Scavenging at Titan Graveyards

A lot of people are asking – what is there even to scavenge at Titan graveyards? And what for? Here’s our list; YMMV depending on what you care to do in the game. We will sort them into Tiers by common usefulness.

Where and how to Scavenge Titan Graveyards

Learn where you need to go, how to go about it most effectively and how to prepare sufficiently.

Locations & Environment

There are currently 8 Titan Graveyards in the Bubble, all at the location where the respective Titans perished:

Former Titan	Location
Cocijo	Sol
Raijin	Pegasi Sector IH-U b3-3
Leigong	HIP 8887
Thor	Col 285 Sector IG-O c6-5
Hadad	HIP 30377
Oya	Cephei Sector BV-Y b4
Indra	HIP 20567
Taranis	Hyades Sector FB-N b7-6

Note that the Cocijo Graveyard in Sol behaves a bit differently than the other Titan Graveyards when it comes to hostiles & NPCs.

The overall Environment, farming Method and materials appear to be the same.

Graveyard Environment & Hostiles

Know what to expect

Graveyards are left behind ater a Titan has perished and its maelstrom dissolved, there will be no Mines or Repulsion wave to keep you out.
They typically undergo three phases:

Thargoid craft will usually patrol the area, including occasional Scouts, Scythes and Interceptor(s).
Scythes should leave you alone aslong as they do not detect Thargoid Bio-Storage Capsules in your hold.
High caustic – in the week immediately following the destruction of a Titan, the area will be highly caustic and it may be challenging to operate in with even a well equipped ship.
Medium-Low-caustic – in the second week after a Titan is destroyed, the caustic levels will reduce and it will be possible to operate within the caustic cloud easily with some prep. The area will be patrolled by NPC AX pilots, who will engage Thargoid craft when detected.
Non-caustic – By the third week, the caustic cloud will fully dissipate. The area will continue to be patrolled by NPC AX pilots and joined by NPCs scavenging and collecting in the graveyard. NPC pirates will also patrol, inspect your cargo for commodities and engage you if any are detected.

Farming Method & Equipment

There are a few points that will greatly increase your chances of finding what you are looking for, especially the very rare Titan Drive Components.

Speed
- You want to cover as much ground as possible, use an agile ship and roam around the area to detect more loot.
Sensors
- You want good sensors, long-range engineering recommended, A-Rated Sensors with engineering even better.
  This will help you to load-in and detect more loot as you roam the place. Keep an eye on your contact-panel.
Rerolling
- Increase your chances by clearing the field of any junk you don’t want, making space for new items to spawn in the process.
  To do this we recommend collecting things you find remotely usefull to get them off the board, and otherwise just ramming and destroying junk you have no interest in to save time while you are roaming around.

Loot Types

2 Main types of loot; Materials & Cargo

Materials you pick up will directly go to your Material-Inventory account and can not cause you any harm.
Materials are capped at a maximum you can hold by your Material Inventory account.

Commodities/Cargo you pick up will go into your Ships cargohold.
Thargoid Cargo can be caustic, causing your ship internal harm when picked up,
it is heavily recommended to fit your ship with Caustic-Resistant Cargo Rack(s) if you plan on picking up commodities

Equipment Advice

Come prepared with the right ship to get the job done effectively

Sufficient Cargo Racks (caustic Cargo Rack when needed) to hold Limpets and Loot
Collector Limpet Controller (or Universal)
Repair Limpet Controller (ideally Class 5 or integrated into a Universal one) when diving during a caustic-phase will help you out-heal the caustic damage.
Decent speed to roam the Graveyard. Materials will spawn when you get into range, so keep moving to have a better chance of finding loot. Be aware that getting out of range of a Material can let it despawn.
Long Range Sensors (A rated even better) to render and spot more Loot
A Cold-running ship can help avoid detection from hostiles in the Graveyard if there are any.
A Beam or Abbrasion blaster if you plan on scraping materials off the Titans hull chunks (View C Tier)
Caustic Sinks are great during the heavy-caustic phase and still very useful during the low-caustic phase to cleanse the ship (leave atleast one sink for after you want to leave and cleanse your ship with it)
They are not really needed after the caustic phases are over.

You can find an example Imperial Clipper build here.

Items Priority List

Titan Graveyards offer a variety of items that can be collected, both materials & commodities.
Most of them are free-floating in space, a few new types can be scraped off the chunks of Titan-flesh.
Below find a listing of items to find, ordered by common usefulness.

