Cave Kopion Horn
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- horn
- Source
- Cave Kopion
Required by contracts(1)
- Rayari Inc · Jr. Contractorcollect 20
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A hand-harvested animal trophy in Star Citizen — the horn of the Cave Kopion, a bone-and-carbon-nanomaterial growth prized for medical bone regeneration and used as a high-value turn-in for the Banu mission-giver Wikelo.
What it is
The Cave Kopion Horn is a harvestable animal body part — specifically the horn cut from a slain Cave Kopion. Lore describes the kopion horn as a unique natural composite of bone and naturally-occurring carbon nanomaterials. When properly processed it aids bone regeneration with a far greater success rate than lab-grown materials, which is what makes it a sought-after commodity rather than mere scrap. It is one of several "Kopion Horn" variants in the game (alongside the standard/Savannah, Tundra, and Irradiated kopion horns), distinguished by the biome and sub-species the source creature comes from. It is a small, single-unit item (cstone lists a volume of roughly 1,002 microSCU, i.e. about 1 SCU class S1), carried and stored by hand.
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Gameplay use
The Cave Kopion Horn's primary value is as a collection turn-in for Wikelo, the Banu mission-giver introduced in Star Citizen 4.1. It is one of the components required for Wikelo's high-tier "Now make Polaris. Short Time Deal." contract chain (the multi-item collection that ultimately rewards a Polaris), with community sources citing roughly 5x Cave Kopion Horn among the many ingredients needed. It is also called out as a requirement for the "Ana Endro" armor reward from Wikelo. Beyond Wikelo turn-ins it functions as a player-traded commodity (it is not sold by any in-game shop and can only be obtained by harvesting), so its other "use" is being sold to other players for aUEC. Note the closely related Tundra Kopion Horn is the variant used in Wikelo's "New To System" mission (1 Vestal Water + 3 Tundra Kopion Horn) — make sure you harvest the correct variant for a given contract.
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Value & where to sell
There is no NPC vendor buy/sell price — Kopion Horns are not sold at shops and must be harvested, so the market is player-driven and volatile. On the UEX player marketplace, Cave Kopion Horn listings have appeared around 150,000 aUEC per unit, and there are active "buying" requests (e.g. ~50,000 aUEC/unit). UEX's commodity tracker for the generic "Kopion Horn" shows a best recorded sell of about 50,000 UEC (at The Golden Riviera) with a ~15-day average near 36,600 UEC/SCU — figures that fluctuate heavily with patch and demand, especially while Wikelo collection events are live. Treat all numbers as a moving snapshot.
Where to harvest
Cave Kopion Horns come from Cave Kopions, which spawn in sand caves on Hurston and Bloom (in the Stanton and Pyro systems respectively). Kopions roam in packs (commonly observed in groups of about 8–10), so expect a fight rather than a single target. The horn is harvested off the creature after it is killed; the player then collects/carries the horn by hand. Because the spawns are tied to specific cave systems, players typically use 4.1-era cave-location guides to find reliable farming spots.
Source
The source creature is the Cave Kopion, a cave-dwelling predatory sub-species of the kopion. Kopions are aggressive pack predators native to Stanton; the "Cave" variant inhabits sand caves on Hurston and Bloom. Each Cave Kopion carries one Cave Kopion Horn that can be cut from the body once it is killed.
Grades & variants
This item is variant-specific rather than letter-graded. The "Kopion Horn" family includes several biome/sub-species variants — the base/Savannah Kopion Horn, the Tundra Kopion Horn (from Tundra Kopions in the elevated grasslands/tundra of microTech), the Cave Kopion Horn (this item, from Cave Kopions in Hurston/Bloom sand caves), and Irradiated Kopion Horn variants. The variants are not interchangeable for mission turn-ins: Wikelo's Polaris/Ana Endro contracts specifically call for Cave Kopion Horn, while other Wikelo missions (e.g. "New To System") call for Tundra Kopion Horn. The distinction that makes the Cave variant valuable is its dedicated demand in the top-tier Polaris collection chain plus the difficulty of farming the cave-bound, pack-spawning source creature.
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Effects
The horn has no direct in-game consumable/medical effect for the player (it is not an eaten or applied item). Its medical relevance is purely lore: when processed, kopion horn's bone-plus-carbon-nanomaterial composition aids bone regeneration far more effectively than lab-grown substitutes, which is the fiction behind why it commands value as a commodity.
Lore
In the Star Citizen universe the kopion is an aggressive predatory creature, and its horn is valued for the rare natural composite it is made of — bone fused with naturally-occurring carbon nanomaterials. Processed correctly, this material supports bone regeneration with success rates exceeding artificial lab-grown materials, giving the harvested horn genuine commercial worth in-fiction as a medical raw material.
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Trivia
- Cave Kopion Horn rose to prominence with Star Citizen 4.1's introduction of the Banu mission-giver Wikelo, whose Polaris collection chain created sudden demand for kopion horns and other exotic harvestables. - Kopions are notorious as a "beware the forest's predator" threat — harvesting their horns means surviving the pack first. - The same creature family supplies multiple horn variants across very different biomes (sand caves, microTech tundra), so players often confuse the Cave and Tundra variants when filling Wikelo contracts.
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