Starfield: Shattered Space – How to unlock and craft Vortex Grenades

Since the launch of the game, grenades and explosives have been a part of Starfield. Once you throw frogs at enemies, you can decimate their lines and bathe them in righteous fire. Starfield: Shattered Space has changed the landscape of grenades with five new grenades that challenge everything you know about typical grenades.

Starfield: Shattered Space Has a special type of grenade called Vortex grenades. These grenades don’t just explode but can trigger a variety of different effects depending on which variant you make. You can only craft Vortex Grenades with materials found in the DLC, but they are well worth it.

How to unlock vortex grenades

The promised, broken

Vortex Grenades will not be available to you as soon as you start Starfield: Shattered Space. Instead, you’ll have to progress a bit through the DLC’s main story before you can craft different vortex grenades. There are two story quests you will have to complete; ‘What Remains’ and ‘The Promised, Broken’. The Vortex Grenades are unlocked after completing ‘The Promised, Broken.’

At the end of the quest, you will be able to talk to Ekris Kaisir. ask him “If you have anything that can help me, I would appreciate it.“ This will unlock the ability to make Vortex Grenades. You can make them in any Industrial Workbench in the game. The nearest workbench can be found among Va’ruun’kai’s vendors at Starfields City of Dazra.

How to make and use vortex grenades

Vortex Grenade Variants

There are five different Vortex Grenades available in Starfield: Shattered Space. Every crafting recipe requires one Vortex Shard. Vortex Shards are randomly dropped by various Vortex enemies, such as Vortex Horrors or Vortex Phantoms. The grenades also ask for at least one type of Vortex cyst: a regular vortex cyst, a dark vortex cyst, or a glowing vortex cyst. These are also random drops.

As typical frag grenades and explosives do the same job, there is not much point in spending rare resources to make this type of vortex grenade. Vortex Grenade – LureMeanwhile, is excellent for causing chaos in a fight and provides the most useful effect of all Vortex Grenades Starfield: Shattered Space.