Genshin Impact: All Ascension Material Locations and Farming Routes | Local Specialties, Boss Materials, Enemy Drops, and More

There are a ton of Genshin Impact items, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Characters and weapons both require a whole host of item combinations to ascend, and characters also require particular items for their talent upgrades. These ascensions and upgrades require local specialty products, boss drops, enemy materials, trounce challenge rewards, and more.

Read more: All Genshin Impact Character Guides: Ascension Materials, Build Guides, Team Composition Recommendations, Best Weapons, Constellation Handbooks, and More

To help players organize their game and find the items they're looking for, we've created this directory for all the Genshin Impact ascension materials. You'll find links to all our farming route guides, item location maps, and more, organized into four major categories: Local Specialties, Enemy Drops, Boss Materials, and Trounce Challenge Rewards. Clicking the above jump links will take you right to the listed section, so you can always find what you're looking for, whether it be ascending a new shiny weapon or upgrading a character's talents to beat the Spiral Abyss.

Local Specialties

Every region is home to items that can only be found there. Typically, these items are plants, but they can also be bugs, minerals, and more. Every character requires a local specialty from their home region, with a total of 168 of them needed for a full ascension.

This section will include our farming routes and maps for all local specialties.

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Mondstadt	Liyue	Inazuma	Sumeru	Fontaine
Natlan

Mondstadt Local Specialties

Item		Used by:
	Windwheel Aster	Traveler Sucrose Bennett
	Calla Lily	Kaeya Diona
	Valberry	Lisa Noelle Rosaria
	Philanemo Mushroom	Barbara Mona Klee
	Dandelion Seed	Jean Eula
	Cecilia	Venti Albedo
	Small Lamp Grass	Amber Diluc Fischl
	Wolfhook	Razor Mika

Liyue Local Specialties

Item		Used by:
	Cor Lapis	Keqing Chongyun Zhongli
	Noctilucous Jade	Beidou Yanfei
	Violetgrass	Qiqi Xinyan Baizhu
	Jueyun Chili	Xiangling Yaoyao
	Silk Flower	Xingqiu Hu Tao
	Glaze Lily	Ningguang Yun Jin
	Qingxin	Xiao Ganyu Shenhe
	Starconch	Childe Yelan Gaming
	Clearwater Jade	Xianyun Lan Yan

Inazuma Local Specialties

Item		Used by:
	Sakura Bloom	Ayaka Ayato
	Sea Ganoderma	Kazuha Yae Miko Yumemizuki Mizuki
	Naku Weed	Yoimiya Kuki Shinobu
	Onikabuto	Itto Heizou
	Dendrobium	Kujou Sara Chiori
	Amakumo Fruit	Raiden Shogun Kirara
	Fluorescent Fungus	Thoma
	Sango Pearl	Kokomi Gorou
	Crystal Marrow	Sayu Aloy

Sumeru Local Specialties

Item		Used by:
	Rukkhashava Mushrooms	Collei Wanderer
	Nilotpala Lotus	Tighnari Layla
	Kalpalata Lotus	Dori Nahida
	Padisarah	Nilou
	Henna Berry	Candace Faruzan
	Scarab	Cyno
	Sand Grease Pupa	Alhaitham Dehya
	Mourning Flower	Kaveh
	Trishiraite	Sethos

Fontaine Local Specialties

Item		Used by:
	Rainbow Rose	Lyney Arlecchino
	Lumidouce Bell	Lynette Chevreuse
	Romaritime Flower	Freminet Sigewinne
	Lumitoile	Neuvillette Clorinde
	Subdetection Unit	Wriothesley
	Beryl Conch	Charlotte Escoffier
	Lakelight Lily	Furina Emilie
	Spring of the First Dewdrop	Navia

Natlan Local Specialties

Item		Used by:
	Sprayfeather Gill	Mualani
	Quenepa Berry	Kachina Citlali
	Saurian Claw Succulent	Kinich Ifa
	Brilliant Chrysanthemum	Xilonen
	Glowing Hornshroom	Ororon Ineffa
	Withering Purpurbloom	Chasca Mavuika
	Dracolite	Iansan
	Skysplit Gembloom	Varesa Skirk

Genshin Impact Enemy Ascension Items

Genshin Impact enemies are sorted into two major categories: Common Enemies and Elite Enemies.

> Common Enemies drop materials of ★, ★★, and ★★★ qualities. These items are used for ascending characters and weapons and upgrading character talents.

> Elite Enemies drop materials of ★★, ★★★, and ★★★★ qualities. These items are used only for ascending weapons.

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Genshin Impact Boss Ascension Items

Regular bosses, which appear on the overworld and can be challenged as many times as the player would like, each drop a unique item needed for character ascension. It costs 40 Original Resin to obtain the rewards after the boss is defeated, so keep that in mind!

This section lists all of the regular bosses and their unique item drop, with links to our guides on finding and defeating them. These boss materials are always ★★★★.

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Trounce Domain Talent Materials

While normal bosses are the source of items needed for character ascension, Weekly Trounce Challenges (or Weekly Bosses) are the source of character talent upgrade materials.

This section outlines each trounce challenge and the three items it can drop. The guides linked will help you defeat the boss (and unlock them if necessary)!

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Other Ascension and Upgrade Items

Aside from the items listed above, there are a few more things a character will need to ascend and upgrade their talents. These include elemental gems, Mora, Crowns of Insight, and more. This section will list and outline each of these items, with guides on where to find them.

Ascension Gems

First up is ascension gems. These precious stones are each aligned with a particular element, and each character will need the corresponding gem to ascend. They come in four quality levels: Slivers, Fragments, Chunks, and Gemstones. On top of these, the Traveler needs a special set called Brilliant Diamonds.

