Manual Maniac: Every Arrow and Bolt Type in Beast of Reincarnation
Twelve ammunition types — six arrows and six bolts — named from this site's own weapon database, matching the count a third party published for the manual set.
Manual Maniac, in the game’s own words: “Obtain the manuals for every arrow and bolt type.” Valve’s live global unlock rate is 1.6% of owners, re-read daily rather than typed here.
The answer
Twelve — six arrow types and six bolt types, in matched pairs. The names come from our own catalogue and the count agrees with the one published elsewhere, but no source has confirmed that one manual exists per type rather than per item.
How well attested the count is · Consistent, not corroborated. Our database independently holds twelve ammunition types, which matches the third-party count of twelve manuals — but a type count and a manual count agreeing is not the same as either being verified.
The set
All 12, named
| Name | Our record |
|---|---|
| Arrows | Record |
| Acid Arrows | Record |
| Explosive Arrows | Record |
| Fire Arrows | Record |
| Poison Arrows | Record |
| Lightning Arrows | Record |
| Bolts | Record |
| Acid Bolts | Record |
| Explosive Bolts | Record |
| Fire Bolts | Record |
| Poison Bolts | Record |
| Lightning Bolts | Record |
Arrows
Acid Arrows
Explosive Arrows
Fire Arrows
Poison Arrows
Lightning Arrows
Bolts
Acid Bolts
Explosive Bolts
Fire Bolts
Poison Bolts
Lightning Bolts
What the achievement text does and does not settle
Valve says "the manuals for every arrow and bolt type", which establishes three things: manuals exist, they are per *type*, and the set is completable. It does not say how many types there are. The twelve below are the ammunition types this site has records for, arranged in the matched arrow-and-bolt pairs the game itself uses — and twelve is also the number the one published count gives for the manual set. Two figures agreeing is weaker than it looks when neither was verified, so read this as consistent rather than confirmed.
- Six arrow types: plain, acid, explosive, fire, poison, lightning.
- Six bolt types in the same six flavours, for the crossbow.
- The pairing is the game's, not ours — every arrow type has a bolt counterpart in our records.
Manuals are crafting unlocks, not the ammunition
Worth separating, because the achievement is about the manual rather than the ammunition. Creators describe picking up a manual and thereafter being able to craft that ammunition type at a camp, indefinitely. So the achievement is a set of one-time pickups, and having fired a type is not the same as having its manual.
Cross-reference
How this sits in the collectible taxonomy
Valve confirms the set. The count is third-party. The tracker on /collectibles/ counts this set as 12, and carries the standing caveat that the counting source’s own categories do not sum to the total it states.
Common questions
Sources for this page
- Steam Community achievement statistics for Beast of Reincarnation — First-party. Supplies the verbatim achievement text that establishes this set as completable, and the global unlock percentage quoted above. Re-checked daily by a cron job rather than typed here.
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