Are you having trouble keeping on top of the Honkai Star Rail update schedule? Wanna know what the current update is introducing and what the next update is set to bring? Well, sit back and relax, dear passenger, as we’re here to fill you in on all the latest content, characters, and more coming in the next HSR update.
If you need a bit more help on your astral adventure, check out our Honkai Star Rail tier list, Honkai Star Rail characters, and Honkai Star Rail banner guides. We’ve also got a super handy list of all the latest Honkai Star Rail codes, as well as details on all the current and upcoming Honkai Star Rail events.
Here’s everything in the current and next Honkai Star Rail update:
When is the Honkai Star Rail 3.2 release date?
The HSR 3.2 update went live on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, with maintenance starting on Tuesday, April 8.
Before each update, there is a maintenance period during which you can’t access the game. If you reach Trailblaze level 4 or higher by the time a maintenance period starts, you will receive a minimum of 300 stellar jade in your in-game mailbox as compensation after maintenance concludes.
The HSR 3.3 release date is due on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 – six weeks after the start of 3.2.
When is the next Honkai Star Rail livestream?
The Honkai Star Rail 3.2 livestream went live on Friday, March 28, at 19:30 UTC+8. Here’s what that means for different timezones:
- PST: March 28 at 3:30
- EST: March 28 at 6:00
- GMT: March 28 at 11:30
- CET: March 28 at 12:30
You can watch it on the official Honkai Star Rail YouTube or Twitch, or catch up with all the latest info right here.
The HSR 3.3 livestream is due to go live on Friday, May 9, 2025 – six weeks after the last one.
Who are the new characters on the Honkai Star Rail update 3.2 banners?
Here are the characters featured on the Honkai Star Rail version 3.2 banners:
Blossom to the Beyond – phase one
- Honkai Star Rail’s Castorice
- Honkai Star Rail’s Pela
- Honkai Star Rail’s Gallagher
- Honkai Star Rail’s Lynx
Indelible Coterie – phase one
- Honkai Star Rail’s Jiaoqiu
- Honkai Star Rail’s Fugue
- Honkai Star Rail’s Acheron
- Pela
- Gallagher
- Lynx
The Universe in a Seed – phase two
- Honkai Star Rail’s Anaxa
- Honkai Star Rail’s Dan Heng
- Honkai Star Rail’s Serval
- Honkai Star Rail’s Moze
Panta Rhei – phase two
- Honkai Star Rail’s Dr Ratio
- Dan Heng
- Serval
- Moze
In addition to the featured characters, you can also pull for their signature light cones through the light cone banners. Check out our Honkai Star Rail banners guide to keep on top of all the current and upcoming Honkai Star Rail characters and light cones.
What are the Honkai Star Rail 3.2 free characters?
To celebrate HSR’s second anniversary, Hoyoverse is giving you the opportunity to claim one of two limited five-star characters. As long as you reach Trailblaze level four or higher between the start of version 3.2 and the end of version 3.4, you can claim a Golden Companion Spirit exchange token.
You can then exchange this token in the in-game shop to claim a free copy of either Honkai Star Rail’s Luocha or Honkai Star Rail’s Ruan Mei.
During the livestream, Dr. Orange also announced that “this year, you’ll be able to get a brand new limited five-star character completely free”, but we don’t have any other details on that just yet.
What characters are coming to the Honkai Star Rail standard banner in 3.2?
In celebration of the second anniversary, Hoyoverse has announced changes to the Honkai Star Rail standard banner.
From 3.2 onwards, three previously limited characters will be available in the standard banner pool. They are:
Additionally, you can now customize the line-up of non-boosted five-star characters, choosing which seven of the ten available characters you want.
