Honkai Star Rail events December 2023

Trailblazing around the galaxy on the Astral Express can be a full-time job, but there’s always time to sit back and enjoy (or engage in) the bountiful Honkai Star Rail events. With stellar interstellar festivities to enjoy, plenty of people to meet, a chock-load of challenges to face, and heaps of great goodies to snag, there’s plenty of fun to be had – and with our help, you can rest assured that you’ll never miss another star rail rendezvous.

After you clear your schedule for all the epic upcoming HSR events, be sure to check out our Honkai Star Rail tier list to check whether your trailblazing team is up to the challenge. We’ve also got a list of all the current and upcoming Honkai Star Rail banners, along with a Honkai Star Rail codes guide to ensure you never miss a freebie.

So hop aboard, it’s time for us to dive into all the current and upcoming Honkai Star Rail events.

Current Honkai Star Rail events

Boulder Town Super League: Martial Exhibition

December 6 – 25

Scott is once again holding the Boulder Town Super League, where you can go head to head with a bunch of baddies to show your martial prowess and earn bountiful rewards.

Garden of Plenty

December 15 – 22

Earn double rewards from golden and crimson calyx for a limited time.

A Foxian Tale of the Haunted

November 15 – December 25

As you know, the Xianzhou is constantly roaming the universe – and the universe is full of the unknown. Get ready for some spooks, as you delve into the mysteries behind the Fixtral Garden, and get involved with some ghost hunting shenanigans. Get the whole Luofu talking about tales of otherworldly horrors, and you could earn a bunch of great goodies, including the new four-star light cone, ‘Hey, Over Here!’

Permanent Honkai Star Rail events

Gift of Odyssey

Recurring event (every update)

This login event lets you claim up to ten Star Rail Special Passes just by logging in for seven days during the event period. They don’t even need to be consecutive days!

Turquoise’s Reverie

Permanent event

Clear the Forgotten Hall Memory Stage 3 to obtain the four-star character, Honkai Star Rail’s Qingque.

Trailblazing Will

Permanent event

When you hit certain Trailblaze level milestones, you can head to the event page to claim Star Rail Passes and Stellar Jades. Here are the level requirements and the rewards you can claim:

  • Trailblaze level five – ten Star Rail Passes
  • Trailblaze level 15 – ten Star Rail Passes
  • Trailblaze level 25 – ten Star Rail Passes and 800 Stellar Jades
  • Trailblaze level 35 – ten Star Rail Passes and 800 Stellar Jades

Additional Rewards from Stellar Warp

Permanent event

After you complete 300 Warps (or pulls) in the Stellar Warp event, you’re free to choose one free five-star character below to join your team.

You can only claim this reward once, so be sure to choose wisely! Before you take your pick, check out our Honkai Star Rail tier list to see how each of them rank.

Starkissed Synchrony

Permanent event

The Novice Experience event Starkissed Synchrony offers a variety of rewards when you complete certain tasks. They are:

  • Complete the Trailblaze Mission ‘Simulated Universe: First Closed Beta’ to get a free copy of Honkai Star Rail’s Herta
  • Complete the Trailblaze Mission ‘Lying in Rust’ to get a free copy of Honkai Star Rail’s Natasha
  • Complete the Trailblaze Mission ‘To Rot or to Burn’ to claim a free The Seriousness of Breakfast light cone
  • Get to Trailblaze level 20 and claim your level rewards from Pom-Pom aboard the Astral Express to claim the Shared Feeling light cone
  • Complete the Trailblaze Mission ‘Trail of the Equilibrium: Part One’ to claim a free Trailblaze-o-scope relic that permanently increases max technique points by one

The Voyage of Navis Astriger

Permanent event

Complete the first stage of this new section of the Forgotten Hall to get four-star character Honkai Star Rail’s Yukong for free.

Simulated Universe: The Swarm Disaster

Permanent event

Herta and her fellow geniuses have upgraded the Simulated Universe to investigate the Swarm Disaster caused by  Tayzzyronth, the Aeon of Propagation. Navigate through chess board-like randomly generated domains, fight tough bosses, and work to unlock the path of Propagation in the Simulated Universe. With high risk comes high reward, so you can unlock two self-modeling resins by participating in this event.

Honkai Star Rail web events

Come With Me, Take the Journey

November 15 – December 27

Invite returning Trailblazers back to the game to earn a maximum of 450 Stellar Jade, 45 k credits, five supplies material boxes, 12 adventure logs, and two lost gold fragments. Head over to the event page to find out more.

A screenshot of two little critters in Herta Space Station from a Honkai Star Rail 1.6 event

Upcoming Honkai Star Rail events

Critter Pick

Version 1.6

Aboard the Herta Space, there’s a whole hoard of adorable little critters bounding and zapping all over the place. Somehow, the responsibility of looking after them has fallen on your shoulders… Take part to earn a variety or rewards including stellar jade, level-up materials, a cute new chat box skin, and more.

Simulated Universe: Gold and Gears

Version 1.6

Herta and co have added a new algorithmic branch to the expansion module of the Honkai Star Rail Simulated Universe. This time, they’ve simulated Nous and selected the time before the demise of #27 Emperor Robert, a computer that became self-aware and kicked off a war.

This new update adds the path of Erudition, and also allows you to equip dice that offer various effects. And that isn’t all – there are a heap of new developments to the Simulated Universe in version 1.6, so don’t forget to explore and test things out!

Virtual Scentventure

Version 1.6

The Department of Ecology’s ‘Unknown Life-form Smell-Induced Perceptions and Hallucinations’ special test has commenced, and you’re been specially invited as a qualified tester. Battle illusionary enemies that are summoned through scent.

Start off with the basic test and, if your nose can handle it, unlock the significantly tougher ‘despair mode’ to really test the power of your nose. As always, taking part in this event nets you a variety of goodies including stellar jades and more.

Planar Fissure

Version 1.6

Gain double Planar Ornament immersion rewards wile exploring the Simulated Universe for a limited time.

Realm of the Strange

Version 1.6

Earn double rewards from Cavern of Corrosion for a set number of times.

Pure Fiction

Version 1.6 (new permanent event)

Mr Xiyan has a new pet that he’s sure you’ll like. Head over to the Spare Time Book Shop and have a look, you might just find an unexpected surprise… In this fresh, permanent challenge mode, you must take on a variety of enemies, making use of unique buffs to take them down. Unlike the Forgotten Hall, when you defeat an enemy they respawn instantly. So, instead of clearing out all of your foes, your goal is to deal as much damage to them as possible within a limited number of cycles.

In each phase of Pure Fiction, you can bag yourself a whopping 720 stellar jades, along with a heap of other goodies. Additionally, completing specific stages for the first time earns you a free copy of the four-star character, Honkai Star Rail’s Lynx.

That’s all we’ve got on the current and upcoming Honkai Star Rail events. If you fancy a different kind of Hoyo-flavored fun, keep an eye on our Genshin Impact events, Genshin Impact codes, and Genshin Impact tier list guides.