NieR: Automata - Where To Farm Machine Arms

This guide details how to acquire Machine Arms in NieR: Automata, a rare crafting material useful for weapon and pod upgrades. Early acquisition can significantly boost your character's strength.

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• Farming Machine Arms
• Buying Machine Arms

Obtaining Machine Arms early presents a challenge. While they drop from defeated small machines, the drop rate increases with enemy level, making early acquisition difficult.

Farming Machine Arms

The most efficient early-game farming location is the pit where you first fight Adam (post-Chapter 4). Access this area via the Desert: Housing Complex fast travel point and proceed deeper into the ruins. This pit continuously respawns small machines, offering a consistent, albeit low-yield, source of Machine Arms. This method also provides Titanium Alloy. While a Drop Rate Plug-In Chip can slightly improve your chances, the sheer volume of respawning enemies makes this the optimal early-game strategy.

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

Buying Machine Arms

During the final playthrough, after eliminating the robots from Pascal's village and choosing to erase his memories, Pascal becomes a merchant. He offers Machine Arms for purchase, along with other valuable 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 (Note: Duplicate entry)
• Children's Cores - 30,000 G

This provides a reliable, albeit late-game, method for acquiring Machine Arms.