gacha-event-tracker/docs/2026-11-01-genshin-event-audit.md

Genshin event audit — owner walkthrough

Recorded 2026-11-01. Research and owner confirmations only; no implementation or deduplication design approved during the walkthrough. The owner subsequently resumed work, chose source-driven classification, and requested a Genshin About toggle for TCG events. The proposed implementation design is superpowers/specs/2026-11-01-content-classification-design.md; approval of that design was subsequently approved; implementation and verification are recorded in that design and its linked plan.

Confirmed Genshin matches

The owner read these from the game, confirming the following tracker matches.

In-game event	Tracker entry	Notes
Tabletop Troupe: A Gathering on Adventure's Eve	Free Limited 5-Star Anniversary Selector	Tartaglia, Nilou, Varesa and others; requires completing the new story.
Overflowing Favor	Overflowing Favor	Double rewards.
Carefree Snowball Fight	Carefree Snowball Fight	Same name.
Stygian Onslaught — Luminous Battlefront	Stygian Onslaught	Named season of the current run.
To Temper Thyself and Journey Far	To Temper Thyself and Journey Far	The other source calls this run Cycle 5.
Across the Frozen Wilds, Honing One's Edge	Free Standard 5-Star Anniversary Selector	Jean, Dehya, Mona and others; separate from the limited selector.
Test Run — Skirk, Escoffier, etc.	Test Run - Skirk, Escoffier, Dahlia, Candace, Mika	Trials change with the featured character banners.
The Godforsaken Frostlands	The Godforsaken Frostlands	New-region exploration rewards.
A Rekviem for the Underworld	A Rekviem for the Underworld	Archon Quest completion rewards; owner saw 2d 11h remaining. Separate from the selector unlocked by that quest.
The Forge Realm's Temper — Clever Stratagems	The Forge Realm's Temper: Clever Stratagems	TCG event; owner saw 2d 20h remaining.

Rainbow's End: Resplendent Starlight is not confirmed: the owner thinks it probably appeared and was already claimed. Do not turn this into a confirmed completion mark or use it to remove the event.

The owner found the name Moontrace through Battle Pass → bottom-left icon, with 1d 0h remaining. They want battle passes represented under cycles rather than duplicated as event tasks. Inspect the existing pass/cycle implementation before designing this change. Rounded remaining times above are observations, not exact UTC boundaries; they must not be used to mint end timestamps.

Travelers' Tales: Snowstride Chapter appears to the owner to be an update to existing content rather than a timed event. No timed-event match was established.

Miliastra Wonderland separation

The owner wants Miliastra Wonderland tracked separately from Genshin, potentially as its own game/lane, and confirmed these belong there:

• Wonderland Treasures: Moonlight After the Rain
• Starlit Gala
• Silvery Moonlight Chronicle
• Starlight Voyage: Heart Unbound
• Raiment Collection: Warmth of a Sunny Day

Wonderland Treasures has no established one-to-one tracker match; it may be an umbrella notice. Starlit Gala and Starlit Gala: Wonderland Selects have not been confirmed as duplicates. Do not merge them based on their shared name.

Findings and remaining work

The local built feed inspected during research was generated on 2026-10-22. Parsing the cached sources already folds the two selector pairs, the Stygian season and the To Temper cycle into their respective survivors. Moontrace's Battle Pass prefix was addressed by the previous parser change. See superpowers/specs/2026-10-14-genshin-duplicates-design.md and ../src/ingest/merge.ts for that work.

This walkthrough established no additional duplicate pair requiring a new merge rule. It identified content classification and potentially stale display issues: Miliastra content under Genshin, pass placement, and older event rows. The older Character Test Runs row in the initially inspected snapshot covered a different banner phase from the current Skirk / Escoffier trial, so those runs must not be fused. After the automated refreshes through 4faf3c9, Game8's row instead starts 2026-10-13 and ends 2026-11-03, matching Fandom's named Skirk / Escoffier phase. The owner reported both on the live server after the classification release. This is now a confirmed same-phase duplicate: merge matches the two source-identified trial families under its existing start guard and preserves the absorbed ID through mergedIds. Different-phase fixture rows stay separate.

Next session should inspect how the current client handles expiration, existing cycle/pass windows, and the consequences of a separate Miliastra lane. Game and event IDs are persisted identities: moving rows between games must preserve reader progress and existing IDs or supply an explicit migration. Discuss approaches before implementing; no lane split, date change, state migration or broader matching rule has been implemented or approved by this audit.

Follow-up: lane check after Version 7.2 (2026-11-07)

The owner asked whether the Miliastra split held once a new version shipped: no Genshin event under Miliastra, no Miliastra event under Genshin. It held. No row is in the wrong lane. No code, data or date changed as a result of this check; the open items below have no approved design.

