Warframe Kuva: How to Farm It and Get a Kuva Lich Weapon

Kuva opens after The War Within quest. The fastest steady sources are the Kuva missions and the weekly Icebind chests.

Source	Kuva
Kuva Siphon, 1 harvest	550 to 700
Kuva Flood, 1 harvest	1,100 to 1,400
The Icebind, Crested Frozen Chest	7,500 (69%), 17,500 (30%) or 100,000 (1%)
The Icebind, Frozen Chest	1,750, 3,500 or 7,500
Parazon attempt on your Kuva Lich, rank 1 to 4	150, 200, 250 or 300
Log-in gift until 31 December 2026	100,000, plus 2 Built Forma

1. Log in before 31 December 2026, 11:59 PM ET, and open the inbox for 100,000 Kuva and 2 Built Forma.
2. Run Kuva Flood over Kuva Siphon. A Flood pays about double per harvest.
3. Open the Crested Frozen Chest in The Icebind every week.
4. Hunt your Kuva Lich at the same time. Every Parazon attempt on it pays Kuva to the whole squad.

The Forma from the gift is covered in Warframe Forma.

Update 44.1 on 7 October 2026 raised the Kuva in these vendor bundles:

Vendor	Bundle
Acrithis	10,000 Kuva for 10 Pathos Clamps
Acrithis	14,000 Kuva for 25 Scuttler Husks
Flare	14,000 Kuva for 100 Heartstrings
Nightcap	14,000 Kuva for 75 Fergolyte
Hunhow	17,000 Kuva for 35 Emerald and 35 Crimson Talents

The Scuttler Husk, Heartstring, Fergolyte and Talent bundles sell 3 times a week.

Spend the currencies you already hold on these bundles each week. The Steel Path shop is covered in Steel Path.

Each Riven Mod cycle costs Kuva.

Hotfix 44.1.3 removed Riven Dispositions. Every Riven now rolls at the strength of the old 1.2 Disposition.

Kuva weapons such as the Kuva Nukor and the Kuva Zarr sat below 1.2 before. Their Rivens are stronger now.

The same hotfix restored Riven Mod trading.

Requirement	Detail
Quest	The War Within completed
Mastery Rank	5 or higher
Railjack	Your own Railjack
Final fight	1 Railjack Intrinsic at rank 5 to enter Saturn Proxima

1. Run a Grineer mission at level 20 or higher. Sorties, Void Fissures, Invasions, quests, Dark Sectors and Uranus do not count. Steel Path missions count.
2. When the lights flicker yellow, kill 15 enemies in about 30 seconds. Then a Kuva Larvling appears.
3. Down the Larvling and read its Kuva weapon. Skip a Larvling with the wrong weapon.
4. Finish it with the Parazon using a Warframe of the element you want. That Progenitor Warframe sets the weapon's bonus element.
5. Collect Murmur from its Thralls. Murmur names the 3 Requiem mods your Lich needs.
6. Test the order on the Lich with your Parazon. 8 Requiems give 336 orders. 3 known Requiems leave 6.
7. Each wrong order ranks the Lich up. It moves from Earth to Mars, Ceres, Sedna and the Kuva Fortress.
8. The right order sends it to Saturn Proxima. Beat it there and choose Vanquish.

Vanquish puts the Kuva weapon in your Foundry. Convert keeps the Lich as an ally and gives no weapon.

Kuva Flood drops a Requiem Eterna relic every run. Kuva Siphon drops it in 50% of runs.

You cannot make a 2nd Lich while 1 is active.

Every Kuva weapon carries a bonus element of 25 to 60% of its base damage. The roll is random. Valence Fusion of 2 copies raises it, up to 60%.

The 7 bonus elements are Impact, Heat, Cold, Electricity, Toxin, Magnetic and Radiation.

Kuva weapon	Slot
Kuva Hind	Rifle
Kuva Karak	Rifle
Kuva Ogris	Rifle
Kuva Quartakk	Rifle
Kuva Tonkor	Rifle
Kuva Zarr	Rifle
Kuva Drakgoon	Shotgun
Kuva Hek	Shotgun
Kuva Kohm	Shotgun
Kuva Sobek	Shotgun
Kuva Brakk	Secondary
Kuva Kraken	Secondary
Kuva Nukor	Secondary
Kuva Seer	Secondary
Kuva Twin Stubbas	Secondary
Kuva Ghoulsaw	Melee
Kuva Shildeg	Melee
Kuva Ayanga	Archgun
Kuva Grattler	Archgun

The Lich weapon farm page offers 21 Kuva weapons, the Kuva Bramma and Kuva Chakkhurr included. It also offers all 7 elements.

For the Warframes that carry these weapons, see the Warframe tier list.

Update 44.1, The Icebind, went live on 7 October 2026. It added The Icebind chests and the bigger vendor bundles.

Hotfix 44.1.3 removed Riven Dispositions and added the 100,000 Kuva gift.

The Mastery Rank 5 gate for Liches is in Warframe Mastery Rank. Platinum for Riven trades is in Warframe Platinum.