Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick Event Guide: All Nurture Recipe for Rare Creations

The Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick Event has officially arrived in the game. The event tasks players with creating and nurturing various cat-like lifeforms. The main goal is to mix and match various critters to form a new type and complete a collection. The Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick Event also allows players to send their creations out for adoption, giving them more inventory space to create more unique critters. There are a total of nine Rare Creations to collect as well as a plethora of traits to record. 

Here is a guide on how to acquire all Rare Creations in the Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick Event including their Nurture Recipes.

All Rare Creations in Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick Event: List of Special Mutation items

Trash Cake

Required for Special Mutation: Trash

This Rare Creations has a Trash Can as his skin and a black filling. This is one of the easiest to acquire on the list.

Trash Cake is the first one that players will acquire in the event. Simply following the tutorial is enough to acquire this critter. If you want to manually create one yourself, simply use the base critters given and add a Trash item during the Mutation Events.

Where to find Trash in Honkai Star Rail

Trash can be found by interacting with Trash Cans found in various worlds.

Rice Dumpling 

Required for Special Mutation: Leaf of Imaginary

After acquiring this Rare Creation, the Trailblazer will then message Dang Heng and tell him that this little critter reminds her of him.

You may have to nurture two critters multiple times in order to get the right traits and activate a Special Mutation. When it finally occurs, simply submit a Leaf of Imaginary to acquire this Rare Creation.

Where to find Leaf of Imaginary in Honkai Star Rail

The Leaf of Imaginary is dropped by various enemies in Backwater Pass in Belobog, Jarilo-VI or purchased in the Grocery Stand in Exalting Sanctum in the Xianzhou Luofu.

Ice Cake

Required for Special Mutation: Core of Ice

Ice Cake is a Rare Creation that highly resembles March 7th. After acquiring this critter, the Trailblazer will then message her to share her new creation.

Where to find Core of Ice in Honkai Star Rail

Core of Ice can be bought from the Administrative District Shop in Belobog, Jarilo-VI or defeating Everwinter Shadewalkers located in the Fading Echoes.

Lambda's Friend

Required for Special Mutation: Seed

Players will need to complete the adventure mission tied to the Honkai Star Rail Critter Pick Event before you can proceed with unlocking more Rare Creations, including Lambda's Friend.

Where to find Seed in Honkai Star Rail

Seed can be acquired in the Assignments section by selecting The Blossom in the Storm. This item can also drop in various destructible crates in Jarilo-VI or purchased on a shop in Central Starskiff Haven in the Xianzhou Luofu.

Sesame Cake

Required for Special Mutation: Vortex of Wind

This Rare Creation highly resembles Blade. When the Trailblazers gets in contact with him via text message, Silver Wolf will respond on Blade's behalf.

Where to find Vortex of Wind in Honkai Star Rail

The Vortex of Wind can acquired by defeating Mara-Struck Soldiers in Cloudford or purchased on a shop in Central Starskiff Haven in the Xianzhou Luofu. This item can also be acquired by destroying destructible objects in Jarilo-VI.

Troublemaker

Required for Special Mutation: Phlogiston

This Rare Creation highly resembles Guinaifen. When you tell her about your new creation, Guinaifen gets ecstatic and plans to make a trip just to meet her doppelgänger critter.

Where to find Phlogiston in Honkai Star Rail

Phlogiston can be acquired by destroying destructible objects in Herta Space Station. This item can also purchase Phlogiston in the Administrative District Shop and is also dropped by various enemies in Backwater Pass in Belobog, Jarilo-VI.

Wisteria Cake

Required for Special Mutation: Virtual Particle

This Rare Creation highly resembles Herta. When you tell her about your new creation, Herta just sends you automated messages, hinting that she has no interest in your new creation.

Where to find Virtual Particle in Honkai Star Rail

The Virtual Particle can be acquired by destroying destructible objects in Herta Space Station or defeating enemis in the Storage Zone. It can also be purchased on a shop in Central Starskiff Haven in the Xianzhou Luofu.

Lucky Snack

Required for Special Mutation: Feather of Flame

This Rare Creation highly resembles Qingque. When you tell her about your new creation, Qingque immediately asks if it can play Celestial Jade and maybe she and the little critter can be gaming buddies.

Where to find Feather of Flame in Honkai Star Rail

The Feather of Flame can be acquired by destroying destructible objects in Jarilo-VI or purchased in a shop in the Administrative District. It can also be acquired by defeating Mara-Struck Soldiers in Cloudford in the Xianzhou Luofu

Shader Cat

Required for Special Mutation: Eye of Lightning

This Rare Creation highly resembles Kafka. When you try tell her about your new creation, Silver Wolf will message you first where she will then relay the image to Kafka.

Where to find Eye of Lightning in Honkai Star Rail

The Eye of Lightning can be purchased in the Grocery Stand in Exalting Sanctum in the Xianzhou Luofu. It can also be dropped by enemies as loot in the Corridor of Fading Echoes in Jarilo-VI.