Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Rises
Release Date: November 2, 2022
Previous: 3.1 - King Deshret and the Three Magi
The classified project that involves the collective effort of the Akademiya's Six Darshans is approaching its crucial final stage.
With so much effort, time, and resources invested, there will certainly be a huge pay-off.
However, it is not up to them to decide if the outcome has lived up to their expectations...
With so much effort, time, and resources invested, there will certainly be a huge pay-off.
However, it is not up to them to decide if the outcome has lived up to their expectations...
New Content
- New Characters
- "Physic of Purity" Nahida (5-Star Dendro Catalyst)
- "Fantastical Evening Star" Layla (4-Star Cryo Sword)
- Event Wishes


- Phase I
- Phase II
- Everbloom Violet (Yae Miko & Layla)
- Farewell of Snezhnaya (Tartaglia & Layla)
- New Weapons

- A Thousand Floating Dreams (5-Star Catalyst)
- New Quests
- Archon Quests
- Story Quests
- Sapientia Oromasdis Chapter: Act I - Lingering Warmth (Nahida)
- World Quests
- New Systems
- Serenitea Pot System: "Replication"
- New Events
- Fabulous Fungus Frenzy
- Adventurer's Trials
- Hypostatic Symphony: Dissonant Verse
- Outside the Canvas, Inside the Lens: Greenery Chapter
- Marvelous Merchandise
- New Monsters
- Recipes
- Achievements
- Additions to Wonders of the World
- Namecards
- Furnishing
- Brightwood "Concord" Bed
- Replica of the Theater's Glory
- Simple Brightwood Carved Wall
- Dark Brightwood Flooring
- Brightwood Chiseled Ceiling
- Efflorescent Illumination
- Mansion Pagoda — Flower of Revelation
- Mansion Pagoda — Flower of Revelation
- Mansion Courtyard — Warbling Pavilion
- Mansion Courtyard — Watchtower of Foresight
- Mansion Courtyard — Place of Repose
- Mansion Courtyard — Cuisinier's Abode
- Sub-space Structure: Suspended Pathway
- Sub-Space Structure: Treetop Stroll
- A Choice of Delicacies
- Spirit of the Banquet
- A Table for Two
- Witness of Tavern Affairs
- Forest Watcher's Fastidiousness
- Forest Ranger's Provisions
- Appraiser's Treasure
- Ceramic Centerpiece
- Ephemeral Spirit
- Karmaphala Wood "Subdued Speech" Bench
- Karmaphala Wood "Counter-Assault" Dining Chair
- Satisfaction of Sated Thirst
- Joyful Illumination
- Adhigama Wood "Comfort" Bed
- Adhigama Wood "Versatile" Shelves
- Brightwood "Invigorating" Nightstand
- Treasure from the Land of Wisdom
- Scrolls from the Land of Wisdom
- Forest Watcher's Considerations
- Deepwood Dweller's Delicacies
- Aroma of High-Heat Barbecue
- Fragrance of Low-Heat Roast
- Treasures of the City of Wisdom
- Delicacies of the City of Wisdom
- Aromas of the City of Wisdom
- Tenacity of the City of Wisdom
- Commerce of the City of Wisdom
- Shade in the Tranquil Court
- Light in the Tranquil Court
- Fabric of the City of Wisdom
- Pottery of the City of Wisdom
- Diligence of the City of Wisdom
- Building Block of the City of Wisdom
- The Eremites' Fame
- Theater's Cool Mist
- Clarity from the Land of Wisdom
- Immersive Light
- Blooming Illumination
- Perennial Illumination
- Uplifting Growth
- A Theater's Dream of Flowers
- Longing in the Tranquil Court
- A Forest Corner's Miracle
- Flaming Azure
- Concentrated Alabaster
- Flaming Catalyst
- Prolongation Medium
- Balancing Dye
- Fervid Nutrients
- Gloomy Glamour
- Pristine Vessel
- Slanted Meandering Wood
- Verdant Meandering Wood
- Other Additions
- Adds some prompts for loading screens.
- New Item: Nature's True Fruit.
- New Serenitea Pot Realm Layout: "Sublime Spicewood".
- Spiral Abyss
- Floor 11 Ley Line Disorders changed to:
- All party members have their Elemental Mastery increased by 200.
- Updated the monster lineup on Floor 11 of the Spiral Abyss.
- Updated the monster lineup on Floor 12 of the Spiral Abyss.
