather than the animal — you can sell its droppings for tens of thousands of aUEC without ever seeing a Ranta. - The dung's appeal is explicitly its microbiome: lore positions Ranta dung as a potential feedstock for industrial or medical research, a rare case of "valuable waste."
Drops
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).