Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Apex)
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- fang
- Source
- Valakkar
Required by contracts(1)
- Wikelocollect 50
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A rare, radiation-discolored tooth shed by an Apex-stage Valakkar sandworm — the top tier of the Valakkar Fang harvestables and a prized Wikelo turn-in used to craft high-end ships and gear.
What it is
The Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Apex) is an animal body-part harvestable: a fang (tooth) that comes from the largest, oldest life stage of the Valakkar, a colossal burrowing sandworm. Valakkar continually shed and regrow their teeth throughout life. As the animal burrows through sand and seizes prey, its teeth are repeatedly damaged; once a replacement tooth finishes forming, the connective tissue holding the old tooth severs and the worn fang breaks off and drops to the ground. Fangs can also be extracted directly from the creature's mouth after it is killed. The "Irradiated" prefix means the fang was exposed to radiation over a long period and developed an unusual, distinctive coloration that sets it apart from ordinary (non-irradiated) Valakkar fangs.
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Gameplay use
This is primarily a crafting / vendor turn-in commodity rather than a consumable or medical item. The fang is a key ingredient handed to Wikelo, the Banu trader in the Stanton system, as part of his collection (crafting) contracts. Apex fangs are the highest-value fang grade and feed into Wikelo's most coveted rewards. Reported requirements include: - ATLS IKTI (heavy salvage/mech-style exosuit) — 5 Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Apex) - RSI Polaris (capital torpedo corvette) — 20 Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Apex) - Idris-P (frigate) — 50 Irradiated Valakkar Fang (Apex) Marketplace "kit" listings bundle the fangs with other Valakkar harvestables (e.g. an "IKTI Kit" of 5 Apex Fangs + 10 Valakkar Pearls (AAA) + 4 Wikelo Favors + a comp-board + NN-13 cannons), showing the fang is one component of a larger crafting recipe rather than a standalone reward.
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Value & where to sell
The item is not sold at in-game NPC vendors — it is moved exclusively through player-to-player marketplaces, so prices are highly volatile and demand-driven. UEX Corp lists it under Miscellaneous with a volume of 1000 µSCU (1 SCU). Observed player-marketplace pricing: - Buy orders: around 600,000 aUEC/unit (low end) - Sell orders / asks: roughly 900,000 aUEC up to 5,000,000 aUEC per unit, depending on demand - Most common asking price: about 1,000,000 aUEC/unit, with individual UEX listings seen at 2M, 3M, 4M and even 5M aUEC per unit Because Apex fangs gate expensive ship rewards (Polaris, Idris-P), the Apex grade commands a steep premium over Adult and Juvenile fangs. Treat all figures as volatile snapshots of the player economy.
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Where to harvest
The Apex Valakkar is an end-game encounter introduced with the Storm Breaker content in Star Citizen 4.2, located in the Pyro system at the Lazarus-area research facilities (community guides cite Pyro IV / the Lazarus Facilities, with some pointing to the Tithonus research lab outpost). Reaching and killing the Apex worm is a multi-stage "Storm Breaker" mission chain: players gather maintenance keycards and lab coats, push through radiation zones and FPS combat inside the facility, and ultimately summon the Apex Valakkar, then deal the kill shot — community runs describe powering up an ATLS IKTI for the finishing blow. The fang is looted from the dead Apex worm at the Storm Breaker site. The whole zone is open-PvP inside Pyro, making harvesting contested and dangerous.
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Source
The source creature is the Valakkar ("Sandworm"), a gigantic limbless burrowing worm native to the deserts of Leir III (Leir system), where it is the planet's largest animal and can in rare cases exceed 300 meters long. It is highly adaptable and has become an invasive species elsewhere — notably on Monox and throughout the Pyro system, where extermination efforts have failed to control its numbers. Valakkar are born from clutches of eggs in shallow desert nests, burrow as juveniles, and are omnivores eating vegetation, detritus and meat while needing very little water. This particular fang comes from the Apex stage worm; the radiation exposure of the Pyro environment produces the "Irradiated" coloration.
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Grades & variants
Valakkar fangs are graded by the life stage of the worm they came from, which tracks the creature's size and danger: - Juvenile — fangs from ~5 m juveniles that live near mineral deposits just under the surface (lowest tier). - Adult — fangs from ~15 m adults that defend their litter. - Apex — fangs from the apex-stage worm (the largest, can grow toward 150–300 m); the highest, rarest and most valuable tier. Each fang also exists in a normal and an "Irradiated" variant; the Irradiated version (this item) has discolored, radiation-altered coloration and is the form required for Wikelo's crafting turn-ins. The Apex grade's distinction is purely its rarity and the fact that it gates the most expensive Wikelo rewards (Polaris, Idris-P), which is why it carries by far the highest market value of the fangs. Beyond age/stage of origin and coloration, no functional difference between the fang grades is documented. (Related Valakkar harvestables include Pearls, which use a separate A / AA / AAA / Grade A–C grading, and Hide.)
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Effects
None documented. This is a trade/crafting harvestable, not a medical or edible item — it provides no buffs, healing, or status effects when carried. Its only "effect" is economic: as a crafting ingredient it unlocks Wikelo's high-end ship and equipment rewards.
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Lore / discovery
The Valakkar entered Star Citizen as the long-teased "sandworm," first appearing in patch 4.1 and expanded with the Apex encounter and Storm Breaker mission chain in 4.2. In lore the worms are native to Leir III but have spread invasively into Pyro, where the harsh, radiation-soaked environment (and the Lazarus facilities) produce the irradiated body-part variants. The Apex worm represents the deadliest version of an already feared creature, making its fang a genuine trophy for collectors, artisans and pilots.
Trivia
- Valakkar regrow teeth continuously, so fangs are a naturally renewable drop — they litter the ground after the worm sheds them, in addition to being harvested from a kill. - The fang's value is essentially a proxy for the Polaris and Idris-P: because those capital ships need 20 and 50 Apex fangs respectively, the Apex grade is one of the most expensive single harvestables on the player market. - The community widely compares the Valakkar to the sandworms of Dune.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).