Prota
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- slime mold
- Output
- View commodity
Where to find
Where this harvestable spawns, sourced from game data and the Star Citizen wiki.
Also available as a Commodity
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- Category
- Natural
- Display type
- Natural Materials
- Unit size
- 600 µSCU
Trading
Sell 61,857 aUEC/SCUSell at
best payout first- LevskiLevski · Nyx76,000
- Admin - SeraphimOrison · Stanton68,000
- Jackson's SwapJackson's Swap · Pyro68,000
Prices & locations (aUEC per SCU) crowdsourced from UEX; they fluctuate in-game.
Required by contracts(1)
- Rayari Inc · Neutralcollect 15
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
Prota is a resilient slime mold harvestable in Star Citizen, prized for the strong adhesive it secretes that can be distilled into commercial-grade glue.
What it is
Prota is not a plant or fungus in the conventional sense but a **slime mold** — a resilient organism able to grow in extremely corrosive, high-pressure environments that are otherwise hostile to life. It secretes a strong adhesive substance, and that secretion is its defining trait: when collected and distilled, it yields a commercial-grade glue. In-fiction it is documented in the RSI Galactapedia (entry dated 30 October 2024). The fan catalog's classification of "Flora / plant" is broadly serviceable, but the more precise description is a corrosion-tolerant slime mold rather than a true flowering plant.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsstar-citizen.wikinovaintergalactic.com
Gameplay use
Prota is a hand-collected surface harvestable. Players pick it up directly from the planetary/moon surface (no mining laser or specialised gadget required beyond an inventory to carry it), making it one of the lower-friction harvestables to farm. Its primary money-making use is as a **delivery / hand-in commodity for Rayari (Ryari) Deliveries harvestable contracts** rather than as a crafting ingredient. Players gather Prota in the field and turn it in to satisfy these contracts. Lore-wise the secreted adhesive is distilled into commercial glue, but in current gameplay it is consumed by contract turn-ins and by selling on the commodity market — there is no confirmed player-facing crafting recipe that uses Prota as an ingredient.
Value & where to sell
Prota is a high-value harvestable. Per UEX commodity data (commodity code **PROT**), recent figures around patch 4.8.x: - Best recorded sell price: ~76,000 aUEC per SCU (recorded at Levski). - 15-day average sell price: ~61,700 aUEC per SCU. - ~11 terminals listed demand for it; market shown in a "Bust" cycle at time of capture. No buy offers were active. The bigger earner, however, is **Rayari (Ryari) harvestable delivery contracts**, which can pay on the order of ~100,000 aUEC each for handing in the requested harvestables. Community guidance is to hold harvested Prota rather than dump it on the open market until you know which Rayari contracts you need it for. All prices are player-driven and highly volatile — treat the numbers as a snapshot, not a fixed rate.
Where to harvest
Prota is found in the **Stanton system**, on and around **Hurston** and its moons. It is reported as easy to find around Hurston points of interest. The notable concentration is the Hurston moon **Arial**, where Prota is the primary harvested commodity — its corrosive, high-pressure, toxic atmosphere (nitrogen-dominant with traces of methane and hydrogen, temperatures above the boiling point of water) is exactly the kind of hostile environment the slime mold tolerates, so full environmental survival equipment is required to harvest there. Because Prota thrives in acid-contaminated, water-adjacent regions, look in corrosive lowland/biome areas rather than temperate terrain. Note: a long-standing Issue Council report ("Surface Harvestable Prota are too rare") indicates spawn density has historically been inconsistent, so availability can vary by patch.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsnovaintergalactic.comggwtb.comrobertsspaceindustries.com
Source
Prota is the organism itself — a slime mold — so it has no separate "source creature." It is gathered directly from planetary and moon surfaces in corrosive, high-pressure biomes. The harvested product is the adhesive the mold secretes.
Grades & variants
No distinct quality grades or variants (e.g. Grade A/AA/AAA, juvenile/adult tiers) are documented for Prota in the sources reviewed. It appears as a single commodity entry (PROT). If future patches introduce graded harvestables, this section should be revisited.
Lore
Per the RSI Galactapedia, Prota is described as a resilient slime mold capable of forming in extremely corrosive environments and under high pressure. It secretes a strong adhesive that can be distilled into a commercial-grade glue, which is the basis of its industrial value in the setting. The Galactapedia entry is dated 30 October 2024.
Trivia
- Despite being catalogued under "Flora," Prota is biologically a slime mold, not a true plant — it sits closer to fungus-like organisms. - Unlike edible harvestables such as Pitambu (a low-value fruit), Prota is an industrial/utilitarian material valued for its adhesive secretion rather than as food. - Its survivability in acid-contaminated, high-pressure worlds is its signature characteristic, which is why it spawns on hostile moons like Arial that require survival gear to visit.