Amiant Pod
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- plant
Where to find
Where this harvestable spawns, sourced from game data and the Star Citizen wiki.
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A harvestable seed pod from the amiant tree — a heat-loving plant native to the Pyro system — whose fibrous husks are processed into heat-resistant textiles.
What it is
The Amiant Pod is flora, not an animal part: it is the ripe seed pod (described in some community sources as the tree's "fruit") of the amiant tree. The pod's value is in its fibrous husk. According to the in-game item description, "Harvested from the amiant tree, the fibrous husks of these seed pods are used to make heat resistant textiles. Once removed, the husks must first be soaked in a chemical solution before the fibers can be separated out." This matches our existing classification of category Flora / sub_type plant, with no source creature. The amiant tree itself grows in hot, dry environments, which fits the lore of a fiber prized for heat resistance.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikistarcitizen.toolsstarcitizen.tools
Gameplay use
The Amiant Pod is a hand-collected harvestable (game class names `Harvestable_Amiant` / `harvestable_base_Amiant`), one of the Pyro-era flora collectibles introduced alongside the wider harvestables/gathering loop. Its in-fiction purpose is as a raw material: the husks are a textile feedstock for heat-resistant fabric, placing it in the crafting/raw-material family rather than being a medical consumable or a buff food. No healing, hydration, poison, or buff effects are documented for it. As of the data checked (game version 4.8.x), it is catalogued by item databases but does not appear as a live tradeable commodity with a price, so its practical use today is primarily as a collectible/early crafting-material item rather than a reliable cash commodity. No Wikelo or vendor turn-in reward is documented for it.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikiapi.star-citizen.wikiuexcorp.space
Value & where to sell
No reliable aUEC sell price is currently documented. The Star Citizen Wiki item-database entries for both the Size 1 harvestable form and the Size 3 carry form list "No prices available," and UEX Corp's harvestables commodity list (checked at game version 4.8.1) does not include the Amiant Pod among priced, sellable harvestables — only neighbours like the Revenant Pod (~7–11 aUEC/unit) and Decari Pod appear there. One PTU-era patch-note snippet referenced a nominal "sell at 1 aUEC" figure, which reads as placeholder/test data rather than a real economy value. Bottom line: treat it as effectively unpriced/non-tradeable in the live economy for now, and flag any aUEC number as volatile and unconfirmed.
Sources:uexcorp.spaceapi.star-citizen.wikiapi.star-citizen.wiki
Where to harvest
The amiant tree — and therefore its pods — is found in the Pyro system, principally on Pyro II (Monox), growing in hot and dry areas of the planet's surface. Players gather the pods by hand from the trees in those arid biomes. No other systems or moons are documented as spawn sites.
Source
The pod comes from the amiant tree, a heat-adapted plant of the Pyro system (no animal source). The tree's concept/biome art was developed by CIG artist Niklas Rüffler (ArtStation portfolio), giving an idea of its visual design.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsartstation.com
Grades & variants
No quality grades (e.g. A/AA/AAA) or maturity variants are documented for the Amiant Pod; it is a single, ungraded harvestable. The item does appear in two database forms: a Size 1 "harvestable" entry (UUID `8788316d-ccdb-4ca3-a1e0-9e6e11a0496f`, volume 1,000 µSCU = 1 cSCU) carrying the full lore description, and a Size 3 "Misc" base entry (UUID `778b4ee1-4dbb-4656-899b-afc3d8f8b9be`, volume 1 cSCU) that lists 7 generic S1–S3 ports and groups it with sibling pods such as Bluemoon Fungus, Decari Pod, and Fotia Seedpod. These are data representations of the same in-world item, not gameplay grades.
Effects
None documented. The Amiant Pod is a fiber/textile raw material, not an edible or medical item; no healing, hydration, nutrition, buff, or poison effects are recorded in the item data despite one database mirroring it under a "Food" category path.
Lore / Trivia
The amiant tree's name evokes "amiante," the French word for asbestos — fitting for a plant whose fibers make heat-resistant textiles, and a thematic match for the perpetually hot, hostile Pyro system in which it grows. The processing detail in the item description (husks soaked in a chemical solution to separate the fibers) mirrors real-world bast-fiber retting, lending the item plausible worldbuilding flavour. The pod is part of the cohort of Pyro flora harvestables (alongside Bluemoon Fungus, Decari Pod, Fotia Seedpod, Revenant Pod, etc.) added as CIG built out hand-gathering and crafting feedstock.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).