Warframe Nokko: How to Get Him, His Abilities and a Build

Nokko opens after The New War quest. His blueprints drop from Deepmines Bounties, the tunnels under Orb Vallis.

1. Finish The New War.
2. Go to Fortuna and enter The Airlock.
3. Talk to Nightcap and pick a Deepmines Bounty.
4. Run the bounty that drops the part you miss. Each of the 3 bounties holds 1 component and the main blueprint.
5. Keep the Fergolyte from every run. Nightcap trades it for any part that will not drop.

Each component drops at 10% or 2.5%. The main blueprint drops at 5%. The Steel Path tier lifts the rare component roll to 5% and the main blueprint to 8%.

A normal bounty pays 11 to 15 Fergolyte. A Steel Path bounty pays 15 to 19. The Steel Path unlock is covered in Warframe Steel Path.

Nightcap sells every Nokko blueprint from rank 4, Gardener.

Blueprint	Fergolyte
Nokko Blueprint	240
Neuroptics	160
Chassis	160
Systems	160
Full set	720

Nightcap ranks come from his Field Guide. Find Mushroom patches in the Deepmines and analyze each sample there.

Start with the part your bounties keep missing. The main blueprint costs the most, so buy it last.

Build the 3 components. The main blueprint then joins them in the Foundry.

Blueprint	Credits	Resources
Nokko Blueprint	25,000	3 Orokin Cell, plus the 3 built components
Neuroptics	15,000	50 Tepa Nodule, 10 Echowinder Anoscopic Sensor, 3 Neurodes, 500 Nano Spores
Chassis	15,000	30 Thermal Sludge, 500 Alloy Plate, 3 Gallium, 700 Nano Spores
Systems	15,000	40 Mytocardia Spore, 20 Gorgaricus Spore, 250 Circuits, 2 Argon Crystal

The in-game Market also sells Nokko for Platinum, alone or in the Nokko Bundle. Platinum options are in Warframe Platinum.

Ability	What it does
Passive	Fatal damage turns Nokko into a small Sprodling. Touch a glowing mushroom you placed and he revives.
Stinkbrain	A thrown mushroom sheds spores that deal Viral damage and status to nearby enemies.
Brightbonnet	A mushroom pulses Energy to Nokko and his allies and grants a short Ability Strength buff.
Reroot	Nokko shrinks into a Sprodling. He is untargetable, heals over time and spawns orbs that heal and speed him up.
Sporespring	A ballistic mushroom seeks enemies and bounces off whatever it hits. Each touch on his other mushrooms doubles their pulse rate.

If no glowing mushroom is reached in time, the passive uses a self-revive.

Brightbonnet is the ability the Helminth takes from Nokko. His signature weapon is the Arbucep, an archgun that fires 6 homing missiles.

Update 43.0 added his augment, Reroot Rampage. Faction Syndicates sell it.

The top Nokko builds run Sporespring as the main damage. They stack Ability Strength for damage and Range for the bounces.

Slot	Pick
Strength	Umbral Intensify, Transient Fortitude, Blind Rage
Range	Stretch, Augur Reach, Overextended
Duration	Archon Continuity
Energy	Primed Flow
Exilus	Cunning Drift
Helminth	Roar
Arcanes	Molt Augmented, Arcane Crepuscular

Brightbonnet pulses Energy back to the squad, which feeds the Sporespring casts.

The voted builds use 3 to 5 Forma. How many you need for your mods is in Warframe Forma.

Nokko Prime is not announced yet.

The Icebind, Update 44.1, arrived on 7 October 2026. It fixed a script error on Sporespring projectiles.

A new Warframe also feeds your Mastery Rank: see Warframe Mastery Rank. Where Nokko sits against other frames is in the Warframe tier list.