Genshin Impact 5.1 patch notes

Genshin Impact 5.1 releases worldwide on October 9, 2024, at 11 AM (UTC+8). The update introduces the new 5-star character Xilonen, a Geo-element sword user. This is the first patch after the introduction of Natlan, the Pyro nation, and it finally advances the main Archon Quest. Other than that, two new enemies have been added to the game - an automaton and an abyss monster.

This article covers everything new in the Genshin Impact 5.1 update and explores the version patch notes in detail.

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Genshin Impact 5.1 patch notes: New characters, weapons, quests, and more

New character

Xilonen is the new 5-star character in Genshin Impact 5.1 (Image via HoYoverse)

Genshin Impact 5.1 introduces a new 5-star character named Xilonen. This Geo-character is a sword user, and her abilities are designed to make her act as a support unit.

Xilonen's elemental skill synergizes with other elemental types of your party members, and her elemental burst deals AoE damage.

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New weapons

New weapons in Genshin Impact 5.1 (Image via HoYoverse)

According to the Genshin Impact 5.1 patch notes, this update introduces four new weapons to the game, including one 5-star sword called Peak Patrol Song. This is the signature weapon for the new character Xilonen.

Version 5.1 also introduces three new 4-star weapons:

• Sturdy Bone (4-Star Sword)
• Mountain-Bracing Bolt (4-Star Polearm)
• Fruitful Hook (4-Star Claymore)

Overall, players will see two new swords, one polearm, and one claymore added to the game in this version.

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Upcoming banners

Character banner for the first half (Image via HoYoverse)

The Character Event Wish Banner for Genshin Impact 5.1 are:

First half (October 9, 2024)

• Xilonen (5-star Geo)
• Chiori (5-star Geo)
• Collei (4-star Dendro)
• Candace (4-star Hydro)
• Dori (4-star Electro)

Second half (October 30, 2024)

• Nahida (5-star Dendro)
• Hu-Tao (5-star Pyro)

The following will be available for the Epitome Invocation Weapons Banner in version 5.1:

First half (October 9, 2024)

• Peak Patrol Song (5-star Sword)
• Uraku Misugiri (5-star Sword)
• Sturdy Bone (4-Star Sword)
• Mountain-Bracing Bolt (4-Star Polearm)
• Rust (4-star Bow)
• Favonious Codex (4-star Catalyst)
• Sacrificial Greatsword (4-Star Claymore)

Second half (October 30, 2024)

• Staff of Homa (5-Star Polearm)
• A Thousand Floating Dreams (5-Star Catalyst)

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New Archon Quests

Genshin Impact 5.1 adds two new Archon Quests that will continue the main story of the game in Chapter V:

• Archon Quest Chapter V: Act III "Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors"
• Archon Quest Chapter V: Act IV "The Rainbow Destined to Burn"

However, you must be at least Aventure Rank 28 and should have completed the previous Archon Quests up to Chapter V: Act II in order to be eligible for these quests.

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Tribal Chronicles

Tribal Chronicles were first introduced in Genshin Impact 5.0, and they have received a new act update in version 5.1:

• Act III of "A Prayer for Blessings, Told to Crested Peaks"

This quest will be permanently available after the 5.1 update. However, you must have completed the previous Tribal Chronicles quests and "A Fuel Named 'Fate'" in the Archon Quest "The Rainbow Destined to Burn" to be eligible.

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New boss monsters and enemies

New boss in Genshin Impact 5.1 (Image via HoYoverse)

Two new bosses are being introduced to the game, according to the Genshin Impact 5.1 patch notes. These enemies are:

• Secret Source Automaton: Configuration Device
• Tenebrous Mimiflora

The first is yet another Automation boss, while the latter is an Abyss Order boss. Both have mechanics revolving around the Nightsoul ability.

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New recipes

New recipes and achievements have been added in Genshin Impact 5.1:

• Cipac (Natlan NPC): BBQ Beef Heart Skewers
• Natlan's Zakan's Street Bites: Xocoatl
• Xilonen's specialty: Fruit-Flavored Milk Candies

The new achievements have been added to the "Wonders of the World" category.

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Imaginarium Theater and Spiral Abyss reset

Both the Imaginarium Theater and Spiral Abyss are considered endgame content in Genshin Impact. As such, they are also receiving new cycles in version 5.1:

Details about Imaginarium Theater

• Required Elemental Types: Pyro, Electro, and Dendro
• Opening Characters: Klee, Xinyan, Yae Miko, Dori, Tighnari, and Kirara
• When Imaginarium Theater is open, the corresponding Opening Characters will obtain Fantastical Blessings.
• Special Guest Stars: Xilonen, Chiori, Xingqiu, and Layla
• After the first season of Imaginarium Theater begins, the characters Kaedehara Kazuha, Eula, Gorou, and Candace will each gain a new "Thespian Trick" that can be exchanged from the NPC Wolfy.

