Warframe Progression Map: What Unlocks What (2026)

AwakeningQUEST

Requires: Nothing

Unlocks: Vor's Prize

Automatic character-creation cinematic (choose starter Warframe); listed as its own Codex chronology entry ahead of Vor's Prize, not a played mission.

Vor's PrizeQUEST

Requires: Awakening (auto)

Unlocks: The Teacher; Orbiter/Liset and full Navigation; Earth star chart access

The real tutorial: escape Vor's ship, meet the Lotus, get your ship. Ends on Earth, which is the actual starting planet, not Mercury.

The TeacherQUEST

Requires: Vor's Prize

Unlocks: Venus Junction (unlocks its tasks)

Short modding tutorial (Dreamer's Bond aura, Taxon Sentinel); required junction task text literally reads 'Complete Quest: The Teacher'.

Venus JunctionJUNCTIONMR none (MR removed Update 35)

Requires: The Teacher completed; equip/rank Dreamer's Bond in Aura slot; build Taxon Sentinel; defeat Volt Specter

Unlocks: Venus star chart access; Fortuna/Solaris United hub; Vox Solaris quest becomes available

Physically located on Earth (Region: Earth, Next Node: Venus per wiki infobox); first junction a new player clears.

Vox SolarisQUESTMR none (unconfirmed if MR35-exempt)

Requires: The Teacher completed; Venus Junction completed (Fortuna reachable)

Unlocks: Mercury Junction (unlocks its tasks); Solaris United and Vox Solaris syndicate standing tracks

Fortuna-based Rude Zuud/Little Duck questline; its completion is the literal junction task for Mercury.

Mercury JunctionJUNCTIONMR none (MR removed Update 35)

Requires: Vox Solaris completed; purchase Rhino blueprint; defeat Jackal at Fossa (Venus); build Rhino component

Unlocks: Mercury star chart access; Once Awake quest becomes available

Located on Venus (Region: Venus), leads to Mercury. Counterintuitive ordering: Mercury is reached after Venus, not before it, in the current new-player flow.

Once AwakeQUEST

Requires: Mercury Junction completed

Unlocks: Mars Junction (unlocks its tasks)

Short quest granting Molten Impact mod and a Heat Sword; its completion is the literal junction task for Mars.

Mars JunctionJUNCTIONMR none (MR removed Update 35)

Requires: Once Awake completed; mission with Boltor equipped; purchase MK1 weapon; defeat Loki Specter

Unlocks: Mars star chart access; Heart of Deimos quest becomes available; The Archwing quest becomes available

Located on Earth (Earth has two outgoing junctions: Venus and Mars, branching directly from the start planet).

Heart of DeimosQUESTMR none (historically MR3, appears removed as part of critical path)

Requires: Mars Junction completed

Unlocks: Cambion Drift open world; Necralisk hub and Entrati syndicate; Necramech piloting (Voidrig); Jupiter Junction (unlocks its tasks)

Deimos now sits on the critical path to Jupiter, replacing the old Ceres route; this is the current 'shortcut' new players are funneled through.

The ArchwingQUESTMR none (historically MR2)

Requires: Mars Junction completed

Unlocks: Archwing Launcher and Odonata; Empyrean/Plexus access; Saturn Junction (unlocks its tasks); Natah quest becomes available

Startable as soon as Mars is reached, but must be finished before you can clear Saturn Junction, whose task literally reads 'Complete Quest: The Archwing'.

Phobos JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Mars Junction completed (on Mars); refine a Void Relic; open 3 Lith relics; 10 headshot kills

Unlocks: Phobos star chart access; Stolen Dreams quest becomes available

Located on Mars, a side branch off Mars alongside Ceres Junction; not required to reach Jupiter in the current graph.

