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Honkai Star Rail 3.0 release date, new characters, and events

Keep up to date with the next Honkai Star Rail update, including the HSR livestreams, new characters, events, and story developments.

When is the Honkai Star Rail 3.0 release date? If you're finding it difficult to keep up with the HSR update schedule and need a quick refresher on all the new additions coming to Hoyoverse's astral adventure in the "Pean of Era Nova" update, we've got you covered.

The Honkai Star Rail 3.0 release date is the latest update to arrive in HoYoverse's Honkai Star Rail tier list. Here's everything that awaits in version 3.0.

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Honkai Star Rail 3.0 release date

The Honkai Star Rail 3.0 release date is Wednesday, January 15, 2025. This update will last six weeks and is due to end sometime around Wednesday, February 26, 2025.

Honkai Star Rail servers go down for scheduled maintenance for approximately five hours before new content becomes available. This downtime is typically compensated with free Honkai Star Rail stellar jade, so don't forget to before it expires.

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Honkai Star Rail livestream

The Honkai Star Rail 3.0 livestream aired on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. This special program included the usual collection of limited-time codes for viewers to redeem and an overview of the latest story developments in the anime game following the 3.0 release date.

Honkai Star Rail 3.0 characters

The Honkai Star Rail banners are split into two phases that feature headline five-star characters plus boosted pull rates for a selection of four-star characters.

The Honkai Star Rail 3.0 characters are:

  • The Herta (Ice Erudition)
  • Aglaea (Lightning, Remembrance)

To prepare for the boosted pull rates of characters that you might have missed in the standard banner, check out our best Honkai Star Rail light cone banner.

Aglaea is wrapped in golden thread and holds a golden sphere up to the blue sky of Amphoreus, headless automatons reaching out towards her in Honkai Star Rail 3.0.

Honkai Star Rail 3.0 story

Version 3.0 sees the Astral Express depart from Penacony to Amphoreus, a chaotic vortex whose inhabitants are isolated from the rest of the galaxy. Instead of Titans, Amphoreus is presided over by the Titans. These twelve deities waged a civil war that sent a black tide across Amphoreus, plunging the world into eternal night.

The Trailblazer vows to turn this tide, fighting through the Abyss of Fate to reach Okhema, the Holy City. There, they'll meet the Chrysos Heirs, a band of heroes bent on reclaiming the Titan Coreflames and awakening Kephale, the Worldbearing Titan, to restore Amphoreus to its former glory.

Two red-haired characters count golden coins in Amphoreus, the next world in Honkai Star Rail 3.0.

Honkai Star Rail 3.0 events

As with all Honkai Star Rail updates, the 3.0 release includes several limited-time events you can participate in for free rewards. The Gift of Odyssey, Realm of the Strange, and Planar Fissure events return for the 3.0 update, giving you additional banner pulls, EXP material, and Planar Ornaments.

The Honkai Star Rail 3.0 events are:

  • Mem's Gift
  • Hypogeum Enigma
  • Illia Travelogue
  • Enscrolled Crepusculum
  • Fashion Guide of the Cosmos
  • Cosmic Lucky Prize

Now that you're all prepped for the Honkai Star Rail 3.0 update, kick back with our free PC games to tide you over until the next update rolls around.