Honkai Star Rail follows in the footsteps of other gacha games by offering players a lot to do. Although microtransactions can cut down on the grind of unlocking new content, keeping up with the various daily and weekly tasks provides plenty of rewards. Here’s our Honkai Star Rail F2P Schedule guide to help you stay up to date with what’s going on.
F2P Schedule Guide for Honkai Star Rail
Here’s the list of activities available in our Honkai Star Rail F2P schedule guide:
Daily Content to Do Every Day
Weekly Content You Should Complete…Weekly
Long-Term Content You Should Complete Every Month or So
Daily Content You Should Do Every Day
Daily content includes anything you can spend Trailblaze Power on that refreshes daily or otherwise has no additional limitation (weekly lockout, etc.).
Daily Training
Daily training tasks are one of the easiest and most consistent reward sources available in Honkai: Star Rail. In a previous patch, the tasks you need to complete were revised, and are even simpler to accomplish. You have 8 to choose from each day, but you can only complete 5 of them.
- Each task provides 100, 200, or 500 points, to a maximum of 500 for all rewards. You’ll automatically complete one of them for logging in. Others include spending Trailblaze Power, completing Simulated Universe, and other simple tasks.
- Every 100 daily activities will provide a reward of 200-380 Trailblaze EXP (dependent on your Equilibrium level), 60 Stellar Jade, and some sort of experience/enhancement materials.
Daily Missions are still available to complete if you need an extra 200 daily activity points, and they reward 5,000 Credits, as per usual.
Assignments
Assignments are the fastest task in our F2P schedule guide. Every 20 hours, you can send two characters per assignment to collect base-level upgrade materials. Choose characters from the correct Path(s) for the maximum reward. You collect your assignments once the current countdown reaches zero when you can collect your rewards. Incidentally, completing assignments is a daily task, so try to time when you collect them to when you log in for the day.
Calyx (Golden) and Calyx (Crimson)
Calyx activities are waved-based trials where you can fight up to six waves for 10 Trailblaze Power per wave, to a maximum of 60 per run. You’re rewarded with Trailblaze Experience, upgrade materials, and currencies. You earn more and rarer materials the higher your Equilibrium level. There are two kinds of Calyx:
- In Calyx (Golden), you’ll earn Trailblaze EXP, experience books, Credits, as well as base-level Trace and Light Cone upgrade materials.
- In Calyx (Crimson) activities, you’ll earn upgrade materials that you can use to further upgrade a character’s Traces or the Light Cone associated with their path. Note that the Calyx you’ll need to visit depends on the planet the character comes from. Penacony characters require Penacony materials, and so on.
You have a maximum of 240 Trailblaze Power per day, refreshing at the snail’s pace of one point every six minutes. However, if you let that daily limit fill, it will overflow into Reserved Trailblaze Power, a secondary store of the stuff that can reach a maximum of 1,200 additional Trailblaze Power. Note that these reserves do not increase on their own and only do so when your daily allotment remains at the maximum for more than six minutes.
Stagnant Shadow
Stagnant Shadow is another activity you’ll visit regularly on the Honkai: Star Rail F2P schedule. These challenges pit you against a single mini-boss and two or three standard mobs. Your reward for winning is a set of up to five Unique Character Ascension Materials at difficulty IV. You’ll need these materials to Ascend your characters when they reach a new level threshold (20, 40, 50, 60, and 70), and you’ll need proportionally more per threshold.
Challenging a Stagnant Shadow requires 30 Trailblaze Power. You’ll need to collect tons of materials for each character you want to ascend, especially to 5 stars, as they require 65 units to reach the max level. If you haven’t spent time farming before acquiring a character, you’ll need to either spend multiple days collecting materials or use Fuel to top up your Trailblaze Power.
Cavern of Corrosion
Caverns of Corrosion are one part of the Honkai: Star Rail endgame. Called the Relic mines for good reason, as you use these Caverns to farm for the Relic equipment each character needs to reach their full potential. Each Cavern offers two different Relics, awarded upon victory, and you need to make your way through two waves, with the second pitting you against a powerful mini-boss.
Every attempt at a Cavern of Corrosion challenge requires 40 Trailblaze Power, and you aren’t guaranteed the Relic pieces you want or the right substats. You have a maximum of six bites at the Relic apple per day unless you spend Fuel or Reserved Trailblaze Power.
Weekly Content in Honkai: Star Rail
There are two weekly lockout activities you’ll want to take some time to complete as part of the Honkai: Star Rail F2P checklist, but only as you have the Trailblaze power and time.
Echo of War
Echo of War pits you against the story bosses you fight as part of the main, uh, story of Honkai: Star Rail. Defeating them rewards their specific boss upgrade material, a few randomly rolled Relics from two sets, credits, as well as Light Cones and the Lucent Afterglow currency you can spend for more Light Cones.
Each completion of Echo of War requires 30 Trailblaze Power, and rewards can only be claimed three times per week, after which you’ll need to wait until the weekly server reset to do them again. If you find yourself struggling against these difficult bosses, check out our Echo of War guides below:
You also fight the following if you’ve followed the Trailblaze story all the way to its end:
- Starcrusher Swarm King: Skaracabaz
- Harmonious Choir The Great Septimus
Simulated Universe
If you want a far-less limited weekly activity, the Simulated Universe is for you. You can play these procedural dungeons as many times as you like, but you can only get the specific Planar Ornament Relics as many times as you have Stellar Jade or Store Immersifiers.
You earn weekly point rewards to unlock a slew of rewards, including Stellar Jade, Herta Bonds for use in the Simulated Universe store, Star Rail Passes, and more. These points are wiped clean when the server resets, though, so dedicate time to unlock them before the week ends.
Starting with Simulated Universe World 3, you’ll also be able to unlock Planar Ornament relics for 40 Trailblaze Power per pull.
Long-Term Content in Honkai: Star Rail
These two activities are offered for much longer periods, usually 40 days at a time, with Forgotten Hall and Pure Fiction being on their own timeframes, and Nameless Honor is limited by the current phase.
Forgotten Hall and Pure Fiction
Forgotten Hall and Pure Fiction are another part of the Honkai: Star Rail endgame. Forgotten Hall pits you against mini-bosses and other story bosses, and you need to clear the activity within a certain number of waves without having too many characters downed to progress. At the higher levels, you’ll need two well-built teams to take on two waves for a total of four mini-bosses or three mini-bosses and a boss. Or sometimes just a single boss at the end.
Pure Fiction is an endless, wave-based mode where you need to defeat enemies to earn a score, and you need to reach certain score thresholds to earn rewards. There are four difficulties, each requiring different team setups and builds, and the mode is fairly RNG-heavy.
Nameless Honor
Rounding it all out is Nameless Honor. The Honkai Star Rail version of a battle pass lasts until the next big update, leaving you ample time to finish the free Nameless Gift track or the paid-for Nameless Glory track. EXP is gained by completing missions lasting this entire period, as well as various daily and weekly types that are refreshed.
Spend some time with the tasks outlined in this Honkai Star Rail F2P Schedule guide, and you’ll be able to take on the toughest challenges without spending a cent. For other helpful content that F2P users can benefit from, such as how to unlock all the free characters or a breakdown of the Pity System, check out our collection of Honkai Star Rail guides.
Published: May 15, 2024 07:18 am