In Falsus Remembrance & Card Crafting Guide

• 1.The Loop — Clear Dives to earn Iota, integrate Iota into Blueprints to craft stronger Cards, then take those cards into harder Encounters.
• 2.Potency Multiplier — your placed Iota's Average Potency ÷ 100 multiplies every stat the filled Zones grant (110 potency → ×1.10).
• 3.Penalties Cut Stats — each active penalty shrinks the finished card; exceeding the Iota Limit by one already drops efficiency to 89%. Aim for Total Penalties 0 = 100%.
• 4.Remembrance Is a Story Label — every encounter's loadout screen stamps a Remembrance number and in-fiction date (e.g. 1 | 10276/8/27), pinning the fight to the Scenario calendar.

Official companion footage: lowiro — In Falsus · Card Crafting & Encounter Showcase ↗

Open any Encounter's loadout screen and the header shows two fields side by side: a Difficulty Rating and a Remembrance. On the Practice Dive (Difficulty Rating 100) the field reads “1 | 10276/8/27” — a running number and a full in-fiction calendar date.

That date is not decorative formatting invented for the fight: the hub's Scenario panel stamps chapter 1, “The First Lie”, as Month 8, Day 28 — the same calendar, year 10276. A Remembrance therefore pins each encounter to a concrete moment in the story timeline; the number before the date appears to count them in order.

The demo never defines the term beyond this label, so treat the above as an observation from footage, not a confirmed rule. For the Scenario timeline screenshot and card-integration basics, see the Cards guide. → Cards Explained

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   Step 1: Open the Integration Panel from the Hub

   Card Crafting lives under INTEGRATION on the hub menu, which tracks your three crafting resources at a glance: Blueprints (the boards you can build on), Cards (finished cards), and Iota (the pieces you spend). In the demo the panel reads 2 Blueprints, 2 Cards and 234 Iota.

   

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   Step 2: Pick a Blueprint and Check Its Limits

   Each Blueprint belongs to a character and shows its ceiling before you spend anything: Mei's 4AM board is Tier 1 with an Iota Limit of 4 (Max: 6) and base stats of 1,800 Power and 4,200 Defense. The grid Preview stays locked until you commit, so the Integrate button is the point of no return.

   

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   Step 3: Place Iota onto the Colored Zones

   Drag Iota pieces from your inventory onto the hex grid. Colored Zone hexes show a fill counter (3/3, 0/6…) and pay out stats only once filled. The moment one 110-potency piece lands, the side panel updates: Iota Used 1/4, Average Potency 110, Potency Multiplier ×1.10 — and the zone tooltip flashes +1,000 Power.

   

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   Step 4: Keep Every Penalty at Zero

   The Penalties panel watches five rules — Overload, Out of Bounds, Overlap, Disconnect and Falsehood. Placing a fifth piece against a limit of 4 triggers Overload 1 and the efficiency readout drops from 100% to 89%, permanently shrinking the card's final stats. The full penalty ladder is documented in the Blueprints guide; the short version is: don't integrate at 89%.

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   Step 5: Cover Trait Tiles for Phase Buffs

   Some hexes are Trait tiles: fill one and the finished card carries a passive into battle. Covering Mei's trait hex attaches Inner Rigor++ — “During this Card's Phase: Total DEF +66%” — which holds the line while that card's phase is active in an Encounter.

   

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   Step 6: Verify 100% Efficiency, Then Integrate

   A finished build fills every chosen zone inside the Iota Limit: 4/4 Iota used, Average Potency 174, Potency Multiplier ×1.74, Total Penalties 0 → 100%. The Card Preview commits the math — 2,788 Power and 2,439 Defense for this Mei: 4AM — before you press INTEGRATE.

   

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   Step 7: Finalize the Card

   Integrating opens the Finalize Card dialog: the Available Traits panel lists what the build earned across tiers I–III, the preview shows the committed stats, and the demo notes “Color Change not available for this Card.” Confirm with Integrate and the card joins your collection.

   

Crafting the same Blueprint again produces a separate copy, not an upgrade: the collection ends up holding two Mei: 4AM cards with different stat lines (2,184/1,911 and 2,788/2,439) next to Nia: Path to Reality (4,730/946). Stronger Iota in, stronger card out — rebuilding a board with better pieces is the progression.

In an Encounter your five card slots line the side rails and activate in order — each card owns a Phase of the song, which is when its stats and traits apply. Hitting notes fires at the enemy while their hits land on your judgement line, and the Encounter Score under the main score climbs as you out-damage them.

After the song, the Encounter Result banner (here 000'233'656, CONNECTED) expands into a full breakdown: your Offensive Rate (73,172) with 30,000 Damage Dealt, your Defensive Rate (31,932) with 2,484 Damage Received, a phase-by-phase graph, and per-phase stat tables for you and the opponent side by side.

Clearing the Dive pays out new Iota on the result screen — this clear dropped five pieces, tagged by source: some from Rank, some from Song Length. The demo's drop logic looks partly random, but the loop is closed: encounters fund the next round of crafting.

→ Encounter Simulator→ Iota Farming