Revenant Pod
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
- 1,000 µSCU
Trading
Sell 9,888 aUEC/SCUSell at
best payout first- Admin - SeraphimOrison · Stanton11,000
- Shepherd's RestShepherd's Rest · Pyro11,000
- Admin - Ruin StationRuin Station · Pyro9,100
Prices & locations (aUEC per SCU) crowdsourced from UEX; they fluctuate in-game.
Required by contracts(1)
- Rayari Inc · Neutralcollect 15
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A small S1 hand-harvestable fruit/pod that grows on the Revenant Tree (a variety of the Altrucia Tree); its pollen can be chemically processed into the illegal drug Altruciatoxin, and players collect the pods to sell as a harvestable trade commodity.
What it is
The Revenant Pod is a harvestable plant item — the seed pod / fruit borne by the Revenant Tree, a deciduous "subgenus" of the Altrucia Tree. The pods are tiny in gameplay terms (occupying roughly 0.0022 SCU / ~0.001 μSCU per unit, ~0.1 kg), making them an S1 (smallest size) hand-collected item. They are gathered by walking up to the plants on planet/moon surfaces and harvesting them on foot rather than mined or bought. In the game files the entity is labelled `harvestable_base_Revenant`.
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Gameplay use
Primarily a TRADE commodity: players harvest pods on foot and sell stacks to NPC trade terminals for aUEC, and the pods also appear as fetch items in hand-harvestable delivery contracts (e.g. Rayari/Ryari harvestable contracts, which can pay large sums per turn-in). In lore the pods are valued as the source of Revenant Tree pollen, which is chemically refined into Altruciatoxin — an illegal narcotic — so the pod sits at the bottom of a vice/drug production chain (Pod -> Revenant Tree Pollen -> Altruciatoxin). The harvested pod itself is the raw collectible; the pollen and finished toxin are separate, more valuable commodities.
Value & where to sell
Prices are volatile and shift each patch. Recent UEX market data (around patch 4.8.x) shows a sell price near 11,000 aUEC/SCU at the best terminal (Seraphim) with a ~9,700 aUEC/SCU 15-day average, and demand recorded at multiple stations (e.g. a ~90 SCU sale at Ashland). Note that older Galactic Logistics data from much earlier patches listed far lower figures (roughly 1,475 aUEC/SCU at Seraphim/Port Olisar, ~983 at Brio's Breaker Yard on Daymar and Samson & Son's on Wala) — illustrating how much harvestable prices have climbed. As a hand-harvestable it generally has demand-only terminals (sold, not bought back), so check a live market tracker for the current best buyer.
Where to harvest
Revenant Pods spawn densely on planetary/moon surfaces in the Stanton system; community guides single out Daymar (a moon of Crusader) as one of the easiest/most plentiful spots — players report finding pods nearly every few kilometres. The parent Revenant Tree is lore-associated with Hyperion (Fora III) where the Altrucia was originally geoengineered, and the species is cultivated in the wider 'verse for its pollen. Because the pods grow on a wind-adapted shrub/tree, look for them on arid, windswept biomes; bring a multi-tool and scan the surface as you traverse.
Source
The pod comes from the Revenant Tree (botanical name given in lore as Altrucia lacus), a variety/subgenus of the Altrucia Tree native to Terra (Terra III). Geoengineers introduced Altrucia to Hyperion to break up dust storms; the project failed but the trees adapted to the perpetual wind, shedding leaves and thickening their bark to form the hardy, dusty-brown Revenant variety. After brief rainy seasons the tree puts its stored energy into wind-resistant flowers, dispersing pollen and seeds on the wind — the pods are this fruiting/seed stage.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsstarcitizen.toolsrobertsspaceindustries.com
Effects
The pod itself is not a medical/edible buff item, but the substance derived from its pollen, Altruciatoxin (street names "dust," "candy," "Round Off"), produces muscle relaxation, sensory enhancement, and lethargy when ingested or smoked. Heavy use can stain the tongue, and in rare cases — especially in people already sensitive to pollen — it can trigger a violent and occasionally deadly allergic reaction. As a separate survival note from lore, liquid filtered from a wild Revenant Tree's interior is bitterly potable in emergencies, though consuming the raw inner material causes vomiting.
Grades & variants
No formal grade ladder (A/AA/AAA, juvenile/adult, etc.) is documented for the Revenant Pod itself — it appears as a single harvestable commodity. The related items in its production chain are effectively the "variants" of interest: Revenant Tree Pollen (commodity code REVE/RTPO) and the refined drug Altruciatoxin, which command higher value than the raw pod. Altruciatoxin in turn appears in the data under lettered entries (e.g. "(a)"/"(b)"), but these are item database variants rather than player-visible quality grades.
Lore / discovery
The Revenant Tree's backstory is one of accidental adaptation: imported Altrucia trees, meant as living windbreaks on storm-wracked Hyperion, survived by transforming into the gnarled, drought-hardened Revenant variety. It is now cultivated less as a windbreak and more for its pollen, whose refinement into Altruciatoxin is prohibited under UEE law — making the otherwise humble fruit the root of an illicit drug economy. There is also an in-fiction houseplant/flair version (the "Altrucia Lacus / Revenant Tree" decorative plant), reflecting that the species doubles as a low-light, low-moisture ornamental that hobbyists keep in ecospheres to avoid root rot.
Sources:robertsspaceindustries.comstarcitizen.toolsfinder.cstone.space
Trivia
- The name "Revenant" (something that returns from the dead) fits a tree that survived a failed terraforming project by reinventing itself. - Despite the ominous name it is botanically just a tough, dusty Altrucia — its danger is the drug humans make from it, not the plant. - Altruciatoxin's street nicknames include "dust," "candy," and "Round Off," and possession/trafficking is illegal across most of the Stanton system.