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Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition

How to get Red Frontiers

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This is a guide to obtaining Red Frontiers, a collectible in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (XC1). Read on to know how to get Red Frontiers and their use.

How to Get Red Frontiers

Collect in Sword Valley

Red Frontier is a common collectible in Sword Valley. But the area becomes inaccessible so make sure to get some Red Frontiers in Sword Valley when it becomes available before moving on with the story.

Trade for Nopon Stones

Red Frontiers can be obtained from the Nopon Archsage by trading him Nopon Stones.

Trade With Rizaka in Hidden Village

A Red Frontier can be obtained by trading with Rizaka in Frontier Village. The item will only appear if you have a 5 star affinity with the village.

How to Use Red Frontiers

For Colony 6 Reconstruction Guide

Two are needed to advance Colony 6's Housing to level 5. For more info about Colony 6 Reconstruction, see our guide below.
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4 Anonymous Anonymous almost 2 years

I just recently spent a long time collecting orbs for this on sword valley. out of 450 item orbs collected,9 were red frontiers. so about 2%. monado wound, radio tower, and the roof of enalda control base have good drops, but they were found randomly with the most being found in monado wound.

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