EVE Online Crimson Harvest Is Live: Pick a Side Until 3 November

EVE Online
Crimson Harvest

Author:

Watty
Category:

EVE Online
Date:

Oct 6, 2026

A Blood Raider ship opening fire during EVE Online's Crimson Harvest

The Crimson Harvest is back, and this year it has a Triglavian flavour. CCP's opening line: "The Blood Raiders have begun their harvest, and this time they have developed a taste for Triglavian blood." It runs until 3 November.

Pick a side

The Blood Raiders are using the recent instabilities in space to push into Pochven, where they mean to establish a permanent foothold, and the Order of St. Tetrimon is doing everything it can to stop them. You choose which of the two you back, and that choice decides which seasonal reward track you work through.

What you actually do

CCP describes it as "combat and hacking challenges to every corner of New Eden", so wherever you live there is something to shoot or hack. Upwell-themed Hollow Outbreak sites return among destroyed Avalanche wrecks in three difficulty levels. Recover Criterion Ciphers from the combat and exploration sites and you unlock the new Criterion of Fitness sites: timed solo encounters across three waves, where finishing faster raises both the challenge and the reward.

"The Skill Point cache lands on day 21 of logging in. If you want it, the clock started without you."

The Exiles

What you get out of it

At the end of the seasonal track sits a blueprint for the new Akoman Blood Raider attack battlecruiser, which CCP says will "for now, only be obtainable as a part of the Crimson Harvest". Logging in through the event adds Blood Raider and Tetrimon Crimson Mark SKINs for Triglavian ships, boosters, cerebral accelerators, and a major Skill Point cache on day 21. That last one is worth noting now rather than on 2 November.

A good fortnight to be flying

This lands two weeks after the Cradle of War major update rewired how far alliances can project force, so New Eden has had a busy month. The event is explicitly built for "capsuleers at every level of experience", which makes it one of the better moments to come back if you have been away.

Flying it with the corp

Seasonal events are the easiest content in EVE to join halfway through, and the sites scale to what you can handle. Our EVE corp The Exiled Titans is in the Discord, and the EVE Online hub has more on the corp. Newbros and returning capsuleers both welcome.

Further reading: EVE Online: The Bloodgates Are Open | The Exiles EVE Online hub