Honkai Star Rail relics – what they are and where to find them

Each new Honkai Star Rail beta has given us a look into different elements of the gameplay, and one of the most recent additions was Honkai Star Rail relics. If you’re familiar with Hoyoverse’s other title Genshin Impact, then you can think of relics as like artifacts. They’re relatively new to the game, so let’s dive in and explore the world of HSR relics.

We’ve got guides on everything you need to know about Hoyoverse’s newest turn-based RPG, including all the Honkai Star Rail characters, a Honkai Star Rail tier list, and information on the Honkai Star Rail release date. Plus, we’re prepared for when the first Honkai Star Rail codes drop too.

So, without further ado, let’s take a look at everything you need to know about Honkai Star Rail relics.

What are relics?
Relic sets
How to get relics

What are Honkai Star Rail relics?

Relics are the main way to boost your stats in Honkai Star Rail. There’s a range of buffs and set bonuses on offer that benefit different characters, so you can mix and match them to best suit your build. You can equip a maximum of six relics to any one character and you get additional bonuses for using multiple of the same set.

There are six different types of relic. Each of them has a main stat, which you can see below.

Relic type	Potential stats
Head	HP
Hands	Attack
Body	Defence
Feet	%ATK / %DEF / %HP / Speed
Neck	%ATK / %DEF / %HP / Elemental Damage Bonus
Article	%ATK / %DEF / %HP / %Crit Rate / %Crit Damage / Outgoing Healing Boost / Effect Hit Rate

After that, the relic has a set of substats, determined by RNG. As you level up the relic, the piece either gains or upgrades a random substat at certain intervals. Here are the potential substats, each of which can either come as a flat rate or a percentage increase:

Attack
HP
Defence
Elemental damage bonus
Crit rate
Crit damage
Outgoing healing boost
Effect hit rate

Each set of relics has a bonus for using multiple relics from the same set. Most sets offer bonuses when you equip two and four pieces of the same relic type, and there are special sets that you can get from the Simulated Universe to fill the neck and article slots which only offer two-piece bonuses. As such, you can equip two pieces of a Simulated Universe set, and combine them with either four pieces of another set, or two pieces of two other sets to get the best bonuses.

What Honkai Star Rail relics are there?

There are only a handful of relic sets available in the Honkai Star Rail beta, and most of them benefit different types of character builds, so we can’t say which relics are better than others just yet. We can tell you what they each do though, so keep reading for a run-down of the relic set bonuses.

We’ve recommended some characters for each relic set too, and you can click on their name to see our full build guide.

Band of Sizzling Thunder

Two pieces equipped: increases lightning damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: increases the wearer’s attack by 25% for one turn after they use their skill

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Holy Hymn in Jarilo-VI’s Great Mine.

Band of Sizzling Thunder recommended characters:

Champion of Streetwise Boxing

Two pieces equipped: increases physical damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: after the wearer attacks or is hit by an enemy, their attack increases by 5% for the rest of the battle. This effect can stack up to five times

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch in Jarilo-VI’s Everwinter Hill.

Champion of Streetwise Boxing recommended characters:

Honkai Star Rail’s Trailblazer (when aligned with the path of The Destruction)
Honkai Star Rail’s Clara
Honkai Star Rail’s Sushang

Eagle of Twilight Line

Two pieces equipped: increases wind damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: after the wearer uses their ultimate, their action advances forward by 25%

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Gelid Wind in Herta Space Station’s Storage Zone.

Eagle of Twilight Line recommended characters:

Firesmith of Lava Forging

Two pieces equipped: increases fire damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: increases the wearer’s skill damage by 12%. After unleashing an ultimate, the wearer’s next attack deals an additional 12% fire damage

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Conflagration in The Xianzhou Luofu’s Stargazer Navalia.

Firesmith of Lava Forging recommended characters:

Honkai Star Rail’s Asta
Honkai Star Rail’s Himeko
Honkai Star Rail’s Hook
Honkai Star Rail’s Trailblazer (when aligned with the path of The Preservation)

Genius of Brilliant Stars

Two pieces equipped: increases quantum damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: when the wearer attacks enemies with quantum weakness, they ignore 25% of the enemy’s defence

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Providence in The Xianzhou Luofu’s Cloudford.

Genius of Brilliant Stars recommended characters:

Guard of Wuthering Snow

Two pieces equipped: reduces damage taken by 8%
Four pieces equipped: at the beginning of the turn, if the wearer’s HP is equal to or less than 50% of their max HP, they restore HP equal to 8% of their max HP and regenerate five energy

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Providence in The Xianzhou Luofu’s Cloudford.

Guard of Wuthering Snow recommended characters:

Honkai Star Rail’s Clara
Honkai Star Rail’s Gepard
Honkai Star Rail’s March 7th
Honkai Star Rail’s Fu Xuan
Honkai Star Rail’s Trailblazer (when aligned with the path of The Preservation)

Hunter of Glacial Forest

Two pieces equipped: increases ice damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: after the wearer unleashes their ultimate, their crit damage increases by 25% for two turns

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Gelid Wind in Herta Space Station’s Storage Zone.

Hunter of Glacial Forest recommended characters:

Knight of Purity Palace

Two pieces equipped: increases defence by 12%
Four pieces equipped: when the wearer creates a shield, it can absorb and additional 20% max damage

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Holy Hymn in Jarilo-VI’s Great Mine.

