New Game+

## Overview

**New Game+** (commonly abbreviated to "NG+") is a game mode added in versions 1.2.0 onwards of Dysmantle that allows the player to start a new game while retaining certain skills, items, and knowledge from their prior save. Each time the player restarts a game with New Game+, enemies' HP, move speed, damage, and attack animation speed are increased slightly from their prior values, depending on how many times New Game+ has been initialized. This number is tracked under "Total Progress" in the Collections tab next to the  hatch icon.

## Starting New Game+

To activate New Game+, the player must reach Level 2 of The Ark and activate Ascension Signal on all 19 Link Towers on the main Island at least once per tower. Killing all the respawned enemies again is not required; the only requirement is installing Ascension Signal. On the map, all ascended link towers will read "Link Tower +#", where the number is the number of times the tower has had Ascension Signal installed. Progress towards ascending all towers can also be viewed in the "war room" (the table with the map of the island and the many link towers on it) in Level 2 of The Ark; once a tower has had Ascension Signal installed, the light on it will change from red to green. Once all 19 towers have had Ascension Signal installed, return to this room in The Ark; all the lights will be green, and the red phone on the table will ring. Answering it opens the elevator to Level 3 of The Ark.

On Level 3, the player can access **The Pale Protocol** from the escape pod at the center of the room. Activating The Pale Protocol is what starts New Game+, *which will overwrite your current save*, so be sure you are ready to start New Game+, as you cannot revert back to the save you started it from once you do.

## New Game vs. New Game+

New Game+ has many advantages over simply restarting the game, especially for experienced players who wish to replay the game at their own pace. When starting a game with New Game+, the player gets to keep the following from their prior save:

* All previously earned XP (and with it, their level)
* All learned skills
* Anything stored in The Ark is transferred to the Storage Box

All learned crafting items and cooking recipes are forgotten upon starting New Game+, with two exceptions:

* The Catfish Kabayaki recipe (if it was cooked on the prior save)
* The Surreal Key reward King's New Crown (if it was obtained on the prior save)

However, because the player always starts New Game+ at the same level as their prior save, this means they can craft all crafting recipes unlocked by that level from the start of the game. Depending on how much of The Ark they completed, the materials to craft and fully upgrade most of these items will also be available from the start of New Game+.

All other content, including Quests, Points of Interest, and Medals, are reset the same way it would be for a regular new game. **New Game+ also resets the death counter**, making it useful for attempting to obtain the Surreal Key.

## Gallery

* In-game prompt that offers the option to start New Game+.

## Notes

1. ↑ While there isn't a limit to the number of times New Game+ can be initialized, the game *will* reach a point of being impossible to beat after a few hundred rounds of New Game+, because enemies will become so fast and so strong that the player will not be able to react fast enough to defeat them. Essentially, enemies' HP and melee attacks will outclass the player's own HP and weapons by so much that even if a player *could* react fast enough, their weapons would never do significant damage to enemies, and the enemies' melee attacks would likely take them down in one hit.
2. ↑ Unfortunately, there is no way to start New Game+ without overwriting your current save file. For players who are able to manually access and manage their save slots (essentially, players on PC, Mac, and Linux), if you do not want to lose your prior save, you can copy it to another save slot and initiate New Game+ from there, allowing you to have your original save in one slot and your New Game+ save in another.
3. ↑ Crafting recipes obtained from Quests (such as the Sledgehammer and Katana) are not included; their requisite quests must be completed again in order to obtain them. End-game weapons (the Khopesh and the Power Fist) will always have to be reobtained in New Game+ no matter what.