Verified June 5, 2026Short & sourced answersunofficial
Factual answers to the questions Warframe players actually ask:
platinum, Baro Ki'Teer, relics and fissures, world cycles, prices.
Game mechanics (durations, taxes, resets) are stable; everything that changes constantly
(active fissures, prices, Baro) is live on the
VoidRelay dashboard — free, no account.
The reliable method: crack Void relics, collect Prime parts, and sell them to other players for platinum.
Trading unlocks at Mastery Rank 2 and happens in a clan dojo or at Maroo's Bazaar. Typical observed ranges: common parts 4–15 platinum, rare parts and full sets 15–100+. Always check the real price before selling.
→ Tool: VoidRelay · Market card (median prices, 24 h/7 d trends for Prime sets, warframe.market data).
Sell Prime parts at the Ducat kiosks in any relay: 15, 25, 45, 65 or 100 Ducats per part depending on rarity (rare golden parts = 100).
Tip: a part that sells high in platinum is usually better sold to players than to the kiosk — compare the Ducats-per-platinum ratio before dumping your stock.
Each Prime part drops from relics of a certain tier (Lith, Meso, Neo, Axi…).
VoidRelay cross-references those tiers with the currently active Void Fissures and tells you which to open right now. If the Prime is vaulted, its relics no longer drop: get it via Prime Resurgence (Varzia) or trading.
There is no fixed schedule: active fissures rotate continuously, with Lith, Meso, Neo and Axi missions always up.
On top of those: Requiem fissures (Kuva/Tenet weapons), Omnia fissures (Zariman), Steel Path variants and RailjackVoid Storms. Pick by relic tier and mission type you enjoy.
About 26 min 40 s total: 6 min 40 s warm, then 20 minutes cold.
The Orb Vallis (Fortuna) weather affects fishing and some creature spawns. Also tracked: Cambion Drift (Deimos) — 100 min Fass / 50 min Vome — and Earth (4 h day / 4 h night).
No fixed price: a Riven mod is worth anywhere from a few dozen to several thousand platinum, depending on the weapon, rolled stats and reroll count.
The most reliable check: compare similar Rivens (same weapon, close stats) on warframe.market Riven auctions. Be wary of off-the-cuff estimates in trade chat.
→ Tool: VoidRelay now shows the OFFICIAL per-weapon medians (Digital Extremes' weekly real-trade statistics) — an honest reference, NOT a quote: a specific roll can be worth far more or far less. Standard items (Prime sets, arcanes, mods) are still tracked on the Market card.
Yes — a credit tax paid by the receiver: 500 credits per platinum received (receiving 100 platinum costs 50,000 credits).
Each traded item also has a flat tax based on rarity. Clan dojos can add 0–100% on top (clan setting); Maroo's Bazaar adds 10%. Details: official wiki — Trading.
→ Tip: keep spare credits before a big trade; missing credits blocks the trade.
Yes to both. Crossplay works across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and mobile; Cross Platform Save is available everywhere via account linking.
Account merging was retired on January 17, 2025 — account linking remains available. Trading works across platforms, with one exception: platinum cannot be traded between Switch and other platforms. Source: warframe.com — cross progression.
→ Tool: VoidRelay tracks the PC market by default.
Warframe is free-to-play: all gear (warframes, weapons, mods) can be earned in-game, and the premium currency — platinum — is player-tradable, so you can earn it without paying.
Real money mostly buys time (rush timers) and cosmetics. Player trading is the valve that keeps the system balanced: patient players convert farm into platinum (see the platinum question).
→ Tool: VoidRelay is free too — no account, no intrusive ads.
The community reference is warframe.market: live buy/sell orders posted by players.
For an at-a-glance view without searching item by item, VoidRelay automatically aggregates: lowest seller price, median price, 24 h / 7 d change, Ducats-per-platinum ratio and alerts on big moves.
That's when the daily login tribute, your daily trade count, the Darvo deal and syndicate standing caps all refresh. Not to be confused with the Sortie, which resets separately around 16:00-17:00 UTC. Mechanic: official wiki.
→ Tool: VoidRelay (live Sortie/Archon countdowns and today's Darvo deal).
The hard-mode Star Chart: enemies are +100 levels, with 250% health and shields, and you get +100% resource and mod drop chance.
Unlock it by completing every node on the connected Star Chart (a few optional assassinations excluded), then talk to Teshin. It rewards Steel Essence to spend on exclusive items. Mechanic: official wiki.
From the in-game Market: 20 Platinum = 1 Warframe slot, 12 Platinum = 2 weapon slots. New accounts start with 3 Warframe slots and 11 weapon slots.
Free slots also come from Junctions (Venus, Mercury, Mars…), some quests, and regularly from Nightwave ranks — and Platinum itself can be earned by selling Prime parts (see the first question). Mechanic: official wiki.