Marathon Materials For Sale

You have to meet the following requirements to buy Marathon Materials Boost:

• Active Marathon account (PC, PS5, or Xbox Series X|S)
• Faction unlocked via Liaison Contract for materials tied to specific faction
• Some materials spawn in Outpost (unlocks at Season Level 12) and Cryo Archive – higher Account Level or progression may be required to access these zones

Not sure which materials you need for your build? Contact support before ordering and we'll match salvage to your faction goals.

• Priority: Moves your Marathon Materials Boost to the front of our order queue. Your boost starts faster than standard scheduling, beginning as soon as a booster becomes available.
• Stream: We provide a link to a private stream so you can watch your Marathon Materials Boost progress live. See the gameplay in real-time without screen sharing or installing anything.
• Select Rarity Tier: Choose from Standard, Enhanced, Deluxe, Superior, or Prestige. Each tier contains different salvage items used for progressively higher faction upgrade nodes.
• Choose Specific Materials: Pick individual items within your selected rarity. Order only what your next upgrade actually costs instead of paying for salvage you don't need.
• Quantity (Sets): Slider from small batches to bulk orders. Grab a handful for one upgrade node or stock hundreds for pushing an entire faction tree in one go.

Marathon's material system – officially called Salvage – drives all seasonal progression. Every faction upgrade node costs credits plus specific salvage items, and those items only drop from particular zones, containers, and events across Tau Ceti IV.

You have to extract alive to keep anything. Die before exfil and your entire backpack is gone – every piece of salvage from that run, wiped. Marathon Materials Boost skips that loop. Pick your salvage, set a quantity, and receive everything in your vault without running a single extraction.

Salvage Rarities and Where They Drop

Five rarity tiers exist, each gating different levels of faction progression:

1. Standard materials – Unstable Biomass, Unstable Gunmetal, Unstable Diode, Unstable Gel, Unstable Lead – drop freely across Perimeter and Dire Marsh from open-world spawns. These feed early faction nodes and CyberAcme's base upgrades. Easy to find individually, but upgrade trees eat them in bulk. You'll burn through dozens before touching Rank 2.
2. Enhanced salvage like Fractal Circuits, Drone Resin, Surveillance Lens, and Deimosite Rods comes from specific POIs and Standard-tier containers (Arms Lockers, Tool Carts, Bioprinters, Core Storage, Medical Cabinets, Munitions Crates). These materials start the mid-tier grind – most faction upgrades from Rank 2 onward require multiple Enhanced items per node.
3. Deluxe materials – Paradox Circuits, Biomata Resin, Volatile Compounds, Chitin Sample, UESC Obedience Matrix, and others – also drop from Deluxe Locked Rooms on top of regular container sources. Locked Rooms cost resources to open and tend to attract other Runners going after the same loot.
4. Superior salvage is where farming gets rough. Items like Predictive Framework, Biolens Seed, Ballistic Turbine, Neural Insulation, Enzyme Replicator, and Reflex Coil drop from UESC Incursion events, Lockdown Zones, and Superior Locked Rooms that need keys or codes to access. These events draw other Runners and heavy UESC security, making extraction significantly harder.
5. Prestige is the endgame ceiling. Alien Alloy, Synapse Cube, Hazard Capsule, and Biogenic Alloy are the rarest salvage in Marathon. These likely spawn in Cryo Archive and behind Prestige Locked Rooms that require keys or access codes to open. Availability is extremely limited, competition for them is intense, and solo farming at this tier is brutal without endgame gear.

Full list of available Marathon salvage materials by rarity:

Standard

• Unstable Biomass
• Unstable Gunmetal
• Unstable Diode
• Unstable Gel
• Unstable Lead

Enhanced

• Reclaimed Biostripping
• Deimosite Rods
• Storage Drive
• Surveillance Lens
• Plasma Filament
• Drone Resin
• Altered Wire
• Fractal Circuit
• Dermachem Pack
• Dynamic Compounds
• Drone Node
• Sparkleaf

Deluxe

• Sterilized Biostripping
• Cetinite Rods
• Amygdala Drive
• Thoughtwave Lens
• Chitin Sample
• Conductive Filament
• Tachyon Filament
• Tarax Seed
• Fungal Growth
• Anomalous Wire
• Polymer Wire
• Paradox Circuit
• Neurochem Pack
• Volatile Compounds
• Biomata Resin
• Biomata Node
• UESC Obedience Matrix

Superior

• Shell ID
• Coherence Drive
• Biofilament
• Liquid Explosive
• Papaver Bloom
• Molecular Wire
• Synchronizer
• Predictive Framework
• Biolens Seed
• Reflex Coil
• Neural Insulation
• Ballistic Turbine
• Enzyme Replicator
• Nanotruss
• Smart Lens

Prestige

• Biogenic Alloy
• Alien Alloy
• Synapse Cube
• Hazard Capsule

Time Problem With Material Farming

Each faction uses a different set of salvage. CyberAcme pulls from Unstable materials and rubber compounds. Traxus wants rods, wires, explosives, and alloys. NuCaloric demands biostrippings, seeds, chemical packs. Sekiguchi needs circuits, drives, and insulation. Arachne feeds on resins, nodes, and gel. MIDA runs through compounds, lenses, and turbines.

Pushing even one faction from Rank 1 to max means dozens of extractions targeting specific POIs across multiple maps. Two or three factions? Hundreds of runs, and every death resets your backpack to zero.

None of it carries over between seasons either. Season resets wipe all faction upgrades, purchased nodes, and materials. Next season, same grind from scratch. Marathon Materials Boost compresses what takes weeks of farming into inventory you can spend immediately on faction tree upgrades.

Faction-Specific Material Demand

Every faction tree has its own salvage appetite. Knowing which materials your build needs before ordering saves time and credits:

• CyberAcme (vault expansion, credit wallet, loot speed) uses Standard Unstable items at lower ranks, then pulls Enhanced and Deluxe rubbers, xerogels, and processors for mid-tier nodes. Shell IDs from High-Value Targets and Supply Drops fuel upper upgrades.
• Traxus (weapon mods, armory access, ping duration) is the most material-hungry faction. Rods, wires, explosives, and filaments from Dire Marsh and Perimeter at lower tiers. Predictive Frameworks, Ballistic Turbines, and Alien Alloy at the top. If you want full Traxus mod access, expect the longest material list of any faction.
• NuCaloric (consumables, backpacks, shield charges, resistances) eats Biostrippings, Dermachem and Neurochem Packs, Tarax Seeds, and Biolens Seeds. Mid-tier nodes need Conductive Filaments and Encrypted Drives. Endgame unlocks demand Hazard Capsules at Prestige tier.
• Sekiguchi (cores, implants, energy amps, DBNO time) runs through Fractal and Paradox Circuits, Storage and Amygdala Drives, Neural Insulation, and Synapse Cubes at Prestige tier.
• Arachne (PvP weapons, melee damage, revive speed) needs Drone and Biomata Resins, Nodes, Enzyme Replicators, and Reflex Coils. Synapse Cubes gate the final capstone nodes.
• MIDA (grenades, explosives, equipment, anti-virus protection) consumes Dynamic and Volatile Compounds, Surveillance and Thoughtwave Lenses, and Alien Alloy for endgame.

Not sure what your next upgrade costs? Open your Factions tab, highlight the node you want, and hit Track – the game marks required salvage on your map.

Or tell our support team which factions and ranks you're targeting, and we'll put together the exact material list.