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Zenless Zone Zero events January 2025

Our guide to all current and upcoming Zenless Zone Zero events is here to make sure you never miss a freebie, fight, or friendship.

A customized image of Nicole wearing her Cunning Cutie skin from one of the ZZZ events and winking

There’s always something going on in the electric world of New Eridu, and our Zenless Zone Zero events guide is here to make sure you never miss a thing. Whether it’s engaging combat challenges, the opportunity to earn double rewards, or brand new stories to explore, you can always keep up to date with all the current and upcoming ZZZ events right here.

Of course, each Zenless Zone Zero update also brings in a bunch of Zenless Zone Zero characters, so be sure to check out our Zenless Zone Zero tier list and Zenless Zone Zero banner guide to keep on top of those, too. We’ve also got a list of all the new Zenless Zone Zero codes, full of freebies.

Here’s everything in our Zenless Zone Zero events guide:

Current Zenless Zone Zero events

Here are all of the current ZZZ events.

The Day of Brilliant Wishes

January 23 – March 10

Euos is going to partner up with the superstar of New Eridu! In New Eridu, wishes always come true. Do you believe it? Each year New Eridu holds a Bangboo beauty contest to celebrate Gilded Carrot Day, and this year the winning Bangboo gets the special privilege to act as Astra Yao’s partner in illuminating the Yearlight, which represents the coming year.

Astra has her eyes set on Eous for this year’s champion, but it won’t be easy to claim that victory. First, you need to dress up your Bangboo and choose a skill to suit a specific theme and defeat your opponents in a mini dance battle.

After that, there’s the Grand Marcel Adventure, where Bangboo compete by going through obstacles to boost their popularity. Of course, those aren’t the only obstacles – but we’ll keep the rest as a surprise for later. Rewards for this event include polychromes, collectibles, and a free copy of ZZZ Nicole‘s new skin, Cunning Cutie, so be sure to take part!

Before the Curtain Rises

January 13 – 29

Log in for seven days throughout the event period to claim a total of 480 polychrome in preparation for Astra Yao’s concert. This is in addition to the usual check-in events for the first and second phases.

Special Visitor (Harumasa giveaway)

After version 1.4 update – before version 1.6 update

Log in and meet the requirements to obtain a free copy of the new S-rank agent, ZZZ’s Harumasa, along with upgrade supplies to get him all the way to level 40. You simply need to unlock the event feature in order to participate!

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Upcoming Zenless Zone Zero events

Here are all of the upcoming ZZZ events:

A Dream Come True at Last

January 24 – February 5

The long-awaited dinner gathering is just around the corner, but a sudden cancellation crisis hits! Good news: with just a little extra electricity cost,, you can eliminate this issue.

During this event, you need to cover the electricity bill to have Fairy help solve your friends’ troubles and ensure the long-awaited get-together goes as planned. Completing the event will earn you a commemorative photo, polychromes, and other goodies.

Godfinger Ultimate Showdown

January 28 – February 10

The newest Urban Video Game Festival begins – and this time Godfinger is joining the lineup of participating stores. It’s time for the toughest Hellhound, the most agile Mr. Work, and the fastest jet-powered taxi to assemble.

Head to Godfinger Arcade and play minigames during the festival to earn extra exchange tokens based on your performance. Completing additional tasks also earns you extra tokens, too – so you’ll have plenty to pick up all the rewards you need from the exchange store.

New Year Gift check-in event

January 29 – March 11

To celebrate the new year, you can log in for seven days throughout the event period to claim a total of ten additional encrypted master tapes. This is in addition to the usual check-in events for the first and second phases.

Click Click Hollow Reporter

February 2 – 17

Confident smile, perfect pose, flawless background, and the ideal companion! All the elements are in place, what are you waiting for? Press the shutter!

A young lady named Sheila arrives on Sixth Street with a strange camera and asks for help. In order to fix her beloved camera, she comes up with a bunch of strange requests, tasking you to take it with you into the Hollows and snap a bunch of awesome battle shots.

During this event, you get the opportunity to use a special battle camera during combat to capture epic moments of specific targets in exchange for buffs. Of course, you can also grab a bunch of goodies including polychrome and boopons for your efforts, but you’re free to capture as many shots as you like.

Advanced Bounty: Routine Cleanup

February 7 – 12

During the event, claim double rewards from routine cleanup challenges.

