Toroid Caves Location Guide!

A newbies guide on where to find those ever elusive Toroids!


After struggling to find consistant information on which caves contained Toroids, I have cross referenced which caves were confirmed to have Toroids, along with my own explorations, to create this (hopefully) complete guide!


17 caves, with pictures of the location, entrance I recommend, and where the Toroids may be located within!

Introduction - What even are Toroids, and why am I finding them again?

Toroids are a resource introduced with the first part of Fortuna. They are small, round orbs with varying detail and colour.

They can be turned in for standing with Vox Solaris, or used as building components for gear obtained using Vox Solaris standing; Baruuk, Amps, Operator Armour and Operator Arcanes, as well as Garuda from the Solaris United Bounty rewards.

Toroids can also be found at the Temple of Profit, Enrichment Labs and Space Port from enemy loot drops.

What should I use to farm them?

The first two things I recommend are the fastest Arcwing you own, with Hyperion Thrusters. Itzal and a max rank Hyperion Thrusters is what I use personally. The other thing I recommend is a Sentinel if you use Animal Instinct, rather than a Kubrow, Kavat or Moa, since one of the caves contains an electricity trap, and I've found my Kavat gets stuck every, single, time.

Other recommended things are a decent enough weapon, and of course, resource boosters are wondeful, if you wish to use them.

The Map!

Calda, Sola and Vega Toroids may be found in any of the 17 caves marked on the map. Not every cave will have a Toroid spawn each time you check, and it is also possible to get multiple Toroids in one cave.

Cave 1

Cave 1 is NW of Fortuna, NE of the Coolant Resevoir, SW of the Grow Site and SE of the Temple Fabrication, roughly in the middle of these four locations.
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Toroids spawn in a small alcove you need to slide through, near the bottom of the cave.

Cave 2

Cave 2 is the long cave found between the Grow Site, Central Maintenance and Ustara Crater. The caves south entrance can be found roughly half way between Central Maintenance and Ustara Crater.
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Toroids can be found roughly 1/4 of the way along the cave from the south entrance, hidden in a small tunnel hidden under a toppled Orokin structure.

Cave 3

This is a small cave directly East of the Temple of Profit.
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Toroids are on a low laying ledge on the far side of the natural structure in this cave.

Cave 4

Cave 4 is next to a small, un-named corpus outpost about half way down the West side of the map, SW of the Temple Fabrication.
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Toroids in this cave are in a small tunnel, which cannot be accessed until the boxes infront of the tunnel have been moved using the small control box next to the coolant.

Cave 5

Cave 5 is right next to Cave 4, just East of it along the river.
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Toroids are in an alcove at the very top of a giant, fallen Orokin pillar.

Cave 6

Cave 6 is in the SW corner of the map, SW of Asta Crater.
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Toroids in this cave are found at the very bottom of the cave, in a small alcove past the coolant in the cave.

Cave 7

Cave 7 is location just East of Cave 6, almost directly South of Asta Crater.
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Toroids are located in a corner of the cave, tucked into a small tunnel at the end of the coolant river.

Cave 8

Cave 8 is located East of Caves 6 and 7, by the lake SW of the Transit Depot.


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Toroids are in the tunnel behind the Jumping Flower directly next to one of the caves entrances.

Cave 9

Cave 9 is just NW of the Transit Depot.


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Toroids in this cave can be found near the top of the cave, in a small passage that runs parallel with the main passage.

Cave 10

Cave 10 is just West of the Space Port.


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Toroids in this cave can be found by sliding into the gap above the dried coolant waterfall, and almost immediately turning right and heading down a tunnel into a small hidden cavern.

Cave 11

Cave 11 is the Northernmost of the two caves SW of the Space Port.


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Toroids are found in a tunnel along the caves coolant river that can only be accessed by sliding.

Cave 12

Cave 12 is the Southernmost of the two caves SW of the Space Port.


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Unlike the other caves, this cave has two spots where Toroids can spawn;
The first spot is a tiny alcove near the coolant at the bottom of the cave, not too far from the caves Southwestern entrance.


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The second spot is down a tunnel hidden on one of the walls below the path leading to the caves Northern entrance.

