Kavats are a wonderful and beloved companion to your warframe! There are several head and tail types to choose, along with fur colors (all of which can be brought from the market, though have a rarity present when naturally occurring) along with energy colours!
This guide will give you full details on how to obtain a Kavat, how to breed them, what types you can obtain and how to identify head/tail types, energy colors and fur colors! There is also a handy price guide at the end.
Kavat DNA -How and Where to find it!
In order to make a Kavat you first need to get a ‘Kavat Incubator Upgrade Segment’ for your Incubator. You can buy it for 175 platinum in the market or if you are in a Clan you can research it in the Dojo and buy it in the ‘Tenno Lab’. (you must be mastery rank 5)
The blueprint also drops from Hyekka masters.
Once you have the upgrade you then need a set of 10 DNA Codes. You can buy Codes in the Warframe Market for 5 platinum each (so 50 platinum total) or you can obtain them from scanning wild Kavats, which can only be found in the Orokin Derelict. There is a 25% chance you will get a DNA Code every time you scan a Kavat.
Tips and Tricks to get Codes faster:
Bring any Frame that can slow or make the Wild Kavats go to sleep to make them easier to scan (Equinox or Ivara for example, or limbos time stop)
Use the Ballistica Prime to kill the kavat, the ghosts that appear can then be scanned for more DNA! This must be done with a fully charged shot.
Be sure to get the upgrades for your Scanners (at Cephalon Simaris) - especially the upgrade that gives you a chance for a double scan and the one that makes scanning faster - the Wild Kavats can move pretty fast.
Play the missions solo, or go in a group with the goal of Scanning Kavats - randoms on public will kill them before you can Scan them. -The more in a group the more kavats will spawn.
Personally, I find Captures and Exterminates the fastest way to find Kavats, there are generally 4-8 Kavats in each mission if going solo.
If you already have a Smeeta Kavat, you can sometimes get double DNA from its ‘Charm’ (see Types section for more info) but you need to make sure your Kavat isn’t going to kill the Wild Kavats before you can Scan it.
Don't bring a Companion or Sentinel with a Weapon if you think it is able to ‘one shot’ or quickly kill things.
For a far more detailed guide on how to farm codes please read KaliVasquez’s guide here;
Once you have your 10 DNA Codes you need a 'Power Core' in order to get one you can either buy one for 35 platinum in the market or buy a reusable Blueprint for 50,000 credits. Building a Power Core takes 8 hours (unless you rush it which costs 10p)
Incubation takes two days, (unless you have the upgrade which makes it 24 hours) your kitten will then be ready to be named. Once named your Kavat will be able to roam around your ship and may be kept as a kitten forever if you desire, however it can't go on Missions and you can't take Imprints until it is grown up. To Mature a Kavat you simply click 'Mature (Kavat’s Name)' at the Incubator. Adult Kavats also roam around the ship but you can only have one Kavat or Kubrow out at a time.
I highly recommend getting the upgrade segment from a dojo for your incubator. This not only makes incubation take a day (instead of two) but it makes Stasis recovery instant, free, and reduces DNA stabilizers cost less. Like the kavat upgrade, you need to be mastery 5 in order to use it.
With or without the upgrade kavat and kubrows now no longer die if they get low on health, they will automatically go into stasis, so if you're away for a week or two you won't need to worry about your companion dying.
If you click 'Random Incubation' it is just that -you will get a completely random Kavat! That means its breed type (eg Smeeta or Adraza) will be random, what colours, head and tail you will get will be completely down to RNG.
If you click 'Begin Combined Incubation' you will need two imprints of any Kavat you wish, you can either pick two from the same kavat or two different ones to try and combine things like colours or get a more desirable head and tail combination etc.
Genetic Code Templates --Imprints:
You can take imprints from an adult Kavat, this makes a 'copy' of that Kavat, retaining the colours, pattern, head and tail type on the print. Gender is not carried on the imprints and is random every time you breed.
As stated before you can use these prints to breed a new Kavat. In order to take a print, you must build a template, which is done by a reusable blueprint found in the market. (or brought for 15p a print) Once the template is built you can then take a print from any active adult Kavat you have. You can only take two prints from one Kavat.
Caring for your Kavat!