Checked against the 2026-11-06 17:28 UTC refresh (4bf4f01), the first covering 7.2. The feed built from it, the deployed feed and the running app with Miliastra on all agree: 15 live rows, Genshin 12, Miliastra 3. The eight other Genshin rows in the feed had ended and were not shown.

Lane	Rows	Evidence
Miliastra	Chronicle of Polyphony, Raiment Collection: Radiance Ablaze	Fandom type label and Fandom's Miliastra Wonderland/Events index; owner confirmed both in game
Miliastra	Starlight Voyage: Spontaneous Composition	Fandom type label and index; not started on 2026-11-07
Genshin	Sacred Spirit Chronicle	Fandom Battle Pass label; owner confirmed in game
Genshin	To Temper Thyself Cycle 6, Test Run, The Forge Realm's Temper: Endless Swarm, Hour of Ruin, The Grand Defense, Where Kristall Roots Run Deep, Stygian Onslaught	Fandom type labels; not on the Miliastra index
Genshin	Encounter: Interlude of the Long Journey, Stress Block Smashing Project, Frames of Fierce Splendor	Labels do not settle the lane, so the articles were read: none mentions Miliastra. All three are stubs, and the last two are marked upcoming and may change
Genshin	Ley Line Overflow	Plain In-Game label; not on the Miliastra index

The index lists exactly the three Miliastra rows above for 7.2, which is what rules out a Miliastra event misfiled under Genshin or missing from the feed. Dated rows in the Fandom snapshot history since 2026-10-15 also show no disagreement between type label and article path. The owner stopped the in-game walk here because it is slow to navigate, so the other Genshin rows have no in-game confirmation.

Open items

Item 1 was then built: see its note. The others are not fixed.

1. Day-precision ends can be hours wrong, in both directions. Fandom's event table prints dates only, so the app resolves an end to that game-day's reset. The article pages publish the exact instant:

   Row	App resolves to	Article states	Result (Europe)
   Chronicle of Polyphony	14 Dec 03:00 UTC	14 Dec 03:59 server, 02:59:59 UTC	Correct
   Raiment Collection: Radiance Ablaze	16 Dec 03:00 UTC	16 Dec 05:59 GMT+8 on every server, 15 Dec 21:59:59 UTC	About 5h late
   Encounter: Interlude of the Long Journey	15 Dec 03:00 UTC	15 Dec 14:59 server, 13:59:59 UTC	About 11h early

   The late direction is the harmful one: a reader leaving it to the last hours sees time remaining after the event has closed. The owner's in-game readings (37d 2h for both passes, 38d 21h for Raiment) agree with the articles. They remain rounded observations and must not be used to mint timestamps. The likely fix is reading exact times from article pages, which adds requests per refresh and so needs its own design and a look at § Scraping conduct.

   Done: superpowers/specs/2026-11-07-exact-end-times-design.md. Every live row was then checked: 9 of 15 were correct. In-game, Test Run read 17d 16h as its article implies, where the app said 17d 2h.

   One reading disagrees, and is accepted rather than special-cased. Forge Realm's Temper is not in the event tab. Its timer at The Cat's Tail read 38d 22h at about 00:30 UTC on 2026-11-07, implying 15 Dec about 22:30-23:30 UTC. Its article says 05:59 GMT+8 on 15 Dec, which is 14 Dec 21:59 UTC, about 25h earlier, and the app had been about 20h earlier. The timer may cover something beyond the event, or the article may be wrong: neither is established. The error is on the safe side. Recheck when the next The Forge Realm's Temper run starts.

2. Wonderland Treasures has no row in either lane. In game, Wonderland Treasures - Polyphonic Harmony appears in Genshin's event tab, 38d 13h 47m remaining around 00:12 UTC on 2026-11-07. It is probably the 7.2 counterpart of Wonderland Treasures: Moonlight After the Rain, which the owner placed under Miliastra above; that link is inferred from the shared name. If tracked it belongs in Miliastra despite where the game lists it. Neither source's event page names it. Frosty Court, which the owner read as a premium pull with the same time remaining, is also absent from both pages. Track or leave out: undecided.

3. Across the Frozen Wilds, Honing One's Edge (2026-11-04 – TBA) is not in the feed. The Fandom parser skips a row parseFullRange cannot date, and this range returns null. It is also not in the owner's event tab, so it may have been claimed already, or the wiki row may be wrong or early. Neither is established, so this is not yet a confirmed missing event. Recheck on a later refresh before changing the parser, which could also admit other TBA rows.

4. A Game8-only Miliastra event would land under Genshin. Game8 rows carry no lane label and this page mentions Miliastra only in its navigation menu. Every live Game8 row is currently also on Fandom and correctly placed, so nothing is affected today.