Harvest Festival 2025 – Full Event Guide & First Impressions

The Harvest Festival has arrived in Infinity Kingdom, bringing with it the usual mix of sign-in rewards, special challenges, seasonal shops, and cosmetic skins — but also a few big changes to the event formula.

Some of these changes are small but noticeable, others are major — and one in particular (the reworked Treasure Hunter) is already dividing the community.

Let’s break down everything you need to know.

1. Sign-In Rewards – Goodbye Resonant Crystals (for now)

One of the first differences you’ll notice this time is the absence of Resonant Crystals in the sign-in rewards. Instead, they’ve been replaced with Tokens of Light.

If you’ve been hoarding Resonant Crystals, there’s no need to panic — they’ve been cycled out before (such as during Apollo’s release) and returned later in other seasonal events. Chances are we’ll see them again. For now, Tokens of Light are a fine substitute, though they’re not as universally desired.

2. Battle Pass – New Castle Skin “Goddess of Victory”

The seasonal Battle Pass features the Goddess of Victory Castle Skin, which is also upgradable for extra troop HP. While the skin looks great, the upgrade bonus is… underwhelming.

At level 3 (requiring both pass progression and paid tiers), you’ll end up with +3% Troop HP, which feels very very low given the investment. Event at fully upgraded this is a worse combat skin than the base-versions from e.g. Midsummer.

Free-to-play note: It’s possible to get the skin as F2P if you grind hard, but paying the $50 tier will net you 60 fragments from the pass itself and another 30 via Pinnacle Trials (see below), letting you hit level 3 immediately.

3. Glorious Challenge – Play Smart, Farm More Coins

The Glorious Challenge format remains familiar: clear stages, earn Harvest Coins, and spend them in the event shop.

Pro tip: Don’t rush to the hardest stages right away. Work through the easy stages over the first couple of days, then move into Hard Mode later in the event. The coin payout in the later stages (around 240 coins per clear) is much higher, so waiting maximizes your currency per ticket.

4. Pinnacle Trials – Competitive New Mode with Castle Skin Pieces

One of the most exciting additions is the updated Pinnacle Trials. Now, after clearing all stages, you unlock a Trial Ranking mode.

This may end up functioning similarly to Tournament of Survival or Arena rankings, where you can compete for top spots.

Why is this exciting? Because the rewards now include Castle Skin Puzzle Pieces. Even if you don’t rank first, you can slowly stockpile these over multiple events and eventually complete a skin. Hopefully in the future we’ll see a choice chest for these pieces so you can target a specific skin.

5. Celebration Shop – Mostly the Same, Slight Downgrades

The Celebration Shop hasn’t changed much

First priority reward is artifacts x3
Then Stardust
Then Token of Lights
Speed ups with whatever is left

Note that with the re-introduction of a Dazzling Wish instead of a Treasure Hunter (albeit slightly new format) the Token of Lights are not worth nearly as much as we saw in previous versions. I would only gem for currency to buy Tokens if you are a big spender. And I would never spend money on these in this version of the event.

Still, it’s the standard seasonal shop formula — nothing game-changing here.

6. The Big Change – Dazzling Wish Replaces Treasure Hunter

The most controversial change in Harvest Festival is the removal of Treasure Hunter and the introduction of a reworked Dazzling Wish system.

This new Dazzling Wish keeps the core “spin for rewards” structure but changes both the prize pool and the odds:

Main rewards have just 0.1% drop rate.
60x Chaos Chest at 1%.
New artifact fragments now included (a welcome addition).
Rotating immortal fragments (likely changing daily between elements).

At first glance, the rewards look better than Treasure Hunter in terms of variety, but the cost is high and the rates for premium prizes are extremely low. This seems targeted toward heavy spenders aiming for the top of the Points Ranking, where whales may choose to skip days to manage their spending.

The event is no longer cross servers and involving many players. Therefore, you are unable to play the event smart and snipe items. This means that the value of this event has dropped through the floor. It is quite terrible efficiency and NOT recommended to participate at all given the bad castle skin rewards and the terrible chances for useful drops.

For F2P and low spenders, it’s questionable whether this system is worth engaging with heavily — the payouts are less predictable than the old Treasure Hunter.

7. Final Thoughts – Worth Your Time?

Positives:

Fresh seasonal content with familiar farming loops.
Pinnacle Trials revamp looks fun, its something new which is always good. Hopefully next version will have worthwhile rewards.
New Artifact fragments in Dazzling Wish are a meaningful addition.

Negatives:

Resonant Crystals removed (temporarily).
Battle Pass HP bonus is way too small.
Dazzling Wish rates and costs feel punishing even for whales.

Overall, Harvest Festival is still worth participating in for the free and steady rewards. I would not on the Dazzling Wish at all, very bad value.

Best bet is to focus on:

Maxing Pinnacle Trials for puzzle pieces and pass fragments.
Farming Harvest Coins efficiently via Glorious Challenge.
Picking your Dazzling Wish spins carefully, only if the daily rewards align with your needs.

Published: 13-08-2025

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