Vanduul Plating
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- salvage
Required by contracts(5)
- InterSec Defense Solutionscollect 5
- Wikelocollect 15
- Wikelocollect 2
- Wikelocollect 10–30
- Wikelocollect 10
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
Vanduul Plating is a hand-carried piece of armor plating salvaged from Vanduul, used as a high-value crafting material for Wikelo's contract turn-ins rather than as flora.
What it is
Vanduul Plating is a small, carryable salvage item described in-game as "a piece of plating typically worn by Vanduul as armor." It is a manufactured/biological-tech artifact stripped from Vanduul pilots and wrecks, not a plant, fungus, or animal body-part. It is a Size 1, one-handed carryable object (class name `Carryable_1H_CY_armor_vanduul_1_a`) with cargo dimensions of roughly 0.24 m x 0.09 m x 0.03 m and a volume around 652-700 microSCU. It is tagged as stackable, loot-generated, and "Legendary" rarity in the item database. Its closely related sibling item is Vanduul Metal.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikifinder.cstone.spacestarcitizen.tools
Gameplay use
Vanduul Plating is primarily a crafting ingredient for Wikelo Emporium contract turn-ins (it is not a medical/consumable item, and has no NPC-vendor trade role yet). Players hand in exact counts of Plating alongside Vanduul Metal, Wikelo Favor, Large Artifact Fragments, and other rare loot to unlock ship and equipment rewards. Known recipes include: the Boomtube "Clanguard" rocket launcher (2x Vanduul Metal + 2x Vanduul Plating + 1 standard Boomtube); "Where Wolf? Here Wolf" rewarding the L-21 Wolf (10x Wikelo Favor + 10x Plating + 10x Metal + 1x Large Artifact Fragment Pristine); the "RSI Meteor Mod" rewarding the Meteor (10x Plating + 10x Metal + other rares); and "Guardian Wik-X" rewarding the Guardian MX (30x Plating + 30x Metal + other rares). Because Wikelo enforces strict checklist counts, being short even one Plating blocks the reward, which drives demand.
Value & where to sell
Vanduul Plating is not bought or sold at any NPC kiosk/vendor in-game, so it has no fixed aUEC shop price. It trades only on player-to-player community marketplaces. On the UEX community marketplace, buy offers have ranged roughly 80,000-100,000 aUEC per unit, while sell listings span widely from about 100,000 up to several million aUEC, with the bulk of active listings clustering around 250,000-500,000 aUEC per unit. These prices are player-set, volatile, and driven by Wikelo contract demand rather than any official valuation.
Sources:uexcorp.spaceuexcorp.space
Where to harvest
Vanduul Plating is collected in the Nyx system, not from biomes or caves. It is looted from Vanduul pilot corpses and wrecks during the "Vanduul-Tech Smugglers" mission chain offered by InterSec Defense Solutions (available from the Junior Contractor rank). The mission centers on a derelict/occupied QV Logistics station under Vanduul siege: players clear roughly four Vanduul fighters before landing, find an access card or laptop with door codes (spawn locations are randomized), then loot a cache of around eight Vanduul corpses carrying Vanduul Plating and Vanduul Metal trade items before extracting. It can also drop as general contract loot from Vanduul tech smugglers.
Source
The item is salvaged from the Vanduul themselves — specifically the armor plating worn by Vanduul pilots — recovered from their bodies and downed craft in the Nyx system. It is not derived from any plant, fungus, or huntable creature.
Grades & variants
No A/AA/AAA-style quality grades are documented for Vanduul Plating; it appears as a single uniform item that stacks. Its companion variant is Vanduul Metal, a separate but functionally parallel Nyx salvage item used in the same Wikelo recipes. The item database flags Plating with a "Legendary" rarity tag.
Lore / discovery
Vanduul Plating entered the game with Alpha 4.4.0, which opened the Nyx system and introduced the Vanduul-Tech Smugglers mission line, themed around a black market trafficking Vanduul technology and bodies into Stanton. The plating represents scavenged Vanduul war materiel, fitting the lore of the Vanduul as a hostile, raiding alien clan whose gear is prized and dangerous to obtain.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).