Kavats like Kubrows lose 5% of their 'genetic stability' a day aka health -only 2.5% if you have the incubator upgrade. if a companion hits -100% health it used to die, now however it will just go into stasis regardless if you have an upgrade or not.
In order to keep it healthy, you need to give it DNA stabilizers, these can be brought at 6 to a pack for 75,000 credits (or 5,000 if you have the upgrade). one 'dose' restores 10% of its health.(20% with the upgrade)
kavats start with 100% loyalty and unlike kubrows do not loose any if they die in battle.
If a Kavat is in stasis it will not lose health.
Types of Kavats!
There was currently only two types of Kavat, Smeeta and Adraza, both have different abilities.
Smeeta - “This sly feline is playful yet devious.” -Smeeta has two main abilities:
charm -Smeeta Kavat bestows its owner with good fortune during the course of a mission. ( charm can do a few things -give you double resources of anything you pick up whilst its active, buff shields and more)
Mischief -Allows Smeeta Kavat to become invisible while a decoy kavat draws fire by running toward the enemy.
Adraza - “Piercing eyes reflect deadly instincts.” -Adraza has two main abilities:
Cat’s eye -Adarza Kavat grants increased the critical chance to all nearby Tenno for a short duration.
Reflect -Adarza Kavat will occasionally reflect and amplify damage back to an enemy.
Smeeta is great for farming kuva and other resources, as there's a chance for its charm to give you double resources for a duration.
Adraza is good for eildon hunting and general high-end missions where you need lots of crits!
Heads and Tails! Identifying them!
There is currently four head types and five tail types available! No head or tail is rarer than any other so every type has an equal chance of occurring when randomly breeding.
Although there is no rarity some head types and tail types are more popular than others. Below is an example of each head and tail type. I have arranged them in order of general popularity (or rather what I have found after breeding and selling over 300+ Kavats)
There are no official names for each head and tail type however I have labelled them under the most commonly used names for each type.
HEADS!
Tuffed Ears: (A head with long ears and tuffs of fur on the top of them)
Balled Ears: (A head with long ears but with ball like tips on the top)
Fennec Fox: (A head with short wide ears)
Persian: (A squashed, squat head with floppy ears and tuffs of fur on each sides of the face)
TAILS!
Peacock Tail: (A tail with a peacock-like appearance, with the ‘eyes’ glowing with the Kavat’s energy colour)
Leaf Tail: (Along leaf-shaped tail, which doesn’t use the Kavat’s energy colour)
Guppy Tail (Also known as Betta Tail -A long fish-like tail, with spots that glow with the Kavat’s energy colour)
Arrow Tail: (Also known as Dread tail -A tail with five arrow-shaped spikes, the tips glow with the Kavat’s energy colour)
Mermaid Tail: (Also known as a Fan Tail -A short wide tail which glows with the Kavat’s energy colour on the bottom)
Colours!
Every colour that can be bred on a Kavat, can be brought from the warframe market! However, each colour has a different percentage chance of occurring when being randomly bred.
Here is a chart with the colours and their rarity percentages:
For most people colour rarity doesn’t matter, but for serious collectors and breeders, it can be more important!
Kavats have four colour slots, which can be identified by looking at the following picture. -There is currently only one type of pattern that can be produced via breeding. (Hythinth pattern)
100% solid natural coloured Kavat (so all four colour slots are the same colour) are the rarest and most desired of kavats, the rarer the colour, the harder it is to successfully make a solid colour, and generally the higher the value of the solid colour as a result.
You can buy all the colours you can breed on the market, so solid kavats, are less important for some people, however, many breeders find it a rewarding challenge! And it's great if you like to collect very rare things!
You can colour your Kavat any way you wish, including using market colours for kubrows, (though this won't be carried onto prints, only its natural colours will be) There are also several different patterns and skins you can buy on the market to decorate your Kavat with!
Patterns and Armour
Spoiler
Patterns that can be brought in the market:
Krest fur pattern
Nesyr fur pattern
Hyekka skin
Patterns only available during christmas:
Argyl pattern
Solstice pattern
Patten only available from Baro Ki'Teer
Nexus pattern
Skin only available in cetus
Moonless pattern
You can also decorate your kavat with various armours, below is the obtainable ones from the market.
