Row by row: what survives and what does not
Filter by outcome. Every row names who said it and how good that is, because the sourcing here is uneven and pretending otherwise would be the useful-looking lie: some rows have two independent sources, several have one wiki table with no provenance, and several reach us from players describing their own save files on a forum. Two rows are marked Disputed rather than resolved — Game8 lists Amber and weapons among the things that carry, and a player who loaded a Reincarnation+ save reports that their Amber was reset and their bow was gone. Nobody has filmed a carry-over screen, so this page cannot settle it, and a reader deciding whether to bank Amber before the ending is better served by both claims than by whichever one we picked.
19 rows, each naming who said it. 2 are marked Disputed because a wiki's table and a player's save file disagree, and neither has been resolved here.
Level and attributes
CarriesYour level comes with you. One player, checking after loading the save: “Levels didn’t change.”
Two sources agree — Game8’s table and the launch-build trophy guide both list it; GL1TCH3D confirms it from a loaded save.
Weapons and armour, with upgrades
CarriesEnhancement levels come with them rather than resetting to base. The player report agrees: “all my armours, Stones, Weapons, and upgrades are still retained.”
Two sources agree — Game8, the launch-build guide, and GL1TCH3D on Reddit — three sources, in agreement.
The bow
DisputedGame8’s table says weapons carry. A player who loaded the save says “I don’t have the bow.” Nobody has explained the exception, and nobody else has repeated it — it may be a weapon acquired by a story beat that is being replayed rather than a carry-over rule. Recorded because a reader who plans around “all weapons carry” and then opens an empty bow slot is worse off than one who was told it is contested.
One player’s save — Game8 says weapons carry; GL1TCH3D says the bow specifically did not.
Amber
DisputedGame8 lists Amber and materials among the things that carry. A player checking a fresh Reincarnation+ save: “it looks like my amber was reset.” This is the row most worth resolving before the ending, because it decides whether banked Amber is worth spending first — and this site cannot resolve it.
One player’s save — Game8’s carry-over table against GL1TCH3D’s loaded save, 2026-08-08.
Skills, skill points and Blade Arts
CarriesSkill progress and unlocked arts come with you, with their upgrades.
Two sources agree — Game8 and the launch-build trophy guide agree.
Spirit Stones and charms
CarriesBoth survive. The player report names Stones explicitly.
Two sources agree — Game8’s table; GL1TCH3D names Stones among what was retained.
Recipes, manuals and valuables
CarriesCooking recipes, weapon manuals and valuables stay unlocked. “Recipes, manuals, and valuables are still there.”
Two sources agree — Game8’s table and GL1TCH3D, independently.
The farm and the chicken coop
CarriesOne player reports the farm and coop carry over. Game8’s table does not mention either, so this is the only source.
One player’s save — Ok_Manager_5295 on Reddit, 2026-08-08.
The map you have explored
ResetsThe revealed map is wiped. “In Zone 1 my entire map is reset.” Game8’s table does not cover the map at all, which is why this row exists — it is the single most visible thing a returning player notices and no guide had stated it.
One player’s save — GL1TCH3D, from a loaded Reincarnation+ save.
Chests and Strongboxes
ResetsThey refill and can be looted again.
One player’s save — Ok_Manager_5295 on Reddit.
Shrines you have found
ResetsFound shrines reset and have to be found again.
One player’s save — Ok_Manager_5295 on Reddit.
Fast-travel points
ResetsUnlocked fast-travel points do not carry. One wiki states it and nothing contradicts it.
One wiki's table — Game8’s exclusion column. No second source.
Key items — the Red, Blue and Yellow Keys
ResetsKey items are taken, which follows from the story being replayed.
One wiki's table — Game8’s exclusion column. No second source.
Documents
ResetsDocuments are re-collected on every run, which means the Know-It-All set cannot be carried and has to be gathered again.
One wiki's table — Game8’s exclusion column. No second source.
Elite enemies you have killed
ResetsElites respawn. Whether the kill count for their achievement also resets is not known.
One player’s save — Ok_Manager_5295 on Reddit.
Achievement progress
CarriesOne counter is reported to survive: the golem-conversation achievement keeps its progress, but the golems’ locations are no longer marked, so a partial run has to be finished from memory. Whether every counter behaves this way is unstated.
One player’s save — Ok_Manager_5295 on Reddit, naming the 30-golem achievement.
Your difficulty setting
ResetsReincarnation+ replaces it and appears to be locked. A player who started NG+ specifically to check: “it’s greyed out and I’m not able to interact w it.” If you rely on an easier setting, this is the row to read before starting.
One player’s save — Physical_Ordinary_41 on Reddit, editing their own question after starting NG+.
Cutscene skipping
UnknownThere is still no skip. Three separate players raise it as the thing making a second run hard to sit through. Nothing in the v1.0.7 notes adds one, and the Japanese changelog lists a cutscene replay option as under consideration rather than a skip.
