Christmas (2024)

(Also known as: Tennobaum)

Winter has been celebrated in WARFRAME ever since its Closed Beta. As an Annual Event this holiday brings many additions to WARFRAME's cosmetic content, including customizations based on the traditional Christmas holiday and the winter solstice.

Since 2016, WARFRAME's winter event has been named Tennobaum and focuses around players giving gifts sent using the Market to fellow Tenno.

History[]

2012[]

During December of 2012, WARFRAME's Closed Beta added winter theming to the main menu with snowfall, and festive jingle sound effects. This would be the first of many winter themed updates to the game and, as with other holiday updates during this time, main enemies were given holiday-themed headwear: Grineer spawned adorned with reindeer antlers and storage containers appeared as stacks of colourful Christmas presents for the duration of December.

2013[]

With the release of The Cicero Crisis came 2013's winter update. Bringing much of the same content as the previous year, 2013 re-added the snowflake background and antler wearing Grineer to the game, this time adding the the Candy Cane Scythe, now known as the Spearmint Scythe to the Market.

2014[]

As of Update 14 (2014-18-07), the addition of the Orbiter made the snowflake menu theme from previous years unobtainable. In light of this, WARFRAME added a Christmas-themed bunting and snow Orbiter Scene as a purchasable customisation on the Market.

This year brought many customizations for the player’s arsenal including the Winter Bundle featuring cosmetic skins for Mirage and Frost, and festive cosmetics for the newly implemented Kubrows.

Players could also find new decorations available to build in their Clan Dojo.
Dojo Decorations

Tactical Alerts[]

Four Tactical Alerts were available in December 2014: Cold Revenge, Pack Mentality, Toxic Terrors and Fleet Footed. Each alert awarded one of four Christmas-themed Sigils for completion:

2015[]

The Christmas content for this year was introduced in Update 18 (2015-03-12) bringing back all festive items from previous years with four new additions:

2016[]

The 2016 winter event was the biggest in cosmetic additions, and the first to be officially named Tennobaum: an event where WARFRAME partners with charities and creates a donation pledge. Much like fundraisers, each tier offers in-game rewards; to achieve donation goals players must gift a global total of items in-game to their fellow Tenno.

This year Digital Extremes pledged their funds to the Boys & Girls Club of London, donating the total of $50,000 CAD to Charity.

For reaching these donation goals, players earned unique Solstice cosmetics:

For the month of December, many winter-themed items were added to the game. On the Market, the first Solstice Bundle was made available for 350 as well as a winter themed Glyph bundle at 110, and a Solstice Glyph bundle for 65. The Argyl Kavat Gene-Masking Kit would also be available for purchase at 40 andBaro Ki'Teer would also introduce a new solstice syandana to the winter-themed cosmetic roster.

Tactical Alert[]

Snow Day Showdown was a Conclave based Tactical Alert that used snowballs to eliminate fellow Tenno in a 4v4 battle. Running from December 16th-19th it awarded the same Sigils as those given in 2014's Tactical Alerts as well as the Glaxion Polar Skin rewarded in Operation: Cryotic Front.

2017[]

This year Tennobaum would be raising money for the Children's Health Foundation Canada. With the success of the previous year, Tennobaum 2017 would double their pledge and donate a total of $100,000 CAD from players reaching a total of 250,000 items gifted in-game.For each tier of total in-game gifts, players would unlock Solstice Cosmetics:

Also given from Tennobaum were several cookie themed Glyphs and a new winter themed glyph bundle was added to the Market for 100.

2018[]

This year's Tennobaum would be themed around How the Grinch Stole Christmas!¹; using the iconic styling of Dr. Suess, it featured Nef Anyo as the Grinch as well as stylised depictions of various warframes.

The charity of choice this year was the Canadian Red Cross receiving $100,000 CAD from Digital Extremes on behalf of the player-base for gifting a total of 300,000 in-game items.The cosmetic reward for reaching this final goal was the Avia Solstice Armor, with the Solstice Guandao Skin and Solstice Corinth Skin awarded in lower tiers.

As with the previous year, several cookie-themed glyphs were rewarded during Tennobaum and another Winter-themed glyph bundle was maid available for 80 on the Market.

2019[]

Due to the big release of Update 27.0 (2019-12-13): Empyrean, the 2019 Tennobaum was a small event. A dedicated webpage was not made this year but gifting in-game items still gave money to charity. From December 6th-31st every in-game gift gave $0.25 CAD towards local food banks, reaching a maximum amount of $50,000 CAD. This total was given to London Food Bank with players reaching a total of 229,912 items gifted on December 30th.

All previous event-locked solstice items were made available through Gift from the Lotus Alerts, running through December 20th to November 3rd. In addition, three new solstice rewards would be added to these alerts featuring two new weapon skins and the Solstice Centuria Syandana.

A new winter-themed Glyph bundle would be made available for 90 on the Market:

2020[]

Back in-line with the more recognized format, Tennobaum 2020 saw the return of the Gift of Giving webpage. This year Tennobaum raised funds for Kids Help Phone: a young people's 24/7 mental health service based in Canada. The ultimate goal this year reached a total of 120,000 items gifted, with a $45,000 (CAD) donation pledged by Digital Extremes to Kids Help Phone.

