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Infiltrate the enemy hold, and cripple their operation by striking at vulnerable points. The Minimap will lead you to the target. Once it has been destroyed, get to extraction as fast as possible.
—In-Game Description

Sabotage is a Mission type requiring players to reach an objective, and then destroy it before heading to extraction. The objective that needs to be destroyed differs depending on the mission's tileset.

Variants

Core Sabotage

On the majority of tilesets located on a planet's surface, players must find a reactor room, and destroy the reactor core. To destroy the reactor core, players will need to expose the reactor core by activating a control console, then proceed to destroy each of the cylinders sticking out of it. Up to 4000 objective affinity will be rewarded based on mission level upon the destruction of all cylinders.

Missions taking place on Corpus Outposts and Corpus Ice Planets feature a Corpus reactor design with hexagonal elements on a rotating core. Missions taking place on Grineer Settlements and Grineer Shipyards feature a Grineer reactor design with four sets of three cylinders which swivel outward from a stationary core.

Core sabotage missions have a chance of triggering a five-minute Timed Extraction event upon completion via the overhead message "Core Integrity Compromised". The mission will fail if players do not extract within the time limit.

Toxin Injector Sabotage

Missions in the Grineer Forest initially task players with finding a Toxin Mixer and destroying the Biocatalyst required for the creation of the Cicero Toxin. If players in the squad have Antitoxins in their Gear wheel, they may put them into the Mixer at this stage, granting the squad an additional reward at the end of the mission depending on the combined potency of all antitoxins used (as indicated by Antitoxin Strength) prior to commencement of the second mission stage. Objective Affinity is awarded upon Biocatalyst destruction which scales with mission level, up to a maximum of 4000 affinity.

Once the Toxin Mixer has been disabled, players are then tasked with sabotage of the Toxin Injector poisoning the soil.

  • If no antitoxins were inserted in the first mission stage, hacking the injector will send it into overdrive, causing it to destroy the toxin contained within. This sabotage outcome will award 1000 affinity at all mission levels.
  • If at least one antitoxin was inserted in the first mission stage, hacking the injector will cause it to pump the antitoxin mixture into the soil. This sabotage outcome will award 12,000 affinity at all mission levels.

Regardless of the sabotage outcome, players must defend the Injector from enemies for 75 seconds in order to complete the second mission stage.

Gas City Sabotage

Missions in the Corpus Gas City require players to find and destroy the elemental condensers and helium-3 processors aboard the city, gaining up to 1500 objective affinity for each group of equipment destroyed. They must then hack a terminal to begin overdriving the reactor core, and defend two consoles for 90 seconds from Nullifier Crewmen (or specialized Lancers for the Kuva Lich Controlled Territory variant) attempting to reverse the sequence until the overdrive process is complete. Completion of the overdrive process will award up to 2000 objective affinity. (The standard variant on Thebe, with a mission level of 18-20, grants 1000 and 1500 objective affinity for, respectively, equipment destruction and overdrive process completion.)

Reactor Sabotage

Main article: Reactor Sabotage

Introduced in Update 18.5 (2016-03-04), this Sabotage variant replaces core sabotage on the Grineer Galleon and Corpus Ship. In this mode, the player must sabotage up to two coolant stations of the reactor before destroying the reactor itself.

Sealab Sabotage

Main article: Sealab Sabotage

Missions in the Grineer Sealab require players to flood the main pumping room by destroying its pipes and then hack and defend a terminal. Depending on the type of lab, players are then required to either find and kill a Manic Bombard, or destroy cloning tubes and a research drone.

Hive Sabotage

Main article: Hive Sabotage

Missions taking place onboard Infested Ships require players to destroy three Infested Hives, that are protected by five Infested Tumors each; these must be destroyed before the hive can be harmed. Each destruction of a hive will increase the Infested spawnrate as well as triggering an environmental hazard, depending on the type of Hive destroyed. The hazards range from Lowered Gravity, Laser Hazard, Turret Activation, Cryogenic Leakage, DmgViralSmall64 Viral Clouds and DmgMagneticSmall64 Magnetic Fields.

