How to get Murky Energy Residue in The First Descendant

Murky Energy Residue is an essential resource in crafting characters and catalysts in The First Descendant. You don’t get it by research but needs to be farmed and here’s how you can do that easily.

You can use the Murky Energy Residue reagent to craft a Stabilizer for Valby as well as the Crystallization Catalyst. The best part about getting this resource is that you don’t need to play the game in Hard mode and the farming process is quite simple too.

Best way to farm Murky Energy Residue in The First Descendant

Murky Energy Residue is mostly found in Sterile Land at:

• The Forgottense in the Restricted Zone (Southeast corner of Sterile Land)
• Unknown Laboratory in the Classified Area (Northwest corner of Sterile Land)

These two POIs are Calling of the Descendant missions where you have to defeat monsters to get these reagent drops. You can fast travel between these points by using either of the temporary or permanent Outposts.

The monsters drop approximately 10x Murky Energy Residues per run, sometimes more, so you’ll need to defeat them quite a few times if you want to craft Valby. That’s because Valby Stabilizer consumes 40 such reagents during its research process. This means you’ll need to defeat this monster at least four times to get enough materials.

Best Descendant to farm Murky Energy Residue

Bunny is the best Descendant to farm Murky Energy Residue. After several trial runs using different Descendants, we found Bunny to be the most suitable candidate as she is fast and can deal splash damage to many enemies at once.

Bunny is also one of the best and least expensive Descendants you can unlock early in the game, so not choosing this character for these runs would be a no-brainer.