The rewards this year included three new solstice items as well as new Tennobaum glyphs featuring the Entrati family.

As with 2019, previous Solstice items were available through Gift from the Lotus Alerts.

2021[]

Gift from the Lotus Alerts were made available during December of 2021, featuring all the previous Solstice rewards.
One new cosmetic would be featured with the Wintercress Syandana being added to Baro Ki'Teer inventory for the winter holidays.

Unfortunately due to time constraints with the work on The New War, the Gift of Giving Tennobaum event was cancelled. In response the winter solstice items from 2020 and the Frostfall Ephemera were added to Ticker's inventory for the 2022 Valentine's Day event called Star Days.
All solstice items were available to purchase for the duration at five MedicalDebt-Bonds each.

2022[]

This year's Tennobaum takes it's theming from the stop-motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer¹ TV special.
From December 8th-16th players could gift items to fellow players in order to increase the total pledge Digital Extremes would give to charity.A minimum of $20,000 CAD would be given to the SickKids Foundation; with each tier unlocked this increased to a total of $60,000 CAD given on behalf of the community.

Running from the 16th to December 31st, Gift from the Lotus events will currently be allowing players to achieve previous sigils.
Solstice items, although not advertised, can be bought on the market through the search function.

Rewards[]

• Weapon Skins

• Cosmetics

• Companion

• Glyphs

• Sigils

• Miscellaneous

• Dojo

Weapon Cosmetics

Spearmint Scythe
1

Sonicor Festive Skin
10

Ringers Skin
1

Glaxion Festive Skin
20

Glaxion Polar Skin

Acceltra Solstice Skin

Burston Solstice Skin

Scindo Solstice Skin

Corinth Soltice Skin

Heliocor Solstice Skin
30

Galatine Soltice Skin

Guandao Soltice Skin

Ignis Soltice Skin

Lenz Soltice Skin

Skiajati Solstice Skin

Tatsu Soltice Skin

Warframe Cosmetics

Festive Frost Skin 40

Winter Mirage Skin 40

Titania Solstice Skin
40

Solstice Daedalus Armor Set
100

Frostfall Ephemera

Festive Imperator Syandana 50

Solstice Vanquished Banner

Solstice SalixSyandana
95

Ki'teer Solstice Syandana
425
200,000

Solstice Izvara Syandana

Solstice Centuria Syandana

Kuva Solstice Cloak

Wintercress Syandana

Kavat & Kubrow Cosmetics

KubrowLittleHelperHat.png

Little Helper Hat
1

Crimson Nose Pattern
1

Solstice Gene-Masking Kit
40

Argyl Gene-Masking Kit
40

Solstice Gene Masking Kit
40

Nart-Deer Gene Masking Kit
50

Nistlebrush Gene Masking Kit
50

Winter Glyphs

Winter Glyph I

Winter Glyph II

Winter Glyph III

Winter Glyph IV

Winter Glyph V

Winter Glyph VI

Winter Glyph VII

Winter Glyph VIII

Winter Glyph IX

Winter Glyph X

Winter Glyph XI

Winter Glyph XII

Winter Glyph XIII

Eidolon Snow Globe Glyph

Orb Vallis Snow Globe Glyph

K-Drive Present Glyph

Kuva Nog Glyph

Nef Scrooge Glyph

Jolly Grendel Glyph

Surprise Ivara Glyph

Jingle Kavat Glyph

Caroling Octavia Glyph

Festive Floof Glyph

Ski Gauss Glyph

Tennobaum Glyphs

Cookie Grineer Glyph

Cookie Dethcube Glyph

Cookie Corpus Glyph

Cookie Void Key Glyph

Cookie Lotus Glyph

Cookie Excalibur Glyph

Cookie Fortuna Glyph

Cookie K-Drive Glyph

Cookie Nef Anyo Glyph

Cookie Orb Vallis Glyph

Cookie Stalker Glyph

Father Tennobaum Glyph

Mother Tennobaum Glyph

Daughter Tennobaum Glyph

Son Tennobaum Glyph

Grandmother Tennobaum Glyph

Necraloid Tennobaum Glyph

Maggot Prime Tennobaum Glyph

MOA Tennobaum Glyph

Kahl-175 Tennobaum Glyph

Veso Tennobaum Glyph

Solstice Glyphs

Solstice Glyph I

Solstice Glyph II

Solstice Glyph III

Solstice Glyph IV

Sigils

Winter Solstice Sigil

Festive Sigil

Wreath Sigil

Nistlebrush Sigil

Tolling Sigil

Evergreen Sigil

Festive Interior Decorations
1

Dashing Through the Vallis Display

Frost Snowday Noggle

Dojo Decorations

FESTIVE

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Blue Present Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Circuits	40	120	400	1,200	4,000
	Plastids	25	75	250	750	2,500
	Neurodes	1	1	1	1	4
A present wrapped in blue paper.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Festive Garland Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Ferrite	100	300	1,000	3,000	10,000
	AlloyPlate	30	90	300	900	3,000
	Rubedo	30	90	300	900	3,000
	Gallium	1	1	1	1	6
Festive decorations made of leaves.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Festive Mistletoe Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Ferrite	100	300	1,000	3,000	10,000
	AlloyPlate	20	60	200	600	2,000
	Plastids	30	90	300	900	3,000
	Oxium	1	1	1	1	4
A branch of mistletoe.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Festive Snowdrift Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	PolymerBundle	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Plastids	30	90	300	900	3,000