Orokin Sabotage

Main article: Orokin Sabotage

Orokin Sabotage takes place on Orokin Void and Orokin Derelict tilesets, where the objective is to close a Void portal allowing Corpus or Grineer troops entry into the Orokin structure. Closing the portal involves a mixture of Defense-style gameplay and Assassination where a special miniboss must be killed in the process.

Drilling Machine Sabotage

Missions on Grineer Asteroids task players with finding and destroying a number of Drilling Machines scattered around the map. Up to 4 Drilling Machines can be found during a mission. Unlike most other Sabotage variants, no affinity is rewarded for objective completion in this Sabotage variant.

Archwing Reactor Sabotage

Taking place on the Archwing Trench Run tileset, this mode sees players fly through a severely damaged Corpus Ship to destroy the reactor core. The reactor room has eight Auxiliary Power Cores that must be destroyed to expose the two larger Primary Power Cores that are the main objective. Deadly crisscrossing DmgElectricitySmall64 Electricity beams activate whenever each auxiliary core is destroyed, making the area more hazardous. Unlike most other Sabotage variants, no affinity is rewarded for objective completion in this Sabotage variant.

Fomorian Sabotage

Main article: Fomorian Sabotage

Fomorian Sabotage is a special Sabotage Event variant that involves using Archwings to engage and destroy a Balor Fomorian before it reaches a Relay. Each Fomorian Sabotage mission has a timer displaying the time until it reaches the relay, along with a health counter showing the percent of health it has remaining.

In order to participate in a Fomorian Sabotage mission, a player must have an Archwing available, as well as a Fomorian Disruptor equipped in their Gear menu.

Deception

Main article: Deception

Formerly a mission type that phased out in Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08), this was changed into a Sabotage variant, then demoted to the first of two objectives in Grineer Settlement and Grineer Shipyard sabotage missions. The deception objective, which consists of inserting a datamass into a specific terminal, rewards up to 4000 objective affinity based on mission level.

Locations

Planet Mission Name Faction Credit Reward Addtional Credit Reward Wiki's DropTableAlias Level Tileset
Earth Cervantes Grineer 1,300 0 4 - 6 Grineer Forest
Venus Ishtar Corpus 1,500 0 6 - 8 Corpus Ship
Mercury Terminus Infested/Grineer 1,700 0 8 - 10 Grineer Galleon
Mars Ares Grineer 1,800 0 9 - 11 Grineer Settlement
Mars Gradivus Corpus 1,800 0 9 - 11 Corpus Ship
Ceres Ker Grineer 2,300 0 14 - 16 Grineer Shipyard
Deimos Formido Infested 2,300 0 14 - 16 Orokin Derelict
Ceres Thon Grineer 2,400 0 15 - 17 Grineer Galleon
Jupiter Galilea Corpus 2,400 0 AWSabotage 15 - 20 Corpus Ship (Archwing)
Jupiter Adrastea Corpus 2,700 0 18 - 20 Corpus Ship
Jupiter Thebe Corpus 2,700 0 18 - 20 Corpus Gas City
Europa Kokabiel Corpus 2,900 0 20 - 22 Corpus Ice Planet
Void Stribog Corrupted 2,900 0 VoidSabotage2 20 - 25 Orokin Tower
Saturn Enceladus Grineer 3,200 0 23 - 25 Grineer Asteroid
Saturn Calypso Grineer 3,300 0 24 - 26 Grineer Galleon
Uranus Desdemona Grineer 3,500 0 26 - 28 Grineer Sealab
Neptune Sao Corpus 3,800 0 29 - 31 Corpus Outpost
Eris Naeglar Infested 3,900 0 30 - 34 Infested Ship
Sedna Rusalka Grineer 4,100 0 32 - 36 Grineer Galleon
Pluto Cypress Corpus 4,300 0 34 - 38 Corpus Ship
Void Marduk Corrupted 4,900 0 VoidSabotage4 40 - 45 Orokin Tower
There are a total of 21 Sabotage Missions

Rewards

Many kinds of Sabotage missions contain Resource Caches. For each cache collected, the squad will earn up to 2000 affinity (based on mission level) as well as additional rewards depending on the kind of Sabotage mission. Like Spy Mission Vaults, these additional rewards will not be revealed until the mission is completed. On the mission completion screen, cache rewards will be marked with "Identified".

