Dead by Daylight’s Archives mode is a fickle beast. One minute it’s your best friend, dripping Bloodpoints like a leaky faucet; the next, it’s laughing at your pitiful 1,000,000-point cap while it holds a mountain of unclaimed riches just out of reach. Here’s the thing—those challenge rewards don’t count toward the in-game limit. That means savvy players have been treating the Archives like an off-shore Bloodpoint account for years. And while the Tomes keep rolling in every three months, one classic route from 2022 still has folks grinning like a Cheshire cat. Tome 12, Level 1. Oh yes, she’s still teaching us how to bank 265,000 Bloodpoints without breaking a sweat.

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Let’s rewind a bit. For anyone who’s been living under a pallet, the Archives is Dead by Daylight’s battle-pass cousin. Every three months, a brand-new Rift opens, paired with a fresh Tome split into four levels of challenges. Finish a challenge, get a shiny reward—usually a fat stack of Bloodpoints. But and here’s the kicker—the devs deliberately designed those rewards to sit outside the normal Bloodpoint cap. In other words, you can hoard them like a dragon guarding gold, ready to dump them all on a fresh survivor or killer the moment they drop. The community caught on quick, and instead of fighting the hoarders, the devs shrugged and added two separate prologues—one for killers, one for survivors—giving us double the saving opportunities. “Want to be stingy? Fine, here’s more ammo,” they seemed to say.

Why Tome 12 Level 1 Became the Legend

Tome 12’s first level is the stuff of hoarder dreams. It branches out like a spider’s web, and the challenges are so mercifully simple that you barely need to try. The entire strategy boils down to a single mantra: finish every challenge, but only claim the rewards for a chosen few. Leave the rest blinking and unclaimed, and they’ll sit there forever, a fat piggy bank waiting for that next big character release. Back when this Tome first dropped, players realized you could stash away a whopping 265,000 Bloodpoints on this one map alone. In 2026, even though we’ve cycled through dozens of Tomes, the trick still works on any old inactive Tome you haven’t fully ransacked—and it’s a perfect lesson in Archives economics.

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The Precious Few: Challenges You DO Claim

The secret sauce is restraint. Work your way from the prologue to the epilogue, doing every challenge, but only scoop up the rewards from this hand-picked list. Yep, you read that right—265,000 Bloodpoints just chilling in the bank, all because you skipped a few claim-button clicks.

  • 🩹 Life Giver – Heal a total of three health states of any Survivor. Basically, play doctor without the license. Easy peasy.

  • 🏃 Jump-Start – Vault a pallet or window twice in a single chase. Show off those parkour moves, but don’t get too cocky.

  • 🤝 Strategic Alliance – Perform cooperative actions for a total of 90 seconds. Buddy up and gen-jockey like it’s 2016.

  • ⚙️ Scrap Yard – Damage six generators. Kick ’em hard, kick ’em often. The Entity loves property damage.

  • 🥩 Diverse Despair – Hook four different survivors. No repeat customers allowed. Spread the love—er, pain.

  • 🥉 Predator or Prey – Earn three bronze-quality Evader or Chaser emblems. You don’t need to be a god; just show up.

  • 👊 Knockout – Knock down eight Survivors. This is basically a slugging party. Your M1 button will hate you.

  • 🔶 Glyph Massacre – Commune with an Orange Glyph, then hook six Survivors in the same trial. This one’s spicy, but doable with a bit of focus.

  • ☠️ Reverent – Sacrifice six Survivors to The Entity. The ultimate offering. Go full cult leader.

Everything else? Finish it and walk away. Don’t even hover over that claim button. That 15,000 or 25,000 Bloodpoints per challenge will just sit there, not counting toward your cap, patiently waiting for the day a new survivor like “The Accountant” or a killer named “The Hoarder” steps into the fog. In 2026, with the roster ever-expanding, having a hidden stash is more valuable than ever.

The Beauty of Being a Bloodpoint Miser

Listen, for a while the devs pretended not to notice us dancing around the cap, but then they leaned in hard—giving us challenge paths that explicitly encourage this behavior. Two prologues? That was a wink and a nod. So go ahead, be a miser. Let those unclaimed Bloodpoints pile up like autumn leaves. When a new chapter drops and everyone’s scrambling for points, you’ll be the one calmly scrolling through your unfinished Tome 12, clicking “claim,” and watching the fireworks. Your future self—and that brand-new, prestige-ready character—will thank you.

So go on, fire up the Archives, pick the right route, and leave those rewards unclaimed. Who knew being lazy with a mouse click could be so profitable? Just don’t blame us if you start hoarding real-world pennies with the same enthusiasm. Happy saving, you glorious, point-gobbling gremlin.