Yormandi Tongue
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- tongue
- Source
- Yormandi
Required by contracts(6)
- Wikelocollect 2
- Wikelocollect 1
- Wikelocollect 5
- Wikelocollect 10
- Wikelocollect 3
- Wikelocollect 7
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A size-1 animal harvestable cut from the corpse of a Yormandi — a giant snake-like creature — and turned in to the alien fixer Wikelo as a contract ingredient for advanced optics and a unique LMG.
What it is
The Yormandi Tongue is a biological trophy harvested by hand from a slain Yormandi, a large serpentine boss creature. In-fiction the yormandi uses its sensitive tongue to taste its surroundings and detect prey from great distances, and the tip of the organ is prized by culinary enthusiasts across the Empire for its complex, subtle flavor. Despite the "gourmet" flavor text, in current gameplay it functions as a turn-in ingredient rather than an edible. Each corpse yields both a tongue and eyes that the player physically extracts and carries out.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikitheimpound.comstarcitizen.tools
Gameplay use
The tongue is a crafting/turn-in ingredient for contracts offered by Wikelo (the trader who, in this build, is the only vendor of advanced binoculars/optics). Known contracts that consume Yormandi Tongue: - "Want Better Eyes" — requires 1x Wikelo Favor, 2x Yormandi Eye, 1x Yormandi Tongue; reward is the XDL "Mark I" Monocular Rangefinder. (Some community write-ups instead describe the optics reward generically as binoculars.) - "Yormandi Gun" — requires 1x Fresnel Energy LMG, 6x Yormandi Eye, 3x Yormandi Tongue; reward is the unique Fresnel "Yormandi" LMG. Turn-ins are made at a Wikelo Emporium (Kinga, Dasi, or Selo Station).
Value & where to sell
There is no NPC vendor buy/sell price for the Yormandi Tongue — item databases list it as "not sold directly or at all," meaning it has no standard aUEC market value and exists only to be turned in to Wikelo for contract rewards. Its practical worth is therefore the value of those rewards (the Monocular Rangefinder or the Fresnel "Yormandi" LMG). Carry/grey-market listings exist on player boosting services (e.g. ExpCarry), but those are real-money services, not in-game aUEC pricing. (Prices and turn-in economics are volatile and patch-dependent.)
Sources:finder.cstone.spaceexpcarry.com
Where to harvest
The tongue comes from the Yormandi, a boss creature found beneath the Onyx Facility (Site B) — an abandoned Associated Sciences & Development (ASD) underground research site in the Stanton system. The encounter sits in a new excavation zone under the main building and currently has no official mission marker; players navigate to it manually. After killing the Yormandi, the player extracts the tongue (and eyes) directly from the corpse.
Source
Harvested from the Yormandi — a large snake-like creature. Per community reporting, the Yormandi design grew out of the alternative Valakkar concepts shown at CitizenCon 2024, with Cloud Imperium Games choosing a more "snakey" than "wormy" direction. The companion harvestable from the same corpse, the Yormandi Eye, is a medical-research item (its eyes carry fast-acting antibodies).
Sources:starcitizen.toolstheimpound.comapi.star-citizen.wiki
Grades & variants
No A/AA/AAA-style quality grades are documented for the tongue — it is a single fixed item per corpse. However, two distinct database entries exist: a normal size-1 carryable (class `Carryable_2H_CY_yormandi_tongue`, ~1 kg, ~0.6 m) and a much larger "creature trophy" version (class `Carryable_TBO_Creature_Trophy_yormandi_tongue`, ~30 kg, ~5.6 m long, cargo-grid sized). The trophy variant appears to be a decorative/oversized counterpart rather than a separate gameplay grade.
Effects
None documented as a consumable. The flavor text frames it as a gourmet delicacy, but it has no in-game eat/heal/buff effect; it is a turn-in ingredient. (Contrast the Yormandi Eye, whose lore ties it to medical antibodies, though that too is a turn-in item rather than a usable medical consumable.)
Lore
The yormandi is described as relying on its sensitive tongue to taste the environment and sense prey from a distance, and its tongue-tip is celebrated as a rare culinary delicacy throughout the Empire — a piece of worldbuilding that gives a mundane harvestable a "luxury foodstuff" backstory while it doubles as fixer-contract loot.
Trivia
- Both halves of the Yormandi harvest are tied to optics: the tongue and eyes feed Wikelo contracts that reward binoculars/rangefinders, with Wikelo noted as the only source of advanced optics in this build. - The Yormandi/Valakkar lineage means this harvestable descends from CIG's CitizenCon 2024 giant-creature concepts. - Item data is versioned to patch 4.8.0-LIVE per the wiki API entry.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).