Ceres JunctionJUNCTIONMR none (Pledge-to-Syndicate MR3 task removed Update 35)

Requires: Mars Junction completed (on Mars); Maroo's Weekly Treasure Hunt; fill and trade an Ayatan Sculpture; pledge to a Syndicate

Unlocks: Ceres star chart access

Also located on Mars; optional side branch, no longer required to progress toward Jupiter/endgame.

Jupiter JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Heart of Deimos completed; kill while wall latching; Advanced Movement Tutorial; Redirection to Rank 5

Unlocks: Jupiter star chart access

Located on Deimos (Region: Deimos), not Ceres, confirming Deimos as the current gateway to Jupiter.

Europa JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Jupiter Junction completed (on Jupiter); learn Synthesis from Simaris; visit a Dojo; build 1 Forma

Unlocks: Europa star chart access; The New Strange quest becomes available

Located on Jupiter; side branch parallel to Saturn Junction, both stem from Jupiter.

Mastery Rank TestsSYSTEMMR none (this IS the mastery gate)

Requires: Enough Mastery (Affinity) banked from ranking Warframes, weapons, Sentinels/Companions, and Archwing gear to the next rank threshold; Solo mode only; 23 hour cooldown after the previous attempt

Unlocks: Higher Mastery Rank, which is the single most repeated gate in the game: Syndicates (MR3), Railjack (MR3), Sorties (MR5), Kuva Liches (MR5), Helminth (MR8), plus weapon/Warframe slot capacity and trading limits

Two sources (wiki.warframe.com/w/Mastery_Rank and the Mastery Rank Checklist page) agree on the solo-only and 23 hour cooldown rules; this is the root node everything else keys off.

SyndicatesSYSTEMMR 3

Requires: Mastery Rank 3 to unlock the Syndicates console on the Orbiter; Prior to MR3, only Conclave and Ostron (Cetus) can be joined via their Relay field representatives

Unlocks: Standing grind for syndicate mods, weapons and Arcanes; Every rank gated downstream system in this list: Entrati (Helminth), Cavia (Netracells/Archimedea), Solaris United (Profit-Taker), Holdfasts (Zariman), The Hex (1999)

Confirmed on both wiki.warframe.com/w/Syndicate and wiki.warframe.com/w/Standing.

Void Fissures & RelicsACTIVITY

Requires: The Star Chart node hosting the Fissure must already be cleared once normally; A Void Relic of the matching tier equipped (Lith/Meso/Neo/Axi/Requiem; any non-Requiem tier for Omnia Fissures); 10 collected Reactant to open the relic

Unlocks: Prime Warframe/weapon parts and Forma via relic reward choice; Void Traces, used to refine relics up to Radiant for better reward odds

wiki.warframe.com/w/Void_Fissure and /w/Void_Relic both confirm no MR gate, only the underlying node needing to be unlocked.

Stolen DreamsQUEST

Requires: Phobos Junction completed; The Archwing completed

Unlocks: The New Strange quest becomes available; Weekly Ayatan Treasure Hunt (Maroo)

Side branch off Archwing; Zanuka Hunter/Alad V arc, separate from the Natah/Second Dream lore spine.

The New StrangeQUEST

Requires: Stolen Dreams completed; Europa Junction completed

Unlocks: Chroma Warframe access; Sanctuary Onslaught; Daily Synthesis Target

Closes out the Stolen Dreams side arc; not required for Natah/Second Dream.

Saturn JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Jupiter Junction completed (on Jupiter); The Archwing completed; scan an enemy type fully; dissolve 5 mods

Unlocks: Saturn star chart access

Located on Jupiter; this is the concrete gate where finishing The Archwing quest actually pays off.

Uranus JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Saturn Junction completed (on Saturn); defeat Sargas Ruk at Tethys; 10 heavy melee kills; 20 min Survival at Titan

Unlocks: Uranus star chart access; The Duviri Paradox becomes available (its original unlock point)

No quest gate itself, but is the classic entry point for The Duviri Paradox outside the new-player Paradox Path.

