New Game+ — Wiki — How to Survive

Finish the story and a portal opens for each player: step through for New Game+. The same world wakes up again at the first spawn, one cycle on, with every level in it 49 higher. The starter meadows' level 1–6 camps are 50–55 in NG+.

The portal waits past the end of Hymn to Freedom, after the credits. The host stepping through starts it for everyone, and the game saves a backup first ("Before New Game+").

What you keep

Your bag
Your clothes
Your looks
Your gold
Your level and XP
Your skills (or your points back to spend again)
Your emotes
Your fish collection
Every recipe you learned
Your shell finds
Your clam-skipping record
Your derby record
Your tents and their stashes, stations and boats
Your homesteads, their chests and trophies

At the portal you can take your spent skill points back to spend again; bonus points from summit cairns stay yours either way. Your level cap rises with the cycle: 55 on a first playthrough, 104 in NG+, 153 in NG+2.

What starts over

Every quest, crypt, siege, outpost and treasure isle, and the shops' days. Quest items leave every bag, tent stash and homestead chest, so no one skips a step with a paper from last time: 34 of them, and the Ballade's pages. Tools and rewards a quest hands over for good (the axe, the pickaxe, the camera, a spell card) stay.

The quest items taken

How the world climbs

Every content level is 49 higher a cycle: regions, crypts, gods, shrines, fish, fixed camps and shop rows. What things are stays the same: a starter camp is still Grunts, drop tables, loot tiers and lure tiers read the first playthrough's level, and crafting bands move up but cost the same materials. What they're worth grows: enemy gold grows with the real level, and shop prices for anything without a level (lures, materials, scrolls, clothes) grow to match.

	First playthrough	NG+	NG+2	NG+3
Level cap	55	104	153	202
Shop prices (no level)	×1.0	×5.9	×10.8	×15.7
Harbour Meadows	1–6	50–55	99–104	148–153
Wraith Isle	10–16	59–65	108–114	157–163
The Hollow March	18–24	67–73	116–122	165–171
The Ashen Waste	24–30	73–79	122–128	171–177
The Sundown Barrens	30–36	79–85	128–134	177–183
Hoarfrost Reach	36–42	85–91	134–140	183–189
Emberfall Caldera	42–48	91–97	140–146	189–195
The Burnt Server Farm	48–52	97–101	146–150	195–199

The gods

A god's level climbs with the rest, and its health with its level: the same fight, far bigger numbers. Solo health:

Crypt	God	First playthrough	NG+	NG+2
2	Billy Boom	Lv 12 11,534	Lv 61 2,390,262	Lv 110 495,352,112
3	Diggy	Lv 19 22,828	Lv 68 4,730,801	Lv 117 980,399,706
4	Dr. Turret	Lv 24 41,541	Lv 73 8,608,945	Lv 122 1,784,096,819
5	El'Moustiko	Lv 27 59,301	Lv 76 12,289,323	Lv 125 2,546,809,535
6	Sir Catercoaster	Lv 33 84,417	Lv 82 17,494,408	Lv 131 3,625,498,728
7	The Judgeball	Lv 38 202,056	Lv 87 41,873,677	Lv 136 8,677,799,222
8	Duke Nuker	Lv 41 280,090	Lv 90 58,045,118	Lv 139 12,029,129,485
9	Gang of Elites	Lv 43 208,926	Lv 92 43,297,884	Lv 141 8,972,948,700
10	Beetle Royale	Lv 45 432,909	Lv 94 89,715,022	Lv 143 18,592,323,584
11	Uncle Jim	Lv 49 669,108	Lv 98 138,664,292	Lv 147 28,736,451,519
12	Iris	Lv 54 2,162,080	Lv 103 448,064,200	Lv 152 92,855,738,386

Your weapons climb too: anything you find or craft comes at the new levels, and a weapon hits at no more than 2 levels above yours.