Neverness to Everness 1.3 release time: CN and global are six days apart

Updated September 9, 2026

Neverness to Everness 1.3 — “Rising from the Moonlight Fog” (CN: 雾中朔望星回) — is the next version of Hotta Studio’s supernatural urban open-world RPG. It arrives in two waves:

• CN servers: live now. 1.3 opened on 13 August 2026 after a 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8) maintenance window, exactly as the official CN notice stated. Compensation of 600 Annuliths total went out by in-game mail — no launch codes were issued.
• Global servers (EN/JP/KR/TW): 19 August 2026 — per the official announcement for the international version

The countdown above runs to the global date. If you play on CN, your date is six days earlier.

The 19 August downtime is official: 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8), confirmed by the global 1.3 patch notes posted on 18 August — for most of the Americas that is the evening of 18 August, with servers back at 20:00 PDT / 23:00 EDT. The full timezone table is on our NTE server status page.

The six-day gap is the schedule, not a delay

This is the thing most coverage gets wrong or skips. NTE’s CN version launched on 23 April 2026; the global version followed on 29 April. Every version since has kept that offset, and 1.3 keeps it too: 13 August CN, 19 August global.

So if you are on the international version watching CN players stream Duskmoor six days early — that is working as designed. Global is not slipping; it has never been day-and-date with CN.

It also means CN launch week doubles as a preview of what breaks. If 1.3 ships with a crash or a broken quest on CN servers on the 13th, global players get six days of warning — and we will note anything that carries over.

What time does it unlock?

Global servers are live: 1.3 opened on schedule at 11:00 (UTC+8) on 19 August — confirmed within minutes by players in-game on the PC launcher and PS5. The patch notes had set the window at 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8) — the same schedule every NTE maintenance has used — and note it may end earlier or later depending on progress. Compensation is 600 Annuliths total (300 maintenance + 300 bug-fix) by in-game mail, for characters created before 06:00; Hunter Lvl 11+ players also get a supply event after the update. No redemption codes were issued with the notice — exactly the CN pattern.

Neverness to Everness codes (expired)

These codes expired on 10 August 2026 at 23:59 (UTC+8). We keep them here as a record rather than quietly deleting them — the next batch is expected with the 1.3 version launch, and will be posted the moment it drops. The three codes from the 8 August preview livestream were:

• FOGDENGAME — 100 Annuliths, 5 Rising Hunter Guides, 5 Light Dyes, 4,000 Beetle Coins
• EYEOFDELUSION — 100 Annuliths, 5 Senior Hunter Guides, 5 Colorless Dyes, 6,000 Beetle Coins
• SUMMERTIME — 100 Annuliths, 2 Elite Hunter Guides, 2 Chaotic Dyes, 12,000 Beetle Coins

That was 300 Annuliths total, issued for both CN and global. As stated on this page before the deadline, they expired before the version itself launches on either server — livestream codes for this game are short-lived by design. If you missed them: version launches usually bring fresh codes, and this page gets them the moment they are live.

What is in 1.3

Banners and pull rewards

Banners run in two halves, each 21 days:

• First half — Zankou & a Nanally rerun. New 5-star main-DPS Esper (Incantation type); claiming her also grants a bonus story outfit, and she can turn invisible in the open world. On CN: from the 13 August update to 3 September, 05:59. On global: 19 August to 9 September. Her signature Arc Disc and Nanally’s are boosted alongside.
• Second half — Linko & a 1.0 rerun. Linko is a support-leaning Esper built around follow-up attacks and team synchronization. On CN the second half went live on 3 September (Linko’s board plus a 1.0 rerun; the same day added a roguelike side mode), running to 24 September. Global went live on 9 September after the 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8) maintenance, per Hotta’s notice of 8 September: Linko’s “Surfing All Channels!” Limited Board (A-Class Haniel, Aurelia, Skia) and the new S-Class Arc “Voice of the Voyager”, plus the Hotori rerun board “Misty Tipsy Style” and the Arc rerun “Marching Beyond Time” — all 9 to 30 September 05:59 (UTC+8). Zankou’s board closed on 9 September at 05:59. Maintenance compensation: Annulith ×300 by mail for characters created before 9 September 06:00. The Linko build and pull guide, written from CN’s launch day, is up.

Cumulative-pull rewards for the first half are confirmed: a glider at 50 pulls, a beach-buggy skin at 120, and one of Zankou’s outfits at 200.

