Honkai: Star Rail update 1.6 will add a universal upgrade material

A change that will make it easier to upgrade Traces and Light Cones

Marco Wutz | Dec 12, 2023

Honkai: Star Rail update 1.6 will add a universal upgrade material /

Update 1.6 for Honkai: Star Rail, which is set to be released on December 27, 2023, will add a new Trace and Light Cone material that can be substituted for Path-specific resources if you’re short on any. This brand-new and universal material will be called Tears of Dreams and will be quite a useful resource to stock up on, as it’ll enable you to upgrade character Traces and Light Cones much faster and with less farming. You’ll be able to transform Tears of Dreams into whichever material you need at the moment, though rarer resources will require more of it.

Aside from the fact that we’ll be given some Tears of Dreams from the developers at the start of version 1.6, it has not been revealed how we’ll acquire more of it. Perhaps the upcoming Honkai: Star Rail 1.6 livestream will provide some additional details on this matter.

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This isn’t the only change coming up for the popular space RPG, which won Best Mobile Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023.

HoYoverse confirmed that previously discussed changes to Relic enhancement and other Relic-related quality of life improvements would launch with update 2.0, which is expected to arrive in February 2024. Newly confirmed is that these changes will include the ability to choose between receiving Lost Gold Fragments and Relic Remains when salvaging items.

A change is coming to Golden Calyxes as well with update 2.0: In addition to their current bounty, they’ll drop enemy materials used for upgrading characters, Traces, and Light Cones, giving you another source of income for these resources aside from Daily Assignments and battle loot. For this reason, six additional Golden Calyxes will be added to the Xianzhou Luofu and Penacony.

Finally, update 2.0 will bring about a refresh of the Light Cones available through the Forgotten Hall, though we don’t yet know which weapons will come to this shop.

Black Swan has been revealed as the first figure to join the Honkai: Star Rail characters in the 2.0 version.

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Published Dec 12, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg