Genshin Impact Expeditions Guide: What to Send and Where

Genshin Impact expeditions send up to five of your characters away for 4, 8, 12 or 20 hours to bring back Mora, ore or cooking ingredients while you play or sleep. They unlock at Adventure Rank 14 at the Adventurers' Guild, and the characters you send can still fight in your party.

How to unlock expeditions in Genshin Impact

Reach Adventure Rank 14, then talk to Katheryne at the Adventurers' Guild counter in any city and choose the expedition option. There is no quest to finish first.

The screen shows a map for each region you have opened, with several spots on it. Each spot lists what it gives. To send someone:

1. Pick a region and a spot.
2. Choose how long: 4, 8, 12 or 20 hours.
3. Choose a character and confirm.
4. When the time is up, go back to the counter, collect the reward and send them again.

You start with two expeditions at a time. The number rises with your Adventure Rank until it reaches five.

New players often miss two things. A character on an expedition is still fully usable: in your party, in domains, everywhere. And the character's level changes nothing. A level 1 character brings back the same reward as your strongest one.

What expeditions bring back

There are three kinds of reward, and each spot gives one of them:

• Mora. A Mora expedition is the steadiest way to earn Mora while you are away, and a 20-hour one brings the most from a single send.
• Ore. Iron, white iron and Crystal Chunks. A blacksmith turns Crystal Chunks into weapon enhancement ore, so these expeditions level your weapons while you do something else.
• Cooking ingredients. Meat, fowl, eggs, vegetables and other things recipes ask for, different in each region.

The longer the expedition, the more it brings, and 20 hours brings the most from a single send.

Expeditions never bring Primogems, artifacts, or boss and talent materials. They are a steady side income, not a shortcut.

The best expeditions in Genshin for your account

There is no single best spot. The right choice follows what you are short of:

• You are leveling weapons. Send for ore. Mining crystal by hand is slow, and the nodes take days to come back.
• You are leveling characters, talents or artifacts. Send for Mora. All three eat Mora faster than the world gives it.
• A recipe keeps running out of one thing. Put one slot on the spot that gives that ingredient until your stock recovers.

A split that suits most accounts is three slots on Mora and two on ore. Move a slot toward ore when a new weapon needs leveling and back to Mora when it is done.

Characters with expedition bonuses

Any character can go, but a few have a passive talent made for expeditions in their home region. The bonuses come in two forms:

• Shorter time. The expedition takes a quarter less time in that character's region. Bennett has this for Mondstadt and Keqing for Liyue, so their 20-hour expedition there finishes in 15.
• More reward. Some characters bring back a quarter more from a 20-hour expedition in their region.

To find them on your account, open a character's Talents screen and read the passive talents. The one about expeditions names the region.

The reward bonus always pays. The shorter time pays only if you come back to send the character again: if you log in once a day, an expedition that ended five hours earlier just waits for you. So put reward-bonus characters on their home region first, and use time-bonus characters when you play more than once a day.

Fitting the timers to your day

• You log in once a day. Send everything for 20 hours. It will be done by your next login and gives the most per visit.
• You log in morning and evening. A 12-hour or 8-hour expedition can be collected twice a day. Use it when you need an ingredient or ore soon, and keep the Mora slots on 20 hours.
• You need something today. A 4-hour expedition is the answer for a handful of eggs or meat, not a habit.

Make the counter the first stop of every session. Collect, send again, and only then do the rest. A finished expedition that nobody collects earns nothing, and the slot stays idle until you return.

Expeditions don't remind you when they end. If you tend to forget, send them at the same moment every day, right after you log in.

Small mistakes that cost resources

• Leaving the number of slots unused. If you have five and send three, you lose two fifths of the income for no reason.
• Sending short expeditions out of habit. Four hours brings the least, and it only pays if you really come back four hours later.
• Ignoring new regions. Every region you open adds its own spots, often with ingredients you can't get elsewhere.
• Keeping a bonus character at home. Their bonus costs nothing: they can be on an expedition and in your team at the same time.

Frequent questions

How many expeditions can I run at once?

Up to five. You begin with two, and the limit grows as your Adventure Rank rises.

Can I use a character who is on an expedition?

Yes. Characters on expeditions stay available for your party, domains and everything else. Sending them costs you nothing.

Which characters are best for expeditions?

The ones whose passive talent mentions expeditions, sent to the region the talent names. For everyone else there is no difference, so level and rarity don't matter.

Do expedition rewards include Primogems?

No. Expeditions give Mora, ore and cooking ingredients only.

A free income, and where Genesis Crystals fit

Expeditions cost nothing and ask for two minutes a day, which makes them the easiest resource in the game to keep running. They cover Mora, ore and ingredients. They don't cover wishes: those need Primogems, and Genesis Crystals convert into Primogems.

If you top up, you can get Genshin Impact Genesis Crystals on Mas4Games, loaded by UID and server. You give your UID and server only, never a password, and the help center has live support if an order needs attention.