Details about Spiral Abyss first phase (Updated on October 16, 2024)

• Floor 11 Ley Line Disorder changed to: All party members gain a 75% Geo DMG Bonus.
• Blessing of the Abyssal Moon: Rugged Moon: After a character uses an Elemental Skill, said character's DEF increases by 60% for 9s.

Details about Spiral Abyss second phase (Updated on November 16, 2024)

• Floor 11 Ley Line Disorder changed to: All party members gain a 60% Geo DMG Bonus and 60% Pyro DMG Bonus.
• Updated monster lineup on Floors 11 – 12 of the Spiral Abyss.
• Blessing of the Abyssal Moon: Vigorous Moon: After the current active character's Charged Attack hits an opponent, said character's ATK increases by 20% for 8s. Max 4 stacks, each stack has an independent duration.

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New Namecards

Version 5.1 of Genshin Impact also brings in two new namecards:

• Xilonen: Cue Point: Reward for reaching Friendship Lv. 10 with Xilonen
• Travel Notes: Sabzeruz: Reward obtained via the BP system

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New TCG cards

Several new TCG cards have been introduced in this version of Genshin Impact. These include new Character Cards and several new Action Cards.

New Character Cards:

• Chiori
• Eremite Floral Ring-Dancer
• Abyss Lector: Violet Lightning

All the characters come with their respective Talent Cards.

New Action Cards:

• Portable Power Saw
• Conductor's Top Hat
• Tepetlisaurus
• Stage Tepetl
• Eremite Teatime
• Saurus Crackers

You will be able to purchase these action cards from Prince at The Cat's Tail.

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Adjustments and optimizations

Several other adjustments and optimizations have been introduced in Genshin Impact 5.1.

Enemies

• Adjusts the damage judgment timing of the skill "Rock Swings" unleashed by the enemy "Eroding Avatar of Lava" to better match its animation.
• Adjusts the position of the related special effects when the enemy "Goldflame Qucusaur Tyrant" triggers a Burning reaction.

Settings

• Other than the "Settings/Others" interface, you can now also set whether to "Allow Auto Adding of 5-Star Artifacts as Enhancement Materials" in the "Input Settings" on the Artifact enhancement interface.
• Other than the "Settings/Others" interface, you can now also set whether to "Auto-Lock 4-Star Weapons" in the "Inventory > Weapons" interface.

Spiral Abyss

When opening the "Spiral Abyss" interface, if you have completed the "Abyss Corridor" (i.e., Floors 1–8 of the Spiral Abyss) with full stars, the "Abyssal Moon Spire" interface will open directly (i.e., Floors 9–12).

• Adds the Spiral Abyss skip function.

After the Spiral Abyss update on October 16:

• If you have completed Floor 11 in the previous Cycle of the Spiral Abyss at full stars, then after the Spiral Abyss update, you can claim the full star rewards for Floor 9 of the current Spiral Abyss.
• After completing Floor 12 of the Spiral Abyss with full stars, you can claim the full star rewards for Floor 9 and Floor 10 of the current Spiral Abyss.

You can claim all Chamber Bounties for the skipped floors directly via the review pop-up. However, the Primogem rewards from Star's Bounty will still need to be claimed manually.

Enhancement and Forging-related

• The "Source" for character ascension materials, character and weapon enhancement materials, character talent materials, and weapon ascension materials will now display the quantity that can be crafted.
• The "Crafting" interface now allows you to filter the required materials based on the character. After selecting a character, you can further filter by their skills, ascension level, and the weapons they are equipped with.
• When clicking on Stardust Exchange for the "Source" of high-rarity character and weapon enhancement materials, if the currently available materials of the same rarity have been completely exchanged, it will automatically switch to similar materials of a lower rarity.

Optimizes the interactive experience in the Crafting, Forge, and Creation/Furnishings interfaces:

• After performing the relevant crafting operation, the icon position of the selected crafted item will no longer change.
• After performing the relevant crafting operation, the refresh effect for the item list will no longer play.

Other Systems

• Optimizes the layout and user experience of the pop-up interface for Character Talent Materials and Weapon Ascension Materials in the relevant bundles for "Battle Pass" and "Bundles."
• Adjusts the design of the "Character > Level Up Talent" pop-up, and increases the animation speed to optimize the experience when upgrading talents.
• Adjusts the order of "Adventurer Handbook > Domain > Trounce Domain": the "Trounce Domain" tab will now be arranged based on "new to old" and "unlocked and locked" status.
• Adjusts the default page of the "Adventurer Handbook": if you have completed the content on the "Experience" tab, while the "Commissions" or "Guide" tab still has incomplete content, the first time you log in and open the "Adventurer Handbook," it will open the "Commissions" or "Guide" page.