NatahQUESTMR none (historically MR2)

Requires: The Archwing completed; play Uranus missions until Oculysts/strange drones appear

Unlocks: Neptune Junction (unlocks its tasks); The Second Dream quest becomes available

Auto-triggers once Archwing is done and you run Uranus nodes; reveals the Lotus/Ordis twist.

Neptune JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Uranus Junction completed (on Uranus); Natah completed; defeat Tyl Regor at Titania; melee-only mission

Unlocks: Neptune star chart access

Located on Uranus; literal task 'Complete Quest: Natah'.

The Second DreamQUESTMR none (historically MR3)

Requires: Natah completed; Neptune Junction completed

Unlocks: Operator/Transference; Focus system; Lua tileset; Pluto Junction (unlocks its tasks)

Major lore pivot revealing what Tenno actually are; unlocks the Operator form used for the rest of the game.

Pluto JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Neptune Junction completed (on Neptune); The Second Dream completed; defeat Hyena Pack at Psamathe; equip Archwing Launcher

Unlocks: Pluto star chart access

Located on Neptune; literal task 'Complete Quest: The Second Dream'.

The Deadlock ProtocolQUESTMR 4

Requires: Vox Solaris completed; Saturn Junction completed

Unlocks: Protea Warframe blueprint; Xoris glaive; Granum Void access (bounty economy)

A side quest explicitly exempted from Update 35's MR-requirement removal; still gates on Mastery Rank 4.

The Duviri ParadoxQUEST

Requires: Uranus Junction completed OR the standalone new-player 'Paradox Path' entry (bypasses all prior quests)

Unlocks: Drifter character and Duviri open world (Spiral Overlook); Undercroft/Incarnon weapon upgrade system; hard prerequisite for The Hex (as of Update 38, Dec 2024)

Reworked into an optional early-access alt route as well as a later mandatory gate; two very different entry points depending on account age.

SortiesACTIVITYMR 5

Requires: Mastery Rank 5; Completed The War Within; Rank 30 Warframe, or MR30 player with a once-polarized Warframe

Unlocks: Daily 3-mission escalating gauntlet, one reward per day: Riven Mods, Anasa Ayatan Sculptures, Kuva, Forma, Orokin Catalysts/Reactors, Legendary Cores

wiki.warframe.com/w/Sortie confirms MR5 + War Within; one fetch also named completing the Earth Oro node, not corroborated elsewhere, so treat that detail as uncertain.

Elite Sanctuary OnslaughtACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Completed The New Strange quest (unlocks Sanctuary Onslaught); Rank 30 Warframe or MR30 polarized player; Reaching Zone 8 inside a normal Onslaught run to open the Elite variant selection for that run

Unlocks: Focus Lenses, Legendary Cores, and a high-level endless XP/loot farm

wiki.warframe.com/w/Sanctuary_Onslaught confirms The New Strange as the quest gate; Elite-specific unlock logic was corroborated by a secondary community guide.

Duviri ParadoxSYSTEM

Requires: Completed the Saturn to Uranus Junction

Unlocks: The Drifter as a playable persona (inside Duviri); The Duviri open world, The Circuit roguelike, and The Lone Story completion path; Is itself a required branch (alongside The Lotus Eaters) for starting The Hex quest

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Duviri_Paradox states the Uranus Junction gate and that, as of Update 38.0, it is now a hard prerequisite for The Hex; both citations trace to the same underlying wiki text, so this is effectively single-sourced.

The CircuitACTIVITY

Requires: Duviri Paradox completed, granting access to the Undercroft

Unlocks: Rotating Warframe/weapon choice-based roguelike runs for Forma, weapon slots, and boss-key materials

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Circuit confirms Duviri Paradox as the sole gate for normal-mode access.

