Star Savior: How to Get Starlight Stones and Free Pulls (F2P)

The short version

There is no shortcut to free Starlight Stones in Star Savior, but there is a steady drip if you actually play. Your currency comes from two buckets: big one-time hauls from clearing content, and slower repeatable income from missions, logins, and events. F2P players who clear the story and check their mission tab daily can bank a meaningful number of pulls without ever opening the shop.

The trick is not earning faster, since you cannot. The trick is not wasting what you earn, which is where Mileage comes in.

What you are actually collecting

Three currencies matter for pulls:

• Starlight Stones are the premium currency. You spend them on Savior (character) pulls.
• Yellow Tickets pull Saviors directly, no stones needed.
• Purple Tickets pull Arcana cards.

When a guide says “free pulls,” it usually means tickets or enough stones to cover a pull. Keep the two banner types separate in your head: stones and Yellow Tickets feed character banners, Purple Tickets feed Arcana banners.

One-time hauls (the big early income)

These are the chunks you clear once and never again. They are also the bulk of your starting pull stack:

• Main Story progression. Clearing story content rewards Arcana draws in batches, on the order of 10x Arcana draws at progression points. Story is also gated by your team strength, so this naturally paces out over your first weeks.
• Operation Sector clears. These hand out Savior draws, again in batches around 10x at milestones. Push these as your roster lets you.
• Mailbox launch and pre-registration rewards. A new or recent account has a stack of stones and tickets sitting in the mail. Sweep it.
• Free SSR selector. New accounts get a selectable SSR, which is effectively a free top-tier pull. Factor that into who you chase before spending stones. Our reroll guide covers how the selector fits a fresh start.
• Milestone selection boxes at specific stages (the 5-28 and 8-40 type checkpoints) give free gear and materials, which frees up other currency for pulls.
• Achievements. Most pay out once. Combat, collection, and progression achievements all chip in stones and materials.

Burn through this bucket early and you will have a few hundred pulls worth of currency before you ever think about spending.

Repeatable income (the slow steady drip)

Once the one-time rewards dry up, this is your ongoing pull economy:

• Daily missions. Log in, do your dailies, claim the mission tab. This is your most consistent stone trickle. Always sweep the mission tab as you progress, since rewards sit there waiting to be collected and are easy to forget.
• Weekly missions. Bigger payouts than dailies, reset every week.
• Login rewards. Just showing up pays a small amount, with bigger bumps at attendance milestones.
• Events. This is where the real repeatable pulls hide. Limited-time events run free pull tickets, stones, and event-shop currency you exchange for tickets. Do not skip events, even if the featured unit does not interest you, because the currency itself is the prize.
• In-game mail. Maintenance compensation, apology stones, and event distributions arrive here regularly. Check it often.

None of these is large on its own. Together, with logins and a couple of active events, they keep a slow but real flow of pulls coming.

How to plan pulls around Mileage

This is the part that turns “I earn slowly” into “I never waste a pull.” Star Savior has no hard pity and no 50/50. Instead:

• Every pull, on any banner, gives you 1 Mileage.
• 200 Mileage lets you exchange for the current featured unit, guaranteed.
• Mileage never expires and carries across every banner.

Read that last point again, because it shapes your entire F2P strategy. A pull is never truly wasted, even if you whiff the rate-up unit, because it still moved you one step toward 200. That changes the math:

1. Save your stones. Do not pull in dribs and drabs. Bank everything until a banner you actually want is live.
2. Pull in bulk when that banner arrives, so your Mileage stacks toward 200 on a unit you care about.
3. Treat Mileage as a savings account, not spending money. Hitting 200 does not mean you have to cash it in immediately. Saving stored Mileage for a true limited unit (the kind that may never rerun) is usually smarter than burning it on a standard-pool character you would eventually pull anyway.

The Mileage math also means you should be picky about which banners you touch at all. Spreading pulls thin still earns Mileage, but it scatters your rate-up chances. Concentrate. Our banner guide breaks down which banners deserve your stones, and the tier list helps you decide who is worth a 200 Mileage exchange.

A simple F2P routine

If you want a no-thinking daily loop:

• Log in, claim login reward and mailbox.
• Clear daily missions, then sweep the mission tab.
• Push Main Story or Operation Sector when your team can handle the next stage.
• During events, prioritize the event currency and free tickets over everything else.
• Bank stones. Pull only when a banner you want is live, then aim toward 200 Mileage.

Stick to that and you will pull more than you expect, without spending a cent.

A note on patch drift

Star Savior is on roughly v2.2.1 as of June 2026. Exact reward amounts, event income, mission payouts, and milestone rewards shift between patches and seasonal events, and regional servers can differ. The earning sources above are stable, but the precise numbers will move over time. Use this as a framework, then confirm current event income inside the game.