Birthday
Last updated 2026-08-08
Characters who have reached their Birthday will send the player a mail with their Special Dish and one or more additional gifts. Characters will always mention these miscellaneous gifts in their letter, but rarely the special dish that is also attached.
It is not required to own the specific characters, as players will receive the celebratory mail regardless. However, the mail is only sent when logging in on that specific day and will not be able to be received the day after.
Birthday Mail will be automatically transferred into the Gift Mail Box after the player has collected the rewards. Mail within this Box will not be quick-deleted, and will not expire over time.
Notes
- A character's Birthday Mail does not adhere to the server's daily reset timer; the Mail will be received when the server's time passes 00:00 (Midnight).
- A character's Birthday Mail is only available for that particular day, from 00:00 to 23:59. The player must log in to the game during that time period to receive the mail. If a player logs on at 00:01 the following day, despite being in the same server reset cycle, the mail will not be received.
- Currently, a character's Birthday Mail is one of the only ways to receive their special dish if the player does not own the character in question. Another way to obtain certain special dishes is to unlock different endings of Hangout Events.
The Traveler
The Traveler's birth date depends on the player's choice in their profile customization and cannot be changed again once set. Once the Traveler celebrates their birthday, the Dev Team, via the mailing system, will send birthday wishes, along with a special gift of one Cake for Traveler, which rewards one Fragile Resin and an unusable version of the cake when used.
On top of this, any characters the player currently has will have their "Birthday" voice-over permanently unlocked. Future characters that the player obtains after their birthday has passed will still have their "Birthday" voice-over unlocked.
It is important to note that setting your birthday to a date that has already passed in the current year will not give you a cake. You will not receive your cake for that year.
Table of Birthdays
Trivia
- For the Raiden Shogun's 2022 birthday mail, Yae Miko sends the mail instead, which makes Raiden Shogun the only character to not send their own birthday mail and Miko the only character who sends somebody else's birthday mail in addition to their own.
- The player may rename the Wanderer during Archon Quest As Though Morning Dew in Interlude Chapter: Act III - Inversion of Genesis, and the name chosen will be reflected in the Wanderer's birthday mail as well.
Preservation
- If not in the Gift Mail Box, Birthday Mail has an expiration time of 365 days.
- Before Version 1.3, only the Traveler's Birthday Mail had an expiration time of 365 days, while Birthday Mails for other characters had an expiration time of 30 days.
- Birthday Mail that was received before the implementation of the Gift Mail Box in Version 2.4 was automatically moved into the Gift Mail Box as long as the mail remained in the player's Mailbox.
- Due to the shorter expiration time, it is not possible for the Gift Mail Box to have any Birthday Mail (except for Traveler's) that was received before Version 1.3:
Dates
- Characters whose birthdays are on February 29 will have their birthday mails sent on February 28 during non-leap years. This includes Bennett, as well as the player should their birthday be set to that date.
- Characters who share the same birthday:
- Lynette and Lyney: February 2
- Durin and Jean: March 14
- Arataki Itto and Paimon: June 1
- Klee and Kuki Shinobu: July 27
- Keqing and Prune: November 20
- The character whose first birthday mail was delivered the soonest after their release date was Chevreuse. Her release was on January 9, 2024, and her first birthday mail was delivered 1 day later on January 10, 2024.
- The character whose first birthday mail was delivered the latest after their release date is expected to be Columbina. She was released on January 14, 2026, the same day as her birthday, but did not deliver birthday mail then, so her first birthday mail is expected to be sent 365 days later, on January 14, 2027.
- Aloy and Aino are the only characters with set birthdays who have sent birthday mail without also having official birthday artwork.
- Aloy does not yet have any official birthday artwork, likely due to being a collaboration character.
- Aino sent birthday mail without having official birthday artwork when her birthday was first celebrated (2025). This may be because of Aino's unique release situation; see Aino/Storyline § Trivia for more information.
- As a result, Aino is expected to be the character who receives their first official birthday artwork the latest after their release. She was released on September 10, 2025, and her first birthday artwork is expected 376 days later, on September 21, 2026.
- The first to celebrate their birthday in a year is Wanderer, and the last to celebrate their birthday in a year is Zhongli.
- March currently has the most character birthdays of any month with 12 characters, followed by August with 11 characters, while February has the least birthdays with 7 characters.
Attachments
- Paimon and the Raiden Shogun's birthday mails do not include a special dish.