RailjackSYSTEMMR 3 (base Railjack)

Requires: Completed The War Within; Completed Rising Tide (or purchase the Starter Railjack Bundle for 175 Platinum, which counts Rising Tide as done)

Unlocks: Empyrean space missions; The hull needed for Kuva Lich Saturn Proxima confrontations and for Call of the Tempestarii/Sisters of Parvos

wiki.warframe.com/w/Railjack and /w/Rising_Tide both confirm The War Within as the gating quest and MR3 as the base ship's rank requirement.

NecramechsSYSTEMMR none stated

Requires: Completed Heart of Deimos (Voidrig component blueprints sent to your inbox); Operator and Transference unlocked via The Second Dream, needed to pilot a Necramech

Unlocks: Necramech combat across Cambion Drift, Orb Vallis vents, and Isolation Vault bounties; Necraloid syndicate access, needed for Bonewidow parts, Necramech mods, and buying damaged components

wiki.warframe.com/w/Necramech confirms Heart of Deimos as the sole hard gate; Necraloid rank is only needed for the second Necramech (Bonewidow) and mod purchases, not the first build.

Kuva LichesACTIVITYMR 5

Requires: Completed The War Within; Mastery Rank 5; A Railjack (Rank 5 Intrinsics) needed to travel to Saturn Proxima and confront a spawned Lich

Unlocks: Kuva weapons with innate bonus stats and progressive Ephemera cosmetics; Requiem Relic/Mod farming loop; Parallel counterpart system: Sisters of Parvos (Corpus side)

wiki.warframe.com/w/Kuva_Lich bundles War Within, MR5 and Railjack together as requirements, but a second source (community guides) suggests a Railjack is only needed to reach the Saturn Proxima confrontation, not to spawn the initial Larvling; flagged uncertain.

Eidolon Hunts & AmpsACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Completed Vor's Prize (opens Cetus/Plains of Eidolon; Saya's Vigil is no longer required as of Update 39); Completed The War Within (unlocks Operator/Transference and first contact with The Quills, which grants the starting Mote Amp); Konzu's night-time Eidolon Hunt bounty, with an Amp equipped

Unlocks: Eidolon Shards used for Arcane Enhancement crafting, plus Sentient cores, from Teralyst/Gantulyst/Hydrolyst kills; Progressively stronger Amp Prism/Scaffold/Brace parts from Quills rank-ups, needed for higher Eidolon tiers

wiki.warframe.com/w/Amp and /w/The_Quills both confirm the Update 39 change removing Saya's Vigil as a requirement for the Mote Amp/Cetus access; War Within's role in enabling Amp/Transference use in the field was inferred rather than explicitly stated, flagged uncertain.

Focus SchoolsSYSTEM

Requires: Completed The Second Dream (grants Operator and 2 starting passives in one chosen school; gated behind the Neptune Junction per the wiki); Completed The War Within and Saya's Vigil to unlock remaining school abilities via The Quills; Completed The Old Peace for Tauron Strike abilities

Unlocks: Five Focus schools (Madurai, Vazarin, Naramon, Unairu, Zenurik) granting active and passive Operator abilities; A Focus point economy fed by Eidolon Shards and other Lens-derived XP

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Second_Dream and /w/Focus both describe this staged unlock, but the Second Dream's Neptune Junction gate is only single-sourced in this pass and could not be cross-checked against a second independent page, flagged uncertain.

Operator & DrifterSYSTEM

Requires: Completed The Second Dream for the Operator (Transference); Completed The War Within, which upgrades the Operator from a limited Transcendence projection into full battlefield Transference; Completed The Duviri Paradox for the Drifter's first appearance, and The New War for the ability to freely swap Operator/Drifter appearance across the wider Origin System

Unlocks: Two playable Void-touched personas with distinct ability kits (Focus schools for the Operator; Duviri-specific weapons/gear for the Drifter)

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Second_Dream and /w/The_New_War confirm the Operator and Drifter unlock quests respectively; the Duviri Paradox page separately shows the Drifter is first played there. Order treated as dual-gated since Duviri Paradox (Uranus Junction) can be reached earlier in the New Player Experience than the deep New War quest chain.

