Honkai Star Rail player grinds 65 hours in a week to prove you can already get 300 pulls for free

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One Honkai Star Rail player has gone to extreme lengths to squeeze every last Stellar Jade and gacha Pass out of the launch build, earning just under 300 pulls worth of resources in a week. 

Insomniac gacha grinder Gotruto (opens in new tab) shared their findings in a recent Reddit post, and I reached out to them to talk through their methods and get an update on their progress. As of today, at Trailblaze level 38, they say they've been able to scrounge up 150 Special Passes and 144 normal Passes (counting the 10 bonus passes you get from the Departure Warp beginner banner). They note that they have purchased the game's login and battle passes, so they aren't free-to-play themselves, but these extras have only contributed a handful of pulls that didn't affect their F2P calculations. 

"I have completed the story, done every quest I've gotten, done every puzzle that I could find, and have 159 achievements done," they said in their post. "I have all the zone shops done except the last, which is only missing the final Eidolon purchase. Finally, I have done Simulated Universe World 5 and three-starred Forgotten Hall up to and including Floor 10."

"I've really enjoyed being on the Astral Express with all of the characters and with the people on this subreddit. I'll continue riding along, but at a more leisurely pace in the future," they said, understandably adding that "I need sleep."

I asked Gotruto about good sources of Stellar Jades and Passes that might be easy to overlook, and they advised players to pay close attention to Honkai Star Rail's many open-world-ish zones. Once you clear the story quests, many zones will spawn in extra puzzles, challenges, or one-time treasure pigs that award extra resources, and you might