Everyone is lining up to talk to a trash can in Honkai: Star Rail
pcgamer.comOut of all the ridiculous objects you can interact with in Honkai: Star Rail (including a toilet and talking plant) one particular trash can has players questioning their own actions.
«You've been staring at it a while, but it's just an ordinary trash can,» the narrator text reads when you interact with one of the many metal bins steampunk-style city Belobog early in the game. Your allies look on in disgust and the button prompt appears again.
You're told something is glowing inside of it, and that it is now a treasure chest, so you reach your arm in and search for a reward. «You don't need to explain,» March 7th, the pink-haired member of your trio, tells you. «I get it. The urge is too great for you to resist.»
The reward for a quick dumpster dive is a trash can icon to use on your account profile. You'd think the silly interaction and reward would be the end of it.
But then the prompt appears again.
If you insist on interacting with the trash can yet again you are given the option to charge deep into the Garbage King's rancid domain «to reach enlightenment.» You fail, of course, and are left to imagine what awful thing your character has in their hands as your crewmates hold their noses and step away from you. And the trash can debacle is never spoken of again.
"[Developer Hoyoverse] understands that a JRPG is just about digging through all the trash cans," BDsb commented on a Reddit post of trash can fan art(opens in new tab).
It's true. Trash cans are a valuable source of discarded items, crafting materials, and, in the case of Bioshock, entire meals. Star Rail is just innovating on this classic activity.
Lil_Parasite's post(opens in new tab) is simply titled, «Trash can, my true love», and DescriptiveKiwi calls it
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