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.

Priority items

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

1) Caustic Crystals

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

2) Caustic Shards & Corrosive Mechanisms

  • 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

Second-tier items: Occasionally useful for specific or ad-hoc things​

3) Meta Alloys & Thargoid Hearts

  • MAs needed for one-time unlock of 16t corrosion-resistant cargo rack
  • MAs needed for one-time unlock of Felicity Farseer engineer
  • MAs 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

4) All Thargoid (non-commodity) materials from scout/interceptor/scavengers such as Weapon Parts, Propulsion Elements, Thargoid Carapace, etc.

  • Uncommonly used for specific types of AX ammunition synthesis

Third-tier items: NEW items of no known use (yet)​

5) Titan Drive Components

  • Used in a past CG to unlock SCO FSD
  • No currently known uses
  • Rarest item at graveyards

6) Cyst Specimens, Bone Fragments, Organ Samples

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

Fourth-tier items: EXISTING items of no known use​

7) [Hunter/Interceptor] Tissue samples

  • No currently known uses
  • 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)

8) Thargoid resin

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

9) Caustic Tissue Samples [not to be confused with Hunter/Interceptor Tissue Samples]

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

10) Protective Membrane Scraps

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

11) 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

Fifth-tier: Not worth picking up

12) Thargoid Bio-Storage Capsules

  • No real use for them since they do not help war progression for dead Titans
  • Carrying them makes Scythes hostile to you, making scavenging exponentially 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