Once Human: Lightforge Loot Crates show 0.01% odds on their rarest appearances — the rate table, and the guaranteed pull every 20 draws

Starry Studio republished on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 the rules and the drop rates for the Lightforge Loot Crates in Once Human, updated for the arrival of the console version. This is the only document where the studio spells out in black and white what a rare appearance actually costs — and the numbers are worth reading before converting Crystgin.

The cost of a pull, and the two caps

Three clarifications about the pity system, since it's what determines strategy:

• pulling a Lightforge Gem resets the counter to zero;
• so you can get at most one every 20 pulls;
• but there is no limit on the total number of Lightforge Gems.

This mechanism is specific to crates from 2025 onward. The 2024 crates still run under the old rules: pity every 30 pulls, only one character per account allowed to pull from the same crate, and the pity system disappears once all the Lightforge Collection items have been obtained.

The rates, crate by crate

The Lightforge Gem rate is identical everywhere: 7.00%. What changes from one crate to another is the distribution of collection appearances. Here are the documented crates and their rarest tiers:

The rest of the content in each crate is invariably split between 50 to 54% non-collection epics and 38 to 41% rares. In other words: more than nine pulls out of ten yield an item that doesn't belong to the Lightforge Collection.

What these numbers actually mean

A 0.01% rate corresponds, on average, to one item per 10,000 pulls — which is exactly the cap of 9,999 crate openings. The ultra appearances of Eldritch Diadem and Ravenous Gear are therefore not farming goals: they're happy accidents.

The only tier truly attainable through consistent effort is the lumina crystal: a 7% pull rate, and above all guaranteed every 20 openings. This is what grants a selection from the collections rather than a blind pull — the only reliable path to a named piece.

The Redemption Shop, and duplicate refunds

The Redemption Shop offers the appearances from the current crate, along with limited quantities of lumina ingots, colored badges, and other tokens. Two rules to keep in mind:

• each appearance can only be exchanged once, and not at all if you've already pulled it from a crate;
• if you exchange a Lightforge Collection item and then pull it again from a crate, the duplicate is converted into the full amount of lumina relics spent on the exchange. So the exchange is never a total loss.

Lightforge Relics, meanwhile, are obtained "by dismantling duplicate appearances" and are used in this very shop.

Vault Returns: up to three at once

The rules for Vault Returns have been rewritten. On the current round:

1. You first receive one key to take part in the vault of your choice.
2. For each of the first two vaults you take part in, obtaining a Lightforge Collection item you've never owned before opens up an additional opportunity.
3. The total is capped at 3 vaults, so 2 bonus keys at most.

The detail that avoids a costly mistake: you can switch vaults freely as long as you haven't pulled, exchanged in the shop, or bought discounted bars on it. The first of these three actions locks in your choice.

Two more points: the first 10 half-price bars are reset for this return round, and guarantee progress is kept if you had already taken part in a vault of the same theme. If it doesn't appear to have carried over, Starry Studio asks that you first log back in with the character that took part, in order to reactivate the sync.

What to remember

1. 160 Crystgin per pull, half price on the first 10 bars — and this discount resets with each new theme.
2. 7% lumini crystal everywhere, guaranteed every 20 openings on vaults from 2025 onward.
3. The mythic (0.03%) and ultra (0.01%) tiers cannot be planned for.
4. On a return vault, don't touch anything until you're sure of your choice: the first pull locks it in.

The rate breakdown from August 25, 2026 is published in English only. The French terms used here — luminis loot vault, luminis bar, lumini crystal, luminis relic, Lightforge Collection, Crystgin, colored badges — are those from Starry Studio's official French page. Appearance names, however, are not translated by the publisher and are left as is.