Efficiently Acquiring Machine Arms in NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata presents players with a substantial crafting system, requiring various materials to upgrade weapons and pods. While many materials become readily available later, acquiring them early can significantly boost your character's strength. Machine Arms are a particularly rare crafting component. This guide details effective strategies for obtaining them.
Farming Machine Arms: Early Game Strategy
Machine Arms have a chance of dropping from defeated small machines. The drop rate increases with enemy level, making them scarce early on. To maximize your chances early in the game, focus on quickly eliminating numerous machines.
After completing Chapter 4, you'll encounter Adam. The arena where this fight takes place continuously respawns enemies, including many small machines. Access this area via the Desert: Housing Complex fast travel point and proceed deeper into the ruins.
While the machines here aren't high-level, resulting in a low Machine Arm drop rate, the rapid respawn makes it the most efficient early-game farming location. This method is also beneficial for acquiring Titanium Alloy. Using a Drop Rate Plug-In Chip can slightly improve your yield.
The following section contains minor spoilers for the final playthrough of the game
Acquiring Machine Arms: Late Game Strategy
During the final playthrough, while playing as A2, you'll have the opportunity to erase Pascal's memories after the village robots are destroyed. This action transforms Pascal into a merchant, accessible until the game's conclusion. He sells Machine Arms, along with other components:
- Machine Heads - 15,000 G
- Machine Arm - 1,125 G
- Machine Leg - 1,125 G
- Machine Torso - 1,125 G
- Machine Head - 1,125 G
- Children's Cores - 30,000 G
