Beast of Reincarnation: 10 Quests and Blockers

Turn the wheel on the approach to the Foreman, then go down through the hatch it opens. Do not leave first.

1. Turn the wheel on the way to the Foreman. It opens a hatch down into the subcity.
2. Go through the hatch immediately, on the same visit.
3. If you have already left and come back to find the hatch shut and the wheel dead, nothing published gets you past it — see the warning.

Watch out: This is the one task on this site that can end a run. Two players report that leaving the area before going through the hatch shuts it permanently and leaves the wheel non-interactive. Nobody has published a reload procedure, an earlier-save route, or a confirmation that the run is recoverable, and the developer has not replied. Treat "go through it now" as the whole guidance.

Obtain the Chapter 1 story key from the Retired Gatekeeper Golem and use it on the main gate.

1. Progress Chapter 1 to the first Rangifer fight.
2. Afterwards, speak to the Retired Gatekeeper Golem in Subcity 03. He gives you the Red Key.
3. Use it on the main gate to continue, and on the Abandoned Village door if you want the detour.

Watch out: The same Retired Gatekeeper also hands over the Cirrus Sword, which is the early weapon most sources recommend. If you took the key and walked off, go back and talk to him again.

Reach the gate controls, activate the northern and western generators, then return to power the gate before the Lacerta route continues.

1. Enter the Ancient Civilization Zone after the Chapter 2 opening and follow the route toward the reservoir until an Ancient Golem explains that two generators are needed.
2. Activate the northern generator and the western generator. Rock Paper Shotgun states the two markers can be handled in either order; IGN names the same two generator objectives before the boss battle.
3. Return to the gate controls once both generators are on, power the gate, and continue toward the Nushi encounter.

Watch out: This is a route spine, not a loot checklist. Both walkthroughs call out side pickups, Keeper Golems and Dragon Vein Shrines along the path, but this record only publishes the objective sequence the two guides independently agree on.

Enter the five-digit code on the strongbox, or beat the Elite Golem that carries it.

1. Find the strongbox in Cliffside Village.
2. Beat the Elite Golem nearby and it hands you the combination — that is the intended route, and the only one that needs no outside help.
3. The number itself, and every other lock in the game, is on /strongbox-codes/. Five separate guides print the same five digits for this box.

Watch out: This record used to carry the digits. They moved on 2026-08-11, and the split is deliberate: this page is where you learn the box exists and how to reach it, /strongbox-codes/ is where you look up what to type. Two of our own URLs competing for the same four-word query is a failure this repo has already paid for once.

Pass the timed button sequence on each of the three strongboxes that are not code locks.

1. Subcity Underground. The one people search for as "Subcity 1" — and it has no code, which is why that search usually fails.
2. Quarry Path. In the basement of a ruined hut near the Quarry Path camp: jump the ruined wall, then take the stairs down. One of the three lists says this one is not locked at all.
3. Northern Ogouchi Buffer Zone. Unmarked, at the northern tip of the Chapter 1 map, guarded by an Elite Golem you have to beat first.

Watch out: Two kinds of strongbox exist and nothing distinguishes them until you are standing there: some are five-digit code locks and some are timed sequences. Knowing which one you are looking at before the timer starts is most of the difficulty. The button orders, and the disagreement about whether all three of these are locked, are on /strongbox-codes/ — where you can also rehearse an order before you trigger the timer.

Obtain all 21 swords.

1. Two are Emma's starting swords, so you have them already.
2. Eighteen are found, bought or dropped across the campaign — the weapon database lists each one with its location.
3. The twenty-first, Kanzashi, is handed over at the start of Chapter 1 of New Game Plus.

Watch out: This cannot be finished in one playthrough. Kanzashi exists only in New Game Plus, which turns a 0.5% global unlock rate from "hard to find" into "needs a second run" — and no achievement text says so. Game8 also lists a twenty-second sword, Big Dipper, that the completion run never visits; the weapon database publishes that as an open question rather than a target.

Obtain all 25 cook books.

1. Four are known from the start.
2. Nineteen are found in the world or bought from merchants — the recipe database lists each with its location and price.
3. The last two, Supreme Curry and Supreme Onigiri, are given by Kagura at Rapport levels 8 and 10.

Watch out: The two Rapport books are why this is a long achievement rather than a thorough one: rapport rises by bringing Kagura recipes to research and by talking to her, so the final books are gated behind having already done everything else. Only the Normal rank of each book counts — Superior and Ultimate are not required.

Find one of every seedling type and plant it in the grow chamber.

1. Seedlings are found in the overworld and planted in the Cleanse Walker's grow chamber, where they harvest themselves.
2. The ingredient table in the recipe database is the closest thing to a checklist: fourteen ingredients, of which the farmable ones each have a seedling behind them.
3. Eurogamer has since published a crop-seedling location guide. Treat it as a lead, not a checklist here: no second independent source has corroborated its roster, and this page does not reprint one site’s location notes.

Watch out: The goal is first-party — the shipped achievement text reads "Obtain every type of seedling" — and the route is still not corroborated enough for this site to publish as a checklist. Eurogamer is the first mainstream guide opened here that claims a full seedling-location list; a second independent list or an in-game inventory capture would move this from lead to roster.

Expand the grow chamber, and unlock the Superior and Ultimate recipe ranks.

1. Power gates crop slots. Raise it by finding generator devices and facility modules out in the field.
2. Calculations gates recipe ranks. Raise it by collecting electronic brains.
3. Neither stat is quantified by any source: nobody publishes what one module is worth or how many you need.

Watch out: These two are easy to conflate and they do completely different jobs. If your Superior recipes are locked, collecting more facility modules will not help — that is the calculations track, and electronic brains are the item.

Turn found cook books into cookable recipes, and raise crop yields.

1. Bring Kagura a cook book and choose research: cooking. She cannot cook a recipe until she has finished researching it.
2. Choosing research: growing instead raises how much a seedling yields — the guides step +1 at Basic and +2 at Advanced.
3. She researches one thing at a time, and switching mid-way does not lose the progress on what you switched away from.

Watch out: Finding a cook book is not the same as having the recipe, and this is the most common way to conclude that cooking is broken. If a dish whose book you are holding is not on her menu, the book is still in the research queue.