Meanwhile, the following limited and standard five-star light cones will also be added to the exchange shop:
- She Already Shut Her Eyes (Preservation)
- Echoes of the Coffin (Abundance)
- Past Self In Mirror (Harmony)
- The Unreachable Side (Destruction)
- In The Night (Hunt)
- Night on the Milky Way (Erudition)
- Something Irreplaceable (Destruction)
- But the Battle Isn’t Over (Harmony)
- In the Name of the World (Nihility)
- Moment of Victory (Preservation)
- Sleep Like the Dead (Hunt)
- Time Waits for No One (Abundance)
Starting from 3.2, you can use Nameless Glory and Nameless Medal to obtain Light Cone Memory Shards. You can then use four Light Cone Memory Shards to purchase one of the five-star light cones above. There’s no time limit for using these tokens, so you can save them up for as long as you want.
Is there a new area in Honkai Star Rail update 3.2?
The Honkai Star Rail 3.2 update introduces the new area, Styxia. Long ago, Styxia was known as both the ‘City-State of Dragons and Waves’ and the ‘Pearl of the Ocean’. However, according to the Prophetic Poems, Styxia fell following a terrible dragon-related catastrophe. Now, all that remains is ruins.
While exploring Styxia, you can use lanterns to reveal paths that weren’t there before. You’ll also encounter some ghostly NPCs along the way, and you must use the lanterns to transform them from apparitions into real people.
Are there any new quests in Honkai Star Rail update 3.2?
Version 3.2 introduces a new Trailblaze mission chapter. Entitled ‘Through the Petals in the Land of Repose’, it follows on from 3.1’s story, and sees you journeying together with Castorice to search for the Death Titan, Thanatos.
Are there any new enemies in the Honkai Star Rail 3.2 update?
The HSR 3.2 update introduces the new boss, Pollux. Known as the embodiment of death, this dreadful dragon deals a special damage type called atrophy, which ignores your characters’ shield and defense and can’t be distributed.
When an ally target’s HP decreases during combat, Pollux accumulates a ‘Desperate Bubble’ and enters an enhanced state, stripping your entire party’s HP down to one point. While this may sound terrifying, you can actually use Pollux’s enhanced state against it.
While in the enhanced state, your team’s attacks consume the ‘Desperate Bubble’ and restore HP. When you’ve consumed the entirety of Pollux’s ‘Desperate Bubble’, the dragon will take massive damage – so it’s actually handy to use a HP drain character like Honkai Star Rail’s Blade to trigger Pollux’s enhanced state as quickly as possible.
Are there any new optimizations in Honkai Star Rail 3.2?
Hoyoverse continues to introduce new features with each HSR update to keep the game fresh, as well as helpful optimizations to improve your Trailblazing experience.
Here’s a quick summary of the biggest HSR 3.2 optimizations and new features:
- New auto-salvage function that allows you to automatically salvage all four-star and lower relics upon acquisition
- New smart discard feature for relics, allowing you to filter out sub-par relics and choose whether to salvage them or not
- Blade, Seele, and Fu Xuan join the standard banner pool, and you can now choose seven of the ten standard banner characters to target
- 12 five-star light cones are now available in the exchange shop, and you can purchase them using tokens from the free and premium battle pass
- Oneiric shard first-time double top-up bonus is reset. During version 3.2, accumulate a certain amount of oneiric shards to obtain character and light cone tokens, plus bonus decorations
- Silver Wolf, Blade, Kafka, and Jingliu are receiving buffs
What are the Honkai Star Rail update 3.2 events?
Here are the events coming in the HSR 3.2 update:
- Seal Slammers – a mini-game event
- Morning Starlight – combat event
- Star Rail WORLD – business management mini-game
- Festive gifts – check-in event where you can claim 20 Star Rail Special Passes over seven days
- To The Ones That Blaze – anniversary gift mail including 1,600 stellar jade and ten fuel
- Realm of the Strange 300% – triple Caverns of Corrosion drops event
- Planar Fissure 300% – triple Simulated and Divergent Universe drops event
- Annual Astral Express Trailblaze Report – annual in-game data review
To find out more about all the current and upcoming festivities, be sure to keep an eye on our Honkai Star Rail events guide.
That’s all we’ve got on the current Honkai Star Rail update for now, but keep your eyes peeled as we’ll be updating this guide with fresh information in the future. In the meantime, be sure to check out our list of the best games like Genshin Impact for more worlds to explore.