This table shows each elemental gemstone and a link to our guide on where to find them.

Vayuda Turquoise	Prithiva Topaz	Vajrada Amethyst	Nagadus Emerald
Anemo	Geo	Electro	Dendro
Varunada Lazurite	Agnidus Agate	Shivada Jade	Brilliant Diamond
Hydro	Pyro	Cryo	Traveler

Every character needs the same quantity of each quality level, with the only difference from one character to the next is which elemental gem they use, based on their corresponding element. This table outlines how many are needed to completely ascend a character:

Other Items

There are a handful of other items that characters need to ascend and upgrade their talents, shown in this table here. Click the included links for guides on where to find these items.

	Item(s)	Used for:
	Crown of Insight	Upgrading character talents
	Talent Books	Upgrading character talents
	EXP Materials	Leveling up characters
	Mora	Currency
	The Cornerstone of Stars and Flames	Pyro Traveler Talent Upgrade Item

Crown of Insight

Crowns of Insight are extremely rare items. They are used for the final talent upgrade from level 9 to 10, for every character. This means that, if the player wants to completely upgrade a character's talents, they'll need three Crowns of Insight per character. This is referred to as triple-crowning a character.

These super-rare items are found in a few ways, with the primary source being participation on flagship events (usually one per event). There are a handful that can also be earned by leveling up various devices or offering locations:

Additionally, as of Version 5.0, players can purchase one Crown of Insight each month for 50 Starglitter in the Paimon's Bargains shop.

One Crown of Insight can also be earned by finishing Act 10 of Imaginarium Theater for the first time (it's in the debut performance rewards).

Talent Books

Talent Books are special items that are used to upgrade a character's talents. Each nation of Teyvat has three "series" of books, and each character uses one of the series, except for the Traveler, who uses a combination of each region's books for each elemental alignment. For example, Mondstadt has three series — Freedom, Ballad, and Resistance. Jean uses Resistance, Venti uses Ballad, and Sucrose uses Freedom, but an Anemo-aligned Traveler will use some of each.

These books come in three levels: Teachings (★★), Guides (★★★), and Philosophies (★★★★). As a talent is upgraded, higher-quality talent books are needed.

Here are all the talent books, which region they are from, and which days of the week they can be obtained. A complete domain schedule and guide is linked in the table above.

Like with the ascension gems above, here's a table showing how many of each book quality level a character will need. Note that this is for one talent, so these numbers must be tripled for all three talents.

EXP Materials

These special books are used to level up a character and are known as EXP Materials or Level Materials. They can be found in many, many different ways, including from chests, as quest rewards, and much more.

Here's how much EXP each will grant a character when used:

Since a character needs a whopping total of 8,362,650 EXP to reach level 90, it takes quite a few of these books. There are various combinations of the three types suggested by different people, but briefly, this total works out to just over 419 Hero's Wit!

The Cornerstone of Stars and Flames

When aligned with Anemo, Geo, Electro, Dendro, or Hydro, the Traveler uses standard trounce materials for their upper-level talent upgrades. However, the Pyro Traveler works a little differently. Instead of using a trounce drop from a weekly boss, Pyro Traveler will instead use an item called The Cornerstone of Stars and Flames.

Furthermore, each talent will only require four of this item, instead of the six typically needed to fully upgrade each of a character's talents. That is to say, a talent typically requires one copy of a trounce material to upgrade from level 6 to 7, then one again from level 7 to 8, two from level 8 to 9, and two from level 9 to 10, for a total of six. However, each of the Traveler's talent upgrades from level 6 onward require only one copy of The Cornerstone of Stars and Flames. This means that there should be 12 obtainable copies by the end of the Natlan arc, but there are currently only ten available.

The ten copies are found in the following ways:

• Archon Quest Completion Rewards
  • Complete Chapter V: Act II: Black Stone Under a White Stone - Past and Future
  • Complete Chapter V: Act IV: The Rainbow Destined to Burn - A Fuel Named "Fate"
  • Complete Chapter V: Act V: Incandescent Ode to Resurrection - When All Becomes a Monument

• Tribal Chronicle Completion Rewards
  • Children of Echoes: "Wailing Cacophany" in A Prayer for Blessings, Told to Crested Peaks, Act III - Melodious Chant
  • Flower-Feather Clan: "Time for the Showdown" in Of Fading Flowers and Falling Feathers, Act III - Guns and Wings
  • Masters of the Night-Wind: "The Color of Memory" in Memories Flowing With Color, Act III - The Truth of the Battle of Seven Colors
  • People of the Springs: "The Mysterious Island's Truth" in Where the Springs Return, Act III - Journey to the Mysterious Island
  • Scions of the Canopy: "The Last Turnfire Night" in Yupanqui's Turnfire, Act III - Kinich's Deal

• World Quest Completion Rewards
  • Between Pledge and Forgettance - Part III: Revelations from the Past
  • Lost Traveler in the Ashen Realm: Epilogue: The Chosen One's Promise

Traveler Constellation Items

Memory of Roving Gales	Memory of Immovable Crystals	Memory of Violet Flash	Memory of Flourishing Green
Anemo Traveler	Geo Traveler	Electro Traveler	Dendro Traveler
Memory of Running Stream	Blazing Flint Ore
Hydro Traveler	Pyro Traveler (coming soon)

While most characters use their respective Stella Fortuna to level up their constellations, the Traveler works a little differently. These items are found in various ways, and are specific to each element that the Traveler can align with.

The above links will provide more thorough information on where to find these items, but here they are at a glance: