AKAYUKI progression guide: levels, blades and family names

Start with the dojo tutorial, then defeat players or enemies to gain levels. Each five-level milestone unlocks another blade upgrade at the forge, with the final upgrade available at level 50. Alongside that, use rename spins in the character menu to roll family names: rarer names give better stat boosts.

Your blade has clear level milestones; your family name improves through rolling. Work on both as you gain levels, since leveling can also award rename spins.

The five-level upgrade schedule and level-50 final upgrade are the progression rules listed for build 1.3.12.

Start with the dojo and Path of the Sword

Finish the dojo tutorial as your first concrete objective. The Path of the Sword quest tracker begins with “Finish the dojo tutorial,” listed with a 50 XP reward. Its counter appears as PATH OF THE SWORD · 1 / 48, giving you an identifiable quest chain to follow as you start playing.

After the tutorial, combat feeds your level progression. Both player opponents and enemies count as targets you can defeat to level up. Combat can also satisfy quest objectives: “Wound fighters 30 times” is one example that completes through fighting and awards XP.

Example result messages from a beginner session included “Killed Sakakibara +105XP” and “Quest done: Wound fighters 30 times +150XP,” alongside a level increase. These illustrate two rewards you can recognize during play: XP from a defeat and XP from completing a quest. The amounts belong to those particular events, rather than a fixed rate for every kill or quest.

Keep the current quest objective in view while fighting. A wound-count objective gives you something specific to complete during combat, while your level tells you how close you are to the next blade-upgrade milestone.

Turn each five-level milestone into a blade upgrade

Level 5 is your first scheduled blade-upgrade milestone. Another upgrade becomes available every five levels after that, through the final upgrade at level 50. Reaching the required level makes an upgrade available; you then complete the work at the forge.

The forge uses a heating-and-hammering process. Watch both the heat meter and the dots that track your work:

1. Heat the work-in-progress blade. Rotate it until the heat meter is full.
2. Hammer while it is hot. Click repeatedly, paying attention to the shining dots, and work toward filling the dots.
3. Reheat whenever it cools. Put the blade back in and rotate it again before continuing to hammer. A cold blade cannot be hammered.
4. Dip the finished blade. Once the work is complete, dipping it finishes the upgraded sword.

Heating may need to happen several times within one upgrade. A falling heat meter means you need to return to heating before continuing the hammering work. Keep repeating those two parts until the dots are full, then finish with the dip.

This gives your early leveling a practical target: reach the next multiple of five, complete its forge upgrade, then continue gaining levels toward the following one. Level 50 marks the final blade-upgrade milestone in this schedule.

Use rename spins alongside your blade progression

Open the character menu to roll your family name. Rename spins reroll that name, drawing from names associated with famous historical samurai. Rarity matters because rarer family names give better stat boosts. The rarity tag beside the name helps you recognize the result; COMMON is one displayed tag, while Oda is an example of a Legendary family name obtained through rolling.

Leveling can supply spins as well as move you toward the forge. One early level-up result displayed LEVEL 3 with +4 RENAME SPINS. That is a concrete example of a level-up award, rather than a promise of four spins at every level.

The two systems therefore give you different kinds of milestones. A blade upgrade becomes available at a specified level. A better family name is a rolling result: look at the new name’s rarity rather than expecting a particular family at a particular level. The Oda example does not establish how many spins a Legendary result takes.

For maintained promotional information, see the Codes page. For more about the names themselves, use the family names guide.

Recognize the appearance milestones too

Leveling also unlocks character-customization options. These give you additional visible milestones alongside your blade upgrades. The following accessory requirements appeared on an early-build customization screen:

These LV badges identify the level requirement attached to an accessory. Several coincide with blade-upgrade milestones: levels 20, 30 and 35 are points where you can check both the forge and the relevant customization options.

You can return to CHARACTER on the title screen to change your appearance and name later. Your first character setup therefore leaves room to revisit your look as level-locked options become available and to manage family-name rolls as you acquire spins.