Vein Essence, Sparkling Crystals and event currencies

The main use of Vein Essence you'll run into is the Aniimo Discovery event, the search for Dazmin being one example. Each day you get three free search attempts. After those, every extra search costs one Vein Essence. That makes it the currency that decides how hard you can push a discovery event past its daily allowance.

It may also matter for limited-time Prismana Aniimo, but that isn't settled. They are described both as catchable without spending any Vein Essence and as obtained with it, with your supply capping how many you can get. The Prismana farming guide covers how those creatures work. Here, it's enough to know that Vein Essence might be the limit.

Vein Essence comes from a long list of places, so you collect it without trying: open-world gathering, Elite Training, catch milestones, Nurture Branches, Holo Battle Interlinks, the battle pass, the stamp shop, and delivering Lumin Amber to the Branch. The Mysterious Vendor in Astra sells it now and then, but its price isn't settled either. A pair has been priced at both 210,000 and 420,000 credits, so check the tag before you assume it's a bargain.

If you've searched for sparkling Aniimo, this is the currency you want. Sparkling Crystals are the material used to craft or buy Sparkling Cubes, and a Sparkling Cube guarantees the capture of a shiny Prismana Aniimo. The difference between sparkling and Prismana is just this: Prismana is the creature, and Sparkling Crystals are how you make sure you catch the shiny version.

The best single source is a Super Lucky capture, which pays out a large haul of materials that includes around 50 to 60 Sparkling Crystals.

You spend them at the Outpost Vendor, and the exchange rate there is not settled. One Sparkling Anipod has been priced at both 1,000 and 100 Sparkling Crystals. One Sparkling Cube has been priced at 1,000, at 100 and at 5. Look at the vendor yourself before you plan around any of those numbers.

Event currency mostly comes from festival dailies, meaning the daily orders and daily event missions. If you skip a day, you lose that day's income, and you can't get it back later in a single session.

Some of it comes regardless. You get 10 Bloom crystals guaranteed every week. Petals come from tasks: a set of weekly rotation tasks plus a permanent task subsection. Petal income is gated by the weekly reset, so the most you can earn is whatever a week's tasks pay.

Lightweave Tickets work differently. They pay for Lightweave draws, which give limited-edition appearances in the Forest of the Butterfly Dreams event. One Lightweave pull, or one ticket, costs 38 Lumin Crystals, the game's premium currency. That makes this the one event currency here that ties directly to premium spending, and the draws give appearances, not creatures.

Primagy is the energy currency, Aniimo's version of stamina. Activities use it up, so it's the thing that ends a play session. Plan your heavier activities around it.

What Star Essence is for isn't settled. It's described both as something consumed to level up an Aniimo and as the material for capability awakening, where it raises potential. On the awakening side, you need it to push Awaken Potential past 10 points toward the cap of 20. Either way, it's a progression resource, so don't spend it on a whim.

Wood comes from open-world gathering, along with the story, events and achievements. Gathering also produces Vein Essence, so one trip through the open world fills both. On top of all this, the game gives you five daily activity tasks, which are the steady base the rest of your income sits on.

05Where to start

Do the festival dailies and the five daily tasks every day, and spend Primagy before it caps. Save Vein Essence for discovery searches beyond the free three. Put Sparkling Crystals toward Sparkling Cubes, but check the Outpost Vendor's real prices first, because they aren't settled. Lightweave Tickets only buy cosmetics, and they cost premium currency.