The War WithinQUESTMR none (historically MR5, removed Update 35)

Requires: The Second Dream completed; Pluto Junction completed

Unlocks: Kuva Fortress added to Star Chart; Kuva Lich system / Kuva Siphon-Flood missions; Sorties; full Transference

Last quest that is a hard prerequisite for a huge share of downstream content (Kuva, both Eris and Sedna's junction chains, Rising Tide, Harrow).

Eris JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Pluto Junction completed (on Pluto); The War Within completed; 6 Defense waves at Stofler (Lua); equip a Focus Lens

Unlocks: Eris star chart access

Located on Pluto; literal task 'Complete Quest: The War Within'.

Rising TideQUEST

Requires: The War Within completed

Unlocks: Railjack and Dry Dock; Sedna Junction (unlocks its tasks)

Sibling branch to Chains of Harrow, not sequential to it; both only need The War Within.

Sedna JunctionJUNCTION

Requires: Eris Junction completed (on Eris); Rising Tide completed; Railjack mission at Sover Strait; defeat 5 Vomvalysts on Plains of Eidolon

Unlocks: Sedna star chart access

Located on Eris (Region: Eris), not directly off Pluto; literal task 'Complete Quest: The Rising Tide'.

Kuva FortressJUNCTION

Requires: The War Within completed

Unlocks: Kuva Lich adversary system; Kuva Siphon/Flood farming; access to Void-adjacent Grineer capital-ship tileset

Not a specter-fight junction; the node is simply added to the Star Chart on quest completion, no separate challenge required.

Chains of HarrowQUEST

Requires: The War Within completed; visit Onkko in Cetus

Unlocks: Harrow Warframe blueprint; Apostasy Prologue quest becomes available

Parallel branch to Rising Tide off The War Within; is the hard gate for Apostasy Prologue.

Apostasy PrologueQUEST

Requires: Chains of Harrow completed; Personal Quarters built (unlocked by The War Within)

Unlocks: The Sacrifice quest becomes available

Triggered by an energy anomaly in your Orbiter's Personal Quarters, not the Codex list.

The SacrificeQUEST

Requires: Apostasy Prologue completed

Unlocks: Excalibur Umbra; Chimera Prologue quest becomes available

Emotional centerpiece quest; direct hard gate into the Prelude to War arc.

Chimera PrologueQUEST

Requires: The Sacrifice completed

Unlocks: Paracesis blueprint; Ropalolyst assassination node (Jupiter, drops Wisp); Erra quest becomes available

Act 1 of the Prelude to War arc; investigates Ballas after The Sacrifice.

ErraQUEST

Requires: Chimera Prologue completed

Unlocks: Murex ground battle content on Earth; The Maker quest becomes available

Act 2 of Prelude to War, introduced Sentient invasion of Earth (Update 27.0).

The MakerQUEST

Requires: Erra completed

Unlocks: Prelude to War arc complete; The New War quest becomes available

Act 3, final chapter of Prelude to War (Update 27.3); direct hard gate for The New War.

ArbitrationsACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Completion of a task in the Pluto to Eris Junction (loosened from a full star chart clear as of Update 39); Rank 30 Warframe or MR30 player with a once-polarized Warframe

Unlocks: Endless rotating mission type dropping Vitus Essence, Arbitration Mods, and Ayatan sculptures

wiki.warframe.com/w/Arbitrations and a Steam community cross-check both describe the Update 39 relaxation from full-star-chart to the Eris Junction task.

Steel PathSYSTEMMR 5 (for the Vay Hek Oro node specifically)

Requires: All Star Chart nodes accessible before The New War completed, including quest-locked ones (Tyana Pass, Ropalolyst, Saya's Visions, all Lua and Kuva Fortress nodes); Speak to Teshin at any Relay and choose 'Steel Path?'; For the Duviri Steel Path node specifically: The Duviri Paradox plus its three base nodes cleared in normal mode

Unlocks: Steel Essence currency and Teshin's Steel Path Honors shop; Six Steel Path Arcanes from Acolytes; Access to Steel Path Circuit and, through it, Incarnon Genesis Adapters; Higher-level Steel Path variants of Netracells and Archimedea

wiki.warframe.com/w/Steel_Path confirms both the full-star-chart requirement and that it gates Incarnon Genesis indirectly through the Circuit.

