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StarFest 2025: Cosmic Collapse

Alina | Saturday, July 12, 2025

The Stars are Watching and One Just Blinked

Amefuri, a sentient star with a radiant spark and a mischievous streak, has broken away from her constellation. Now her celestial siblings are scattered across Lore, and their absence is unraveling the balance of the seasons. With Kylokos’s divinations faltering and fate itself flickering, the hunt begins — not just to find the stars, but to understand why they fell.

Release Details

StarFest 2025: Cosmic Fracture
Astronomical Rewards: new item drops + merge shop update
Summer Collection II: Molten Mayhem sets
New Bonus Set: Find two new variants in the Celestial Centaur upgrade bonus pack

Weekend Daily Gifts & Boosts

  • Server Boost: Get double XP until Monday!
  • Saturday: seasonal Sunflower Kimono set from Kitsune Himawari in /VictorMatsuri
  • Sunday: rare Vengeful Victor's Claw from the Chimera in the /Coliseum

Stellar Rewards 

We've got a host of new 0 AC reward items for you this weekend to help you look like star while you battle to save the world... and beyond! Head to /AriasGreenhouse to begin the adventure, or talk to Kylokkos in /StarFest.

Merge Shop

  • Crimson StarEdge Suhail (single/dual-wield)
  • Crimson NovaBlade Persei (single/dual-wield)
  • Astromancer's Apprentice armor
  • Astro Apprentice Helm Gift I + II*
  • Astral Apprentice Weapon Gift*
  • Fireworks Qipao
  • Elegant Festival Helm Gift I + II*
  • Star Festival Weapon Gift I + II*
  • Celestial Qipao armor

Level 75 epic animated weapons

  • Spectral StarEdge Saiph (single/dual-wield)
  • Spectral NovaBlade Alnitak (single/dual-wield)

Quest Rewards

  • Fractured Pleiades: Quasar's Grasp mace
  • Lambda Ori: Quasar's Grasps daggers
  • Beta Arietis: Star Fest House Gift I*
  • Delta Andromedae: Star Fest House Gift II*
  • Fable Fall: Star Fest House Gift III + IV*
  • Fixed Earth: Gold Star Lights + Prismatic Star Lights
  • Epsilon Tau: Summer Star Festival Empress (seasonal, available until August 31st)

* Due to several unexpected real-life delays experienced by a few of our team members, plans for this week's rewards had to change on short notice. This is why we're releasing celestial variants of existing items, and why some are still in progress. 

Nova Empyrean Dragon Battle

Last year, for Empress Miko's celebration, 28 stars merged to form a Cosmic Dragon, and they descended to our world... to battle YOU! This stellar creature believes that by defeating the Eternal Dragon of Time, it will ascend to godhood, its place as a constellation permanently fixed in the cosmos. Return next week as we continue the adventure with another Empyrean boss battle

Celestial Paladin & the Star Light of Destiny

Nothing shines quite as brightly as a Paladin on a mission... unless they've got plate armor made of starstuff! Battle the Cosmic Dragons in the /Novashrine or /AstralShrine maps to craft the pieces of the Celestial Paladin set. 

OUT OF THIS WORLD NEWS: the Star Light of Destiny axe is available in six of Artix Entertainment's games this month! Battle to unlock it in AQWorlds, AQ3D, AdventureQuest, DragonFable, EpicDuel and MechQuest.

Celestial Paladin Set
Armor deals 50% more damage to Undead when equipped

Requirements:

  • ArchPaladin Armor
  • Blinding Aura
  • Star of the Empyrean x14
  • Star Piece x50

Star Light of Destiny Axe
Weapon deals 75% more damage to both Undead and Dragonkin when equipped

Requirements:

  • Ascended Light of Destiny
  • Blackhole Light of Dread Space
  • Void Light of Destiny
  • Polished Blinding Light of Destiny
  • Hollowborn Shadow of Fate
  • Obsidian Light of Destiny
  • Ultimate Blinding Light of Destiny
  • Sanctified Light of Destiny
  • Star of the Empyrean x28
  • Star Piece x100
  • Dragonblade of Nulgath OR Dark Dragon Slayer's Halberd

A stellar new bonus farming map is now available! Join /starfield to enter a pocket galaxy full of star-themed monsters. Yoshino built the map with enough room to let you shine on the battlefield by showing off your most explosive aggro skills. Cause enough star-death and you'll unlock the "Touch Mass" character page badge.*

Note: The Cosmic Dragon maps, bosses, and rewards are all permanently available.

Celebrate with all our returning Star Festival Events

Complete all of the Emissary's quests to make a wish of your own and change the night sky in /yokairiver! Along with our returning seasonal Star Festival events, the Frostval in July holiday is also back! If you're just joining us, you're in for a frosty treat in the middle of our summer heat!

For last year's celebration, we created an adventure featuring the Celestial Emissary, a living Daruma that traveled around our world to help the gods of Yokai Isle grant wishes. Help it and you'll be able to make a wish of your very own... that will change the shape of the very stars themselves!

Visit the Star Festival to:

  • Decorate Akiba for the Star Festival
  • Battle across Lore as you hunt for her wishes
  • Unlock the Moon Bow Ninja reward armor set after completing the story
  • Get the exclusive level 80 boss drop armor set
  • Return to the event at any time with the hanging Star Festival Decoration house item

Shorinzan Merge Shop

Complete the Celestial Emissary's quests in /starfest to gather the merge shop resources for the Starry Samurai set + a selection of celestial weapons from AQW community artist, Mihuri!

  • Starry Samurai armor
  • Starry Samurai helm, capes, weapons
  • Aurelian Sword, Dagger, Staff

Reward Drops

 Battle Ultra Uji No Hashihime in the Yokairiver map for a chance to get 4 new 0 AC house items.

  • Wish for Love Constellation Wall item
  • Wish for Peace Constellation Wall item
  • Wish for Gold Constellation Wall item
  • Wish for Happiness Constellation Wall item

Star Festival Character Page Background

If you are a member in AQWorlds, we've got some exclusive holiday event bonuses for you! 

  • Star Festival Character page background: Unlock the holiday character page background in the first room in /Yokai River.
  • Tanabata Fest Decoration Shortcut: Buy the house item from the Akiba House shop for 7,777 gold. When you click on this item, you'll be taken straight to a permanent version of Akiba, where you can continue to farm for the 0 AC Moon Bow Ninja armor set!

Stay up to date with new release plans and boosts on the Artix Calendar and see what the latest Bug Fixes and Balance Changes are in their patch notes.

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