Kasha armour
Kuva Armor
Myrdin Armour
Saraba Armour
Umbra Amour
Wysar Armour
Amphix Armour
Sirocco Armour
From BBaro Ki'Teer only:
Ki’teer Amour
Wysar -day of the dead edition (available at halloween only)
Eye and Energy colours!
Energy colour is the only thing you can not change on your Kavat. No energy colour is rare but some tend to be more popular than others.
Below is an example of each energy colour available. Sometimes the colours on the Kavat can affect what the colour looks like, if you want to be sure, set the Kavat’s fur colour to all white or black for the best results.
Alternatively, if you have the 'ki'teer sekhara' emblem or the 'Sevati Sekhara' emblem, attaching them to your Kavat means they will use the energy colour of your Kavat making it easy to see what energy colour they have. (You attach them under 'Appearance' and 'Regalia' section)
You could also take it into a mission a equip a mod like 'scene danger' on your Kavat, which will cause enemies to glow with your Kavats energy colour.
Another popular way to identify Energy colours is to buy the moonless skin from Cetus and set all the fur colours to black, the spots on the kavats back will glow with the energy colour.
There are 14 energy colours in total, some of which are quite close to each other and so rather tricky to Identify.
Selling Imprints! What Are they Worth?!
Things to remember before buying or selling:
ALL COLOURS can be found and brought on the marketplace, so only triple (three fur slots with the same colour) or solid kavats (all four slots with the same colour) have any extra value colour-wise.
The HEADS and TAILS all have an equal chance of being produced. Same goes for energy colours.
Smeeta and Adaraza have an equal chance of occurring.
Gender is the only thing that isn’t carried over in prints but there are no visual differences between male and female Kavats.
Hyacinth Pattern is the only naturally occurring pattern.
Here is a handy chart to help you price your kavat, be aware that Smeeta kavats are more popular than Adarza, and thus sell better and are on the higher end of the price chart, whilst Adarzas are at the lower end.
Want to talk/ learn more about kavats and kubows? Please join us on discord! Large, active friendly breeders server!
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Kavats 101 - A Full Breeding Guide! 2019 version!
Kavats are a wonderful and beloved companion to your warframe! There are several head and tail types to choose, along with fur colors (all of which can be brought from the market, though have a rarity present when naturally occurring) along with energy colours!
This guide will give you full details on how to obtain a Kavat, how to breed them, what types you can obtain and how to identify head/tail types, energy colors and fur colors! There is also a handy price guide at the end.
Kavat DNA -How and Where to find it!
In order to make a Kavat you first need to get a ‘Kavat Incubator Upgrade Segment’ for your Incubator. You can buy it for 175 platinum in the market or if you are in a Clan you can research it in the Dojo and buy it in the ‘Tenno Lab’. (you must be mastery rank 5)
The blueprint also drops from Hyekka masters.
Once you have the upgrade you then need a set of 10 DNA Codes. You can buy Codes in the Warframe Market for 5 platinum each (so 50 platinum total) or you can obtain them from scanning wild Kavats, which can only be found in the Orokin Derelict. There is a 25% chance you will get a DNA Code every time you scan a Kavat.
Tips and Tricks to get Codes faster:
Bring any Frame that can slow or make the Wild Kavats go to sleep to make them easier to scan (Equinox or Ivara for example, or limbos time stop)
Use the Ballistica Prime to kill the kavat, the ghosts that appear can then be scanned for more DNA! This must be done with a fully charged shot.
Be sure to get the upgrades for your Scanners (at Cephalon Simaris) - especially the upgrade that gives you a chance for a double scan and the one that makes scanning faster - the Wild Kavats can move pretty fast.
Play the missions solo, or go in a group with the goal of Scanning Kavats - randoms on public will kill them before you can Scan them. -The more in a group the more kavats will spawn.
Personally, I find Captures and Exterminates the fastest way to find Kavats, there are generally 4-8 Kavats in each mission if going solo.
If you already have a Smeeta Kavat, you can sometimes get double DNA from its ‘Charm’ (see Types section for more info) but you need to make sure your Kavat isn’t going to kill the Wild Kavats before you can Scan it.
Don't bring a Companion or Sentinel with a Weapon if you think it is able to ‘one shot’ or quickly kill things.
