Irradiated Valakkar Pearl (Grade C)
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- pearl
- Source
- Valakkar
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A low-grade, radiation-mutated pearl harvested from the body of an Irradiated Valakkar (a giant sandworm), used primarily as a high-value player-traded harvestable and a turn-in material for the Banu trader Wikelo.
What it is
The Irradiated Valakkar Pearl is an organic, gemstone-like harvestable body part rather than a true mollusc pearl. It forms when a large piece of grit or grain penetrates a Valakkar's thick hide; if the worm cannot expel it, its skin grows to encase the intrusion, coating it in successive layers of organic matter that isolate the grit from the creature's vulnerable dermis (preventing infection). The "Irradiated" variant comes from worms that were exposed to radiation over a long period (on Pyro I / Pyro IV), which gives the resulting pearl "unusual properties" reportedly useful for regeneration technology. In-game it is a Miscellaneous, carryable two-handed item with a volume of roughly 1600 μSCU. Grade C denotes a lower-quality tier of this pearl.
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Gameplay use
The pearl is a harvestable trade good and a turn-in material, not a consumable. Its headline use is as a contribution item for Wikelo, a Banu trader/mission-giver in the Stanton system who runs an "Emporium" that exchanges rare materials (called Wikelo Favors) for rewards such as armor, weapons, ship components, and ships. Known Wikelo recipes center on the higher pearl grades (e.g. roughly 12 Irradiated Valakkar Pearls Grade AA per Wikelo Favor); turn-ins are grade-specific, so off-grade pearls do not substitute. Pearls are also a sought-after player-to-player commodity sold on community marketplaces. Note: Grade C is a lower tier than the AA/AAA pearls that appear in the documented Wikelo recipes, so its primary value is as a tradeable/lower-value harvestable rather than a confirmed Favor input.
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Value & where to sell
There is no NPC vendor buy/sell price for this item — value comes from the player marketplace, and prices are highly volatile. Pearls trade on player-to-player markets (UEX Marketplace, sc-market). Documented listings cluster on the top grades: Grade AAA pearls have been listed anywhere from ~600K aUEC (want-to-buy) up to ~1M–3M aUEC (want-to-sell), and Grade AA around ~2M aUEC per unit. Grade C, as a lower tier, sells for substantially less than these headline figures, but no firm Grade-C price is documented. Treat all numbers as snapshots that change patch-to-patch.
Where to harvest
The pearls are looted from the body of a slain Valakkar. The Irradiated variant comes specifically from the radiation-mutated worms in the Pyro system. The headline source is the "Storm Breaker" content added in Star Citizen Alpha 4.2: players run a mission chain (collecting keys/lab coats and research data, working through the Lazarus / deep research facilities around Pyro IV and the Pyro storm zones) to summon and kill the Irradiated APEX Valakkar, then harvest its pearls and other body parts. The encounter takes place in extreme-storm, high-radiation terrain, so radiation-resistant heavy armor (e.g. Stirling, Nav-E, or a GEO Scout suit) is recommended. Standard (non-irradiated) Valakkars are native to the deserts of Leir III.
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Source
Source creature: the Valakkar — a colossal worm (apex specimens can exceed ~300 m long) that moves through sand on overlapping plates rather than limbs. Native to the deserts of Leir III, it has become invasive on Pyro I, where mutated, radiation-adapted individuals develop tumor-like growths between their plates and can expel radioactive saliva. Valakkars are hunted for their fangs and pearls; the Irradiated Pearl specifically comes from these Pyro-mutated worms.
Grades & variants
Irradiated Valakkar Pearls come in multiple quality grades — documented tiers include Grade C, Grade B, Grade A, Grade AA, and Grade AAA — with quality (and player-market value) rising toward AAA. The grades have distinct item entries and are not interchangeable for turn-ins: Wikelo recipes call out a specific grade (e.g. Grade AA), and a mix of look-alike materials or the wrong grade will not satisfy the contract. Grade AAA pearls are widely treated as a high-end "bottleneck" reward material. Grade C is at the low end of the ladder: common/low-quality, the cheapest and least sought-after of the variants, and not part of the documented high-tier Wikelo recipes. (There is also a non-irradiated "Valakkar Pearl" line from the Leir III worms, distinct from the Irradiated Pyro pearls.)
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Effects
The pearl is not a medical/edible consumable and has no direct player buff, healing, or poison effect. Its only attributed "effect" is in-lore: because the source worm was chronically irradiated, the pearl developed unusual properties said to be useful for regeneration technology. This is flavor/lore rather than a confirmed in-game stat.
Lore
Valakkar pearls are a natural defensive byproduct of the worm's biology — encasement of foreign grit to protect the creature's soft inner skin, analogous to how oysters form pearls. The "Irradiated" pearls are tied to the Valakkar's spread into the irradiated Pyro system, where the worms mutated to survive radiation, and were introduced to players as part of the Storm Breaker activity in Alpha 4.2 (which entered PTU around late May 2025).
Trivia
- The Valakkar's fangs are coated in enamel "as hard as stone," and like its pearls they are a separate lootable harvestable. - Other body-part harvestables exist alongside the pearl — Irradiated Valakkar Hide and Irradiated Valakkar Egg appear in item databases. - Defeating the APEX Valakkar is challenging enough that boosting services sell the pearls/kills as a paid carry.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).