You’re looking for a specific material that you need to unlock your next descendant, but you just don’t have time to painstakingly search through the research tabs. I get it, that’s why I’ve assembled all the info you need in one handy, searchable list. Just hit Ctrl+F and type in what you’re looking for.
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List of farmable Descendant research materials
| Material | Rarity | Where to find it |
| Monad Shards | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Kingston |
| Silicon | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Echo Swamp |
| Cooling Metallic Foil | Rare | From Encrypted Storage Boxes and Vaults in White-night Gulch |
| Flectorite | Standard | Resource and Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in White-night Gulch |
| Metal Accelerant | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Sterile Land |
| Complex Carbon Activator | Rare | Mission Monsters in Echo Swamp (Seed Vault or The Chapel) |
| Nanopolymers | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Agna Desert |
| Ceramic Composite | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in White-night Gulch |
| Synthesized Artificial Biometal | Rare | Mission Monsters in Agna Desert (Void fusion reactor, Vermillion Wastte, Miragestone) |
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| Hellion | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Fortress |
| Reverse Charging Coil | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Fortress |
| Insulated Metallic Foil | Rare | Mission monsters in Kingston (Magister Lab, Slumber Valley) |
| Shape Memory Alloy | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Hagios |
| Balanced Plasma Battery | Rare | Mission monsters in Fortess (Heart of the Fortress, Quarantine Zone) |
| Carbon Crystal | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Hagios |
| Themal Metallic Foil | Rare | Encrypted Storage Boxes and Vaults in Echo Swamps |
| Semi-permanent Plasma | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Vespers |
| Monomolecular Extractor | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Agna Desert |
| Highly-concentrated Energy Residue | Rare | Encrypted Storage Boxes and Vaults in Hagios |
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| Superfluid | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Sterile Land |
| Crystal Biogel | Rare | Mission Monsters in White-night Gulch (Void Fusion Reactor – White-night Gulch Mountaintops, Shipment Base: Vulgus Strategic Outpost, Hatchery: Vulgus Strategic Outpost) |
| Repton | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Kingston |
| Fusion Plasma Battery | Rare | Mission Monsters in Sterile Land (Rockfall: Vulgus Strategic Outpost, Classified Area: Vulgus Strategic Outpost) |
| Compound Coating Material | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Echo Swamp |
| Common Carbon Activator | Rare | Mission Monsters in Vespers (Sepulcher, The Shelter) |
| Hardener | Standard | Resource Boxes or Munitions Barrels in Vespers |
| Divided Plasma Battery | Rare | Mission Monsters in Agna Desert (The Asylum, Caligo Ossuary) |
| Data Processing Neural Circuit | Rare | Mission Monsters in Vespers (Frontline Base, Ruins Courtyard, Destroyed Temple, Captured Base, Lakeside, Old Surveillance Station, Ancient Giant Tree, Timberfall Power Facility) |
| Murky Energy Residue | Rare | Mission Monsters in Sterile Land (The Forgottense, Uknown Laboratory) |
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| Encrypted Neural Circuit | Rare | Mission Monsters in Echo Swamp (Hazy Swamp, Environment Contamination Zone, Abandoned Zone, Arche Motion Sensor, Verdant Greenery, Emergency Landing) |
| Inorganic Biogel | Rare | Mission Monsters in Vespers (Lumber Yard: Vulgus Strategic Outpost, Lost Supply Depot: Vulgus Strategic Outpost) |
| Deformed Biometal | Rare | Mission Monsters in Fortress (Frozen Valley: Vulgis Strategic Outpost, Convertor Facility: Vulgus Strategic Outpost) |
| Compound Carbon Activator | Rare | Mission Monsters in White-night Gulch (Mystery’s End, Bio-Lab) |
| Organic Biogel | Rare | Mission Monsters in Kingston (Kingston Communications Repeater, Vulgus Field Generator, Kingston Surveillance Radar) |
| Artificial Biometal | Rare | Mission Monsters in Sterile Land (Anticipated Ambush Point, Deception Transmitter, External Reactor, The Barracks, The Base’s Power Grid, High-powered Jammer, Weapon Processing, Biological Research Facility) |
| Pure Energy Residue | Rare | Encrypted Storage Boxes and Vaults in Fortress |
| Anode Ion Particle | Rare | Mission Monsters in Hagios (Vulgus Blockade, Deep Digger, Large Supply Transport Point, Broadnet Fleet Beacon, Antiaircraft Defensive Position, Ancient Quantum Facility) |
| Advanced Neural Circuit | Rare | Mission Monsters in White-night Gulch (Triumphal Arch, Border Line of Truth, Cave Rally Point, Forgotten Comms Device, Deployment Area of the Order’s Forces, Order’s Veil, Order’s Occupied Facillity, Order Supply Warehouse, and four more.) |
| Positive Ion Particle | Rare | Mission Monsters in Agna Desert (Surveillance Location, Rock Cave Base, Abandoned Reconstruction Site, The Previous Construct Team Quarters, Excavation Team Directional Radar, Commanding Ground) |
| Specialized Biometal | Rare | Mission Monsters in Hagios (Dune Base: Vulgis Strategic Outpost, Forward Base: Vulgus Strategic Outpost) |
How to find Amorphous Material in The First Descendant
Amorphous Material Patterns can be found in missions all over the place. But perhaps you’re looking for a specific one? In that case, check out our full list of Amorphous Material Patterns and where to find them in The First Descendant.
A lot of core research materials can only be found in certain mysterious containers. To learn more, check out How to find and unlock Encrypted Storage Vaults in The First Descendant.
Published: Jul 4, 2024 07:08 am