For a far more detailed guide on how to farm codes please read KaliVasquez’s guide here;
https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1118103-an-in-depth-guide-to-kavat-genetic-code-farming/
Incubating your kavat!
Once you have your 10 DNA Codes you need a 'Power Core' in order to get one you can either buy one for 35 platinum in the market or buy a reusable Blueprint for 50,000 credits. Building a Power Core takes 8 hours (unless you rush it which costs 10p)
Incubation takes two days, (unless you have the upgrade which makes it 24 hours) your kitten will then be ready to be named. Once named your Kavat will be able to roam around your ship and may be kept as a kitten forever if you desire, however it can't go on Missions and you can't take Imprints until it is grown up. To Mature a Kavat you simply click 'Mature (Kavat’s Name)' at the Incubator. Adult Kavats also roam around the ship but you can only have one Kavat or Kubrow out at a time.
I highly recommend getting the upgrade segment from a dojo for your incubator. This not only makes incubation take a day (instead of two) but it makes Stasis recovery instant, free, and reduces DNA stabilizers cost less. Like the kavat upgrade, you need to be mastery 5 in order to use it.
With or without the upgrade kavat and kubrows now no longer die if they get low on health, they will automatically go into stasis, so if you're away for a week or two you won't need to worry about your companion dying.
If you click 'Random Incubation' it is just that -you will get a completely random Kavat! That means its breed type (eg Smeeta or Adraza) will be random, what colours, head and tail you will get will be completely down to RNG.
If you click 'Begin Combined Incubation' you will need two imprints of any Kavat you wish, you can either pick two from the same kavat or two different ones to try and combine things like colours or get a more desirable head and tail combination etc.
Genetic Code Templates --Imprints:
You can take imprints from an adult Kavat, this makes a 'copy' of that Kavat, retaining the colours, pattern, head and tail type on the print. Gender is not carried on the imprints and is random every time you breed.
As stated before you can use these prints to breed a new Kavat. In order to take a print, you must build a template, which is done by a reusable blueprint found in the market. (or brought for 15p a print) Once the template is built you can then take a print from any active adult Kavat you have. You can only take two prints from one Kavat.
Caring for your Kavat!
Kavats like Kubrows lose 5% of their 'genetic stability' a day aka health -only 2.5% if you have the incubator upgrade. if a companion hits -100% health it used to die, now however it will just go into stasis regardless if you have an upgrade or not.
In order to keep it healthy, you need to give it DNA stabilizers, these can be brought at 6 to a pack for 75,000 credits (or 5,000 if you have the upgrade). one 'dose' restores 10% of its health.(20% with the upgrade)
kavats start with 100% loyalty and unlike kubrows do not loose any if they die in battle.
If a Kavat is in stasis it will not lose health.
Types of Kavats!
There was currently only two types of Kavat, Smeeta and Adraza, both have different abilities.
Smeeta - “This sly feline is playful yet devious.” -Smeeta has two main abilities:
charm -Smeeta Kavat bestows its owner with good fortune during the course of a mission. ( charm can do a few things -give you double resources of anything you pick up whilst its active, buff shields and more)
Mischief -Allows Smeeta Kavat to become invisible while a decoy kavat draws fire by running toward the enemy.
Adraza - “Piercing eyes reflect deadly instincts.” -Adraza has two main abilities:
Cat’s eye -Adarza Kavat grants increased the critical chance to all nearby Tenno for a short duration.
Reflect -Adarza Kavat will occasionally reflect and amplify damage back to an enemy.
Smeeta is great for farming kuva and other resources, as there's a chance for its charm to give you double resources for a duration.
Adraza is good for eildon hunting and general high-end missions where you need lots of crits!
Heads and Tails! Identifying them!
There is currently four head types and five tail types available! No head or tail is rarer than any other so every type has an equal chance of occurring when randomly breeding.
Although there is no rarity some head types and tail types are more popular than others. Below is an example of each head and tail type. I have arranged them in order of general popularity (or rather what I have found after breeding and selling over 300+ Kavats)
There are no official names for each head and tail type however I have labelled them under the most commonly used names for each type.
HEADS!
Tuffed Ears: (A head with long ears and tuffs of fur on the top of them)
Balled Ears: (A head with long ears but with ball like tips on the top)
Fennec Fox: (A head with short wide ears)
Persian: (A squashed, squat head with floppy ears and tuffs of fur on each sides of the face)
TAILS!