- Starting from the first time that the Lunar Phase refreshes after updating to Version 3.2, the two Lunar Phases will be as follows:
- Phase I: Hailing Moon
- When characters deal DMG to an opponent, a shockwave will be unleashed at that opponent's position, dealing True DMG. Each Elemental DMG Type (including Physical DMG) can unleash a shockwave this way every 8s.
- Phase II: Lush Moon
- When characters trigger Burning, Quicken, Aggravate, Spread, Bloom, Hyperbloom, or Burgeon on an opponent, all party members will gain 10% Dendro DMG Bonus for 10s. This bonus can be triggered once every 5s. Max 4 stacks. Once 4 stacks have been gained, when characters deal Dendro DMG to an opponent, a shockwave will be unleashed at that opponent's position, dealing True DMG. A shockwave can be unleashed in this way once every 5s.
- Phase I: Hailing Moon
- The above Spiral Abyss update will take effect from November 16 at 04:00 (Server Time).
Adjustments & Optimizations
- Enemies
- Reduces the damage inflicted when the boss "Pyro Hypostasis" is in a Burning state and unleashes blazing punches or serpentine fireballs to hit the character continuously.
- System
- Optimizes the Anti-Aliasing function on PC, PS4, and PS5.
- After optimizing the Anti-Aliasing function, it will be possible to choose between "None" or "FSR 2" in Settings > Graphics on PC.
- Audio
- Optimizes the sound performance of knocking down opponents and critical hits.
- Optimizes the sound effects of some items and objects.
- Optimizes the Japanese, Korean, and English voice-over for certain characters, NPCs, and quests.
- Optimizes the Korean and English voice-over related to certain items.
- Decreases the volume of Yae Miko's footstep sound effects when walking, running, and sprinting.
- Other
- Rana, Jeht, Jebrael, and Habachi are now correctly affected by elemental effects.
- Updates the materials that can be added to the Parametric Transformer: added some harvestable items and some items dropped by enemies.
- Adjusts the ore types at certain locations in the Sumeru area: some Magical Crystal Ore will be adjusted to Crystal Ore.
- Adjusts the visual effects display of Dendro Elemental Reactions to reduce the load on system performance (including Dendro Infusion, Bloom, Hyperbloom, Burgeon, Quicken, Aggravate, and Spread).
Bug Fixes
- Quests
- Fixes the issue of not being able to accept the follow-up quest "The Gourmet Supremos: Cleanup" from the World Quest "Gourmet Supremos: Within Our Duties" normally (After completing the quest, you can obtain the Recipes "Fish With Cream Sauce," "Potato Boat," and "Tandoori Roast Chicken").
- Fixes an issue with the World Quest "Equivalent Exchange Once More" whereby the number of quest items required to be submitted in the text did not correspond with the actual quantity submitted.
- Fixes an issue whereby some characters can abnormally enter certain areas in the "Mysterious Ruins" Domain of the Archon Quest "Secret of the Scorching Desert."
- Enemies
- Fixes an issue whereby the range of some skills of the enemy Eremite Daythunder was too large.
- Fixes an issue whereby when the enemies Hydro Slime and Large Hydro Slime applied the Wet status to the surrounding area, the area of effect was abnormally high.
- Fixes an issue whereby the boss Aeonblight Drake has a small probability of abnormally leaving combat under certain circumstances.
- Fixes an issue whereby the Elemental Burst animation of some characters (e.g. Raiden Shogun) have a small probability of displaying abnormally when fighting the bosses Aeonblight Drake and Jadeplume Terrorshroom.
- Characters
- Fixes an issue whereby some characters would stop swimming or float in the air abnormally under certain circumstances.
- Fixes an issue whereby the special effects and some effects of Rain Swords generated by Xingqiu's Elemental Skill were abnormally missing when Xingqiu triggered his Elemental Skill after the Rain Swords generated by his Elemental Burst disappeared.
- Fixes an issue in Co-Op Mode whereby when Diona unleashes her Elemental Skill, if Diona leaves the field while Icy Paws is flying, the effect "Creates a shield for other nearby characters on the field" from her Lv.2 Constellation will not apply normally.
- Fixes an issue with Sangonomiya Kokomi whereby when she casts her Elemental Burst, there is a probability that she could fall into water abnormally when standing on the surface of the water and using Four-Leaf Sigils.
- Fixes an issue whereby when Nilou leaves the field after swiftly casting her Elemental Skill in a short period of time and entering the Lunar Prayer state, the Lunar Prayer status cannot be removed normally.
- Fixes an issue with Nilou whereby there is a small probability that her Elemental Burst is unable to hit enemies in certain situations.
- Fixes an issue under certain circumstances whereby after Nilou casts her Elemental Burst, her weapon effects would not display correctly.
