Fotia Seedpod
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
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- Category
- Natural
- Display type
- Natural Materials
- Unit size
- 600 µSCU
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
The seedpod of the fotia scrub, a spiky plant native to Pyro I whose seeds are mutated by solar-flare radiation, collected by players for the pod's natural radiological properties.
What it is
The Fotia Seedpod is the reproductive pod of the **fotia scrub**, a hardy plant native to **Pyro I**. The fotia scrub was designed as set dressing for the dark, gloomy, blue-toned alien biomes of Pyro I, with an aggressive shape language: pale, dark surfaces covered in spikes that reinforce the hostile, irradiated feel of the planet. The seedpod itself breaks the plant's near-monotone palette by adding a tint of purple, making it visually distinct on the plant. As an item it is classed in-game under the generic "Miscellaneous" category and can be hand-collected as a harvestable.
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Source
The pod comes from the fotia scrub plant. Unusually, the fotia scrub does not reproduce with conventional stamen and pollen — instead it relies on the **solar flares** that batter the Pyro system, letting flare radiation mutate its genetics before it releases the seedpod. This is why the harvested pods carry residual radiological properties.
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Gameplay use
The Fotia Seedpod is a hand-collectable harvestable rather than a crafting/medical item with documented effects. In-fiction, enterprising collectors seek out the pods specifically for their **natural radiological properties**, which the lore says "can be utilized in various ways" — but the game does not currently expose a concrete crafting recipe, medical effect, or Wikelo/vendor turn-in tied to this item in the sources reviewed. Mechanically it behaves as a miscellaneous tradeable/collectable item available in the Pyro economy (as of patch 4.8.x).
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Value & where to sell
Community item databases list the Fotia Seedpod as a Miscellaneous item with an average price in the region of roughly **180–360 aUEC** (estimates vary by source and patch; these figures are volatile and community-maintained). It is sold (buyable) at several Pyro shop terminals rather than being a high-value trade commodity: - Shop Terminal — The Yard (Bloom, Pyro) - Shop Terminal — Shepherd's Rest (Bloom, Pyro) - Shop Terminal — Bullock's Reach (Terminus, Pyro) - Shop Terminal — Kinder Plots (Terminus, Pyro) - Equipment Contested Zone — Checkmate (Pyro), ~225 UEC No dedicated sell terminal / commodity sink was listed in the sources, so its value is best treated as a low-tier collectable. Prices are community-reported and change between patches.
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Where to harvest
The seedpod is harvested from fotia scrub plants growing in the biomes of **Pyro I** (Pyro 1), the innermost rocky planet of the Pyro system. The plant was authored specifically for Pyro I's dark, hostile environment, so that is the planet to look for it on. No more granular biome/cave coordinates are documented in the reviewed sources; the buy-terminal availability is concentrated in the Pyro system (Bloom and Terminus locations).
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Grades & variants
No grades, quality tiers, or named variants (e.g. Grade A/AA/AAA) are documented for the Fotia Seedpod in the sources reviewed. It appears as a single item type.
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Lore / discovery
The fotia scrub is part of the worldbuilding for the lawless Pyro system, an irradiated, solar-flare-scoured star system. Its flare-driven reproduction makes it a small but characteristic piece of Pyro's alien ecology, and the irradiated seedpods are framed as something opportunistic prospectors gather for their radiological value. The plant and pod were introduced alongside Pyro's biome art for the system's release.
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