The MOST efficient artifact farm! Route B: Alternating Routes (125 artifacts, 78.1k XP)

Want the most artifact XP you can get per patch cycle? Tired of waiting 24 hours to start your next artifact route in Genshin Impact? Would you rather start your artifact route as soon as you get off work or school, regardless of when you did it yesterday? Alternate routes are the answer:
- Run Route A day 1 (75k avg xp, 78.1k that run)
- Route B day 2 (72.4k avg xp, 78.1k this run)

What's that amount of artifact XP do?
A 5* artifact costs 270,475 XP to max out.
Each run gives (78,100 / 270,475) or 28.88%.

Over the course of a week, this equals two (2) completely maxed out artifacts. Sustaining this kind of artifact boost is the most significant thing you can do for your account's overall strength and long-term progression. Even at end game, you should be leveling promising artifacts to replace weak points on your existing builds and leveling up newly released sets. All players need to burn a lot of artifacts to keep up. So it's important to have flexibility in when you can perform routes.

These alternating routes can be run up to 12 hours sooner than typical artifact routes that require you to wait 24 hours, because they only share 12-hour respawns between them. These shared respawns are actually the strength of these routes, and the reason why alternating routes are the most efficient way to farm artifacts now.

Because Route A is slightly more average XP, you should default to using Route A after 24 hours have passed for optimal XP gains per patch cycle. Route B has its own advantages though! With more overall (non-artifact) investigations and a faster run time, running Route B is very attractive for account progression.

See the full accompanying Danger Bakery guide for image guides of each sub-route in these videos, with bite-sized videos you can pull up individually. It includes all of my theory for putting together the guide as well.

Route A

Route B
00:10 - 01:10 (1-7) North Mausoleum (Sumeru) 7
01:11 - 01:33 (8-11) Old Vanarana (Sumeru) 4
01:34 - 01:57 (12-15) NW Pardis Dhyai Mtn (Sumeru) 4
01:58 - 02:52 (16-23) NW Eremite Camp (Sumeru) 8
02:53 - 03:41 (24-31) Statue of Seven b/w Pardis & Sumeru (8)
03:42 - 03:59 (32-34) South Mawtiyama Forest (Sumeru) 3
04:00 - 04:33 (35-38) North Chasm (Sumeru) 4
04:34 - 05:00 (39-41) Treasure Hoarders (Sumeru) 3
05:01 - 05:29 (42-45) Bourou Village (S. Sangonomiya - Inazuma) 4
05:30 - 05:41 (46-47) Mirror Maiden (E. Sangonomiya - Inazuma) 2
05:42 - 05:57 (48-49) South Tsurumi (Inazuma) 2
05:58 - 06:19 (50-52) East Tsurumi (Inazuma) 3
06:20 - 06:34 (53-55) Asase Shrine (Inazuma) 3
06:35 - 07:12 (56-63) Statue of Seven - Koseki Village (Inazuma) 8
07:13 - 08:43 (64-83) Seiraimaru (Inazuma) 20
08:44 - 09:28 (84-91) North Fort Hiraumi (Inazuma) 8
09:29 - 09:44 (92-93) East Fort Hiraumi (Inazuma) 2
09:45 - 10:14 (94-99) Tatarasuna East Cannon (Inazuma) 6
10:15 - 11:14 (100-104) Tatasuna East (Inazuma) 5
11:15 - 11:22 (105) Tatarasuna NW (Inazuma) 1
11:23 - 11:51 (106-109) Tatarasuna Furnace (Inazuma) 4
11:52 - 14:12 (110-125) Tatarasuna (Inazuma) 16

Tatarasuna Farm Route (slower, but higher material gain)

Post-Route Investigations - Apam Woods & Chasm (+8 artifacts that can be appended to either route)

[tld]

That other cannon spot next to where you end your route is absolute pain to spawn an artifact it, I understand why you omitted it entirely lol

[dangerpuff]

Don't forget you can use the iron/white iron towards trading in for wood in your house now. It's pretty mind-numbing to turn it into weapon XP, so I advise foddering it for your house if you wanna do anything fancy in it.

Also, I added chapters to this video. Merry Xmas, lol. Wanderer cuts a minute or so from this route, and makes the Tatarasuna jump without feathering. I've been liking Wanderer / [Flex: Xiao/Ayaka/Nahida/Zhongli) / Yelan / Sayu as my zoom-zoom team in 3.3, depending on what I'm doing. Thanks for the support!

[riotangel]

It's convenient to trip nearby enemies with Yelan's lifeline and further freeze them with Rosaria to stall them a little bit while picking up artifacts.

[jackp]

hi @dangerpuff love the routes, especially route A. with a small portion of Fontaine out now and a bunch more of the desert is there any way you can find it in your feline schedule to create a new route B that doesnt have 1st 41 spots overlapping with route A and still ends up in tattaratsuna for overcap?

That way someone could theoretically do route A at 11PM, and then route B at 2AM server reset without having to wait 12 hours for those 41 spots to come back. please consider it.

[YamamtKu]

At first Route B worked for me, but for some reason the investigation points starting from the Bakedanuki in 10:24 have stopped appearing. I'm not sure if it's because of the cart I commented about in Route A or something else. I'll try the exact Route A tomorrow and see if that helps, but it's been happening for a while now. If you have any insight, please let me know!

Edit: To clarify, the area near the cannon artifact still worked, but the Tatara town area has no more investigation points. I also did not add any extra spots to Route B.

[percentyld]

Thank you. I've been using your routes for a few weeks now. I also added the other 4 cannon artifacts to the route. Is there a reason you didn't include them?

[Jade-West]

idk why at the end my artefacts stop spawning, there is a cap on how many I can get per day? that happen yestaerday at the end of route A and now at this route before I went to last island

[fanego]

Tried this route 3 times but on 100-104, the racoon thing never drops anything and once I teleport to 105, nothing is there and I'm capped. I tried to skip directly to 106 because it's closer compared to 105 on another day but nothing is there either. I'm definitely not overcapping early because I can get 101-104. I have no problems with route A so I'm pretty confused.