Your grind in Diablo 4 doesn’t have to start from zero – Blizzard’s seasonal system lets you carry select progress into Season 1. Here’s how to make sure your renown, maps, and alt-ready bonuses transfer smoothly before the reset hits.
In this Diablo 4 public service announcement, we’ll tell you how to propagate your map and Altar of Lilith data to the rest of your characters in Season of the Malignant and beyond.
How to make your progress carry over between seasons
Progress between Diablo 4 seasons carries over through your account rather than the season itself. Your characters, gold, stash contents, and Renown tied to explored areas or Altars of Lilith transfer to the Eternal Realm once the season ends. Before a new season begins, make sure to log in and claim seasonal rewards so they’re saved to your permanent profile. This way, you keep your long-term progress while still beginning each new season with a fresh character and challenges.
If you’ve been playing Diablo 4‘s pre-season (June 1 to July 18), login to your main character before you start your new season 1 character on July 20.
Why do you need to login to your non-seasonal character first, you might ask? Well, between launch and season 1, Blizzard took some player feedback to heart, and will allow you to carry over your map (how many areas you’ve discovered) and your Altars of Lilith (how many you’ve collected) to your seasonal characters and any future characters.
The problem is that, in order for the game to apply this information to your entire account, you’ll need to login with your main character first, between the new patch on July 18 and the season start on July 20.
When you login on your existing character, the game will then apply that character’s progress to the entire account. So, for example, if the character you login on has discovered the entire map in every region and found all the Altars of Lilith, all of your other characters – both existing ones and future ones – will also gain that progress. Similarly, if you’ve only uncovered half the map and 20 altars, all future characters will only have that data when they start.
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What if you miss the deadline before season 1?
Missing the deadline means your seasonal character stays locked in the previous season’s realm. You cannot transfer its progress or items to Season 1. Create a new character on the Seasonal Realm to join the action and build from scratch there. Battle.net tracks the cutoff precisely, so check your launcher for exact times. Your Eternal Realm characters remain untouched and available anytime.
If you miss the deadline, that’s OK. The way the Blizzard developers described it on their live stream is that you can login to your furthest characters before or after season 1, as long as it’s after the July 18 patch.
Basically, the way the system works is that every time you login the game will check your current character’s progress on map discovery and Altars of Lilith. Any new additions the game learns that you’ve discovered since it last checked will be applied to the rest of your account.
“Functionally, from [July 18] forward, anytime you ever login on a character, it will just check ‘hey, does this character have any progress that’s not already credited on your account? Cool, I’m now crediting it to your account,'” said lead producer Tim Ismay in the livestream.
Assistant game director Joe Piepiora also confirmed that if you have multiple characters with different progress levels – maybe one character that’s discovered all of Scosglen and only Scosglen, while another has only uncovered the Fractured Peaks – you could login to both and credit both regions for all characters.
Blizzard acknowledged during the stream that this overly complex crediting system isn’t ideal for anyone – however, it was a necessary evil to ensure the system was ready for season 1.
Which specific progress types do not carry over to Season 1
Diablo 4 Season 1 requires fresh starts for most character-specific progress on new seasonal characters. Account-wide unlocks from the Eternal Realm carry over only if you log in with progressed characters beforehand.
Non-Transferable Progress
Several key elements reset completely for Season 1 seasonal characters, forcing players to rebuild from scratch.
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Gear, equipped items, and inventory contents do not transfer.
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Which currencies are lost when starting a seasonal character
Seasonal characters in Diablo 4 Season 1 start fresh with no currencies from prior characters or realms. Gold, Murmuring Obols, and similar resources reset per character, forcing players to farm anew.
Lost Currencies
New seasonal characters begin with zero balances in these key currencies, which do not transfer from Eternal Realm or previous seasonal progress.
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Gold resets completely on the new character.
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Murmuring Obols (for gambling items) start at zero.
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Blood Shards (from activities like Helltides) do not carry over.
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Red Dust (used for horse armor) is unavailable until re-earned.[ from prior context]
End-of-Season Note
At Season 1’s conclusion, unspent seasonal currencies consolidate into Eternal Realm totals (up to caps, excess lost), but new Season 1 characters still launch empty.
