Back in December 2024, Infinity Nikki Version 1.1 arrived like a paper crane folded from patch notes and starlight: delicate, a little fussy, and surprisingly sturdy once you unfolded it. In 2026, I look back at that update as a time capsule rather than a live schedule. The banners have closed, the check-in windows have expired, and the meta has moved on, but the 1.1 era still tells you a lot about how this game learned to balance free Miracles, limited Resonance, and quality-of-life polish. If you are new now, treat the dates below as history, not a to-do list. 🕰️

The 1.1 calendar, in hindsight

Version 1.1 went live on December 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM UTC+8. Phase 1 ran from that launch through January 24, 2025, and Phase 2 began on January 24. The original schedule text has a 2024 typo for the Phase 2 date, but the context clearly points to the 2025 window. In 2026, none of this is a live countdown; it is more like reading a seed packet from a garden that has since grown into a forest. 🌱

Item	What happened
Release	December 30, 2024, 10:00 AM UTC+8
Phase 1 banner	Celestial Wishes: Wings of Wishes and Starfall Radiance
Phase 2 banner	Pink Ribbon Waltz and Daughter of the Lake
Headline free outfit	Silvergale's Aria
Event hub	Into a Starry Night, Adventure Under the Stars, and more

Outfits that carried the update

Silvergale's Aria was the big free prize: a 5-star Miracle Outfit earned by finishing the interlude chapter Call of Beginnings and unlocking its sketches in the expanded Heart of Infinity. Its Rainbow Summoning ability lets Nikki summon a rainbow across the sky. That is the kind of reward that makes exploration feel less like a checklist and more like a small ceremony. 🌈

Wings of Wishes was the limited 5-star Ability outfit from Phase 1. Once you had the full set, it granted Paper Crane: Floating, a swift wind-like glide on paper-crane wings. Starfall Radiance was the 4-star companion banner outfit, and wearing it with the Praying Hands pose made shooting stars streak across the sky. I still think that is a lovely bit of showmanship: the outfit did not just sit in a wardrobe, it changed the sky. ✨

Path of Starlight was the free 3-star outfit from the Into a Starry Night event. You collected Starlight Shards by clearing tasks and exchanged them for the look. Phase 2 added Pink Ribbon Waltz and Daughter of the Lake as 4-star Resonance outfits. The store also offered Gleaming Dance, Star of the Gala, and Snowy Encounter as premium outfits for Stellarites.

Quests, events, and small delights

Call of Beginnings was the interlude after Chapter 8 and the main route to Silvergale's Aria. Star-Kissed Wishes added an exclusive quest that rewarded the limited-time Memory's Stardust earring sketch. Adventure Under the Stars brought new World Quests and Random Quests, with rewards including the Wind's Rhythm: Head Eureka and the Overflowing Fortune earrings sketch.

The event list was busy in the best way:

• 🎯 Let's Touch Shooting Stars! added a new gameplay mode with two cubes in an arena-like space. You had to clear Save the Wishing Nebula! first.

• 🎁 Starwish Gifts was the Phase 1 check-in event, with rewards for up to seven login days, including Revelation Crystal x10.

• 🌠 Into a Starry Night was the Starlight Shard event for the free Path of Starlight outfit.

• 🎣 Take the Bait, Pink Ribbon Eel! focused on the fishing minigame and a new fish, the Pink Ribbon Eel.

• 🎀 Lucky Gifts was the Phase 2 check-in event.

Patch notes that aged well

Version 1.1 was not just banners and dresses. The patch notes were a constellation of small quality-of-life fixes, each one a firefly pinned to the map. The Assisted Path option helped players who kept failing a dungeon stage. Quick Challenge came to Realm of the Dark, Realm of Eureka, and Realm of Breakthrough. Styling Challenges began letting players wear more than five accessories, with the system automatically picking the five highest-scoring ones. The Shrinking Ability finally let you open the Wardrobe and change Nikki's clothes. Makeup stopped resetting when you switched outfits or abilities. Photos displayed in full screen, and Esseling HP bars stopped photobombing. Quest tracking improved, Grand Crane landing spots were added in Dream Warehouse, mobile players got a Sleep Mode toggle, and PC players could exit or return to the login screen through Pear-Pal.

In 2026, I would not tell a new player to chase these exact banners. I would tell them to notice the design lesson: a good update is not one giant splash. It is a paper crane, a rainbow, a fishing rod, and a hundred tiny fixes all folded together. That is why Version 1.1 still feels worth remembering. 💫