What's New at Launch

Underneath, Star Realm plays the way you remember. This page is everything sitting on top of that.

🆕 Added around launch (September 2026)#

The newest things, in plain words. Balance changes, removals and fixes are on September 2026.

Playing and levelling#

• Battle Pass is cheaper to join for now. Joining the Normal track costs 10 Star Tokens during the launch promo instead of 100. A new Battle Pass Permit item joins your whole account for free and hands you the Battle Pass Book; it is not used up if no season is running or you already joined. There is no way to get a Permit yet — Battle Pass.
• B-Pass Shop. The Battle Pass now pays B-Pass Tokens on its tiers, and you spend them at the Herald or straight from the Battle Pass Book: HD ore fragments, card albums, Random Pet Catchers, Moonturns and 12-hour Bubble Gum and Battle Manual, each with a per-season cap — Battle Pass.
• Stat and skill resets at the Build Manager (prt_in 46,101), Friday 00:00 to Monday 04:00: free up to base level 40, then 40 Silvervine Fruit per reset (stats and skills separately, 80 for both), plus one free reset per character at 41+ — Support NPCs.
• Skipped the Training Ground? The Novice Steward pays what you missed. A new Collect missed Training Ground supplies option at prontera 151,158 hands over the course rewards a character never got — novice set, potions, wings, EXP — once per character — Starter Equipment.
• Dimensional Giant Fly Wing. The Rift Warden sells a 1-hour rental for 20,000z that a party leader uses inside the Dimension Crack to pull the whole party to a new spot; 10-second cooldown — Hunting Mission.
• Record announcements. Whenever more adventurers are online at once than ever before, the whole server hears about it.
• The Star Token Exchange has a daily stock. 8 items a day from a pool of 20, refreshed at 21:00 and shared by the whole server — Star Charge & Star Token.
• Your Star Charge cap grows with your level — from 10 a day at low levels up to 75, and 100 for VIP from level 81 — Star Charge & Star Token.
• Job Reborn sheet rebuilt. — Job Switch.

Gear#

• Shields get a PvE option. Aegis Moonbind (250,000z at the Moonbinder) rolls one monster-race resistance instead of a PvP skill bonus. The choice is permanent — Shield.
• Violin [4] and Rope [4] take Random Options like the other one-handed weapons (+7 and grade D needed). No other level 1 or 2 weapon does — Weapons.
• Refine messages name the ore and say what happened to the item — Ore Refining.
• Enriched ore in the Cash Shop. Enriched Elunium and Enriched Oridecon, 10,000 each, one at a time, bound to your account — Ore Refining.

Collecting#

• The Collection window opens from the game client itself. Register sets, see your bonuses, pick a Milestone blessing and switch bonuses on or off per character. The Star Collector NPC left Prontera on 1 October — Item Collection.
• LHZ Aura costume set. The Genesis: First Light Ultimate prize is now the Selection LHZ Aura (Choice) box: pick one of five Mind Auras (Vicious Mind White or Crimson, Yellow, Blazing or Purple), yours to keep and tradeable. Each aura gives Base & Job EXP +5% while worn, pays its own bonus when deposited in the Collection window, and all five together add Drop Rate +5% and All Stats +1. The Killua set is withdrawn before anyone used it; a Killua box you already pulled still opens — Crafted Costume Sets.
• A, S and SD pets never run away. Neglect drops them to Awkward and no further, and the egg stays. D, C and B pets still leave at zero — Pet System.
• Card Albums announce their cards. Every card from a Weapon, Armor or Garment & Shoes Card Album is announced to the whole server. The Accessory album stays quiet.

PvP#

• Six PvP stat foods at the Arena Warden, 20 PvP Points each: +10 to one stat for 20 minutes. They only work in PvP rooms and the Moonlight Mayhem arenas. Anywhere else the food is handed back, and it does nothing while the normal food for that stat is active — PvP Points & Totem.
• The Utilities Shop is now the PvP Point Shop, in the Arena Warden's menu — PvP Points & Totem.

Supporters and streamers#

• Top-Up Milestones pay reward packs, in six tiers. Every claim gives the 90-day title to your whole account, plus a pack of 7 to 19 items for the character that claims it. Legacy Rp 5,000,000 · Apex Rp 10,000,000 · GOAT Rp 25,000,000. Phenomenon is gone. Free up weight and bag space before you claim — Top-Up Milestones.
• Streamer grants pay Free Points, claimed at the Streamer Manager. Old unclaimed grants pay Free Points too — Become a Streamer.
• The Streamer Weekly Supply Pack lands straight in your bag: 7 days of VIP, 10 Streamer Megaphones, 10 Giant Fly Wing Boxes and a 7-day Costume StarRO Streamer rental. The costume now gives +2% EXP and +2% drop rate — Become a Streamer.

Around Prontera#

• Mehong is back. The Cash Shop's Overcharge Ticket works again: one level of Overcharge per ticket from Mehong at prontera 261,192, up to level 10, for any class but Merchants and Novices; paid levels come back free after a skill reset — Support NPCs.
• Town links. Go to Bottom Area (prontera 220,184) hops you to the refine row; Return to Central Maintown (prontera 203,273) brings you back from the top of town — Support NPCs.
• Prontera NPCs rearranged — latest layout 4 October. Each guide lists its NPC's spot — Support NPCs. The Star Collector and the Market Warper are gone.
• Item tooltips tell the truth about trading. Cash Shop boxes that were always tradeable no longer show as locked.

🧭 Something to follow#

The Star Path — a guided route for new characters that unlocks chapter by chapter and hands you one system at a time, instead of 171 NPCs at once in Prontera. Star Guide Kipo runs it; talk to him first.

📈 Things to work on#

🔨 Things to build#

Refining is unchanged; everything after it is new:

• Star Forge — push armour and weapons past ordinary upgrading
• Random Options — roll extra bonuses onto gear, and reroll what you do not like
• Refine Attunement — tune a whole set rather than one piece
• Gear Essence — turn spare gear into upgrade material
• Blueprint Crafting — build costumes in two stages
• Guarantee Card Quest — a route to a specific card instead of hoping

⚔️ Things to fight#

🐾 Things to collect#

• Pets — a ladder from D up to S, with catalysts, essence and a pity floor
• Item Collection — hand items in permanently for account-wide bonuses
• Titles — rented or made permanent
• Charm Weaver — timed effects woven into a costume you already wear

🔧 Things that make life easier#

• Star Combat — automated farming, on a rented licence
• Sacred Healer — free heals, buffs and most consumables
• Mini Events — ten games on a fixed timetable, six slots a day
• Commands — @mobinfo, @whodrops and @whereis answer most questions without leaving the game