Cave 13

Cave 13 is SE of the Space Port, on the slope facing the massive collapsed Orokin tower.


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Toroids in this cave are found in a tiny alcove along the caves right wall.

Cave 14

Cave 14 is just East of the Orokin Dig Site, north of the Massive fallen Orokin tower.


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Toroids are found in the submerged underwater cave below the main cave. You will need to activate the pump to drain the coolant from the pond before you can access the lower cave.

Cave 15

Cave 15 is North of the Spaceport and Orokin Dig Site, and SW of the Harindi Crater.


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Toroids in this cave are under a bridge at the bottom of the cave, vertically down from the caves southern entrance, which can be identified by the Jumping Flower visible inside the entrance.

Cave 16

Cave 16 is the NE of Cave 15, West of the Harindi Crater and North of the Orokin Digsite.


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Toroids in this cave are hidden in a tunnel behind an electric wall that you will need to deactivate by standing on a drum connected to a livewire. You will need to be fast in going past where the electric wall is, before the livewire lowers back to the coolant.

Cave 17

Cave 17 is NE of Central Maintenance and South of Reflector Control.


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Toroid here can be found on a small ledge on the far side of the giant coolant stalactite above the pond in this cave.

Conclusion & FAQ's

Feedback is welcome, especially if you have a better way of explaining some of these locations; I have tried to keep it relatively simple, so I hope everything is easy to understand.

If you know of or find any spots I have missed, or even just find a typo, feel free to let me know! :D


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FAQ's (That no one ever asked)

Q: You can't spell Color, or Armor.

A: I'm Australian, so yes I can :P


Q: Why did you use Primes in your 'what to bring' section?

A: Er, yeah, I don't even know. XD

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*The pictures of the Toroids, Equipment and Warframe's Logo used in this guide come from the Warframe Wiki*

*Special Thanks to my Mum for spell checking this for me, and for picking on Warframe's map markers!*

*More Special Thanks to those who have contributed to this guide with new locations, or even just picking up on one of my 5AM errors!*

[zZzDarknezZz™]

Found entirely nothing, the water draining one fully didn't let me pass so that wasn't checkable.

Good for codex, awful for getting ANY pickups to spawn in the 40 minutes spent.

Thank you for posting these anyways.

[CcKass]

thanks for your guide! although i only found toloid in cave 11, but most of the secret cave got some codex to scan so i still thank you for bringing me there

[Dakre]

It looks like there's a spot in the cave directly north of cave 4 and 5, next to the landbridge (east side). I found a set of 3 there, in a spot on the other side of the water (it shows up on the map as a couple dots).

It's a great guide, just looks like they either updated some of the spawn locations, to make it take longer, or there were some missed spots. Hard to say.

[furything]

I shoul add I used your guide originally but had too many dry runs with boosters and have never found anything at cave 17 but all other locations I have had drops.

[furything]

I got 3 extra caves from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buI13utDhRs and your cave 7 has 2 spawn sites which is listed in the video - he also has a map but has missed your double spawn. I am sure there are others as well (still looking)

[Zaikeria]

@furything If you know which caves and locations I am more than happy to update this guide! :D

It wouldn't surprise me if they have added a few more locations since I first wrote this guide (:

[furything]

great guide - shame out of date - I have a list of 20 caves that spawn as well as two of those caves having two spawn sites. Anyone have an advance on 20? I think there are still more as well as double spawn locations

[YukoValis]

ok new day, new try. in a single all cave run I got 1 of them to spawn. Cave 15, which means the previous 14 were utterly demoralizing. Maybe I am just having bad luck

[Zaikeria]

I suspect toroid cave drops got nerfed some point after this guide was posted, as I too noticed that they were spawning less. Guide was written with the idea of helping people learn the spawn locations, so that they could then zoom off on their merry way and find toroids to their hearts content. I'd just draw a line between each cave on the main map if you wanted the simple version, and you know where in each cave they spawn ^^

(the layout of this guide was heavily inspired by the Kuria location guide from years back, thats why its so detailed lol!)

[YukoValis]

Checked all 17.. 30 minutes.. Nothing... sometimes I swear. I need to make a cheaper map for this.