NieR: Automata - Where To Farm Machine Arms

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 Strategies

Machine Arms have a chance to drop from defeated small machines, regardless of type. However, the drop rate increases with enemy level, making them scarce early on. To improve your chances, focus on quickly eliminating numerous machines.

Post-Chapter 4, a highly effective farming location unlocks. After your first encounter with Adam, the arena where the battle took place becomes a continuous respawn point for small machines. Access this area via the Desert: Housing Complex fast travel point and proceed into the ruins.

While the machines here aren't high-level, resulting in a low Machine Arm drop rate, the constant respawn makes it the most efficient early-game farming method. This location is also beneficial for farming Titanium Alloy. Using a Drop Rate Plug-In Chip can slightly increase your yield.

Acquiring Machine Arms: Late Game Strategies (Spoilers)

Note: The following section contains spoilers for the final playthrough of NieR: Automata.

During the final playthrough, while playing as A2, you have the option to erase Pascal's memories after the village robots are eliminated. This action causes Pascal to return to the village as a merchant, accessible until the game's end. He sells Machine Arms, along with other valuable crafting materials. Pascal's inventory includes:

• 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