Updated: Dec 13, 2024

Borderlands 3Yellowcake

I'm really more of a pie person.

Content
Revenge of the Cartels
Weapon Type
Launcher
Rarity
Legendary
Manufacturer
COV
Elements

YellowcakeAll Details

Max DPS

Copy Yellowcake Code

Yellowcake - About

The Legendary Launcher Yellowcake is manufactured by COV and comes from the Borderlands 3 Revenge of the Cartels Event.

Yellowcake - Unique Ability

‍The Yellowcake launches an arcing orb that explodes on impact, dealing 200% Radiation Splash Damage. The Yellowcake's orb follow this sequence:

Initial duplication: At a certain distance, the primary orb duplicates and explodes, dealing 100% Radiation Splash Damage.
Child orb explosion: Each new child orb explodes on impact, dealing 135% Radiation Splash Damage.
Second duplication: After traveling further, all child orbs duplicate again and explode, dealing 135% Radiation Splash Damage.
Final explosion: The final set of child orbs explodes on impact, dealing 200% Radiation Splash Damage.

The Yellowcake can create up to 4 orbs (8 with Moar Prefix) and all orbs pierce enemies.

Yellowcake - Variants

Elements
Listed Projectiles
1 | 2
Shot Cost
1 | 2
Weapon Parts
variants
fixed parts
Anointment
possible
none
Splash Anoints
possible
none

Yellowcake - Launcher Parts

Weapons usually get one part per group, but sometimes multiple or none. Numbers in the top-right indicate the range of parts a group can have.
Parts usually have equal drop chances, or it's indicated nearby.

Grip

Grip_1+10% Accuracy
+5% Fire Rate
Grip_2+20% Splash Radius
-15% Heat per Shot
Grip_3+5% Damage

Starter

Starter_1+10% Fire Rate
Starter_2-25% Heat per Shot
Starter_3+10% Damage

Stock

Tail_1+20% Accuracy
Tail_2-15% Vertical Recoil
+5% Damage
Tail_32× Projectiles
+1 Shot Cost
+75% Heat per Shot
Tail_4+5% Fire Rate
Tail_5+20% Splash Radius
-15% Heat per Shot
Tail_6+10% Status Damage
+10% Status Chance

Engine

Engine_1-15% Heat per Shot
Engine_2+5% Fire Rate
Engine_3+5% Damage

Scope^0-1

Scope_1_{2.2x Zoom}
Scope_2_{1.5x Zoom}
Scope_3_{3.3x Zoom}

Yellowcake - Changelog

Patch & Hotfix 06.11.2020:

Changed Damage Scaling
Split Projectile Damage Decrease - Overall damage is split among Projectiles now.

YellowcakeHow to get it?

Revenge of the Cartels Event
General Farming Guidance

To collect and equip the Legendary Yellowcake, you need to own the BL3 Revenge of the Cartels Event.

Like all of the three Borderlands 3 events, Revenge of the Cartels was added to the base game on June 24, 2021.
You can enable one of the three events at a time in the main menu ▸ Play.

To efficiently farm the exclusive Revenge of the Cartel items, follow these steps:

Accept Maurice's quest near Hammerlock's room on Sanctuary III.
The quickest place to collect 30 Decoder Rings is at Carnivora's entrance.
Proceed to Villa Ultraviolet and defeat two mini-bosses. Those won't reappear in the final fight.
Joey Ultraviolet will spawn with two random mini-bosses.
To reroll them, exit to the main menu and reload the game.
To farm the desired mini-bosses, simply die or fast travel to respawn them.
As long as you don't kill Joey and stay in the game, the same mini-bosses will keep respawning.