HelminthSYSTEMMR 8

Requires: Heart of Deimos completed; Entrati syndicate Rank 3 (Associate) to buy the Helminth Segment from Son; Helminth Segment built (Mastery Rank 8)

Unlocks: Subsuming Warframes to feed Helminth and infusing their abilities onto other frames' ability slots; Helminth Invigorations; Ability to socket Archon Shards, via the separate Helminth Archon Shard Segment earned from Veilbreaker

wiki.warframe.com/w/Helminth is the primary source; Entrati Rank 3 itself requires Heart of Deimos to have been completed first, so that quest is an indirect prerequisite.

Helminth InvigorationsACTIVITYMR 8 (inherited from Helminth)

Requires: Helminth system unlocked; Helminth Invigoration Segment from Son (Entrati Rank 5, Mastery Rank 8)

Unlocks: Two large, temporary (7 day) stat buffs on a chosen Warframe, used to push Steel Path and endgame builds beyond normal caps

Confirmed on wiki.warframe.com/w/Helminth, which describes Invigoration XP contribution toward Metamorphosis progress; no separate unlock quest exists.

Archon HuntsACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Completed The New War; Completed Veilbreaker; Rank 30 Warframe or MR30 polarized player

Unlocks: A guaranteed Archon Shard per week (80% normal, 20% Tauforged) from a rotating Archon boss (Amar, Nira, Boreal); Feeds directly into the Archon Shards system below

wiki.warframe.com/w/Archon_Hunt names Veilbreaker as the direct gate; Veilbreaker itself requires The New War, matching the task's stated 'New War + Veilbreaker' combined gate.

Archon ShardsSYSTEM

Requires: Archon Hunts (or Netracells/Deep Archimedea) completed for shard drops; Helminth Archon Shard Segment installed (granted by completing Veilbreaker)

Unlocks: Permanent, stackable per-Warframe stat bonuses; Tauforged shards give double the normal bonus

wiki.warframe.com/w/Archon_Hunt confirms shards 'are used for the Helminth'; the Segment itself is documented as a Veilbreaker quest reward on wiki.warframe.com/w/Veilbreaker.

Kahl's GarrisonACTIVITY

Requires: Completed The New War (Kahl-175 is introduced as a playable segment); Completed Veilbreaker (formally establishes the Garrison at the Drifter's Camp)

Unlocks: Weekly Break Narmer missions playing as Kahl with recruited Grineer squadmates; Kahl's Garrison syndicate rewards: Styanax Warframe, Afentis/Slaytra/Aegrit weapons, Archon Mods, a Landing Craft

wiki.warframe.com/w/Kahl-175 and /w/Veilbreaker agree on the two-stage gate: Kahl debuts in New War, the Garrison mechanic itself opens after Veilbreaker.

NetracellsACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Completed Whispers in the Walls (unlocks the Cavia syndicate); Speak to Tagfer in the Sanctum Anatomica; A weekly Search Pulse (shared 5-per-week pool with Deep Archimedea)

Unlocks: Archon Shards, Legendary Melee Arcanes, and Melee Arcane Adapters from Albrecht's Laboratories vaults; A Steel Path variant at higher enemy level once Steel Path is unlocked

wiki.warframe.com/w/Netracell and /w/Whispers_in_the_Walls both confirm the quest gate; no Cavia rank requirement was found for basic access (only Deep Archimedea needs rank).