Sabotage missions in the Void give an additional Void Relic as an end of mission reward regardless of the number of discovered Resource Caches. These rewards are under the tiered drop tables under the Void tab. Archwing Sabotage missions do not feature Resource Caches but give an end of mission reward upon completion.

Main article: Sabotage/Rewards (edit)

A B C
Credits x2500 Credit Cache 100% Credits x3000 Credit Cache 24.35% HealthRestore(Large) Health Restore (Large) 30.2%
Endo Endo x100 24.35% Endo Endo x200 30.2%
DetoniteAmpule Detonite Ampule 12.18% Neurodes Neurodes 15.1%
Ferrite Ferrite x300 12.18% Mod TT 20px Bite 3.67%
Neurodes Neurodes 12.18% Mod TT 20px Hastened Deflection 3.67%
Rubedo Rubedo x150 12.18% Mod TT 20px Link Fiber 3.67%
KubrowEgg Kubrow Egg 2.58% Mod TT 20px Link Redirection 3.67%
Mod TT 20px Link Vitality 3.67%
Mod TT 20px Maul 3.67%
Forma Forma Blueprint 2%
Forma Forma 0.5%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x3000 Credit Cache 33.33% Credits x5000 Credit Cache 30.98% Endo Endo x400 35.49%
Endo Endo x200 33.33% Endo Endo x300 15.49% Mod TT 20px Enemy Sense 15.49%
Mod TT 20px Thief's Wit 16.67% MutagenSample Mutagen Sample x3 15.49% Neurodes Neurodes 15.49%
NanoSpores Nano Spores x1000 16.67% Plastids Plastids x350 15.49% Neurodes Neurodes x2 15.49%
Mod TT 20px Contagious Spread 5.64% Mod TT 20px Firestorm 4.51%
Mod TT 20px Fever Strike 5.64% Mod TT 20px High Voltage 4.51%
Mod TT 20px Infected Clip 5.64% Mod TT 20px Shell Shock 4.51%
Mod TT 20px Pathogen Rounds 5.64% MutalistAladVNavCoordinate Mutalist Alad V Nav Coordinate 4.51%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x2500 Credit Cache 100% Endo Endo x400 62.06% Endo Endo x80 15.1%
AlloyPlate Alloy Plate x750 12.65% Endo Endo x150 15.1%
Circuits Circuits x750 12.65% Gallium Gallium 15.1%
PolymerBundle Polymer Bundle x240 12.65% Morphics Morphics 15.1%
Neurodes Neurodes 15.1%
Endo Endo x160 5.5%
Gallium Gallium x2 5.5%
Morphics Morphics x2 5.5%
Neurodes Neurodes x2 5.5%
ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal 0.67%
NitainExtract Nitain Extract 0.67%
Tellurium Tellurium 0.67%
GenericLandingCraftFuselage Xiphos Fuselage Blueprint 0.5%

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x5000 Credit Cache 100% Endo Endo x400 62.06% Endo Endo x600 34.6%
Plastids Plastids x300 12.65% Gallium Gallium 15.1%
PolymerBundle Polymer Bundle x300 12.65% Neurodes Neurodes 15.1%
Rubedo Rubedo x350 12.65% OrokinCell Orokin Cell 15.1%
Gallium Gallium x2 4.4%
Neurodes Neurodes x2 4.4%
OrokinCell Orokin Cell x2 4.4%
Tellurium Tellurium 4.4%
ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal 1%
NitainExtract Nitain Extract 1%
GenericLandingCraftEngines Xiphos Engines Blueprint 0.5%

