Genshin Impact artifact inventory will be expanded in update 4.0

HoYoverse announces more changes coming in the next version

Marco Wutz | Aug 2, 2023

Genshin Impact artifact inventory will be expanded in update 4.0 /

Update 4.0 for Genshin Impact is inbound and a livestream on August 4, 2023, will have a lot of juicy details for players in this regard. HoYoverse has already announced a few changes ahead of the special program, though, which have fans very excited about.

Artifacts are incredibly important for builds of Genshin Impact characters and it takes a long time to find the perfect piece of gear for a specific character, which means players will pick up a ton of items they don’t really need. Managing artifacts is going to become easier in the future: Update 4.0 will increase the available artifact inventory space from 1,500 to 1,800, allowing you to carry at least 300 additional items. You’ll be able to auto-add items of 4-Star quality when leveling up artifacts as well, making it unnecessary to manually choose each individual piece – this is going to make it so much easier to upgrade artifacts and keep your inventory somewhat clean.

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Starting with version 4.0 the Crafting Bench’s Mystic Offering tab will allow you to produce eight additional artifact strongboxes:

Tenacity of the Millelith
Husk of Opulent Dreams
Pale Flame
Ocean-Hued Clam
Shimenawa’s Reminiscence
Vermillion Hereafter
Emblem of Severed Fate
Echoes of an Offering

These are only the first quality-of-life improvements coming to the artifact system. HoYoverse stated that it was currently discussing ways to make locking and equipping artifacts a lot less cumbersome, so expect more changes to come in the future.

Changes are coming to the battle pass as well: Update 4.0 brings five additional weapons into the game that can be chosen in the paid version of the battle pass after reaching level 30. More details on this equipment will be released soon.

HoYoverse will add support for gyroscope controllers on PC, PS4, and PS5 with the upcoming patch and allow players to observe matches in Genius Invokation TCG through their friend list in the game.

These announcements followed an earlier post by HoYoverse discussing their plans for coming quality-of-life improvements, such as the multi-layered map coming with update 4.0.

Published Aug 2, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg