The Exilus Warframe Adapter is a special item that can be fused with a Warframe to unlock an Exilus Mod Slot, which is a special additional slot that can be used solely for Exilus Mods. Each Warframe can only have a single Exilus Slot active, and any eligible mods used on the slot will consume mod capacity, like normal mods. An Exilus slot can be polarized using Forma, but its polarity cannot be swapped with that of another slot.
Acquisition
Renewable
- Can be purchased from the Market for
20 under Equipment → Components. - A blueprint can be purchased from Cephalon Simaris after completion of the Natah Quest for
50,000. - A blueprint can be purchased from Teshin as a Rank 5 Conclave offering for 75,000.
- A fully built Adapter can be obtained from Sorties or Archon Hunts at a 2.5% chance.
- A fully built Adapter can be purchased from Acrithis's shop for 20
Pathos Clamps. - A blueprint can be obtained from some Invasions.
- Fully built Adapters can sometimes be obtained from Nightwave ranking rewards.
- Fully built Adapters are also sometimes given out as Twitch drops on Devstreams.
Non-renewable
- A fully built Adapter is obtained automatically after completing the Natah Quest.
- A fully built Adapter is also rewarded after completing the final mission in A Man of Few Words Quest.
- A fully built Adapter is rewarded on the 150- and 450-Day Daily Tribute Milestones. It can also be obtained on the 50-Day Daily Tribute Milestone via the Awakened Luna Cache.
- The Exilus Cache (3x Exilus Adapter) is available as a reward after 1050-Daily Tribute Milestones as a rotation Evergreen Cache.
- A fully built Adapter was rewarded to players as a token of apology for server issues on 13th September 2015.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 25,000 |
 2 |
 1 |
 1 |
Time: 23 hrs | |
| Rush: 10
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 Market Price:  20
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 Blueprints Price:  50,000
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Drop Locations
Mission Drop Tables
| Mission Type | Source | Rotations or Drop Table |
Chance[1] | Quantity[2] | Avg. per roll[3] | Star Chart Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archon Hunt | Archon Hunt | A | 2.5% | 1 | 0.025 |
See in-game World State Window, must complete Veilbreaker quest |
| Sortie | Sortie | A | 2.5% | 1 | 0.025 |
See in-game World State Window |
Enemy Drop Tables
| Enemy | Drop Table Chance[4] | Item Chance[5] | Chance[6] | Expected Kills[7] | Quantity[8] | Avg. per roll attempt[9] |
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Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.
How to Use
Warframe mod slots (blue) with aura (green) and exilus mod slot (pink) marked
To use an Adapter on PC, click on a Warframe's locked Exilus Slot, which will open a prompt asking for confirmation to use the Adapter to unlock the slot. If a locked Exilus Slot is clicked without Adapters being available, a prompt will appear which will ask whether the player wishes to purchase an Adapter from the Market.
On Console, you must try to equip an Exilus mod on a locked Exilus slot with an Adapter in your inventory. If you do, a dialogue box will open asking if you want to fuse the adapter with the current Warframe. Once unlocked, you can change the polarity of the slot with Forma.
Trivia
- The Adapter was introduced in Update 17.0 (2015-07-31).
- Adapters are sometimes referred to as tomatoes, similar to how Orokin Catalysts and Orokin Reactors are referred to as blue/golden potatoes.
- During Devstream 100 on November 3rd, 2017, a glitch resulted in viewers whose Twitch accounts were linked to their Warframe accounts receiving multiple in-game mails with fully built Adapters. It is reported that some players received as many as 30 Adapters.
- During the Natah quest Tyl Regor remarks that Exilus was a kind of "primordial Forma, an engine for self-manipulation".
Patch History
Update 27.3 (2020-03-24)
- Foundry Crafting Time Change:
- Build time to 23 hours so that 1 can be built consistently every day.
Hotfix 27.0.11 (2020-01-16)
- Warframe/weapon tooltip in the Inventory will now display an Exilus icon if said item/Warframe has one installed.
Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)
- Updated the Exilus Adapter Inventory description to ‘Fuses with a Warframe to unlock the Exilus Mod Slot’ to reduce confusion.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- Introduced.
 Warframe Exilus Mods
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|---|---|
| Drift |  Agility Drift • Coaction Drift • Cunning Drift Endurance Drift • Power Drift • Speed Drift • Stealth Drift
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| Bullet Jump | Battering Maneuver • Piercing Step • Rending Turn Firewalker • Ice Spring • Lightning Dash • Toxic Flight • Proton Pulse
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| Movement | Maglev • Mobilize • Patagium • Rush • Streamlined Form
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| Resistance | Aviator • Sure Footed ( Primed) • Warm Coat
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| Other Utility | Aero Vantage • Enemy Sense • Gale Kick • Handspring • Heavy Impact Kavat's Grace • Master Thief • Pain Threshold • Retribution Synth Reflex • Thief's Wit • Vigilante Pursuit • Preparation • Motus Signal
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| Augments | Anchored Glide • Catapult • Conductor • Controlled Slide • Escape Velocity • Hysterical Assault • Ironclad Flight • Mesa's Waltz • Revealing Spores
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| Peculiar | Peculiar Audience • Peculiar Bloom • Peculiar Growth
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| Equipment | |
|---|---|
| Superchargers |  Exilus Warframe Adapter •  Exilus Weapon Adapter •  Primary Arcane Adapter •  Secondary Arcane Adapter •  Melee Arcane Adapter •  Amp Arcane AdapterFocus Lens (  Focus Lens,  Greater Focus Lens,  Eidolon Lens,  Lua Lens) Forma ( Aura Forma,  Stance Forma,  Umbra Forma) •  Gravimag •  Orokin Catalyst •  Orokin Reactor
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| Keys / Navigation |  Abyssal Beacon •  Animo Nav Beacon •  Baro Void-Signal •  Clan Key •  Enter Nihil's Oubliette •  Grendel Chassis Locator •  Grendel Neuroptics Locator •  Grendel Systems Locator •  Judgement Points •  Mutalist Alad V Assassinate •  Simulacrum Access Key
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| Riven Tools |  Riven Transmuter •  Veiled Riven Cipher
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| Extractors | (Prime) Titan Extractor • (Prime) Distilling Extractor |
| Boosters |  Affinity Booster •  Credit Booster •  Mod Drop Chance Booster •  Resource Booster •  Resource Drop Chance Booster
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| Others |  Rush Repair Drone
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- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance)
- ↑ Chance to roll drop table
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ (Drop Table Chance × Item Chance)
- ↑ (1 / Chance), see WARFRAME Wiki:Expected & Nearly Guaranteed Numbers for more details
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance), average item quantity on a roll attempt (successful or not)