- Fixes an issue whereby when Cyno casts his Elemental Burst, if the Elemental Skill that was cast in the "Endseer" state is interrupted, when casting the next Elemental Skill, the "Judication" effect will trigger abnormally even if Cyno is not in the "Endseer" state.
- System
- Fixes an issue in Japanese whereby the description of the namecard "Nilou: Lotus Dance" was incorrect.
- Fixes an issue whereby the length of some in-game icons would display abnormally on some iOS devices.
- Fixes an issue on iOS devices whereby players could not use the controller to scroll up and down on data about character attributes in the Character Ascension interface.
- Fixes an issue in Co-Op Mode whereby when multiple Cynos unleashed their Elemental Burst, there is a probability that the indication effect of Endseer could display abnormally (the actual effects of the skill work as intended in-game).
- Fixes an issue whereby Scarabs had to be at very close range before it can be detected by the effect "can display nearby resources unique to Sumeru on the mini-map."
- Fixes an issue whereby the actual effect does not match the text description for the Spiral Abyss' Benediction of the Abyss "Character DMG within 8s of sprint +20%. Can occur only once every 15s." The original actual effect is "Character ATK within 8s of sprint +20%."
After the fix, its effects and description are: "Character DMG within 8s of sprint +20%. Each character can only do this once every 15s."
- Audio
- Fixes an issue whereby Chongyun's "When It Snows" voice line could not be triggered when he is at Dragonspine.
- Fixes an issue whereby some of Candace's Japanese voice-overs could not be played properly in the Character > Voice-Over interface.
- Fixes an issue of incorrect background music in some areas of the Sumeru area.
- Fixes an issue with the boss "Childe" whereby when he switches combat phases, his voice line would be interrupted abnormally.
- Fixes an issue whereby abnormal switching of ambient sound effects and background music occurred in some areas.
- Other
- Fixes an issue whereby under certain circumstances, there is a small probability that characters might float abnormally when climbing.
- Fixes an issue whereby brief abnormal brightness changes would occur when some characters entered Aiming Mode or cast their Elemental Bursts.
- Fixes an issue whereby some environment models were displayed abnormally.
- Fixes an issue with abnormal collision size in some environments.
- Fixes incorrect descriptions of some Fishing Points in The Chasm: Underground Mines.
- Fixes an issue of abnormal color display in some features (such as meteorites summoned by the Geo Traveler's Elemental Skill, Paimon's cloak, Elemental Sight, etc.) in areas affected by "The Withering."
- Fixes an issue under certain circumstances whereby the NPC Aranakula could follow the character abnormally.
- Fixes an issue under certain circumstances whereby after some characters exited the Spiral Abyss interface, the in-game camera angle would not be correct.
- Fixes some textual errors in 13 languages and optimizes text. "Note: Related in-game functions have not changed." (Travelers can view the changes in different languages by going to the Paimon Menu > Settings > Language and changing the Game Language.
Text-related fixes and optimizations in English include:- Optimized some lines in Hu Tao's story in her Profile.
- Optimized some lines in Nilou's story in her Profile.
- Optimized some lines in Qiqi's story in her Profile.
- Optimized Cyno's character story.
- Optimized some lines in the quests and World Quests.
- Optimized instances of an item name from "Coconut Charcoal Cake" to "Charcoal-Baked Ajilenakh Cake."
- Optimized instances of an item name from "Redcrest" to "Henna Berry."
Known Issues
- In order to accommodate the configuration needs of different Travelers, we will restore the PC version's SMAA Anti-Aliasing option in a later update. After the update, the Anti-Aliasing options of the PC version will be adjusted to: "None," "FSR 2," and "SMAA." Please stay tuned for future notices.
- Travelers who have completed the "Monsters Themed" random survey questionnaire on HoYoLAB have encountered an issue whereby the in-game mail text does not display properly when claiming the completion rewards. This mail has now been re-sent with the correct text. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused.
- Currently, Travelers who have accomplished the Achievement "Justice Falling" [sic] will fail to accomplish the Achievement "Active Camouflage." This issue will be fixed in a later update. Please stay tuned for future notices.
- There is an issue whereby under certain circumstances, some characters will move abnormally during their idle animations. This issue will be fixed in a later update. Please stay tuned for future notices.
- There is an issue whereby when Cyno casts his Elemental Burst, the effects on his face would be abnormal. This issue will be fixed in a later update. Please stay tuned for future notices.
- There is an issue whereby there is a localization error in Russian for Layla's Elemental Skill "Nights of Formal Focus." This issue will be fixed in a later update. Please stay tuned for future notices.