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x10000 Credit Cache 100% Endo Endo x400 62.06% Endo Endo x600 41.42%
Circuits Circuits x400 12.65% Gallium Gallium 12.58%
Plastids Plastids x300 12.65% Neurodes Neurodes 12.58%
Rubedo Rubedo x400 12.65% OrokinCell Orokin Cell 12.58%
ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal 3.67%
Gallium Gallium x2 3.67%
Neurodes Neurodes x2 3.67%
OrokinCell Orokin Cell x2 3.67%
Tellurium Tellurium 3.67%
NitainExtract Nitain Extract 2%
GenericLandingCraftSystems Xiphos Avionics Blueprint 0.5%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x3000 Credit Cache 40% Credits x5000 Credit Cache 30.98% Endo Endo x400 20%
Endo Endo x200 40% Endo Endo x200 30.98% Gallium Gallium x2 15.49%
PolymerBundle Polymer Bundle x300 20% Plastids Plastids x300 15.49% Gallium Gallium x3 15.49%
Mod TT 20px Battering Maneuver 4.51% Oxium Oxium x250 15.49%
Mod TT 20px Mobilize 4.51% Tellurium Tellurium 15.49%
Mod TT 20px Patagium 4.51% Mod TT 20px Firewalker 4.51%
Mod TT 20px Piercing Step 4.51% Mod TT 20px Ice Spring 4.51%
Mod TT 20px Rending Turn 4.51% Mod TT 20px Lightning Dash 4.51%
Mod TT 20px Toxic Flight 4.51%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x5000 Credit Cache 100% Endo Endo x400 62.06% Endo Endo x600 60.29%
Circuits Circuits x400 12.65% Neurodes Neurodes 18.88%
Plastids Plastids x300 12.65% Mod TT 20px Bullet Dance 3.67%
Rubedo Rubedo x400 12.65% ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal 3.67%
Gallium Gallium x2 3.67%
Neurodes Neurodes x2 3.67%
OrokinCell Orokin Cell x2 3.67%
NitainExtract Nitain Extract 2%
GenericLandingCraftSystems Xiphos Avionics Blueprint 0.5%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

Rewards
LithRelicIntact Lith G10 13.33%
LithRelicIntact Lith C11 6.67%
LithRelicIntact Lith G9 6.67%
LithRelicIntact Lith P8 6.67%
LithRelicIntact Lith R5 6.67%
LithRelicIntact Lith T10 6.67%
MesoRelicIntact Meso A5 6.67%
MesoRelicIntact Meso B9 6.67%
MesoRelicIntact Meso G6 6.67%
MesoRelicIntact Meso H5 6.67%
MesoRelicIntact Meso H6 6.67%
MesoRelicIntact Meso M4 6.67%
MesoRelicIntact Meso W3 6.67%
Aya Aya 6.67%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x10000 Credit Cache 100% Endo Endo x400 54.48% Endo Endo x600 55%
Circuits Circuits x400 15.18% Neurodes Neurodes 25.29%
Plastids Plastids x300 15.18% Mod TT 20px Bullet Dance 4.42%
Rubedo Rubedo x400 15.18% ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal 4.42%
Gallium Gallium x2 4.42%
OrokinCell Orokin Cell x2 4.42%
GenericLandingCraftSystems Xiphos Avionics Blueprint 1.01%
NitainExtract Nitain Extract 1.01%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

Rewards
NeoRelicIntact Neo K6 12.5%
Aya Aya 12.5%
AxiRelicIntact Axi A17 6.25%
AxiRelicIntact Axi A18 6.25%
AxiRelicIntact Axi B7 6.25%
AxiRelicIntact Axi D5 6.25%
AxiRelicIntact Axi G11 6.25%
AxiRelicIntact Axi L6 6.25%
AxiRelicIntact Axi P6 6.25%
NeoRelicIntact Neo F3 6.25%
NeoRelicIntact Neo K7 6.25%
NeoRelicIntact Neo S18 6.25%
NeoRelicIntact Neo W1 6.25%
NeoRelicIntact Neo Z10 6.25%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