Knight of Purity Palace recommended characters:

Honkai Star Rail’s Trailblazer (when aligned with the path of The Preservation)
Honkai Star Rail’s Gepard
Honkai Star Rail’s March 7th
Honkai Star Rail’s Fu Xuan

Musketeer of Wild Wheat

Two pieces equipped: increases attack by 10%
Four pieces equipped: increases the wearer’s speed by 6% and their basic attack damage by 10%

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Drifting in Jarilo-VI’s Corridor of Fading Echoes.

Musketeer of Wild Wheat recommended characters:

Musketeer of Wild Wheat is one of the earliest sets you get, and is the most accessible for low-level players. As such, it’s a great placeholder of all your damage-dealing characters. Therefore we recommend using it on any characters that follow the paths of The Destruction, The Hunt, and The Erudition until you unlock higher level relics that tailor to their personal elemental damage and build.

Passerby of Wandering Cloud

Two pieces equipped: increases outgoing healing by 10%
Four pieces equipped: immediately recover one skill point at the beginning of battle

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Drifting in Jarilo-VI’s Corridor of Fading Echoes.

Passerby of Wandering Cloud recommended characters:

Thief of Shooting Meteor

Two pieces equipped: increases break effect by 20%
Four pieces equipped: increases the wearer’s break effect by 20%. The wearer regenerates three energy when they inflict weakness break on an enemy

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch in Jarilo-VI’s Everwinter Hill.

Thief of Shooting Meteor recommended characters:

Like Musketeer of Wild Wheat, Thief of Shooting Meteor is an accessible set in the early game. Its skill is useful across a wide range of characters, and it makes for a great set to boost your characters’ stats before you get sets with more specific skills and buffs. We recommend this set for any characters you use to exploit enemy weaknesses.

Wastelander of Banditry Desert

Two pieces equipped: increases imaginary damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: when attacking debuffed enemies, the wearer’s crit rate increases by 10%. If the enemy is imprisoned, the wearer’s crit damage increases by 20%

Obtain from Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Conflagration in The Xianzhou Luofu’s Stargazer Navalia.

Wastelander of Banditry Desert recommended characters:

Space Sealing Station

Two pieces equipped: increases the wearer’s attack by 12%. When the wearer’s speed reaches 120 or higher, the wearer’s attack increases by another 12%.

Obtain from Immersion Reward devices in World 3 of the Simulated Universe. It costs 40 Trailblaze Power or one Immersifier to claim these rewards. This set only comes as a neck piece and an article.

Space Sealing Station recommended characters:

The Simulated Universe sets are currently the only ones that can slot into the neck and article slots and their bonus effects are pretty universal. As such, we recommend equipping whichever Simulated Universe sets you manage to get on your most used characters.

When we get to see more relic sets in the final release, we’ll be sure to add a more definite answer about which characters each of the Space Station sets suit.

Fleet of the Ageless

Two pieces equipped: increases the wearer’s max HP by 12%. When the wearer’s speed reaches 120 or higher, all allies’ attack increases by 8%.

Fleet of the Ageless recommended characters:

When we get to see more relic sets in the final release, we’ll be sure to add a more definite answer about which characters each of the Space Station sets suit.

Talio: Kingdom of Banditry

Two pieces equipped: increases the wearer’s break effect by 20%. When the wearer’s speed reaches 145 or higher, the wearer’s break effect increases by an extra 28%.

Obtain from Immersion Reward devices in World 4 of the Simulated Universe. It costs 40 Trailblaze Power or one Immersifier to claim these rewards. This set only comes as a neck piece and an article.

Talio: Kingdom of Banditry recommended characters:

When we get to see more relic sets in the final release, we’ll be sure to add a more definite answer about which characters each of the Space Station sets suit.

Sprightly Vonwacq

Two equipped: increases the wearer’s energy regeneration rate by 5%. When the wearer’s speed reaches 145 or higher, the wearer’s action advances forward by 50% immediately upon entering battle.

Sprightly Vonwacq recommended characters:

When we get to see more relic sets in the final release, we’ll be sure to add a more definite answer about which characters each of the Space Station sets suit.

How do I get Honkai Star Rail relics?

It takes a bit of time before you unlock relics, but once you get them they’re definitely worth paying attention to. To unlock relics, you need to reach Trailblazer level 15 and get a decent way through the main story on Jarilo VI. Once you reach that point, you gain some through chests and mission rewards.

However, the main way to farm specific sets of relics is through the Caverns of Corrosion. You unlock the Caverns of Corrosion while exploring the Corridor of Fading Echoes as a part of the Trailblaze Mission Chapter 1: Jarilo-VI (Part 2), The Stars are Cold Toys. You need to be level 24 to start this quest, so it may take you quite some time before you get some good sets!

Similar to the resin system in Genshin Impact, you need to use 40 Trailblaze Power to claim rewards from Cavern of Corrosion domains. This power regenerates over time to a max of 180, or you can manually top up by using fuel or Stellar Jade.

The only exceptions to this rule so far are the Simulated Universe sets mentioned above. You unlock these from World 3 of the Simulated Universe and onwards. You can claim them from the Immersion Rewards devices that appear after you fight certain strong enemies. They cost 40 Trailblaze Power or one Immersifier, and only come as two-piece sets.

There you have it, everything you need to know about Honkai Star Rail relics. Bookmark this page and come back when we’ve discovered more about which relic sets are best for each character. If you fancy a different adventure, check out our Genshin Impact artifacts guide.