Post-patch Optimization & Fixes
- 2022-11-02 23:30 UTC+8
- Fixes an issue whereby when playing on PC, PS4™, and PS5™, the Artifacts icon would appear blurry on the "Characters > Artifacts" interface.
- Fixes an issue whereby, under certain circumstances, when carrying out the objective "Talk to Candace" in the Archon Quest "Through the Predawn Night," there is a small probability that the quest icon would be abnormally located in Liyue.
- Travelers affected by the issues mentioned above can restart the game to continue playing normally.
- 2022-11-04 16:05 UTC+8
- Fixes a text error in Russian for the quest objective "Go to the Sanctuary of Surasthana" in Archon Quest "A Toast to Victory."
- Fixes an issue whereby under certain circumstances, there is a small probability that the Restorative Piths released by the Dendro Hypostasis boss would not appear.
- 2022-11-04 15:05 UTC+8
- Fixes a text error in Russian for the quest objective "Go to the Sanctuary of Surasthana" in Archon Quest "A Toast to Victory."
- Fixes an issue whereby under certain circumstances, there is a small probability that the Restorative Piths released by the Dendro Hypostasis boss would not appear.
- 2022-11-10 15:20 UTC+8
- Fixes an issue whereby after teleporting to the "Formation Estate" Domain entrance in Inazuma, some characters could sink into the ground abnormally.
- Fixes an issue whereby the Cooldown duration of the food item "Rose Custard" was abnormal after usage.
- Fixes an issue whereby the "Events Overview" interface of some devices were displayed abnormally.
- Restored the Anti-Aliasing function option for the PC version. After the update, the Anti-Aliasing options for the PC version are now: "None," "FSR 2," and "SMAA."
- Fixes an issue whereby Travelers who have accomplished the Achievement "Geronimo!" will fail to accomplish the Achievement "Active Camouflage."
- Travelers can log out via the Paimon Menu then log in again, and fulfill the corresponding conditions again to obtain the Achievement.
- Fixes an issue whereby when entering combat with the enemy Ruin Hunter on the ground, the Ruin Hunter would immediately rise into the air abnormally.
- 2022-11-17 15:10 UTC+8
- Fixes an issue whereby under certain circumstances, the Fungus skill would become unusable after the character equips "Wind-Blessed Harpastum" in "Coordinated Assault," "Zone Defense," and Nilotpala Cup Beast Tamers Tournament."
- Updates resources related to subsequent events.
- 2022-11-24 15:05 UTC+8
- Fixes an issue whereby there is a localization error in Russian for Layla's Elemental Skill "Nights of Formal Focus."
- Fixes an issue whereby there is a localization error in Spanish for Dori's Elemental Burst "Alcazarzaray's Exactitude."
Notes
- ↑ The inability to access this quest in the previous version was listed as a bug; it was made accessible this version.
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Other Languages
Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
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English | Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Rises | — |
Chinese (Simplified) | 虚空鼓动,劫火高扬 Xūkōng Gǔdòng, Jiéhuǒ Gāoyáng | Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Rises High |
Chinese (Traditional) | 虛空鼓動,劫火高揚 Xūkōng Gǔdòng, Jiéhuǒ Gāoyáng | |
Japanese | 虚空の鼓動、熾盛の劫火 Kokuu no Kodou, Shijou no Gouka | Pulse of the Akasha, Vigor of the Kalpa Flame |
Korean | 허공의 선동, 타오르는 겁화 Heogong-ui Seondong, Taoreuneun Geophwa | Instigation of Akasha, Burning Kalpa |
Spanish | Pulso de Akasha, fuego que arrasa | Akasha's Pulse, Raging Flame |
French | Pulsation akashienne & montée de la flamme de kalpa | Akashan Pulsation & Rising of the Kalpa Flame |
Russian | Пульс Акаши и пламя кальпы Pul's Akashi i plamya kal'py | Akasha's Pulse and the Kalpa Flame |
Thai | Akasha ปลุกปั่น เปลวเพลิงลุกโชน Akasha Pluk-pan Pleo-phloeng Luk-chon | Instigation of Akasha, The Rising of Flame |
Vietnamese | Akasha Rung Động, Kiếp HỏaKiếp Hỏa Dâng Trào | Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Rises High |
German | Akasha pulsiert, die Kalpa-Flamme lodert | Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Blazes |
Indonesian | Akasha Berdetak, Api Kalpa Bergelora | Akasha Pulses, the Kalpa Flame Burning |
Portuguese | O Akasha Pulsa, a Chama Kalpa se Ergue |
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