"Character > Artifact" Interface Function Optimizations:

• Records the Artifact set filters and affixes sorting that you set for a specific character, and when entering the interface again, the Artifacts will be displayed based on the previous filter and sorting settings.
• Adds a new button at the bottom of the Artifacts list in this interface to switch between set filtering and non-set filtering states.
• The selected Artifact affix sorting option will now be displayed directly at the bottom of the interface.

Audio

• Removes audio resources from earlier versions. After the Version 5.1 update, the audio files will occupy less space compared to Version 5.0.
• Optimizes the interactive sound effects of certain system interfaces and fixes issues with missing sound effects for some open world objects.
• Adjusts the volume of music in certain areas in Natlan.
• Optimizes the sound attenuation effect when the enemy "Goldflame Qucusaur Tyrant" is in flight.

Other

• Adds support for opening multiple "Domain Reliquaries" simultaneously in batches.
• Updates the blocking strategy for certain spam and advertising behaviors.
• Adjusts the appearance and position of special effects when triggering "Brilliant Blessings" in "Imaginarium Theater" battles.
• Adjusts the effect descriptions of some "Brilliant Blessings" in "Imaginarium Theater" (the actual effect remains the same).
• When selecting events in "Imaginarium Theater," you can now switch to other events by clicking on either side of the screen or using the controller buttons.
• Updates the tutorial for "Saurian Indwelling" to include explanations regarding how to disengage from the "indwelling" state.
• Adjusts certain dialogue text in the Commission Quest "Tending to a Tepetlisaurus."
• Due to the unclear completion status of Monetoo-related graffiti in the Sulfurous Veins area of Natlan, the special effects of this graffiti will be optimized after the version update to: the related graffiti will be removed after completing the gameplay.
• Improves the issue whereby Mualani's attacks would miss during the preparation for the Sharky's Surging Bite due to changes in enemy positioning. The developers will continue to monitor this character's performance in battle and we welcome feedback from Travelers.

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Bug Fixes

Quests

• Fixes an issue whereby there is a chance that the character would become stuck and unable to be controlled when leaving the quest area while completing the objective "Collect Contending Sparks" of the Archon Quest "Pilgrimage of the Return of the Sacred Flame" under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby defeating the relevant enemies during the World Quest "Blackcliff Woes" for the objective "Patrol the Chasm's perimeter" would prevent subsequent objectives from being completed.
• Fixes an issue in related World Quests whereby the scarf on the Saurian companion's tail was missing animation effects.
• Fixes an issue in the the World Quest "Revelations from the Past" whereby scenes or special effects would be appear to be abnormal when switching to Little One's point of view (little Tepetlisaurus) or switching back to the character's point of view under certain circumstances.

Enemies

• Fixes an issue in Co-Op Mode whereby the enemy "Goldflame Qucusaur Tyrant" would appear in an abnormal position when entering combat under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue in Co-Op Mode whereby the enemy "Goldflame Qucusaur Tyrant" would abnormally disappear under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby the character could be stuck in the Plunging Attack state for a long time if the character was pushed to the barrier at the edge of the battlefield by the enemy while challenging the opponent "Goldflame Qucusaur Tyrant" (After the fix, the duration of the Plunging Attack state will be greatly reduced when the character is pushed against the barrier at the edge of the battlefield by the enemy).
• Fixes an issue whereby the achievement "Love and Non-Communication" could not be completed when repeatedly challenging the enemy "Thunder Manifestation" under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby some characters' skill effects may not appear normally or disappear when the enemy "Ichcahuipilli's Aegis" exiles the character to the "Land of Decision."

Characters

• Fixes an issue whereby the special effects would flicker and shake abnormally at the edge of the camera when Furina used her Elemental Burst in Natlan.
• Fixes an issue whereby the low-altitude and high-altitude landing impact effects would both appear simultaneously when Navia performed a Plunging Attack and hits the ground.
• Fixes an issue whereby the special movement duration of Mualani or Kachina in their Nightsoul's Blessing state would be abnormal under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby there was a chance that Mualani would abnormally take fall damage when performing Sharky's Bite in the Nightsoul's Blessing state under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby when Kinich had less than 1 second remaining in the Nightsoul's Blessing state and used the "Scalespiker Cannon," the cooldown time displayed for the Elemental Skill button would become abnormal after the Nightsoul's Blessing state ended.
• Fixes an issue whereby the relevant weather animation effect will end earlier before the skill ends when holding Kinich's Elemental Skill, "Scalespiker Cannon".
• Fixes an issue whereby when Kinich uses his Elemental Skill to swing in mid-air and simultaneously executes a Normal Attack, it can result in an abnormal vertical jump.
• The developers will continue to monitor other actions that may cause this character to perform abnormal vertical jumps. If there are any subsequent plans for adjustments and corrections, we will notify Travelers via announcements.

