Relics are introduced a few hours in Honkai Star Rail, but it will take a while before you get any decent ones. Thankfully, one of the best methods of farming Relics comes soon after. With that in mind, you’ll want to know how to do it and the rewards you’ll get. This is our guide for the Caverns of Corrosion in Honkai Star Rail, including how to unlock the area and a complete list of all the locations you can find.
Honkai Star Rail Caverns of Corrosion Guide
Caverns of Corrosion Explained
Caverns of Corrosion in Honkai Star Rail are repeatable dungeons that award you with Relic Sets. There are a select few across the different areas you visit and each has a special effect that modifies the battles taking place. You’ll have to use 40 Trailblaze Power to take one on.
Related: Honkai Star Rail Best Relics Guide
Six difficulties are available in Caverns of Corrosion. These become available as you raise your Equilibrium level. Although the enemies remain the same, the relics will be offered at higher rarities.
How to Unlock Caverns of Corrosion
To unlock Caverns of Corrosion, you’ll need to play through The Stars Are Cold Toys quest. This is part of a quest line that requires Trailblaze Level 24 to start. Some will retroactively appear on your map, and others will appear as soon as you come across them in future areas.
If you’re like me and have spent some time playing Genshin Impact, you’ll recognize the similarity to the artifacts-rewarding Domains of Blessing. One key difference between that and Caverns of Corrosion is that they don’t change based on a schedule. You can farm their set of relics on any day you want.
Caverns of Corrosion Locations
Here, I’ve broken down all of the specifics for the Caverns of Corrosion currently available. There seems to be some conflicting information online, which could be due to changes between the beta and the official release. Even the Interactive Map from HoYoLab has some repeated locations for a couple. Regardless, all of the below information is from my time playing since Honkai Star Rail officially launched.
- Path of Gelid Wind
- Path of Jabbing Punch
- Path of Drifting
- Path of Providence
- Path of Holy Hymn
- Path of Conflagration
- Path of Elixir Seekers
Caverns of Corrosion: Path of Gelid Wind
- Location: Storage Zone, Herta Space Station.
- Special Effect: Physical Damage dealt by teammates is increased by 75%.
- Farmable Relics: Eagle of Twilight Line, Hunter of Glacial Forest.
- Enemies: Voidranger Line.
- Recommended Types to Bring: Physical, Wind, Imaginary.
Caverns of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch
- Location: Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone, Jarilo-VI.
- Special Effect: Lightning damage dealt by teammates is increased by 75%.
- Farmable Relics: Champion of Streetwise Boxing, Thief of Shooting Meteor.
- Enemies: Automaton Grizzly, Automaton Beetle, Automaton Hound, Automaton Spider.
- Recommended Types to Bring: Fire, Ice, Lightning.
Caverns of Corrosion: Path of Drifting
- Location: Corridor of Foading Echoes, Jarilo-VI.
- Special Effect: Max damage absorbed by shields is increased by 30%. Additionally, any character protected by a shield will deal 75% more damage.
- Farmable Relics: Musketeer of Wild Wheat, Passerby of Wandering Cloud.
- Enemies: Searing Prowler, Incineration Shadewalker, Imaginary Weaver, Frostspawn.
- Recommended Types to Bring: Ice, Electric, Imaginary.
Caverns of Corrosion: Path of Providence
- Location: Everwinter Hill, Jarilo-VI.
- Special Effect: Teammates’ Break Effect increased by 75%. Resulting DoT and Additional damage increases by 75% as well.
- Farmable Relics: Genius of Brilliant Stars, Guard of Wuthering Snow.
- Enemies: Decaying Shadow, Imaginary Weaver, Incineration Shadewalker, Frostspawn.
- Recommended Types to Bring: Fire, Lightning, Wind.
Caverns of Corrosion: Path of Holy Hymn
- Location: Cloudford, The Xianzhou Luofu.
- Special Effect: Quantum damage dealt by teammates is increased by 75%.
- Farmable Relics: Band of Sizzling Thunder, Knight of Purity Palace.
- Enemies: Blaze Out of Space, Imaginary Weaver, Thunderspawn, Mask of No Thought.
- Recommended Types to Bring: Physical, Ice, Quantum.
Caverns of Corrosion: Path of Conflagration
- Location: Stargazer Navalia, The Xianzhou Luofu.
- Special Effect: Damage of teammates’ basic attacks and follow-up attacks is increased by 75%.
- Farmable Relics: Firesmith of Lava-Forging, Wastelander of Banditry Desert.
- Enemies: Automaton Gatekeeper, Mara-Struck Soldier, Entranced Ingenium Line.
- Recommended Types to Bring: Electric, Wind, Quantum.
Caverns of Corrosion: Path of Elixir Seekers
- Location: Alchemy Commission, The Xianzhou Luofu.
- Special Effect: Enemies inflicted with DoT status from an ally will also suffer from the Shocked debuff for three turns.
- Farmable Relics: Longevous Disciple, Messenger Traversing Hackerspace.
- Enemies: Abundance Sprite Line, Disciples of Sanctus Medicus: Ballistarius.
- Recommended Types to Bring: Fire, Ice, Wind.
That’s our Caverns of Corrosion guide for Honkai Star Rail. It covers everything you need to know about these locations, including the Relics and items you can find there. For other system breakdowns, such as how the Pity System works, check out our collection of Honkai Star Rail guides.