Peacock Tail: (A tail with a peacock-like appearance, with the ‘eyes’ glowing with the Kavat’s energy colour)
Leaf Tail: (Along leaf-shaped tail, which doesn’t use the Kavat’s energy colour)
Guppy Tail (Also known as Betta Tail -A long fish-like tail, with spots that glow with the Kavat’s energy colour)
Arrow Tail: (Also known as Dread tail -A tail with five arrow-shaped spikes, the tips glow with the Kavat’s energy colour)
Mermaid Tail: (Also known as a Fan Tail -A short wide tail which glows with the Kavat’s energy colour on the bottom)
Colours!
Every colour that can be bred on a Kavat, can be brought from the warframe market! However, each colour has a different percentage chance of occurring when being randomly bred.
Here is a chart with the colours and their rarity percentages:
For most people colour rarity doesn’t matter, but for serious collectors and breeders, it can be more important!
Kavats have four colour slots, which can be identified by looking at the following picture. -There is currently only one type of pattern that can be produced via breeding. (Hythinth pattern)
100% solid natural coloured Kavat (so all four colour slots are the same colour) are the rarest and most desired of kavats, the rarer the colour, the harder it is to successfully make a solid colour, and generally the higher the value of the solid colour as a result.
You can buy all the colours you can breed on the market, so solid kavats, are less important for some people, however, many breeders find it a rewarding challenge! And it's great if you like to collect very rare things!
You can colour your Kavat any way you wish, including using market colours for kubrows, (though this won't be carried onto prints, only its natural colours will be) There are also several different patterns and skins you can buy on the market to decorate your Kavat with!
Patterns and Armour
Patterns that can be brought in the market:
Krest fur pattern
Nesyr fur pattern
Hyekka skin
Patterns only available during christmas:
Argyl pattern
Solstice pattern
Patten only available from Baro Ki'Teer
Nexus pattern
Skin only available in cetus
Moonless pattern
You can also decorate your kavat with various armours, below is the obtainable ones from the market.
Kasha armour
Kuva Armor
Myrdin Armour
Saraba Armour
Umbra Amour
Wysar Armour
Amphix Armour
Sirocco Armour
From B Baro Ki'Teer only:
Ki’teer Amour
Wysar -day of the dead edition (available at halloween only)
Eye and Energy colours!
Energy colour is the only thing you can not change on your Kavat. No energy colour is rare but some tend to be more popular than others.
Below is an example of each energy colour available. Sometimes the colours on the Kavat can affect what the colour looks like, if you want to be sure, set the Kavat’s fur colour to all white or black for the best results.
Alternatively, if you have the 'ki'teer sekhara' emblem or the 'Sevati Sekhara' emblem, attaching them to your Kavat means they will use the energy colour of your Kavat making it easy to see what energy colour they have. (You attach them under 'Appearance' and 'Regalia' section)
You could also take it into a mission a equip a mod like 'scene danger' on your Kavat, which will cause enemies to glow with your Kavats energy colour.
Another popular way to identify Energy colours is to buy the moonless skin from Cetus and set all the fur colours to black, the spots on the kavats back will glow with the energy colour.
There are 14 energy colours in total, some of which are quite close to each other and so rather tricky to Identify.
Selling Imprints! What Are they Worth?!
Things to remember before buying or selling:
ALL COLOURS can be found and brought on the marketplace, so only triple (three fur slots with the same colour) or solid kavats (all four slots with the same colour) have any extra value colour-wise.
The HEADS and TAILS all have an equal chance of being produced. Same goes for energy colours.
Smeeta and Adaraza have an equal chance of occurring.
Gender is the only thing that isn’t carried over in prints but there are no visual differences between male and female Kavats.
Hyacinth Pattern is the only naturally occurring pattern.
Here is a handy chart to help you price your kavat, be aware that Smeeta kavats are more popular than Adarza, and thus sell better and are on the higher end of the price chart, whilst Adarzas are at the lower end.
Want to talk/ learn more about kavats and kubows? Please join us on discord! Large, active friendly breeders server!
https://discord.gg/w8uH4mF
Alternatively we have a facebook group for kavats:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1042633549149290/
Also our Kubrow fb page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/321512584651651/
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