Steel Path CircuitACTIVITY

Requires: Steel Path unlocked (full star chart clear); The Circuit already accessible via Duviri Paradox

Unlocks: Tier 5 and Tier 10 weekly rewards are Incarnon Genesis Adapters, chosen from a rotating pool of five

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Circuit and /w/Steel_Path both tie Incarnon Genesis access specifically to this harder Circuit tier, not the base Circuit.

Incarnon GenesisSYSTEM

Requires: Steel Path Circuit access; An Incarnon Genesis Adapter earned from a Tier 5/10 Steel Path Circuit reward; Ownership of the specific base weapon that week's adapter targets

Unlocks: An evolving Incarnon alt-fire mode for that weapon, unlocked via a Steel Path Circuit rotation that cycles roughly every 10 weeks (Week A through Week I)

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Circuit lists the full weekly weapon rotation used to source this; corroborated by the Steel Path wiki page's mention of the same reward track.

Sisters of ParvosACTIVITYMR 4

Requires: Completed The Deadlock Protocol (Mastery Rank 4, Saturn Junction); Completed Call of the Tempestarii (requires owning a Railjack and the Reliquary Key retrieved during Deadlock Protocol)

Unlocks: Corpus 'Sister' adversary system, parallel to Kuva Liches, dropping Tenet weapons with innate bonuses

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Deadlock_Protocol and /w/Call_of_the_Tempestarii agree Call of the Tempestarii is the direct unlock quest and Deadlock Protocol its hard prerequisite.

Profit-Taker HeistACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Fortuna/Orb Vallis access (via the Vox Solaris quest chain, which itself needs The War Within and Saya's Vigil completed, plus having spoken to Onkko/The Quills); Solaris United Rank 5 (Old Mate)

Unlocks: 4-phase Profit-Taker Orb heist bounty rewarding Gyromag Systems, Repeller Systems and Repeller Claws for Zaw/weapon upgrades; Access to the harder Exploiter Orb content tied to the same Vox Solaris storyline

wiki.warframe.com/w/Vox_Solaris confirms Old Mate Rank 5 as the heist gate; whether completing the Vox Solaris quest itself (versus only reaching Old Mate rank) is separately mandatory was not fully disambiguated between sources, flagged uncertain.

Zariman Bounties & HoldfastsACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Completed The New War; Completed Angels of the Zariman

Unlocks: Chrysalith hub and 7 Zariman Ten Zero mission nodes (Void Cascade, Void Flood, Void Armageddon); The Holdfasts syndicate (Quinn), selling Gyre Warframe, Aeolak and Hespar weapons; Void Angel enemies dropping Epitaphs used in Archon-tier crafting

wiki.warframe.com/w/Zariman_Ten_Zero and /w/Angels_of_the_Zariman both confirm The New War as the deep prerequisite and Angels of the Zariman as the direct unlock quest.

Cavia (Whispers)SYSTEM

Requires: Completed Whispers in the Walls (which itself requires Heart of Deimos and The New War completed)

Unlocks: Cavia syndicate standing (Tagfer and other Deimos researchers), which gates Netracells (basic access) and, at Rank 5 Illuminate, Deep Archimedea; Five additional Deimos mission nodes and the Qorvex Warframe blueprint as direct quest rewards

wiki.warframe.com/w/Whispers_in_the_Walls confirms both the Heart of Deimos plus New War prerequisite chain and the Cavia syndicate unlock; listed as its own node since the task scope calls out Cavia separately from Netracells/Archimedea.

The New WarQUEST

Requires: The Maker completed (Prelude to War finished); own a Railjack (loaner offered if none owned); own a Necramech (loaner offered if none owned)

Unlocks: Drifter as a permanent playable form; Kahl-175 Garrison missions; Angels of the Zariman quest becomes available; Veilbreaker quest becomes available

The narrative hinge of the whole game; several hours long, changes the HUD/Codex permanently and fans out into most of the post-2021 content.

