Honkai Star Rail is one of the biggest releases of the year, and another hit for miHoYo. The title features turn-based combat, high-quality anime visuals, and a great cast of characters. What’s not great is actually updating the game, which uses a similar launcher to Genshin Impact, and players can potentially run into problems. We have you covered though, and if you want to manually update to Honkai Star Rail 1.1.
Manually Update to Honkai Star Rail 1.1
The download links provided here are direct links from miHoYo servers, and these files aren’t being hosted anywhere else. This is completely safe, and you’ll have the option to use download the files using the download manager of your choice.
Please keep in mind that this guide assumes you are on version v1.0.5.
Required Downloads for 1.1
You only need to download this update patch file from the link below.
- Honkai Star Rail 1.1 Patch (7.55 GB)
Updating to 1.1
Once the download is complete, the actual updating process is fairly simple this time around.
- Head over to where Honkai Star Rail is installed, it’s usually the following:
C:\Program Files\Star Rail- Here, open the Games folder
- Now, place the zip file you downloaded in the Games folder
- Run the launcher, and it should be able to verify the file placed and pre-update the game accordingly.
- If you have done everything right, it will say “Game Pre-Installation Completed“
That’s all you need to do to pre-install the latest update for Honkai Star Rail. It’s also possible that your launcher will be updated during this process which is completely normal.
Important Things To Consider
- DON’T EXTRACT THE FILES. If you want to keep playing till update 1.1 is officially out. You’ll need to ensure that you don’t extract the files manually. If you extract the files, you won’t be able to play till the update is live.
- After the patch goes live, you might have to download additional files in-game. This is normal.
- The files provided in this guide are being downloaded directly from MiHoYo servers. This means that these are entirely safe and from the developers themselves.
We hope this guide was helpful and you were able to manually update Honkai Star Rail 1.1. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments below
thank you very much, you saved me. Since playing Genshin Impact, I’ve always had trouble updating via the launcher. So I did it manually with your help.
Glad to have helped you! Enjoy the update 🙂 Thank you for your support, it means a lot <3
First comment, u know where I come from xdd
Can you upload the entire 1.1 file instead of the patch. I uninstalled the game and got the error. Now i need to download the entire file but it gets deleted during the verification and starts over again.
Hello, I’ve updated my guide to install from scratch to 1.1 now 🙂 Please go ahead and follow that:
http://whatifgaming.com/how-to-manually-install-honkai-star-rail-from-scratch-on-pc/
I want the jp audio also
I think it’s part of the update…or you might have to download in-game.
thanks for providing manual update file, the launcher always says verify game error if i auto update with launcher
Glad to have helped! Enjoy 🙂
Hey bro, is it not necessary to previously download in launcher and stop to delete an replace temp files? And all the audio versions are already included in this only file? I mean, is quite different to Genshin pre-downloads, that’s why I wonder..
Not in this case, no. Everything is in this one file. Since this is a new game, the updates aren’t as big yet 🙂
Is there a manual way for android? When I update it, I let it run on background but it keeps disappearing & I have to start all over 😤
Not for Android, no :/
I wish they also include audio to be pre downloaded man… just like genshin
Well I did literally everything wrong on this one and had all the bad luck. I jumped ahead of the instructions and launched the launcher before I read that I didn’t need to. I then canceled it and tried again once the file was there, but that didn’t work, it still had to update the launcher, which took so long I’m still questioning that it didn’t download the whole update again. Then when it finally finished it failed to copy files, so I went to the folder it was talking about and moved everything out of it to a backup folder and then hit retry, which thankfully worked. But then after the update finishes the launcher says it has another update. This one went way faster. I think after that the update button appeared which installed the file, not sure if it was the one I downloaded or if it had downloaded it during that first really long launcher update. Then when I finally get in the game, it starts to download a 2GB hotfix (2322.73MB). I don’t know how much worse it could be. I hope this goes smoother next time. I’ll definitely read the instructions before doing anything next time if nothing else. Presumably the hotfix was unavoidable but that is one very large hotfix, so it really makes me wonder. I think I’m finally in the game now. Thanks!
Ah darn, that’s a lot of things going wrong at once. Hope it goes smoother for you next time. These hotfixes are usually fairly large, and 2 GB sounds about right. Hope you can enjoy the game now! 🙂
should I extract the file after the update is live?
Didn’t the instructions work for you? If not then sure, you can extract it but please double-check if the update is live or else you won’t be able to play till it’s live.
Thank you it worked, I’m glad I checked the website before doing anything
That’s awesome! Enjoy 🙂
how to install honkai star rail v1.1 on scratch? i recently formatted drive on my pc and i dont want any trouble downloading from the launcher.
Hello, I’ve updated my guide to install from scratch to 1.1 now 🙂 Please go ahead and follow that:
http://whatifgaming.com/how-to-manually-install-honkai-star-rail-from-scratch-on-pc/
tysm!!
hi there, i have downloaded this but still my game won’t open and launcher keeps saying update it, what should i do?
Try running the game directly using StarRail.exe in the Games folder
thanks, it worked but can i ask how to fix the launcher, it is still asking for update
waiting 1.2
Hey Yuki,
Here is the link to the guide:
http://whatifgaming.com/how-to-manually-update-to-honkai-star-rail-1-2-on-pc/
Have fun! 😀
1.2 please
Hey Rin,
Here is the update guide for 1.1 to 1.2:
http://whatifgaming.com/how-to-manually-update-to-honkai-star-rail-1-2-on-pc/
Enjoy 🙂
1.2 when?
Hello! Here is the link:
http://whatifgaming.com/how-to-manually-update-to-honkai-star-rail-1-2-on-pc/
Enjoy! 😀