Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant: Drop Rates and Weekly Loot

Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant are unusually transparent because Nexon published the mission-completion chances for most of the headline drops. The dungeon can award Ultimate Hailey’s pattern, both of her exclusive Transcendent Modules, Transcendent Weapon Loot and several new progression materials in the same farming route.

The important thing about Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant is separating the guaranteed quantities from the percentage drops and monster loot. Mission completion has its own table, Commanders have additional chances, and Cradle also contributes to a shared weekly reward system with Karel’s Mothership.

Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant: mission completion drop table

Reward	Published result
Transcendent Weapon Loot	4.36%, Quality 271 to 400
Amorphous Material Pattern: Ultimate Hailey	25.7%
Dangerous Distance or Extreme Strike module	17.1% each
Collectible Coin	39
Ancestors Module Loot	8.6%
Superconductive Cooling Unit	9
Rare Alignment Device	8.6%
Trigger Module Loot L	8.6%
Archive Shard	26

Those are the core mission-completion Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant. Trigger Module Loot L can contain one of three Trigger Modules, including the new Freezing Breakthrough module added in Update 1.4.3.

Monster and Commander drops inside Cradle

The mission-end chest is not the whole story for Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant. Common and Elite enemies have a very small chance to drop Transcendent Weapon Loot, and Nexon says those drops can reach Quality 400. Commanders can also drop Transcendent Weapon Loot from Quality 271 to 400.

Commander loot can additionally include Trigger Module Selection Boxes, Ancestors Module Loot, 40 to 60 Superconductive Cooling Units, Dimensional Stabilization Keys, Archive Shards and Phase-Tuned Crystals. Some of those ranges have a smaller chance to jump to much larger quantities.

Ultimate Hailey farming is built into the reward pool

For players chasing the new Descendant, Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant put the entire launch loop in one place. Amorphous Material Pattern: Ultimate Hailey is 25.7%, while Dangerous Distance and Extreme Strike are each listed at 17.1% on mission completion.

That means a run that misses the pattern can still produce one of the build-defining modules or useful materials. It is a much more efficient farm than treating Ultimate Hailey, her modules and the new dungeon as separate grinds.

Weekly Cradle rewards

Cradle also joins the weekly content system. One Cradle clear earns one weekly reward acquisition, and the basic reward is 100 Merit Tokens and 50,000 Kuiper Shards. Those weekly Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant are shared with Karel’s Mothership under a combined cap of five reward acquisitions.

Karel’s Mothership Hard counts as three reward acquisitions at once, while Cradle and Mothership Normal count as one. Watch the remaining weekly count so a run does not push you beyond the cap with no reward granted.

What is worth targeting first

The highest-value Cradle of Evolution Rewards in The First Descendant depend on your goal. Ultimate Hailey players should focus on the 25.7% pattern and 17.1% module drops. Weapon-focused players have multiple chances at Transcendent Weapon Loot, while progression players can build Archive Shards, cooling units and weekly Merit Tokens at the same time.

Because the dungeon also has random starting routes, farming efficiency improves more from learning the mechanics than from trying to force one fixed path every run.

For current first-party information, use the official The First Descendant website and Nexon’s Update 1.4.3 patch notes.