S-Tier Items

Useful for things that actually matter in the game or make your life a lot easier

#1. Titan Drive Components

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: Yes

Required for Pre-Engineered (SCO) Frameshift Drives, available at Station Human Tech Brokers.
The best Frameshift Drives currently in the Game.
Note that these are pay-per-module purchases and not unlocks, here is a table of the costs:

Rarest item at graveyards
Was used in a past CG to research Supercruise Overcharge (SCO) FSDs

#2. Caustic Crystals

Type: Material

One of three materials used in the anti-Anti Guardian Zone engineering (w/ Ram Tah)
Found only at graveyards and (formerly) in the caustic cloud of live Titans*
Very rare, and hard to gather around live Titans*; much easier to gather at graveyard

#3. Caustic Shards & Corrosive Mechanisms

Type: Material

Type: Material

You need a LOT of these for synthesis of Caustic Sink Launcher ammunition (4x per synth and 2x per synth respectively)
Found only at graveyards and in the caustic cloud of live Titans*; shards are also dropped by Glaives on death
Relatively common in caustic cloud around live Titans*; but given the number needed, great to gather at graveyards as well

A-Tier Items

Useful for specific or ad-hoc things.

#4. Meta Alloys & Thargoid Hearts

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: No

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: Yes

Meta Alloys are needed for one-time unlock of Felicity Farseer engineer
Meta Alloys are needed for one-time unlock of 16t corrosion-resistant cargo rack
Used in summoning additional interceptors to a scene (every “peaceful” interceptor scooping 5x Meta Alloys will summon an additional Cyclops)
Both needed to make (cosmetic) Thargoid dashboard bobblehead

#5. All Thargoid (non-commodity) materials from scout/interceptor/scavengers

Such as Weapon Parts, Propulsion Elements, Thargoid Carapace, etc.

Used for specific types of AX ammunition synthesis
Used to purchase specific Pre-Engineered Human AX Weapons

#6. Thargoid Sensors

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: Yes

Used to acccess Thargoid Surface sites
Can be used in the Central Device of Thargoid Surface sites
Can be destroyed for Sensor Fragments, specificly useful for the Prof. Palin Engineer Unlock

B-Tier Items

NEW items of no known use (yet).

#7. Cyst Specimens, Bone Fragments, Organ Samples

Type: Material

Type: Material

Type: Material

No currently known uses
Spawned by shooting bits off of Titan remains
Speculated to be used in upcoming community goals*

C-Tier Items

EXISTING items of no known good use.

#8. [Hunter/Interceptor] Tissue samples

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: Yes

No currently known uses (Was used for Thargoid War progress for a long period of the war*)
Can generally be mass-gathered elsewhere if needed (exception
possibly being Orthrus Tissue Samples, as they jump out and thus cannot
reliably be sampled repeatedly)

#9. Thargoid resin

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: Yes

No currently known uses
Cannot be quickly farmed in other place where it spawns (Thargoid Surface Sites)

#10. Caustic Tissue Samples [different from Hunter/Interceptor Tissue Samples]

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: Yes

Dropped by Scythes on death
No currently known uses
(Formerly used to unlock Caustic Sink Launchers, that requirement was removed shortly after Update 18)
Easy to farm if you’d ever need them*

#11. Protective Membrane Scraps

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: Yes

Dropped by Scythes on death
No currently known uses
Easy to farm if you’d ever need them*

#12. Thargoid Titan [Deep/Partial] Tissue Samples

Easily harvested en masse (using a Pulse Wave Xeno Scanner and a Research Limpet) from live Titans*
No currently known uses
Easy to farm if you’d ever need them*

D-Tier Items

Not worth picking up at the current time

#13. Thargoid Bio-Storage Capsules

Type: Commodity / Cargo
Caustic: No

No real use for ones from Graveyards since they can not help war progression for Titans that are dead*
Carrying them makes Scythes hostile to you, making scavenging harder
Of minimal credit value (150k) when turned in
Can be gathered en masse far more effectively at live Titans*, while also helping war progression*
Only worth picking up for role-playing reasons

* Footnote Information on inaccessible Thaargoid Content:

Since the destruction of All 8 Thargoid Titans in the Bubble and the end of the second Thargoid War (December 2024)
- Live Titans, Maelstroms and scenarios involving Orthruses are inaccessible at the moment. War Progression is meaningless.
Specificly, among other things, this means that not all Materials required for Anti-Guardian Zone Resistance can be obtained at the moment, unless the commander got these before the end of the War.
Anti-Guardian Fields do only exist in rare Glaives in High AXCZs in California.