Yormandi Eye
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- eye
- Source
- Yormandi
Required by contracts(7)
- Rayari Inc · Sr. Contractorcollect 4
- Wikelocollect 4
- Wikelocollect 2
- Wikelocollect 10
- Wikelocollect 20
- Wikelocollect 6
- Wikelocollect 14
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A heavy, S1 animal harvestable cut from a slain Yormandi cave-worm beneath the Onyx Facilities (Stanton): its antibody-rich eyeballs are prized by medical researchers in lore and, in gameplay, are a key turn-in ingredient for the Banu trader Wikelo's high-value barter contracts.
What it is
The Yormandi Eye is a body part harvested from the Yormandi, a large serpentine, biomechanical cave-dwelling predator (compared in community write-ups to the Valakar worm, but fiercer). Each Yormandi carries two eyes that can be extracted from its corpse after the kill. In-fiction the creature has an exceptionally robust immune system that reacts to unknown pathogens almost instantly, and its eyes are saturated with those antibodies, which is why medical researchers covet them. Mechanically it is classified as an "S1" (size 1) harvestable trophy item with the internal identifier `Harvestable_Trophy_1H_yormandi_eye`.
Gameplay use
The Yormandi Eye is primarily a barter / turn-in ingredient rather than a consumable or a refinery commodity. It is deposited at a Wikelo Emporium to complete collection contracts offered by Wikelo, the Banu trader. Known contracts requiring Yormandi Eyes (inputs and rewards) include: - "Want Better Eyes" - turn in 2x Yormandi Eye, 1x Yormandi Tongue, and 1x Wikelo Favor; reward is an XDL Monocular Rangefinder (binocular/rangefinder gadget). Wikelo is described as the only source of binoculars in this build, so this contract is the main way to obtain them. - "Yormandi Gun" - turn in 6x Yormandi Eye, 3x Yormandi Tongue, and 1x Fresnel Energy LMG; reward is the Fresnel "Yormandi" LMG (a re-skinned/special energy light machine gun). - "Test Armor" - turn in 14x Yormandi Eye, 7x Yormandi Tongue, plus Palatino armor pieces; reward is the Palatino Mark 1 armor set. - "Prowler More Utility" - turn in 20x Yormandi Eye, 10x Yormandi Tongue, 40x Wikelo Favor and other materials; reward is a Prowler utility unlock. - "Sneaky Starfighter Ion" - turn in 10x Yormandi Eye alongside Ace Interceptor Helmets and other items; reward is a Crusader Ares Ion. Because each kill yields only two eyes, the larger contracts require many repeat Yormandi runs.
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Value & where to sell
The Yormandi Eye is not sold at any in-game vendor kiosk (no buy/sell location exists), so its value comes entirely from contract demand and the player-to-player market. Fan marketplaces list it at wildly volatile prices, reflecting how hard it is to farm: - UEX Corp marketplace listings have ranged from ~400K aUEC/unit and ~500K aUEC/unit up to ~1,000,000 aUEC/unit. - One UEX combo listing bundled 1 Yormandi Tongue + 2 Yormandi Eyes at ~65M aUEC, described as ~80% cheaper than a 30-day market average around 328M aUEC/unit - illustrating how speculative these numbers are. - Third-party carry/delivery services (e.g. ExpCarry) advertise it for a real-money service fee (~EUR 4.65), which is a delivery price, not an in-game value. All player-market prices are highly volatile; treat them as indicative only.
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Where to harvest
Yormandi Eyes are obtained by killing a Yormandi and extracting the eyes from its corpse. The Yormandi boss encounter is located beneath the Onyx Facilities (Site B) in the Stanton system - an underground excavation zone below the main Onyx research building. The Onyx Facilities are a network of abandoned ASD (Associated Sciences & Development) research sites scattered across Stanton; the Yormandi lives in the caves/excavation deep under Site B. There is no auto-tracked mission marker to the fight in this build, so players must navigate to the site manually. Two Yormandi are fought (a second spawns after the first takes heavy damage), and each corpse yields its tongue plus two eyes once defeated.
Source
The source creature is the Yormandi, a large serpentine/worm-like cave predator with biomechanical features and eight glowing weak spots running along its body. It uses a sensitive tongue to taste its surroundings and detect prey from a distance (that tongue is the separate "Yormandi Tongue" harvestable, prized by culinary enthusiasts in lore). The eyes are the antibody-bearing body part covered here.
Grades & variants
No graded or quality-tiered variants (e.g. A/AA/AAA, juvenile/adult) are documented for the Yormandi Eye. Each eye appears to be a single uniform item; the only related distinction is between the two harvestable parts of the creature - the Yormandi Eye and the separate Yormandi Tongue.
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Effects
The Yormandi Eye is not a consumable or medical item the player can use for buffs; it has no in-game healing or status effect. Its "medical" angle is purely lore flavour: the eyes contain antibodies sought after by medical researchers, hinting at Wikelo's (unexplained) interest in collecting them.
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Lore / discovery
In-fiction, the Yormandi thrives across many environments thanks to a robust immune system, and its eyes are valued by medical researchers for the antibodies they hold. The creature and its harvestable parts were introduced with the Onyx Facilities content arc - the facilities landed in Alpha 4.3.0 ("Dark Territory") and expanded in 4.3.1 ("Virtue's Descent"), with the Yormandi boss fight and Wikelo turn-ins prominent in the Alpha 4.3.2 timeframe. CIG itself teased the mystery on social media, asking "what do you think Wikelo is doing with these Yormandi eyes?" - the Banu trader's actual purpose for them remains an open question.
Trivia
- Wikelo, who demands the eyes, is a Banu trader and the first non-human NPC vendor added to Star Citizen. - Despite being a small turn-in trophy, the eye has a notably heavy item profile (5 kg) relative to its tiny volume (0.001 SCU), so carrying enough for the big contracts eats inventory weight. - The companion harvestable, the Yormandi Tongue, is lore-flavoured as a culinary delicacy ("renowned for its complex, subtle flavor"), a deliberate contrast with the eye's medical-research framing.
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