“Eh-Nah” Into Your Lap

February 12 – March 11

Log in for a total of seven days throughout the event period to claim ten boopons for free.

Elpis Ultimate Angler Championship

February 14 – March 10

Port Elpis is super busy recently due to a fishing competition being held. Apparently, someone found bioluminescent fish there at night, and those fish attracted a ton of fishing enthusiasts. The Fishing Association decided to capitalize on this by holding an Ultimate Angler Championship at the port, and those who make it to the finals gain permission to go night fishing at Reef Island.

Upon receiving an invite from Qingyi, you decide to check it out, giving you the opportunity to try out the new fishing game mode! However, in order to make it in Reef Island, there are a few other obstacles that stand in your way…

Take part in the event to earn an event-limited dynamic wallpaper, polychrome, a tuning calibrator, and other goodies.

Today’s Recommended Film

February 21 – March 3

Some customers questioned whether the recommendations are a little loose, and if the films are played randomly. Response: “Play At Random” is precisely the theme of the store.

The video store’s first promoter, Heddy, has formulated a new promotion plan with the other manager. Head over to Reverb Arena and assist customers at Random Play’s stand, recommending them films based on their requests to earn rewards.

141 Going Green for Everyone

February 26 – March 10

141 Battery Recycling: Bangboo batteries, ether batteries, special-model batteries… After using up the battery charge, please return the dead batteries to Sjal to support our environmental protection campaign!

Sjal, the special promoter for 141 convenience store, is ready to roll out a new event in an attempt to tackle environmental issues in New Eridu. During the event, you can give your used batteries to Sjal after your first battery charge consumption of the day in exchange for rewards, including polychrome, level-up material, denny, and more.

Data Bounty: Combat Simulation

March 5 – 10

During the event, you can claim double rewards from combat simulation challenges.

Endless Tower: The Last Stand

Version 1.5

Until the last drop of blood is shed, until the last blade is broken! Fight in the Endless Tower, until the bitter end!

The Endless Tower is back, but it’s seen some big changes. Unlike the trial in version 1.3, this time you progress in phases of ten floors. After reaching level 50 and earning all badges, you can keep challenging in phases of ten floors.

This time, you get to choose one of three modifiers before entering the challenge with specific combat effects. Clearing each floor grants you the corresponding reward effect for the next battle, too – though keep in mind that most modifiers come with both positive and negative effects.

With new badges, titles, avatars, and achievements to unlock, as well as extra limited-time rewards available during this event, it’s certainly worth putting your skills to the test.

Zenless Zone Zero events - a screenshot of the Road To Proxy Greatness event page in-game

Permanent Zenless Zone Zero events

Here are all the permanent ZZZ events:

Hollow Zero: Cleanse Calamity

Version 1.5

The threat is not yet gone. It’s time to eliminate the danger lurking in the shadows. There are still a lot of Ethereals wandering around and attacking the Outpost’s frontier. So, at the Defense Force’s invitation, it’s up to you to help clear out the highly dangerous Ethereals to protect the outpost.

In this update, new content arrives in Hollow Zero: Lost Void, including the debut of the new Perpetrator Battle gameplay. Use the designated agents and officially supplied gear and resonia to strategically defeat strong enemies and earn rewards.

Deadly Assault

Venture into a deadly situation where more enemies lie in wait. Welcome to the Hollow Zero Defense Force-exclusive, high-risk enemy combat training system!

That’s right, a new enemy training system is available in the HIA. Each season of Deadly Assault features three powerful enemies for you to face. These battles simulate special high-ether activity combat environments and generate special effects. Additionally, you must use different agents and bangboo for each enemy, do be mindful when picking your teams.

Earn stars by reaching certain scores during each season of Deadly Assault to claim heaps of film, denny, and more. Seasons change every two weeks with fresh enemies to face, so there will be plenty of opportunities to test yourself in the future, too.

Hollow Zero: Shadows Lost

A new season of Hollow Zero Investigation commissions begins, as Ray, White Star Institute’s research representative at the Scott Outpost, has mysteriously disappeared.

Head to the Lost Void and make use of the special ether resonance abilities to take down enemies and save the day – in exchange for heaps of goodies, of course.

