Ranta Dung
Also available as a Commodity
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- Category
- Agricultural Supplies
- Display type
- Agricultural Supply
- Unit size
- 700 µSCU
Trading
Buy 34,224 aUEC/SCUSell 35,870 aUEC/SCUBuy at
cheapest first- HDMS-NorgaardHDMS-Norgaard · Stanton33,206
- HDMS-AndersonHDMS-Anderson · Stanton33,206
- Bueno RavineBueno Ravine · Pyro36,260
Sell at
best payout first- Shepherd's RestShepherd's Rest · Pyro47,000
- Rayari Deltana Research OutpostRayari Deltana Research Outpost · Stanton43,000
- Terra Mills HydrofarmTerra Mills HydroFarm · Stanton39,000
Prices & locations (aUEC per SCU) crowdsourced from UEX; they fluctuate in-game.
Required by contracts(1)
- Rayari Inc · Neutralcollect 5
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
Ranta Dung is a hand-collected harvestable in Star Citizen: a dry, cube-shaped lump of waste left behind by the Ranta, a large isopod-like cave crustacean, prized as a high-value trade commodity for the unusual mineral-digesting bacteria it contains.
What it is
Ranta Dung is animal waste (the "remains"/dung sub-type of harvestable), not a plant or fungus. In-game it appears as a small, dry, distinctly cube-shaped dropping. The flavor text explains it comes from a "large isopod-like crustacean known as a Ranta," and that the dung carries a unique bacterial biome the creature uses to process and digest minerals. It is a small physical pickup item: roughly 0.11 x 0.08 x 0.07 m, about 390 microSCU in volume, classed internally as `Harvestable_RantaDung`. It is tagged Harmless, Stackable, Common, and as something that "CanBeProcessed" and "CanGenerateAsLoot."
Gameplay use
Primarily a TRADE commodity. Players pick the cubes up by hand inside caves and loot rooms, store them in inventory or a ship, and sell them at commodity terminals for profit. It is one of the more lucrative hand-collected harvestables because of its high per-unit sell price. The item is internally flagged with Manufacturing / Industrial / Medicinal / Medicine tags and "CanBeProcessed," reflecting its lore as raw material for future biotech, but as of patch 4.8 it is not a confirmed ingredient in any live crafting recipe — its practical use is hauling and selling. The Star Citizen Wiki API classifies it as a "remains" commodity rather than a refinable ore (Refines To: none).
Value & where to sell
Ranta Dung is one of the highest-value hand-harvestables. Prices are volatile and tracked by community market sites, so treat these as ballpark figures: - Sell range roughly 33,000–49,000 aUEC per unit/SCU depending on terminal and market cycle (Star Citizen Wiki API recorded highs around 47,000–49,000 aUEC, e.g. at Bloom – Shepherd's Rest in Pyro). - UEX (patch 4.8.1) listed a best recent sell of ~47,000 UEC/SCU with a ~15-day average near 37,300 UEC/SCU, across about 10 demand terminals and 3 supply points; it flagged the market as being in a "Bust" cycle at time of capture. - Galactic Logistics catalogs it under agricultural supply commodities. Sell it at major commodity Trade & Development terminals (e.g. the TDD at Cloudview Center / Orison showed notable demand volume on UEX). Always check a live tool before a run, as buy/sell points and prices shift each patch and market cycle.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikiuexcorp.spacesc-trade.toolsgallog.co
Where to harvest
Ranta Dung is gathered by hand, not mined or shot. It generates as loot in caves and caverns — typically as small patches of cubes on the cave floor — and also appears inside facility loot containers (the blue storage boxes) at distribution centers and Onyx (ASD) facilities. The Star Citizen Wiki API lists about 13 deposit points across two systems: roughly 7 in the Pyro system and 6 in the Stanton system. Reported spawn spots include cave systems on Stanton's moons (e.g. Daymar around Jumptown, Wala around the Good Times Temple), ArcCorp security/outpost areas, and Onyx facilities on Stanton bodies, plus multiple Pyro planet/moon caves. Deposits respawn on roughly a 1-hour timer with a short despawn window once spawned.
Source
The source creature is the Ranta — a large, isopod-like crustacean that lives in rocky caves and can survive in low-atmosphere environments. The dung is its excreted waste; the bacteria that let the Ranta break down minerals are what make the dung scientifically (and commercially) interesting.
Grades & variants
No quality grades (no A/AA/AAA or juvenile/adult tiers) are documented for Ranta Dung — it is a single-quality commodity. The variation that exists is purely cargo/stack SIZE: the item data lists around 15 different cargo and harvestable size variants (size 1 up to size 7), which affects how it packs as cargo rather than its value per unit. The base hand-pickup is size 1.
Effects
None as a consumable. Ranta Dung is not an edible or medical item players ingest — it has no in-game buffs, healing, or poison effects. Its Medicinal/Industrial tags refer to its lore role as a raw bacterial source for hypothetical future medicine and manufacturing, not to any active gameplay effect.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wiki
Lore / discovery
In-fiction, researchers recently identified that the Ranta's droppings host a distinctive bacterial culture that helps the animal digest minerals in its harsh cave habitat. Scientists are hopeful this bacterial biome could lead to industrial or medical innovations, which is what gives the otherwise humble dung its commercial value.
Trivia
- Its signature visual gag is that the dung is literally cube-shaped, echoing the real-world wombat, the only known animal that produces cubic feces. - It is one of the more reliably profitable hand-harvestables, which has made cave-looting runs for Ranta Dung a popular early-money activity. - It now spawns in both the Stanton and Pyro systems, so harvest runs are no longer Stanton-exclusive.