System

• Fixes an issue whereby completing Act 8 in "Imaginarium Theater" in Visionary Mode and finishing the finalization did not allow the corresponding Battle Pass mission to be completed.
• Fixes an issue whereby in the "Forge" interface, the daily crafting quantity would still be deducted even if forging weapon enhancement materials failed due to insufficient required materials under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue under certain circumstances whereby the challenge interface would not record the "Best Score" even if you had completed the "Rock Hopping" challenge in the Natlan region.
• Fixes an issue whereby the game would not pause when tracking enemies from the "Adventurer Handbook > Enemies" tab or jumping to the "Map" from material sources in Single-Player Mode.
• Fixes an issue resulting in the food "Strength Tonic" not being displayed in "Archive > Materials/Food and Potions."
• Fixes an issue whereby the filter applied to the "Food" tab in the "Inventory" interface also took effect for the "Food" tab of the "Parametric Transformer."

Audio

• Fixes an issue whereby the volume of certain movement sound effects for characters was abnormal after the Version 5.0 update.
• Fixes text and voice-over errors in Chinese and Korean regarding the "Long-Necked Rhino" in the Archon Quest "Flowers Resplendent on the Sun-Scorched Sojourn" (the Japanese and English voice-over will be fixed in subsequent versions).
• Fixes an issue whereby there were errors with the Chinese voice-overs during some quests.
• Fixes an issue whereby the relevant voice lines would not trigger correctly when obtaining Gaming for the first time through a wish.
• Fixes an issue whereby the English voice-over of Kinich and Ajaw's interaction does not synchronize with the idle animation.

Other

• Fixes an issue with the visual effects of the Wildlife "Pyro Crystalfly" and "Coral Butterfly" appearing abnormally.
• Fixes an issue whereby certain wildlife like the "Flying Squirrel" could not be captured.
• Fixes an issue on PlayStation®4 and PlayStation®5 whereby the pre-discount price of some currency for "Gnostic Chorus" was displayed incorrectly (the post-discount actual price and the amount deducted were not affected).
• Adjusts the names of some "shield" effects to "Ward" in the "Tutorial" menu and other interfaces in languages other than Simplified Chinese (this issue was fixed for Simplified Chinese in Version 5.0).
• Fixes an issue whereby after indwelling a Koholasaur, it would not consume Phlogiston when performing a Aquadash under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby after collecting "Flamegranates" while indwelling and controlling a Yumkasaur, the Yumkasaur could continuously leap upward in the air under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby the effect "Surprise: Explosive Excitement" from "Mystery Caches" in "Imaginarium Theater" did not activate correctly under certain circumstances.
• Fixes an issue whereby the game would experience an abnormal black screen and become unresponsive after the character teleported to the Obsidian Totem Pole: "Children of Echoes" when playing on certain PC devices.
• Fixes an issue whereby the character's shadow effects would display abnormally in Natlan when playing on certain Android devices.
• Fixes an issue on certain Android devices whereby when controlling and indwelling Saurians in Natlan, there is a chance that the Saurian's model would display abnormally when the camera zoomed in on it.
• Fixes an issue whereby the treasure chest would not appear correctly after picking up the "Apple" and investigating the related location near a Teleport Waypoint in Natlan under certain circumstances.

Fixes some text errors in certain 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.)

• Optimizes inconsistencies between certain voice-overs and the corresponding lines.
• Optimizes certain English translations.

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Genius Invokation TCG Balance Adjustment

• Redesigns the Character Card "Eremite Scorching Loremaster" (Travelers can visit the official notice "Version 5.1 Genius Invokation TCG Update Details" or log into the game after the version update to see the changes).
• Adjusts the effects of the Character Card "Guardian of Apep's Oasis"'s Passive Skill: The number of Awaken, My Kindred generated at the start of the match has been reduced from 6 to 5; the shield generated after summoning 4 Proliferated Organisms has been reduced from 2 points to 1 point.
• Adjusts the effect of the Character Card "Lisa"'s Normal Attacks: Normal Attacks now apply Conductive to the enemy's active character (no longer requires a Charged Attack).
• Adjusts the effect of the Character Card "Lisa"'s "Conductive" status: Now, "when the character attached with Conductive takes DMG from Violet Arc or Lightning Rose," it will trigger "Remove this status and DMG +1 for each stack of Conductive" (previously, this effect could only be triggered by Violet Arc damage).

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