Nobody has published it — Multiple Reddit reports; the absence is checked against the official v1.0.7 notes.
Whether it goes past NG++
UnknownNG++ exists and is reachable — one player is on Chapter 3 of it and reports the difficulty finally providing resistance, after NG+ where “the new skill u get just demolishes everything”. Nobody in the thread has finished NG++, so whether a third cycle exists is unanswered. This is the gap the question page has named since 2026-08-07 and it is still open.
Nobody has published it — karkar311 on Reddit, playing NG++. Nobody has reported completing it.
How to read the grades
- Two sources agree
- Two sources that do not cite each other say the same thing.
- One wiki's table
- One wiki states it and publishes no provenance for it. Nothing contradicts it.
- One player’s save
- A player describing their own save file on a forum. Not first-party, not filmed, and not promoted above this on their word alone.
- Nobody has published it
- Nobody has said. The row is here so the gap is visible rather than absent.
What carries over
Two sources now describe this and they agree where they overlap. The launch-build video lists level, equipment, arts and skills with all upgrades. Game8, updated 6 August 2026, publishes a two-column table that contains all of that and much more: weapons and armour with their current enhancements, Amber and materials, skill points and skill progress, levels and attributes, unlocked Stimpacks, charms, spirit stones, Koo items, manuals and recipes, and valuables. Against it Game8 lists three things that do *not* carry — key items such as the Red and Yellow Keys, unlocked fast-travel points, and documents. The overlap between the two sources is corroboration; everything only Game8 states is one wiki's table, and this page grades it that way. The documents exclusion is the one to read twice if you are chasing completion, because it means the Know-It-All set is re-collected on every run.
How it starts
Completing the story for the first time prompts you to make a new save. That save has two uses: load it and you appear before the final boss, or use it to start a new game, which is the path that begins Reincarnation+. So the answer to "should I hold a save before the ending" is that the game makes one for you afterwards — you are not choosing between the ending and the post-game.
What finishing the game hands you, including the sword you cannot otherwise get
Game8 lists four post-game unlocks. A healing Nushi skill it spells "Rejuvinating Barrier"; a final Blade Art for Emma and Bloom Art for Koo both called Blossoms of Reincarnation, described as a high-damage area attack; the Reincarnation+ difficulty itself; and a unique sword for Emma, the Kanzashi. The sword is the one with a second source behind it, and it is the reason this section exists: our own weapon record has it from Fextralife, handed over automatically at the start of Chapter 1 of a new game plus rather than found anywhere. Two wikis that do not cite each other put the same blade at the same point. That matters beyond the sword, because the Kanzashi is the twenty-first entry in the Blade Collector set — so the achievement for obtaining every blade cannot be completed on a first run, whatever else carries over.
Why one 36-second video is being trusted this far, and how far
The source is a trophy-guide channel’s clip, 36 seconds long, with sixteen views when we captured it. Views are not evidence and neither is length: what matters is that the channel’s format is completing games for trophy lists, that the claim is specific and falsifiable rather than hedged, and — the part that carries the most weight — that the mode name appears in the creator’s own typed title and description, not only in the machine captions. A speech model invents plausible proper nouns; a creator typing "Reincarnation+" into a description field was looking at the screen. That is why the name is graded higher than the carry-over list beneath it, which reaches us only through captions.
What the achievement manifest independently suggests
The source says clearing the new difficulty awards a trophy. The shipped achievement manifest contains a hidden achievement named "Reincarnated" sitting at 0.2% — the rarest tier, shared with "Unlock every achievement". Valve hides its description, so the manifest does not say what earns it. A name matching the mode, at a rarity matching a second full clear, is consistent with the claim and is not proof of it; it is logged here as the independent thing that would have to be explained away if the claim were wrong.
What is still unpublished
Most of what this section listed on 2026-08-07 has since been answered by Game8 and the entry above now carries it. What is left is narrower and worth stating precisely. Nothing first-party describes the mode at all — no developer post, no patch note, no in-game text anybody has photographed — so both sources here are third parties publishing tables without per-claim provenance, and neither says how it was checked. Nobody has published what a second Reincarnation+ cycle does beyond "enemy attack power increases with each cycle", or whether the increase is a multiplier or a level band. And nobody has filmed a carry-over screen, which is the thing that would turn either table into a verified list rather than a repeated one. Those gaps are gaps, not "no".
The pre-launch source is still a lead, not evidence
A second video reporting on new game plus predates the release, so it describes a build that did not ship. Under this file’s sourcing rule that makes it a lead rather than evidence about the current game — a feature named before launch can be cut, renamed or gated differently by release day. It agrees with the launch-build source, which is worth noting and is not worth counting: two sources are only corroboration when both are describing the thing that shipped.