- Ningguang is the only character that directly names the special dish attached in her letter, although Xiangling comes close in her 2020 letter ("Wanmin Restaurant's authentic Boiled Fish"). Other characters refer to their dish without naming it, only mention they cooked something, only mention having a meal together, refer to another edible item in the mail instead, refer to other food entirely, or do not refer to food in any way at all.
- Characters who have sent more than one of their special dish:
- Beidou 2021:
Flash-Fried Filet ×2 - Noelle 2021: Lighter-Than-Air Pancake ×3
- Ningguang 2021: Qiankun Mora Meat ×8
- Beidou 2021:
- Characters who have sent dishes that can be cooked in-game besides their own Special Dishes:
- Noelle 2021: Satisfying Salad ×3
- Xiangling 2021: Chili-Mince Cornbread Buns
- Thoma 2022: Delicious Butter Crab and Delicious Mixed Yakisoba
- Yun Jin 2022: Grilled Tiger Fish ×5
- Yoimiya 2022: Taiyaki ×2
- Raiden Shogun 2022: Tricolor Dango ×2 and Sakura Mochi ×2
- Ningguang 2022: Delicious Adeptus' Temptation and Delicious Chicken Tofu Pudding
- Kaeya 2022: Mint Jelly
- Wanderer 2023: Delicious Candied Ajilenakh Nut ×3 and Delicious Baklava ×3
- Thoma 2023: Delicious Sashimi Platter and Cream Stew
- Yaoyao 2023: Radish and Fish Stew and Fried Radish Balls
- Noelle 2023: Shawarma Wrap and Panipuri
- Lisa 2023: Delicious Rose Custard
- Yoimiya 2023: Delicious Sakura Mochi ×2
- Raiden Shogun 2023: Tricolor Dango ×2, Onigiri ×2 and Berry Mizu Manjuu ×2
- Kuki Shinobu 2023: Delicious Onigiri ×3 and Delicious Katsu Sandwich ×3
- Mika 2023: Delicious "Pile 'Em Up" and Delicious Northern Smoked Chicken
- Albedo 2023: Delicious Fruits of the Festival ×2
- Kaeya 2023: Moon Pie and Delicious Fruits of the Festival
- Layla 2023: Baklava ×3
- Tighnari 2023: Delicious Pita Pocket ×2 and Delicious Goulash ×2
- Thoma 2024: Five Pickled Treasures ×2 and Dry-Braised Salted Fish ×2
- Chevreuse 2024: Delicious Fontinalia Mousse
- Diona 2024: Delicious Northern Apple Stew ×2 and Delicious Sticky Honey Roast ×2
- Sangonomiya Kokomi 2024: Delicious Rainbow Aster ×2 and Delicious Egg Roll ×2
- Yaoyao 2024: Delicious Come and Get It and Delicious Black-Back Perch Stew
- Shenhe 2024: Delicious Eight-Treasure Duck and Delicious Fine Tea, Full Moon ×2
- Rosaria 2025: Steak ×3
- Noelle 2021:
- Characters who have sent consumable Food that cannot be cooked:
- Kaeya 2020: Apple Cider ×5
- Diluc 2021: Apple Cider ×5
- Albedo 2021: Berry & Mint Burst ×2
- Yun Jin 2022: Pop's Teas ×2
- Lisa 2022: Wolfhook Juice ×2
- Raiden Shogun 2022: Dango Milk ×2
- Kaeya 2022: Apple Cider
- Rosaria 2023: Wolfhook Juice ×2
- Rosaria 2024: Apple Cider ×2 and Sparkling Berry Juice ×2
- Lisa 2024: Apple Cider ×2
- Kaeya 2020:
- If the player has 20 Qingxin Seed in their Seed Dispensary when receiving Ganyu's 2021 birthday mail, they would be unable to claim any of the mail's rewards and would be met with a "No space left in inventory for another Qingxin Seed. Please free up some space and try again." message. As it was not possible to delete seeds from the dispensary, the player needed to plant at least 1 Qingxin in their Serenitea Pot before being able to claim the rewards.
Voice-Overs
- Mualani has the longest message for the Traveler in her "Birthday" voice-over.
- The Raiden Shogun has two birthday voice-overs, one from The Shogun ("Birth Date") and one from Ei ("Birthday").
- Yae Miko also has a birthday voice-over called "Birth Date."
- Xingqiu also has two separate birthday voice-overs for the Traveler: "Birthday: Wishing," and "Birthday: Customs."
- Ningguang has two separate birthday voice-overs for Lumine and Aether; only one is available in-game depending on which Traveler you chose.
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