Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Juvenile)
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- fang
- Source
- Valakkar
Required by contracts(1)
- Wikelocollect 20
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A radiation-discolored, hand-harvested fang shed by (or pulled from the mouth of) a juvenile Valakkar sandworm — a Size-1 harvestable "trophy" prized as a crafting and Wikelo Emporium turn-in material.
What it is
The Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Juvenile) is a harvestable "trophy" item — a single tooth from a young Valakkar (the giant burrowing sandworm). In-game lore explains that a Valakkar continually sheds its teeth across its lifetime: as it burrows through sand and seizes prey its teeth are frequently damaged, and once a replacement tooth finishes forming it severs the connective tissue holding the old one, which breaks off and falls to the ground. Fangs can therefore be picked up off the ground or extracted from the creature's mouth after it dies. The "Irradiated" prefix denotes a fang that was exposed to radiation over a long period and developed an unusual coloration. It is a Size-1 item with a cargo volume of 100 µSCU (cargo dimensions roughly 0.15 x 0.05 x 0.05 m) and an internal class name of `Harvestable_Trophy_1H_vlkJuvenileFang_irradiated`.
Gameplay use
This is primarily a crafting ingredient and a Wikelo Emporium collection turn-in, not a consumable. According to crafting-database listings it is consumed in FPS weapon blueprints — for example it appears as an input for novelty/themed weapons such as a "Skull Gun" (around 20 units), a "Tooth Gun" (around 35 units), and a "Prism Irradiated Laser Shotgun" (around 5 units), typically alongside materials like Carinite, Jaclium and Saldynium. Separately, Valakkar fangs (juvenile, adult and apex grades) are repeatedly called out as required materials for Wikelo Emporium favor/collection contracts — the Banu trader Wikelo, based in Stanton, hands out rewards (armor, weapons, ships, ship components) in exchange for caches of rare harvestables like these fangs. Reported contracts have asked for batches on the order of dozens of juvenile fangs (e.g. ~35 per turn-in). Lore-wise, collectors also seek the fangs to craft various luxury items.
Value & where to sell
There is no fixed NPC vendor buy/sell price for this item in the catalog data — it is "not sold directly" through standard merchants and carries no listed base value. Its worth is driven almost entirely by demand for Wikelo contracts, so value lives in the player-to-player marketplace and is highly volatile. For scale, on the UEX player marketplace the higher-tier related items command large sums — Irradiated Valakkar Pearl listings around 200K aUEC per unit, and Apex-grade Irradiated Valakkar Fang listings advertised anywhere from tens of thousands up to multiple millions of aUEC per unit "needed for Wikelo missions." Juvenile fangs are the most common grade and sit at the low end of that spectrum. Treat all numbers as snapshot estimates that shift patch to patch.
Where to harvest
The fang comes from the Valakkar sandworm. Valakkar are native to Leir III (Leir system) and became an invasive species on Monox in the Pyro system; players report encountering them on Monox, Daymar (Crusader/Stanton), Pyro I, and Leir III. Juveniles (roughly 5 m long) tend to lurk near mineral deposits and just beneath the planet's surface, which is where a juvenile fang would be sourced. Fangs are collected by hand: pick up shed teeth from the sand, or extract them from a slain Valakkar's mouth. The Apex Valakkar (a 300 m raid-style encounter on Monox, introduced in Alpha 4.2.0 with radiation hazards) yields the rarest pearls and the largest, Apex-grade teeth, which require special tools to extract.
Source
Source creature: the Valakkar (commonly called a "sandworm"), a gigantic burrowing worm. The default commodity composition of this item is 100% `Vlk_Fang`. The "Juvenile" suffix ties this specific fang to the youngest life stage of the animal.
Grades & variants
Fangs are tiered by the Valakkar's life stage, and each stage has both a standard and an "Irradiated" version: - Juvenile — from ~5 m young worms; smallest and most common fang, lowest value. - Adult — from ~15 m worms; mid-tier. - Apex — from the ~300 m Apex Valakkar; the rarest and most valuable, requiring special extraction tools and commanding the highest marketplace prices. The Irradiated variant (this item) is distinguished from the plain fang by long-term radiation exposure that gives it an unusual coloration; it is the form most associated with the radiation-hazard Apex/Monox content and Wikelo demand.
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Lore
The Valakkar is one of Star Citizen's long-teased monsters, finally killable in-game as of the 2025 Alpha 4.2 update. Native to Leir III and now invasive on Monox in Pyro, it burrows beneath the sand, spits rock-hard sand at attackers, and grows through juvenile, adult and apex stages. Its biology of continuous tooth replacement is the in-universe justification for fangs being a renewable harvestable, and collectors prize the teeth (and the creature's embedded pearls) for crafting luxury goods.
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Trivia
- Despite its physical size, the item registers 0 kg mass in the cargo system and occupies only 100 µSCU. - The Apex Valakkar event ships with radiation hazards, thematically tying into why the "Irradiated" fang variant exists. - Players frequently liken the Monox sandworm encounters to Dune's sandworms.
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