Stella Sora 1.13 Now Live — Suntide Willow & 20 Free Pulls

Stella Sora Version 1.13 "Sunlit Breeze, Azure Seas, Checking In for A Cozy Summer~" went live on July 20, 2026, and it hands out twenty free pulls before it asks you for anything. That generosity is front-loaded, but the deadlines are not, so the useful question for Tyrants logging in this week is not whether to play. It is what you finish before August 3, when the shorter half of the version closes and takes the Event Shop with it. Here is everything currently running, and the order that actually matters.

🌊 Version 1.13 at a Glance

• Live since: July 20, 2026
• New ★5 Trekker: Suntide Willow, Aqua element, Support position
• New ★5 Runic Disc: Fleeting Glimmers
• Banner window: July 20 to August 10 (UTC-7) for both
• Event Shop closes: August 3, a full week before the banners
• Free pulls: Suntide Limited Ticket ×20 from the login event, plus Drop of Purity ×1

Those two closing dates are the single most important thing to internalise, because the version does not end all at once. The Event Shop and the main summer event wrap on August 3, while the banners and the login rewards run a week longer. Anyone treating August 10 as the deadline will lose the Event Shop rewards without realising it.

☀️ Suntide Willow — Aqua Support

The headline Trekker is Suntide Willow, a summer take on Willow, who runs the Trekker Association's local branch in Emor and is written as the composed, capable presence the cast leans on. She arrives as an Aqua-element Support from the limited banner "Warm Up Before Jumping In!", available until August 10.

Her Support position matters more than a rarity tag suggests. Squads in Stella Sora run three Trekkers with designated main and support roles, and each Trekker carries a different skill set depending on which seat she occupies. A Support-position ★5 therefore changes what your existing carries can accomplish rather than replacing them, so her value scales with the roster you already run rather than sitting independent of it.

Full skill breakdowns are still settling as players get hands-on time with her, so treat any early performance verdict, including your own first impressions, as provisional until more of the community has run her through Monolith floors.

🎟️ Twenty Free Pulls, and What They Point At

The login event "Setting Sail for a Rippling Summer" runs from July 20 to August 10 and pays out Suntide Limited Ticket ×20 alongside a Drop of Purity. Twenty pulls is a substantial handout for a login chain, and it lands in the same window as the banner it is named after.

In plain terms: these tickets are tied to the summer recruitment rather than being general currency, which means the game is effectively covering a meaningful chunk of a Suntide Willow attempt for free. For anyone who has been away from Stella Sora and is deciding whether to reinstall, this is the cheapest re-entry point the game has offered in months, because you accumulate the pulls simply by logging in across the window rather than by grinding.

The practical consequence is that the login chain is the one thing you cannot afford to break. Missing days costs tickets directly, and unlike event missions there is no way to catch up in a single session at the end.

🐚 Sunlit Conch and the Free ★5 Disc

The version's main event, sharing the update's name, runs from July 20 to August 3. Completing missions awards Sunlit Conch, the event currency, which you spend in the Event Shop to redeem an event-limited ★5 Runic Disc.

Runic Discs are the gear layer of the game, so a free ★5 Disc is genuine power rather than a cosmetic reward. That makes this event the highest-value item on the calendar for free-to-play Tyrants, and it explains why the August 3 date deserves more attention than the banner closing on August 10.

Running alongside it is the limited Disc banner "Rippling Waves, a Touch so Gentle", carrying the new ★5 Disc Fleeting Glimmers until August 10. Standard advice applies here more than usual: secure the free Disc from the Event Shop before committing pulls to the Disc banner, since one costs missions and the other costs Stellanite Dust.

🐱 Summit Show: Cat-stle Siege

Summit Show returns for 1.13 as Cat-stle Siege, running July 20 to August 3. The framing has you filling Lilibea's stream with hype while fighting through Trekker illusions in an arena format, which means you face versions of the game's own cast rather than standard enemies.

Because the opposition is built from Trekkers, the mode rewards knowing what your roster's counterplay looks like rather than raw stat checks. It also shares the August 3 deadline with the main event, so bundle the two into the same play sessions rather than treating them as separate errands.

♟️ Two Modes Worth Checking

Two further additions round out the update, and both are easy to miss because they sit outside the main event flow:

• Through Hostile Depths (beta) — a board-based mode framed around seizing victory from the opening move. The beta tag signals Yostar is testing it rather than shipping it finished, so expect changes and treat feedback as worth giving.
• Operation: Shadow Siege — a mission-completion mode paying out redeemable rewards.

Neither is the reason to log in this version, but the beta in particular is worth sampling early. Modes tested in beta tend to return as permanent fixtures, so time spent learning it now is not wasted.

📋 What to Do Before August 3

The version splits into two deadlines, so the priority order follows the earlier one:

• Claim the login rewards daily without breaking the chain, because the twenty tickets accumulate across the window and cannot be recovered later
• Farm Sunlit Conch to the Event Shop cap and redeem the event-limited ★5 Runic Disc before August 3, since this is the version's best free reward
• Clear Summit Show: Cat-stle Siege in the same sessions, as it closes on the same date
• Sample Through Hostile Depths while it is in beta
• Decide on Suntide Willow only after the free tickets land, because twenty pulls may resolve the question without touching your Stellanite Dust
• Hold Disc banner pulls until the free Event Shop Disc is secured

Returning Tyrants who stopped somewhere around the Winter Requiem arc have a longer road, since several versions of Trekkers, Discs, and system changes have landed since. The upside is that 1.13 is an unusually forgiving re-entry point: the free pull count is high, the flagship reward comes from missions rather than gacha, and the summer framing means the content is approachable rather than gated behind endgame progression. For context on where the story and systems stood when you left, our Version 1.7 Winter Requiem breakdown and our Version 1.6 systems explainer are the closest reference points.

🛒 Build Your Stella Sora Roster

Version 1.13's free pulls go further on an account that already has a squad worth supporting, and Suntide Willow's Support position rewards exactly that. Tyrants who want a roster ready for the summer banners rather than starting from a reroll can explore trusted Stella Sora Accounts with limited Trekkers and progression already in place, accelerate Monolith runs and event mission farming with expert Stella Sora Hourly Services, or clear Summit Show and the tougher Monolith floors through reliable Stella Sora Boosting.

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