A B C
Credits x3000 Credit Cache 28.57% Credits x5000 Credit Cache 30.35% Endo Endo x400 23.12%
Endo Endo x200 28.57% Endo Endo x200 30.35% ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal 19.36%
Mod TT 20px Thief's Wit 14.29% Neurodes Neurodes 15.18% NeuralSensors Neural Sensors 19.36%
MutagenSample Mutagen Sample x3 14.29% Mod TT 20px Bane of Infested 4.42% OrokinCell Orokin Cell 19.36%
NanoSpores Nano Spores x1000 14.29% Mod TT 20px Cleanse Infested 4.42% Mod TT 20px Enemy Sense 3.76%
Mod TT 20px Expel Infested 4.42% Mod TT 20px Master Thief 3.76%
Mod TT 20px Smite Infested 4.42% ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal x2 3.76%
Neurodes Neurodes x2 4.42% NeuralSensors Neural Sensors x2 3.76%
MutalistAladVNavCoordinate Mutalist Alad V Nav Coordinate 2.01% OrokinCell Orokin Cell x2 3.76%

Locations:

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Rewards
Mod TT 20px Conductive Blade 25.81%
Mod TT 20px Glacial Edge 25.81%
Mod TT 20px Tempered Blade 25.81%
Mod TT 20px Astral Slash 3.76%
Mod TT 20px Comet Blast 3.76%
Mod TT 20px Meteor Crash 3.76%
Mod TT 20px Nebula Bore 3.76%
Mod TT 20px Quasar Drill 3.76%
Mod TT 20px Zodiac Shred 3.76%

Locations:

Drop tables outdated? Readers can update Module:DropTables/data and cross reference with official drop tables on https://www.warframe.com/droptables.

Notes

  • Prior to Update 18.5 (2016-03-04), sabotaging a core in either the Corpus Ship or Grineer Galleon missions would cause the entire level to become noticeably darker owing to lights being shut down, presumably due to lack of power from the now-destroyed reactor. There was also a chance of fire hazards breaking out.
  • Getting all 3 caches in Reactor Sabotage missions has a small chance to potentially reward Nitain Extract, and a Xiphos part – one part available from each tier.

Trivia

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Patch History

Update 30.2 (2021-05-12)

  • Fixed Low Particle System quality resulting in almost invisible Magnetic Anomalies in Sabotage missions.

Hotfix 30.0.6 (2021-04-20)

  • Fixed the coolant/core cell being shown as inserted in the wrong place during Corpus Ship Sabotage missions.

Hotfix 29.5.4 (2020-11-25)

  • Fixed some crashes that could occur during a Gas City Sabotage mission.

Hotfix 27.3.16 (2020-04-22)

  • Fixed a script error that could occur when opening a Resource Cache in a Sabotage mission.

Hotfix 27.3.15 (2020-04-17)

  • Fixed Host migration script errors in Orokin Sabotage missions.

Hotfix 25.3.2 (2019-07-12)

Sabotage Changes & Fixes

These Changes & Fixes relate directly to if the Reactor Sabotage ‘magnetic’ situation is triggered:

  • Increased visibility of the panic button placed at the Reactor console.
  • Reduced hack time for enemies at the Reactor panic button to 1.5 seconds.
  • Increased 'Defend' time to 60 seconds from 40 seconds.
  • Fixed no enemies spawning to trigger lockdown at the Reactor console.
  • Fixed enemies unable to reach the Reactor console.

Hotfix 25.1.3 (2019-06-14)

  • Fixed Clients not seeing the Sabotage countdown stopping once hacked in the Gas City tileset.

Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)

  • (Undocumented) Introduced Corpus Gas City Sabotage.

Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)
Forest Sabotage Changes/Fixes:

  • Added a progress wheel to UI to show Antitoxin Strength.
  • Antitoxin console disables when strength is at 100% to avoid wasting Antitoxins.
  • Slightly increased strength score of common and uncommon Antitoxins.
  • Fixed incorrect Affinity reward scaling for Antitoxins.
  • Fixed broken materials on the Antitoxin console.

Hotfix 19.5.6 (2017-01-04)

  • Fixed "Open 3 Caches during any Sabotage mission on Uranus" Neptune Junction task not completing.

Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)

Earth Sabotage
  • This Sabotage tileset has now been given a two part objective -- removing the toxin catalyst (and adding the antitoxin) then activating the injector.
  • New Transmissions have been added to provide more objective clarity.
  • New terrain features have been added to this tileset.
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