Rerolling

Let's do this one more time.

To reroll means to start your character over fresh - you go back to Dreams of Before and make yourself anew, allowing you to completely reset your character's build and some other details.

Rerolling in practice

Rerolling is easy: Go to a clone bank (place where you respawn) you're subscribed and delete your clone. You will be prompted to confirm your decision. If you change your mind, just upd your clone. Once that's done, die in any way you like. This will send you to the Dreams of Before, where you will run the usual Character Creation gauntlet all over again. This is your chance to start building your character up however you like.

Rerolling is nothing to be overly worried about; with a little practice, XP is really quick to earn, and you can zoom back to strength in good time with a new build. If you'd rather check out a new build while not sacrificing your hard-earned strength, however, you might try the alts system instead.

Effects

• -75% total XP. This is the most obvious penalty; if you are 100,000 total XP, you'll be 25,000 (and 25,000 effective) after you reroll.
• Resets for jobs and achievements. This means that despite starting 25% total, you can still level up faster thanks to all the XP you stand to earn. It also grants you another shot at earning once-per-playthrough achievement rewards, like the deathsuit.
• Resets for XP, mutations and IP. This is the reason most people reroll; it gives you a completely clean slate for building your character.
• Hard reset for rep. Rerolling resets your rep with all factions to zero for a clean slate. This is mostly important for FCEF and AbomNation reputation.
• Resets age. Probably the least common reason to reroll: at late age (over 60), characters start suffering penalties for being stuffy and old. Rerolling resets your age back to 13 (or 18 visually, if you have drunk from fountain of puberty in the museum) to prevent these issues.
• Keep all your money and stuff. Unlike the abyss, rerolling doesn't involve losing any material possessions or apartments, so you can zoom back to 220k while ensconced in the comfort of your 37 hot-tubs.

Should you want to completely reset your progress you retain from rerolling - drink from the river in the Dreams of Before.

Rerolling Checklist

Some opportunities are a once-per-playthrough affair, and if you reroll without earning those rewards, you'll miss out on some earning potential. Some players care about this and some don't, but it's a common enough concern that some popular one-shot rewards are listed here. The means of getting these rewards are a spoiler, so putting them on the wiki is against the rules; ask around.

• The four exclusive Blades: the Lotus Nodachi, Hosaka Daikatana, and optionally the less well-regarded Fine Katana and Suburito.
• The 2 deathsuits and the deathshead. The second deathsuit and the head are quite difficult to acquire, so lots of people just settle for the one deathsuit.
• The sky raider and sky commisar dusters. Like the deathshead, these are tough to get, so lots of people skip them.
• The samaritan.
• The bioptic bonesaw.
• The doctor's mirror.
• The belt bag.
• The polycarbonate goggles.
• The yellow repair gloves.
• The excavation utility helmet.
• The Givenchy gloves.