Honkai Star Rail: 9 Rare Critter Creations Recipe Guide

The recently launched Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick event offers players an exciting opportunity to nurture and mutate critters to acquire 9 rare creations. This 40-day event includes special missions and rewards as you build your collection. To help players efficiently obtain all the rare critters in Honkai Star Rail, this guide provides the complete recipe for each one. Check them out!

Honkai Star Rail: 9 Rare Critter Creations Recipe Guide

The Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick event begins after the Version 1.6 update, running until February 5th, 2024. This limited-time event lasts 40 days in total. To take part in the critter nurturing event, players must first finish the story quest “The Blue — When the Stars of Ingenuity Shine.” 

When the event begins, players receive base critters and materials to start the nurturing process. By selecting different traits and using special decorations during mutations, you can develop new critters with unique characteristics.

Where to Find Special Mutation Ingredients for Rare Critter Creations

The key ingredients for developing rare creations come from special mutations. You can obtain these event-exclusive materials from various sources:

• Defeating enemies or destroying objects in specific Honkai Star Rail areas
• Purchasing in shops found in certain event locations
• Completing missions and assignments
• Interacting with characters tied to the Critter Pick event

Check each recipe below for details on the required mutation ingredient and where you can collect it during the event timeline.

1) Trash Cake Recipe

The first rare creation, Trash Cake, unlocks by following the initial event tutorial. To manually make it, combine the base critters with the Trash decoration.

2) Rice Dumpling Recipe

To make this creation resembling Dang Heng, you need:

• Skin: Green
• Filling: Grey
• Decoration: Leaf of Imaginary

Acquire the Leaf of Imaginary in Backwater Pass or from the Grocery Stand shop.

Reward: Jade Marrow Diffusion

3) Ice Cake Recipe

This icy critter similar to March 7th requires:

• Skin: Blue
• Filling: Pink
• Pattern: W-shaped fur
• Decoration: Core of Ice

Purchase the Core of Ice from shops in the Administrative District or Fading Echoes areas.

Reward: Startaro Bubble

4) Lambda's Friend Recipe

For this creation themed after Lambda and similar to Ruan Mei, use:

• Skin: Blue
• Filling: Gray
• Pattern: U-shaped fur
• Decoration: Seed

Find Seeds as mission rewards or in destructible crates around Central Starskiff Haven.

Reward: Delicious Shumai

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5) Sesame Cake Recipe

To make a fluffy, fiery treat like Blade, combine:

• Skin: Orange
• Filling: Grey
• Pattern: U-shaped fur
• Decoration: Vortex of Wind

Defeat Mara-Struck Soldiers or visit shops in Central Starskiff Haven for the Vortex ingredient.

Reward: Rejuvenation Pellet

6) Troublemaker Recipe

For this aptly named critter reminiscent of Guinaifen:

• Skin: Orange
• Filling: Orange
• Pattern: W-shaped fur
• Decoration: Phlogiston

Phlogiston drops from breakables in Herta Space Station and Backwater Pass.

Reward: Prayer Machine

7) Wisteria Cake Recipe

The ingredients for Herta's virtual doppelgänger include:

• Skin: Purple
• Filling: Brown
• Pattern: W-shaped fur
• Decoration: Virtual Particle

Find Virtual Particles in the Herta Space Station Storage Zone.

Reward: Vomit Inducing Agent

8) Lucky Snack Recipe

To complete Qingque's critter counterpart:

• Skin: Green
• Filling: Brown
• Pattern: Moustache-shaped fur
• Decoration: Feather of Flame

Flame Feathers come from Cloudford enemies or Jarilo shops.

Reward: Backscratcher

9) Shader Cat Recipe

For this creation patterned after Kafka, mix together:

• Skin: Purple
• Filling: Purple
• Pattern: Spot-shaped fur
• Decoration: Eye of Lightning

Lightning Eyes drop in the Corridor of Fading Echoes.

Reward: Antimatter Field Generator

Earn Bonus Event Rewards in Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick

As you collect traits and nurture rare critters, your Research Level increases. This unlocks special Critter Pick prizes like materials, currencies, and exclusive outfits.

You can also send extra creations out for adoption to earn tokens spent in the event shop. Moreover, by completing certain nurturing milestones during the 40 days, additional limited-time rewards become available.

Creating all Honkai Star Rail: 9 rare Critter creations in the Critter Pick event requires patience and the right recipes. Use this guide to efficiently collect the essential ingredients from shops, missions, and enemies across the virtual worlds. Mix and match mutating critter traits until your collection fills with cute, cosmic companions!