The Cycle Frontier: Best Materials to Loot | Materials Tier List

There are so many materials in Cycle Frontier it might be hard to keep track of what’s useful. Though it’s hard to say what each player will need, this list should give you an idea of what you should look for and what you can ignore.

The list works like this – the best items are either very rare or are simply too useful not to take them, good materials are of varying rarity but can almost always find a use, average materials are usually useful only for specific things (like contracts) but can be pretty rare and mostly useless items only have one or two uses in the game, other than being exchanged for money.

Best Materials to Loot in Cycle Frontier

These should be picked up whenever you get a chance. Not all are super rare but all are very useful.

1. Crusher Hides
2. Crusher Heads
3. Portable Labs
4. Meteor Core
5. Veltecite Heart
6. Dustbloom
7. Charged Spinal Base
8. Gyroscopes
9. Master Unit CPU
10. Charged Brightcaps
11. Medical Supplies
12. Rattler Heads
13. Rattler Skin
14. Shock Absorbers
15. Pure Focus Crystals
16. Smart Mesh
17. Keycards
18. Print Resin
19. Shard Splicer
20. Textiles

Good Materials

A lot of those are items you’ll need in high quantities for crafting, or for high-paying contracts.

1. Old Medicine
2. Old Currency
3. DNA Samplers
4. Indigenous Fruit
5. Meteor Fragments
6. Blue Runner Egg
7. Spinal Base
8. Marauder Head
9. Autoloader
10. Pure Veltecite
11. Zero Systems CPU
12. Miniature Reactors
13. Polymetallic Prefabricate
14. Hardened Metals
15. Focus Crystals
16. Titan Ore
17. Brightcaps
18. Scrap Metal
19. Hardened Bones
20. Toxic Glands
21. Spinal Bases
22. Metallic Alloys
23. Hydraulic Piston
24. Compound Sheets
25. Derelict Explosives
26. Brittle Titan Ore
27. Nickel Ore

Average Materials

These are usually either used for specific contracts, base upgrades, or weight little enough to carry to the end of the mission and sell whenever you encounter them.

1. Jewelry
2. Circuit Boards
3. Resin Guns
4. Data Drives
5. Clear Velteicite
6. Strider Heads
7. Strider Flesh
8. Azure Tree Barks
9. Interactive Screens
10. Magnetic Field Stabilizer
11. Cloudy Veltecite
12. Pale Ivy Blossoms
13. Waterweed Filaments
14. Copper Wires
15. Ball Bearings
16. Salvaged Insulation

Mostly Useless Materials

These are materials that can be mostly ignored, as what you can do with them usually has a simpler and cheaper alternative. These include:

1. Crusher Flesh
2. Marauder Flesh
3. “Fusion Cartridge” Batteries
4. Rattler Eyes
5. Cotech Multitool
6. “Magic Growth” Fertilizers
7. Nutritional Bars
8. Electric Cables
9. Radio Equipment
10. Optical Glass
11. Flawed Veltecite

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