Warframe: How To Get Nautilus Prime (2024)

One of Warframe's strongest sentinels is Nautilus, a Railjack-themed robot that can pull an entire horde of enemies into a tight cluster. Throw on the powerful Verglas beam rifle it comes with, and Nautilus can clear entire Star Chart missions by itself and prove invaluable in Steel Path content.

With a shiny Prime model available to earn, Nautilus has never been in a better place. After you invest some Forma, this sentinel can double as an enemy magnet and mobile turret. In this guide, we explain how to get your hands on Nautilus and its gilded variant, and we go over Nautilus' stat package and available precept mods.

How To Craft Nautilus

Nautilus' components are a rare drop from hidden caches in Railjack content. Most Railjack missions have a derelict tower or space station you can explore. Completing the side objective inside the station will award a cache. This cache is unveiled at the end of the mission and has a relatively large drop table. The caches must be uncovered in Neptune Proxima or Pluto Proxima. Each part has roughly a 6% drop chance.

We highly recommend that you purchase Nautilus for Platinum instead. Their drop tables are so low that it is more efficient to open Void Relics, sell any junk you earn, and purchase the sentinel outright from the in-game market. You can technically trade for Nautilus parts, but purchasing a whole set this way is actually more expensive than getting the pre-built sentinel from the market; the parts are that rare.

Nautilus Crafting Costs

How To Craft Nautilus Prime

Nautilus Prime's components drop from Void Relics, which drop from virtually every activity in the game. Endurance missions, Relic Packs from Syndicate offerings, and most Star Chart missions drop Void Relics. You're looking for the following relics:

• Neo G7 - Nautilus Prime Carapace (Common, 25.33% Intact)
• Axi S16 - Nautilus Prime Systems (Uncommon, 20% Radiant)
• Lith N15 - Nautilus Prime Cerebrum (Rare, 10% Radiant)
• Meso N17 - Nautilus Prime Blueprint (Rare, 10% Radiant)

Nautilus Prime Crafting Costs

Nautilus Stats

Nautilus isn't the most durable sentinel in Warframe, but it is reasonably sturdy once you get the Prime variant. Both versions come with two presets: Auto Omni and Cordon. Auto Omni repairs a Railljack malfunction automatically every 20 seconds. It's only useful for Railjack, but it's a decent quality-of-life mod for that activity. Cordon is Nautilus' signature ability, pulling all enemies within 30m into a tight ball.

Cordon is a powerful crowd control tool that rivals many Warframe abilities, yet its long cooldown keeps it from being spammed. That is, until you start using Manifold Bond, a companion mod that reduces companion ability cooldowns whenever you defeat an enemy with three or more status ailments. If you give Nautilus a status weapon like the Helstrum, you can create a feedback loop of constant Cordon pulls.

It also helps that Nautilus' signature weapon, the Verglas, is an S-tier robotic weapon. It has the same stat package as the Glaxion, featuring excellent status chance and decent criminal stats. Verglas Prime buffs the critical stats significantly, so much so that it can activate Tenacious Bond's critical damage bonus if you use Critical Deceleration and a +CC Riven mod.

Nautilus Prime is also a fairly substantial upgrade over standard Nautilus. Their shield capacity is bumped up from 250 to 350 base, allowing you to hit over 1,200 shields with Calculated Redirection. Reinforced Bond will then be up permanently, buffing your fire rate by a whopping 60%.

In essence, an endgame Nautilus Prime build can:

• Buff your fire rate by 60%.
• Grant a flat 1.2x critical multiplier to all guns.
• Inflict multiple status ailments through the Verglas Prime.
• Group targets every few seconds through Cordon.

That's nothing short of an S-tier sentinel. Throw on some Forma, give the Verglas Prime a traditional hybrid build, and you'll have one of the strongest sentinels in the game.