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Warframe Quests in Order (2026): Every Quest Walkthrough, Requirements and Rewards

Every quest in order, with requirements, rewards and walkthroughs

The short answer

Warframe has more than forty quests. The main story runs in one fixed order from Vor’s Prize to Jade Shadows: Constellations, and the star chart junctions hand most of it out as you go. The optional quests each pay a Warframe or a system and can be done whenever their gate opens. Every row below links to a stage by stage walkthrough with the prerequisites, the part that trips people up, and the rewards.

Reviewed September 12, 2026, current through Update 43.5. Stage names and order checked against the official wiki; this page is re-checked after every major patch.

Main story in order

Follow the numbers. A junction or the previous quest is the gate for each one; the Needs column says which.

#	Quest	Needs	Pays	Time
1	Vor's Prize	Awakening	3,000 and 3,500 Credits	45 to 60 minutes
2	The Teacher	Vor's Prize	Thornbak	30 to 40 minutes
3	Once Awake	Venus Junction (on Earth)	Molten Impact	30 to 40 minutes
4	The Archwing	Mars Junction (on Earth)	Odonata Archwing	1 to 2 hours plus build times
5	Saya's Vigil	Cetus open; One Plains of Eidolon bounty	Gara blueprint	45 to 60 minutes
6	Vox Solaris	The Teacher; Venus Junction and Fortuna	K-Drive Launcher	45 to 60 minutes
7	Stolen Dreams	Phobos Junction (on Mars)	Orokin Catalyst blueprint	45 to 60 minutes
8	The New Strange	Stolen Dreams; Europa Junction (on Jupiter)	Chroma blueprint	45 to 60 minutes
9	Natah	Uranus Junction (on Saturn); Archwing	Story	30 to 45 minutes
10	The Second Dream	Natah; Neptune Junction (on Uranus)	Focus Lens (chosen school)	60 to 90 minutes
11	The War Within	The Second Dream; Sedna Junction (on Pluto)	Broken Scepter	60 to 90 minutes
12	Chains of Harrow	The War Within; Kinetic Siphon Traps	Harrow blueprint	60 to 90 minutes
13	Apostasy Prologue	Chains of Harrow; Personal Quarters Segment	Story only	15 to 20 minutes
14	The Sacrifice	Apostasy Prologue; Codex or Synthesis Scanner	Excalibur Umbra	60 to 90 minutes
15	Chimera Prologue	The Sacrifice	Paracesis blueprint	15 to 30 minutes
16	Prelude to War	The Sacrifice	Paracesis blueprint	45 to 60 minutes across the chapters
17	The Duviri Paradox	Uranus Junction (on Saturn)	Sun & Moon blueprint	60 to 90 minutes
18	Heart of Deimos	Earth to Mars Junction	Xaku and Voidrig blueprints	45 to 60 minutes
19	Rising Tide	The Second Dream; Railjack Cephalon blueprint	Railjack	Days, not hours: six repairs with build timers
20	The New War	Prelude to War; A Railjack	Nataruk	4 to 6 hours, locked in once started
21	Angels of the Zariman	The New War; A real Amp	The Zariman	45 to 60 minutes
22	Veilbreaker	The New War	Helminth Archon Shard Segment blueprint	30 to 45 minutes
23	Jade Shadows	The New War	Jade blueprint	30 to 40 minutes
24	Whispers in the Walls	The New War; Heart of Deimos	Qorvex blueprint	2 to 3 hours including the Grimoire rank-up
25	The Lotus Eaters	Whispers in the Walls	Arthur's KinePage	10 to 15 minutes
26	The Hex	The Lotus Eaters; The Duviri Paradox	Cyte-09 blueprint	About 90 minutes
27	The Old Peace	The Lotus Eaters; The Hex and its Finale (for the extra KIM stories)	Uriel main blueprint	2 to 3 hours
28	Jade Shadows: Constellations	Jade Shadows; A Railjack (after the quest)	Sirius & Orion main blueprint	30 to 40 minutes

Quests that pay a Warframe

Tap a frame for the quest that gives its blueprint.

Optional quests

None of these block the story. Each gates a frame, a companion or a system.

Quest	Needs	Pays	Time
Howl of the Kubrow	Venus Junction; Incubator Power Core	Your first Kubrow	1 to 2 days with incubation
Hidden Messages	Sedna Junction (on Pluto)	Mirage Neuroptics	45 to 60 minutes
The Limbo Theorem	Europa Junction (on Jupiter); Archwing	Limbo Neuroptics	1 to 2 hours plus key build times
Patient Zero	Eris Junction (on Pluto)	Mutalist Alad V Assassinate Key blueprint	45 to 60 minutes
A Man of Few Words	Darvo in a Relay	Clem Clone blueprint	30 to 45 minutes
The Jordas Precept	Eris Junction (on Pluto); Archwing	Atlas blueprint	1 to 2 hours plus Juggernaut farming
Sands of Inaros	Mastery Rank 5; Sands of Inaros blueprint	Inaros blueprint	2 to 4 hours depending on the kill lists
The Silver Grove	The Second Dream; Mastery Rank 7	Titania Systems	2 to 4 hours of plant scanning
Octavia's Anthem	The Second Dream; Cephalon Suda in a Relay	Octavia blueprint	60 to 90 minutes
The Glast Gambit	The War Within; Ergo Glast in a Relay	Nidus blueprint	60 to 90 minutes plus credits
Mask of the Revenant	The Quills at Observer rank; Nakak in Cetus	Revenant blueprint	45 to 60 minutes plus bounties
The Deadlock Protocol	Saturn Junction; Mastery Rank 4	Protea blueprint	60 to 90 minutes
Call of the Tempestarii	The Deadlock Protocol; A Railjack	Sevagoth blueprint	60 to 90 minutes

Where to start

New account: Vor's Prize, The Teacher, then let the junctions hand you the rest. Do Howl of the Kubrow early for a pet.
Stuck before the Operator: Natah needs the Uranus Junction, The Second Dream the Neptune Junction, The War Within the Sedna Junction.
Back after years: The New War is the wall. It needs Prelude to War (three short chapters after The Sacrifice), a Railjack from Rising Tide, and an Amp.
Chasing 1999: Whispers in the Walls, then The Lotus Eaters, then The Hex; The Duviri Paradox has to be done before The Hex.
Newest: The Old Peace (Uriel) and Jade Shadows: Constellations (Sirius & Orion).

Main story in order

Quests that pay a Warframe

Optional quests

Where to start

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