The new area: Duskmoor

The headline of the version. Duskmoor is roughly as large as the five existing districts combined — the playable map effectively doubles. The terrain spans mountains, a seaside town, highway settlements, beaches, jungle and highlands; the vehicle-challenge mode gains new rally routes here, and the beach volleyball and summer content all live on this coast.

There is also “Fogden”, a story-only anomaly map — by the official’s own description a one-time set piece you will mostly revisit for photos.

New main-story chapter

The “Fogden Game” episode closes out the opening arc: the rescue of Nanally and the final reckoning with the Red Script faction, and a long-teased new character makes her story debut.

Three vehicles and standalone housing

• “Tide” jet ski — the game’s first water vehicle, from a gacha crate bundled with three swimsuit outfits; required to unlock free-roam surfing
• Beach ATV — direct purchase with Beetle Coins, tuned for sand but road-legal
• Bicycle — direct purchase, rides along with a companion character

The much-requested standalone home arrives: a detached countryside villa with its own farming plot — and crops can be sold for Beetle Coins.

13 new outfits

Zankou gets five (one free with the character, one premium store outfit with effects, one from cumulative pulls, one from affinity, one swimsuit), Linko gets three, and a summer swimsuit line covers the protagonist, Mint, Nanally and Chaos.

Seven new game modes

• Beach volleyball — 2v2 matches (PvE-leaning) with per-character stat spreads and a weekly league
• Jet-ski racing — timed sea routes across the whole map
• Maritime salvage — an extraction-style loop: harpoon floating cargo from your jet ski and make it back before the fuel runs out
• Cycling outings — rides with a companion character
• A survivors-style roguelite — dodge-and-upgrade minigame with an endless mode
• Construction mode — excavators, road rollers, dump trucks and forklifts on a working site
• A climbing tower — 99 regular floors plus an endless mode, built for testing endgame gear

Three existing minigames also become permanent fixtures.

Ten timed events

Volleyball, jet-ski racing and salvage events, a combat-event rerun, the roguelite, a cycling tour, a stamina-efficiency doubler, doubled heist earnings, doubled material drops (120 stamina per day, bankable), and doubled weekly Beetle-Coin rewards (700-stamina cap — roughly 700k extra). All pay out Annuliths on completion.

Welfare and quality-of-life

A seven-day login event pays 10 Solid Dice, and a mail drop of 56,000 upgrade jam lets newer accounts clear the event shop. Notable QoL: a random-outfit rotation (context-aware — school, home and swimming switch outfits automatically), a second-confirmation on the one-per-account gift letter, a minimap for the heist mode at last, reduced difficulty on Appraisal 5+ bosses, weekly-grind relief at Tycoon 16, and sellable farm produce.

1.4 teaser: the amusement park

The stream closed with a look at the next version: the Pukaland amusement-park area — carousel, roller coaster, drop tower, haunted house and Ferris wheel all visible in the teaser. (An earlier revision of this page rendered the name “Pucca Park”; Pukaland is the name on the in-game map.) The 1.4 countdown page now tracks the next version — dates, the Blackbird and Akane Rin reveals, and what stays unannounced.

Neverness to Everness 1.3 guides

• Zankou: materials, kit and whether to pull
• The villa: price, level gate and farming loop
• Beetle Coins: what to spend them on
• CN vs global schedule, explained
• Codes: current status

Looking past 1.3:

• 1.4 pre-farm: what to grind before it lands
• 1.4’s free rewards, and the catch

What we will cover on day one

Version day for a live-service game means update errors, login queues and platform-specific failures — twice, in this game’s case: once on the 13th for CN, once on the 19th for global. The launch-week guides show how we cover that. Anything that breaks on CN and survives to the global build gets called out ahead of the 19th.

Sources

The CN date links to the official CN site in Chinese; the maintenance-window pattern links to the official English patch notes for 1.2. Global-date coverage is press relaying the official announcement and is marked as such.

• Hotta — Server Maintenance Notice 2026-09-09 (global): maintenance 06:00–11:00 UTC+8, Linko board, Voice of the Voyager Arc, Hotori rerun, Annulith ×300 compensation
• NTE official (EN) — Ver. 1.3 patch notes: maintenance 19 August 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8), compensation details
• NTE official (CN) — 1.3 livestream recap: version opens after the 13 August update (Chinese)
• NTE official (EN) — Version 1.2 patch notes, showing the 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8) maintenance pattern
• Gematsu — version 1.3 'Rising from the Moonlight Fog' launches August 19 (global) press report, not an official statement
• Game8 — 8 August version 1.3 livestream summary press report, not an official statement
• GameRant — NTE 1.3 livestream codes and expiry press report, not an official statement