Hollow Zero: Blitz Withering Garden

Version 1.2 introduced an all-new blitz mode to Hollow Zero’s Withering Garden. This mode allows you to dive straight into combat and rack up your weekly investigation points without having to explore the TV board. After each fight, you earn a resonium surprise box with several resonia of the same type.

Additionally, for those who love a challenge, you can now choose different modifiers to crank up the difficulty, and you’ll earn extra investigation points for doing so. This now applies to exploration mode as well.

Road to Proxy Greatness

Reach Inter-Knot level eight and unlock the event feature in the Main Story Prologue – Intermission quest to unlock the Road to Proxy Greatness event. After this, you can claim special rewards for reaching certain Inter-Knot levels, as follows:

  • Inter-Knot level five – ten master tapes and ten boopons
  • Inter-Knot level 15 – ten master tapes and ten boopons
  • Inter-Knot level 20 – ten master tapes and 15 boopons
  • Inter-Knot level 25 – ten master tapes and ten boopons
  • Inter-Knot level 30 – 1.6k polychrome and 20 boopons

Eridu Frontier

Participate in the Shiyu Defense gameplay mode and complete the Third Frontier of the Stable Node to earn a free copy of the A-rank agent, Zenless Zone Zero’s Soukaku.

Rookie on the Road

Reach Inter-Knot level eight and unlock the event feature in the Main Story Prologue – Intermission quest to unlock the Rookie on the Road event, during which you can obtain special rewards after achieving the specified conditions.

The conditions and rewards are:

  • Take Susie’s commission in the Main Story Prologue to claim the A-Rank W-Engine Semara Battery Mark II (Zenless Zone Zero Anby‘s signature weapon)
  • Complete Trial No. 3 to claim the A-rank W-Engine Starlight Engine
  • Complete the Chapter 1 – Intermission objective ‘head to the Turbo Remodeling shop’ to obtain the A-rank bangboo, Bagboo
  • Complete Chapter 2 Main Commissions ‘Let’s Go, Bro!’ and ‘Mechanical Love’, then trigger and complete the objective ‘call Ben Bigger’ to obtain a free copy of the A-rank agent, Zenless Zone Zero’s Ben

Investigator Training Course

While combat skills are important, the Investigator Training Course sets out to provide agents with all the other skills they need to survive the Hollows, offering the most practical experience and the best rewards.

Investigator Training offers four different courses where you can get a taste of what it’s like to be a Hollow Investigator and learn some basic and practical knowledge about Hollow exploration. Each combat course offers buffs tailored to different factions, and you even get the opportunity to use agents you don’t own yet to take on formidable enemies.

After unlocking the Tactical Course, you can assign your agents to undergo continuous tactical exercises in simulated Hollow environments, earning EXP along the way. Now, even newly recruited agents can keep up with the team’s progress.

Phantom Hunt

Rain has a batch of difficult commissions for Phaethon. However, the figure that appears in the Hollow seems familiar – who could it be? Take part and challenge yourself with these new combat commissions to find out more.

Simulated Battle Trial

Defeat floors of enemies to climb up the tower, with each floor posing a greater challenge than the last in this permanent combat gameplay mode. Of course, you earning heaps of rewards along the way, including a badge that gets even more shiny and flashy the higher you climb.

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Zenless Zone Zero web events

Here are the current ZZZ web events:

Should I be the Stars of Lyra

January 17 – 31

During the event, complete all ticket cration and sharing tasks to receive 125 polychrome, 25 official investigator logs, and 50k denny. Head to the event page to participate now.

Assembly Commission: Return to Ridu

Invite friends to return to New Eridu and complete the Assembly Commission challenges to earn up to 740 polychrome. Returning proxies who come back to the game via this page and complete the page missions can also earn rewards of up to 800 polychromes.

Other ZZZ web events

Zenless Zone Zero often holds giveaways, competitions, and mini-events on the official social media channels. You can head to the links below to find out more:

As of August, there is a daily check-in event available for Zenless Zone Zero. You can find it here and start raking in the rewards.

That’s everything in our Zenless Zone Zero events guide for now, but be sure to bookmark this page as there’s always something on the horizon. In the meantime, if you’re on the hunt for even more Hoyo fun, check out our Genshin Impact events and Honkai Star Rail events guides, or grab some goodies with our Genshin Impact codes and Honkai Star Rail codes.