Warframe Rising Tide Quest Guide

The Rising Tide is part of the main story and is a quest you will need to undertake to be able to use a Railjack in Empyrean.

Rising Tide is a quest that focuses on you creating your very own Railjack by going through a series of missions that will help you obtain parts to build it.

Prerequisites

In order to begin the Rising Tide quest, you will need to have finished The Second Dream and will need to be in a clan that has built a Dry Dock room in their Dojo or build one yourself if you have your own clan already.

You will then need to acquire a blueprint after Cephalon Cy has been researched and craft it in order to start to quest.

Rising Tide Walkthrough

The Rising Tide quest will require you to perform several tasks in order to build your Railjack which include searching for traces of the parts, defending locations as well as farming resources to craft the parts after scanning them.

Acquire Cephalon Cy Blueprint

In order to begin the Rising Tide quest, you will first need to craft Cephalon Cy which means you need to obtain the blueprint that can be purchased from the Dry Dock if your clan has already built one and researched Cephalon Cy.

Heading into the Dry Dock for the first time will reward you with the “Gonna Need A Bigger Boat” achievement.

Once you are in the Dry Dock, head over to the right side and access the Railjack research console which will have Cephalon Cy available for purchase if it has already been researched.

Purchase the blueprint in order to be able to craft it in your foundry, which will cost you 350,000 credits.

Crafting Cephalon Cy

Once you have the blueprint to craft Cephalon Cy, head over to your foundry on your orbiter and craft it which will take about 6 hours.

Once Cephalon Cy has been crafted, a brief message will appear from it and it will tell you to install it in the Dry Dock console.

Install Cephalon Cy

Head back to your Dry Dock and proceed to the console which you will interact with to install Cephalon Cy who will guide you in building your Railjack.

Scanning Salvage

The Rising Tide steps in the quest will mainly require you to proceed to a certain mission which will contain a part of the Railjack that needs to be scanned so that you may build it later on in the Dry Dock.

Once one of the missions begin, you will need to proceed to a waypoint which marks the location of a part of the Railjack and interact with it.

Interacting with the part will initiate a sequence where you need to stay in the area while a scanning is performed.

In order for the scan to work, you will need to stay inside a ring, visible in the mission around the Railjack part.

When enemies enter the area or whenever you leave the circle, the scanning process will be halted until you clear them out or return to the circle.

During the mission, Interference Drones will attempt to delay your scan and you will need to destroy them in order to continue the mission.

Interference Drones will be shown by a waypoint in order for you to track them down and destroy them easily.

Crafting The Railjack Part

After the mission is complete, you will receive a part that will be used in the process of repairing/building your Railjack.

You will need to craft each part after acquiring it which will be doable by interacting with the console in the Dry Dock.

A certain amount of resources, including credits will be needed to complete each part and you will have to farm them or have them in stock in order to build the parts.

After each part has been crafted and installed, you will notice the Railjack slowly forming and will need to proceed to the next mission area in search of the next part until all parts have been completed.

Completing The Last Part

After crafting the last part of the Railjack, you will need to interact with the console once more which will end up with Cephalon Cy talking to you.

Cephalon Cy will explain more about the history of the events including itself and the Railjack, introducing more of the Railjack lore to you before asking you to integrate it into your Railjack system.

Once you have integrated Cephalon Cy, the Rising Tide mission will be completed and you will also get the “Some Assembly Required” achievement.

Completing your Railjack will be required for events involving Empyrean due to the fact that you will be needing a Railjack for such missions.

Railjack Parts and Locations

Each part will need to be scanned before you may craft it and can be found in different missions that are on different planets.

Enemies that you encounter will be either Corpus or Grineer and will be around level 25 – 35 in the missions.

Take note that some missions will have sentient enemies in them that may provide to be a challenge for some.

Fuselage – Ares (Mars)

The first part is the Fuselage which will be located on Ares on Mars and the enemies will consist of Grineer forces.

Propulsion System – Cervantes (Earth)

The Propulsion System will be the second part that you need to obtain which is located in the Cervantes mission on Earth where you will also be facing Grineer enemies.

Port Nacelle – Plato (Lua)

The third part that you need to scan will be the Port Nacelle, located in Plato on Lua where you will be facing the Corpus.

Starboard Nacelle – Tessera (Venus)

The Starboard Nacelle is the fourth part that you will need to craft which is found in Tessera on Venus, a mission that consists of Corpus enemies.

Tail Section – Berehydnia (Sedna)

The Tail Section is the fifth part of the Railjack that you need to scan and can be located in Berehydnia on Sedna where Grineer enemies will be lurking about.

Engine Cowling – Orias (Europa)

The sixth and final part of the Railjack is the Engine Cowling which you will find in the Orias mission on Europa which is inhabited by Corpus forces.

Railjack Unique Resources

There will be certain resources that were only introduced in the Rising Tide update that will be needed when crafting certain parts of the Railjack.

Carbides

Carbides may be found in Grineer Shipyard tile sets such as Seimeni on Ceres and only drop from Eximus units.

For more information see Carbides Farming Guide.

Cubic Diodes

Cubic Diodes may be found in missions that take place on the Ice Planet tile set such as Larzac on Europa which may only drop from Eximus units

For more information see Cubic Diodes Farming.

Pustrels

Pustrels are a mineable that is only obtainable by mining the red ore veins located in the Plains Of Eidolon.

For more information see Warframe Mining Guide.

Copernics

Copernics is a mineable resource limited to only being obtained in Orb Vallis by mining the red ore veins in the area.

For more information see Warframe Mining Guide.

Railjack Resource Costs

Fuselage Research

• 1,000,000 Credits
• 100 Cubic Diodes
• 3,000 Plastids
• 15,000 Rubedo
• 30 Neural Sensors

Propulsion Systems Research

• 1,000,000 Credits
• 60 Carbides
• 1,000 Cryotic
• 30 Orokin Cell
• 20,000 Nano Spores

Port Nacelle Research

• 1,000,000 Credits
• 60 Carbides
• 5,000 Circuits
• 27,000 Alloy Plate
• 200 Control Module

Starboard Nacelle Research

• 1,000,000 Credits
• 100 Pustrels
• 500 Fieldron Sample
• 50 Morphics
• 35 Neurodes

Tail Section Research

• 1,000,000 Credits
• 80 Copernics
• 10,000 Ferrite
• 4,500 Polymer Bundle
• 15 Argon Crystal

Engine Cowling Research

• 1,000,000 Credits
• 40 Copernics
• 500 Detonite Ampule
• 10,000 Ferrite
• 10,000 Salvage

Total Resources For Railjack

Tips

• It is a good idea to farm all of the other resources that you need so that once you are ready to craft each part, you will be able to proceed right away.
• Bringing Warframes with crowd control or that deal area damage can greatly help finish the scanning missions easily.
• When farming or mining resources that will be used for the Railjack, bringing a Smeeta Kavat can be a really big help, especially if you have a resource booster for an even bigger bonus.