Degnous Root
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- plant
- Output
- View commodity
Where to find
Where this harvestable spawns, sourced from game data and the Star Citizen wiki.
Also available as a Commodity
View full commodity page →Details
- Category
- Natural
- Display type
- Natural Materials
- Unit size
- 600 µSCU
Trading
Buy 44,505 aUEC/SCUSell 60,370 aUEC/SCUBuy at
cheapest first- Shepherd's RestShepherd's Rest · Pyro44,156
- Canard ViewCanard View · Pyro44,156
- Admin - People's Service Station ThetaPeople's Service Station Theta · Nyx44,737
Sell at
best payout first- Admin - HUR-L5HUR-L5 High Course Station · Stanton69,000
- Admin - ARC-L2ARC-L2 Lively Pathway Station · Stanton63,000
- Admin - ARC-L4ARC-L4 Faint Glen Station · Stanton63,000
Prices & locations (aUEC per SCU) crowdsourced from UEX; they fluctuate in-game.
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A harvestable macroalgae from Terra, hand-collected by players and sold as a medical-ingredient trade commodity; it fetches a high per-SCU price relative to its tiny haul size.
What it is
Degnous Root is a macroalga (a seaweed-like aquatic plant), not a land root despite its name. In lore it has soft, dark-colored flesh dotted with orange and yellow air bladders of varying sizes, and it thrives in shallow, warm seawater. It is native to Terra (Terra III) and was discovered along the shallow coastlines near Prime in the Terra system. This correctly sits under the Flora category, sub-type plant; it is a marine algae rather than a true rooted plant or fungus.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsrobertsspaceindustries.comstar-citizen.wiki
Gameplay use
In the live game it functions primarily as a TRADE commodity in the harvestables/agricultural category. Players hand-harvest it as an S1 (size-1, single-hand-collectible) harvestable and then sell it to commodity vendors for profit. Its in-fiction purpose is as a medical/health-product ingredient, valued for a blend of complex amino acids that were first used as nutritional supplements before the plant's medicinal potential was recognized — but in-game it is sold raw rather than consumed for a personal effect. No crafting recipe or Wikelo turn-in is documented for it.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsuexcorp.spacerobertsspaceindustries.com
Value & where to sell
Trade-tracker data (Star Citizen 4.8.x, volatile and patch-dependent) shows Degnous Root as a high-value-per-SCU commodity: - Sell: roughly 60,000–63,000 UEC/SCU (15-day average around 60,700; a recent best of ~63,000 at Admin - ARC-L2). - Buy: roughly 44,000–46,000 UEC/SCU where it is sold (e.g. Shepherd's Rest). - Implied trade margin: up to ~18,800 UEC/SCU (~30% margin) buy-low/sell-high. - High-demand sell points include the TDD at New Babbage and around 20 buying locations overall. Prices shift every patch and with supply/demand, so treat these as indicative. Player-marketplace listings (sc-market.space) also exist.
Where to harvest
Lore places it in the shallow, warm coastal waters near Prime in the Terra system. As an S1 hand-harvestable it is gathered on foot and stowed, then sold at commodity terminals. Community sources are inconsistent on the exact live spawn biome — some describe coastal/shoreline collection, others list it among cave/underground harvestables — so the precise present-day spawn locations should be verified in-game per patch.
Source
The item comes from the degnous macroalga plant itself (flora). There is no source creature — it is harvested directly from the plant, consistent with the existing "Flora / plant" classification.
Grades & variants
No grade tiers or named variants (e.g. A/AA/AAA) are documented for Degnous Root in the available sources; it appears as a single commodity entry (code DEGR / DEGN).
Sources:uexcorp.spacestarcitizen.tools
Effects
No direct player-facing consumable effect (healing, buff, poison) is documented. The "medical" angle is lore-based: its amino acids make it an ingredient for medical and health products rather than something the player eats for an effect.
Lore / discovery
Per the RSI Galactapedia, degnous root was discovered in the shallow coastal waters of Prime on Terra. Its complex amino acids were first exploited as nutritional supplements; later, its broader medicinal value was recognized, and it became an ingredient in medical and health products.
Trivia
- Despite "Root" in the name, it is an alga, not a rooted terrestrial plant. - It was added as a harvestable around the Alpha 3.13 era (community/patch references), the "Underground Infamy" update window. - Recorded item size is tiny (cstone lists ~0.001 µSCU per unit), yet it commands a high per-SCU sell price once accumulated.
Sources:starcitizen.fandom.comfinder.cstone.spacestarcitizen.tools