	Circuits	20	60	200	600	2,000
	Cryotic	1	1	1	1	4
A snowdrift sustained by a Cryotic Core.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Festive Snowman Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Ferrite	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Plastids	40	120	400	1,200	4,000
	Rubedo	35	105	350	1,050	3,500
	Cryotic	1	1	1	1	4
A snowman sustained by a Cryotic Core.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Festive Tree Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Circuits	40	120	400	1,200	4,000
	Plastids	25	75	250	750	2,500
	Neurodes	1	1	1	1	4
A tree decorated with festive lights and tinsel.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Festive Wreath Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	100	300	1,000	3,000	10,000
	AlloyPlate	25	75	250	750	2,500
	Plastids	35	105	350	1,050	3,500
	Morphics	1	1	1	1	4
A festive decoration.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Green Present Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Circuits	40	120	400	1,200	4,000
	Plastids	25	75	250	750	2,500
	Neurodes	1	1	1	1	4
A present wrapped in green paper.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Lotus Wreath Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	110	330	1,100	3,300	11,000
	AlloyPlate	30	90	300	900	3,000
	Rubedo	35	105	350	1,050	3,500
	Morphics	1	1	1	1	4
A wreath shaped like the Lotus symbol.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Purple Present Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Circuits	40	120	400	1,200	4,000
	Plastids	25	75	250	750	2,500
	Neurodes	1	1	1	1	4
A present wrapped in purple paper.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Red Bow Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Circuits	40	120	400	1,200	4,000
	Plastids	25	75	250	750	2,500
	Neurodes	1	1	1	1	4
A decorative bow.

Item	Resources	Ghost	Shadow	Storm	Mountain	Moon
Red Ribbon Capacity: -3 Build Time: 24 hours	Credits	500	1,500	5,000	15,000	50,000
	Salvage	120	360	1,200	3,600	12,000
	Circuits	40	120	400	1,200	4,000
	Plastids	25	75	250	750	2,500
	Neurodes	1	1	1	1	4
A decorative ribbon.

Media[]

External Links[]

• https://childhealth.ca - Children's Health Foundation (Canada)
• https://www.bgclondon.ca - Boys & Girls Club of London (Canada)
• https://www.redcross.ca - Canadian Red Cross
• https://www.londonfoodbank.ca - London Food Bank (Canada)
• https://kidshelpphone.ca - Kids Help Phone (Canada)
• https://www.sickkidsfoundation.com (Canada & Worldwide)

• 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYgkfViJmDY - Closed Beta Christmas Gameplay
• 2013 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/150623-update-1150-the-cicero-crisis/
• 2013 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/150720-hotfix-1151/
• 2014 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/356307-new-winter-bundle-and-free-liset-decorations/
• 2014 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/359225-new-tenno-caroling-contest/
• 2015 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/579670-update-1810-spoilers/
• 2015 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/569752-new-contest-warframe-ornaments/
• 2016 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/734528-tis-the-season/
• 2016 - https://web.archive.org/web/20161215154316/https://www.warframe.com/tennobaum
• 2017 - https://www.warframe.com/news/tennobaum-is-back
• 2017 - https://www.warframe.com/news/tennobaum
• 2017 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/893386-tennobaum-gifting-center/
• 2017 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/891800-new-contest-carol-of-the-tenno/
• 2017 - https://web.archive.org/web/20170106213406/https://www.warframe.com/tennobaum
• 2018 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1043711-greetings-and-grofit-contest-winners-announced/
• 2018 - https://www.warframe.com/news/tennobaum-2018
• 2019 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1149694-tennobaum-2019-feeding-through-the-gift-of-giving/
• 2020 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1240148-tennobaum-2020-a-voice-in-the-night/
• 2020 - https://web.archive.org/web/20201221181017/https://www.warframe.com/tennobaum
• 2021 - https://www.warframe.com/news/winter-in-warframe-en
• 2021 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1289148-tennobaum-scheduled-for-early-2022/
• 2022 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1299619-update-3110-echoes-of-war/
• 2022 - https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1334109-tennobaum-holiday-card-contest/
• 2022 - https://steamcommunity.com/games/230410/announcements/detail/3639501852706074810
• 2022 - https://twitter.com/PlayWarframe/status/1600956842804318208
• 2022 - https://web.archive.org/web/20221216214338/https://www.warframe.com/tennobaum
• 2022 - https://www.warframe.com/news/tennobaum-2022-wrap-up