Tundra Kopion Horn
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- horn
- Source
- Tundra kopion
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A harvestable animal trophy in Star Citizen — the horn cut from a slain Tundra kopion on microTech, prized as a high-value trade commodity and a turn-in for Wikelo's Emporium contracts.
What it is
The Tundra Kopion Horn is the horn taken from the Tundra kopion, the snow-adapted (white-pelted, dark-spotted) subspecies of the kopion predator. In-fiction the horn is made of a unique combination of bone and naturally occurring carbon nanomaterials. When properly processed it aids bone regeneration with a far greater success rate than lab-grown materials, which is what gives it real value as a medical/trade good. It is a single-unit harvestable "trophy" item (roughly 1001 microSCU / ~1 SCU of volume per horn) rather than a mined or manufactured commodity.
Gameplay use
Two main uses: - Trade commodity. Horns are not sold by any vendor and can only be harvested off the creature, then sold on by the player — making them a hand-collected, high-margin good. - Wikelo / contract turn-in. The Tundra Kopion Horn is a required collectible for Wikelo's Emporium. It is one of the items in "New to System," Wikelo's introductory contract, which asks for 1 Vestal Water and 3 Tundra Kopion Horn; completing it unlocks Wikelo's later (and more lucrative) contracts. The introductory reward is cosmetic (an IAE event hat and t-shirt). Horns are also tied to Rayari-style hunting/collection contracts.
Value & where to sell
Prices are highly volatile (player-marketplace driven, no fixed vendor buy price). - UEX commodity tracking (patch 4.8.x) lists best recorded sell around 50,000 aUEC/SCU with a ~15-day average near 36,600 aUEC/SCU, sold at locations such as The Golden Riviera; supply is near zero because horns must be hand-harvested. - Player marketplace listings run much higher: commonly ~150,000–200,000 aUEC per horn (e.g. New Babbage listings at 200K/unit for 1–10, dropping to ~180K for bulk), with even higher one-off cave-horn asks (~300K). - Note the data sources track several near-identical commodities — "Tundra Kopion Horn" (KOPT) and a generic "Kopion Horn" (KOPH) — so quoted figures vary by which the source is reading.
Where to harvest
Harvested by killing a Tundra kopion, which spawns only on microTech (Stanton system). Tundra kopions inhabit the temperate/elevated grasslands and tundra adjacent to the snow-covered lowlands — typically along the equator and near the edges of the "green zones," in open plains broken by patches of forest. One documented hunting spot was ~16.5 km from the Shubin Mining Facility SM0-18. After a kill, harvest the horn from the corpse on foot. A sniper rifle (e.g. Kastak Arms Scalpel) plus a sidearm is the recommended loadout; many animals drop in one rifle shot, tougher ones take several. Packs typically number 8–10 (observed 1 up to ~18), and they are aggressive, so approach with caution.
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Source
Comes from the Tundra kopion — the cold-climate kopion subspecies, identifiable by a white pelt with dark cloud-like spots. Kopions are a pack-hunting predator species; subspecies are adapted to different biomes (see Variants).
Grades & variants
There is no A/AA/AAA quality grade on the horn itself; the "grade" is effectively which kopion subspecies it came from, and each is its own commodity with its own price: - Tundra Kopion Horn — from Tundra kopion on microTech; top tier, ~200K/unit on the player market. - Cave Kopion Horn — from Cave kopions in sand caves (Hurston, and the moon Bloom); ties with Tundra as the most valuable variant (~200K/unit). - Irradiated Kopion Horn — notably cheaper (~75–80K/unit). - Savannah Kopion Horn and a generic Kopion Horn also exist as separate entries. So the Tundra variant sits at the top of the value ladder alongside Cave horns, and well above Irradiated.
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Effects
The horn is not a personal consumable with player buffs; its "effect" is lore/economic — processed horn material aids bone regeneration far more effectively than lab-grown alternatives, which is the stated reason for its medical/commercial value.
Trivia
- Horns are pure hunter-loot: there is no buy price anywhere, so all market supply comes from players who killed kopions, which keeps prices high and volatile. - Field reports describe harvesting nine horns from a nine-animal pack in a single hunt, underlining how packs make this an efficient farm once located.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).