Angels of the ZarimanQUEST

Requires: The New War completed

Unlocks: Zariman Ten Zero tileset (Void Cascade/Flood/Armageddon); Holdfasts syndicate in the Chrysalith; Dormizone personal space; Gyre Warframe, Aeolak and Hespar via bounties

Optional branch off The New War; not required for Veilbreaker or Whispers in the Walls.

VeilbreakerQUEST

Requires: The New War completed

Unlocks: Sisters of Parvos adversary system; continued Kahl's Garrison operations

Solo-only side quest following Kahl; does not require Angels of the Zariman.

Whispers in the WallsQUEST

Requires: Heart of Deimos completed; The New War completed

Unlocks: Albrecht Entrati/Kalymos storyline; The Lotus Eaters quest becomes available

Started via an inbox message from Loid once both prerequisites are met; Update 35 (Dec 2023).

The Lotus EatersQUEST

Requires: Whispers in the Walls completed

Unlocks: The Old Peace quest becomes available; sets up Warframe 1999/The Hex

Bridging mini-quest between the Operator and Drifter storylines.

The Old PeaceQUEST

Requires: The Lotus Eaters completed

Unlocks: Operator-side epilogue content

Parallel Operator-focused follow-up to Lotus Eaters; exact reward details only loosely confirmed.

Warframe 1999 / The HexQUEST

Requires: The Duviri Paradox completed; The Lotus Eaters completed

Unlocks: Hollvania/1999 New Year's Eve hub; Protoframe roster (The Hex); subsequent 1999 questline chapters

Entry quest for the 1999 arc, Update 38.0 (Dec 13 2024); roughly 90 minutes and locks out normal play until finished.

Jade ShadowsQUEST

Requires: The New War completed

Unlocks: Jade Warframe blueprint; Jade Shadows: Constellations quest becomes available

Short solo quest (~30 min); only hard prerequisite is The New War, independent of the Whispers/1999 branch.

Jade Shadows: ConstellationsQUEST

Requires: Jade Shadows completed

Unlocks: Protoframe-adjacent content (Vena, Ryoku)

Update 43 content, released close to this brief's cutoff; details are the least independently verified in this map.

Deep Archimedea & Temporal ArchimedeaACTIVITYMR none stated

Requires: Completed Whispers in the Walls; Cavia Rank 5 (Illuminate); At least one Netracell completed; 2 of the shared 5 weekly Search Pulses

Unlocks: Choice-based weekly modifier missions at level 250 to 400, top-tier reward pool including Legendary Arcanes; Temporal Archimedea runs the same system in Hollvania once Warframe 1999/The Hex is unlocked

wiki.warframe.com/w/Deep_Archimedea confirms the Cavia Rank 5 and one-Netracell requirements; Temporal Archimedea's added Hollvania/1999 dependency is inferred from its setting and not fully spelled out on that page, so flagged as partly uncertain.

Warframe 1999: Hex & Technocyte CodaSYSTEMMR none stated

Requires: Completed The New War, then Heart of Deimos, then Whispers in the Walls; Completed The Lotus Eaters (requires Whispers in the Walls); Completed The Duviri Paradox (Uranus Junction branch, independent of the quest chain above); Completed The Hex quest, which requires BOTH The Duviri Paradox AND The Lotus Eaters

Unlocks: Hollvania 1999 hub with Hell-Scrub and Legacyte Harvest mission modes; The Hex syndicate (six Protoframes) selling Cyte-09, Temple and Oraxia Warframe blueprints plus weapons; Technocyte Coda adversary system, parallel to Kuva Liches/Sisters of Parvos, spawned by hacking infected terminals in Hollvania; Temporal Archimedea and the Isleweaver Duviri mode once the Hex Finale is reached

wiki.warframe.com/w/The_Hex_(Quest), /w/The_Lotus_Eaters and /w/Whispers_in_the_Walls together trace this two-branch convergence; this is the newest and deepest chain covered here (added Update 38, Dec 2024), so any post-2025 changes by Sept 2026 could not be fully verified in this pass.