Citrine heals the squad and scatters shards that strip armour. Preserving Shell keeps allies upright, Crystallize freezes a crowd into glass. A calm support with no fiddly timings.
Can you buy Citrine for platinum
Straight to it: yes, Citrine costs 325 platinum in the Market and arrives fully built with a free slot.
- Price. 325 platinum for a built Citrine with a slot for it.
- Mastery. It ticks the same whether the frame was bought or built, so buying saves time, not rank.
Is there a Citrine Prime
No, there is no Prime version of Citrine yet. Primes usually arrive about two years after the original and strictly in order, so the turn will come, but nobody can promise a date.
Where the blueprints come from
The main and component blueprints drop from Rotation C of Mirror Defense on Tyana Pass, Mars, which opens after Heart of Deimos. If you would rather not roll dice, Otak in the Necralisk sells the same blueprints for Belric and Rania Crystal Fragments, which fall from that same Mirror Defense. Neuroptics and Chassis cost 350 of each fragment, Systems 350 Rania and 300 Belric, the main blueprint 500 and 500. That is 1,550 Rania and 1,500 Belric for the full set. Building also needs Stellated Necrathene, which requires Rank 2 Acquaintance with the Entrati.
What it is built from
The usual order: three components in parallel, then the Warframe on top of them. Components run in the Foundry at the same time, so from the first click to a finished frame it is roughly 84 h: twelve for the parts and 72 for the Warframe itself.
| Blueprint | Credits | Time | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis | 15 000 | 12 h | Cryotic x1 200, Alloy Plate x3 000, Stellated Necrathene x6, Nano Spores x2 000 |
| Neuroptics | 15 000 | 12 h | Rubedo x1 000, Salvage x1 500, Faceted Tiametrite x15, Argon Crystal x2 |
| Systems | 15 000 | 12 h | Circuits x1 500, Polymer Bundle x1 500, Gallium x3, Morphics x2 |
| Citrine | 30 000 | 72 h | Citrine Neuroptics x1, Citrine Chassis x1, Citrine Systems x1, Orokin Cell x3 |
Where to farm the resources
There is exactly one bottleneck here, and it is Cryotic: the recipe wants 1200 and it will not pile up on its own. Excavation missions only. Hieracon on Pluto is the standard, and it hands out relics at the same time. Second heaviest is Argon Crystal at 2. Void only, and it decays 24 hours after you pick it up. Farm it last, right before you press build. Everything else accumulates while you play and needs no special trip.
| Resource | Where it drops |
|---|---|
| Orokin Cell | Ceres, Saturn, and Deimos |
| Cryotic | Excavation Missions on Venus, Earth, Phobos, Europa, and Neptune |
| Alloy Plate | Venus, Phobos, Ceres, Jupiter, Pluto, and Sedna |
| Stellated Necrathene | built from Necrathene, the build is done by Otak in the Necralisk |
| Nano Spores | Saturn, Neptune, Eris, and Deimos |
| Rubedo | Earth, Lua, Phobos, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and the Void |
| Salvage | Mars, Jupiter, and Sedna |
| Faceted Tiametrite | built from the Tiametrite gem mined on Deimos |
| Argon Crystal | Missions in the Void |
| Circuits | Venus, Ceres, and the Kuva Fortress |
| Polymer Bundle | Mercury, Venus, and Uranus |
| Gallium | Mars and Uranus |
| Morphics | Mercury, Mars, Phobos, Europa, and Pluto |
Is Citrine worth building
Citrine holds a squad together: Preserving Shell heals everyone inside it and her crystals slow whatever walks in.
The numbers look like this: no mastery rank requirement, roughly 84 hours from the first foundry press to a finished frame, and 75 000 credits across all the builds together.
A support frame that does not ask you to press four buttons a minute. Good for long defence runs.
Every other frame is broken down the same way, the full list lives in the guide to all Warframes.
Sources
Recipes and build times: the official Digital Extremes export, ExportRecipes_en. Resource locations: item descriptions from ExportResources_en. Blueprint drops and relic contents: the official Warframe drop tables. Acquisition and Prime vault status were checked against the Citrine page on the Warframe wiki. Data as of 28.08.2026.
