How to get Vex Milk in Destiny 2’s Dawning event

Destiny 2 players may be familiar with Vex Milk—mostly from being the victim of it, stepping into pools of it thanks to enemy Vex, accidentally getting too close to a Vex Milk waterfall in Nessus, or falling to their death in a pool of radiolarian fluid (we’ve all done it). For the Dawning, though, this elusive liquid gets a new function.

During the Dawning, Destiny 2’s holiday-themed event, you can use Vex Milk to bake a series of cookies, which will be the preferred choice of some of the NPCs in Destiny 2. During the Dawning, baking those goodies and gifting them to specific characters will give players some Dawning gifts.

Here’s where you can find some Vex Milk to bake into cookies for your favorite robotic companions in Destiny 2.

How to get Vex Milk in Destiny 2

Vex Milk drops from killing Vex enemies anywhere in the system. It’s not a guaranteed drop, though, which means you won’t get a Vex Milk for each Vex you defeat. If you’re not getting any Vex Milk, keep trying until you get lucky since killing Vex is the only way to obtain this ingredient.

There are plenty of Vex in the Orrerry Lost Sector on Nessus, but the introduction to the Spire of the Watcher dungeon is also an amazing place to farm them. The enemies keep coming, and they come in huge numbers. It’s more practical than having to restart the Lost Sector over and over again, and odds are you’ll have plenty of Vex Milk after just a single run of the dungeon. Spire isn’t the Pinnacle dungeon anymore, but it will continue to have plenty of Vex enemies, provided you have access to the dungeon.

If you don’t want to go after Vex on a Lost Sector or don’t have access to the Spire of the Watcher dungeon, the entrance to the Vault of Glass raid can be a quick way to get Vex Milk. The rest of the raid is also good, though that can’t be done solo.

Vex Milk recipes in Destiny 2

Three recipes use Vex Milk in the Dawning:

• Telemetry Tapioca (Banshee-44): Vex Milk and Bullet Spray
• Lavender Ribbon Cookies (Saint-14): Vex Milk and Personal Touch
• Infinite Forest Cakes: Vex Milk and Impossible Heat

Baking all three is required for the event quest, so you’ll need to farm Vex Milk before proceeding to the rest of the mission. If you’re farming for any of those, be sure to kill the Vex in a way that nets you the most kill-based ingredients.

For instance, if you want to bake cookies for Banshee, head to a place with Vex enemies and destroy them with a submachine gun, auto rifle, or machine gun. Personal Touch requires melee kills, and Impossible Heat asks for Solar damage. Using a Solar SMG can award any of the involved ingredients, though they are not guaranteed drops.