Steel Fighters Guide

Guide

Before you rebirth in Steel Fighters

The 1 to 2 preview raises Cash from x1.5 to x2, Scrap from x1.5 to x4, and the robot level cap from 20 to 30. Robots and their levels are explicitly kept. Check your own requirement and read the Cash and Scrap reset lines before you confirm.

That is the whole promise, and it is narrower than most videos make it sound. Three things change on that panel, one line says what survives, and one line is worth pausing on.

Can you rebirth yet?

The panel in front of you decides, not a fixed floor number.

In a recorded run the first rebirth happened at floor 30, and later the same player pressed rebirth without beating floor 100. Both can be true because the requirement is a floor you have reached, not a boss you have killed. If the button is greyed out, you are short of the requirement; if it is live, the game will let you go even on a floor you just lost.

Do not import someone else's floor number into your own game. Open the panel, read the requirement line, and treat that as the answer.

What the next step changes

Rebirth panel showing Cash x1.5 to x2, Scrap x1.5 to x4 and level cap 20 to 30

The 1 to 2 preview. Read the bonus lines and the reset lines separately.

Three separate numbers move together:

Line on the panel Before After
Cash bonus x1.5 x2
Scrap bonus x1.5 x4
Robot level cap 20 30

The level cap is the one people notice last and should notice first. A rebirth that raises the cap turns Scrap into levels again: before it, a maxed robot has nowhere to put Scrap. That is the real reason to press the button on a capped robot rather than keep farming.

What is kept, and what the reset lines say

The panel says two different things at once, so read both before you spend a session on it.

  • Kept: the line under the bonus columns reads "You keep your robots and their levels". Your robots and their current levels survive.
  • Reset lines: the same panel lists Cash + 0 and Scrap + 0 under RESETS. On the recording we captured, both values are zero.

Those two readings do not fully agree with other public evidence. A creator states on camera that rebirth costs him his Cash and Scrap and spends both before pressing. The shop also sells Get Back 1 through Get Back 10 (49 to 1,599 Robux), described as returning the Cash and Scrap you had before a given rebirth, and Rebirth Skip 1 through Rebirth Skip 10 (99 to 12,999 Robux) described as keeping your Cash, Scrap and progress. Those product descriptions only make sense if a normal rebirth can cost you something.

So treat the wallet as uncertain rather than safe. Before confirming:

The two-minute check before you press

  1. Open the rebirth panel and read the requirement line. If the button is greyed out, stop here and work on the floor instead.
  2. Read the bonus lines: Cash, Scrap, level cap. Note the cap you are moving to.
  3. Read the RESETS rows yourself. If they show anything other than zero, that is the amount you are about to lose.
  4. If the amount matters to you, spend it first: parts at the lever wall, or levels on the robot you will keep.
  5. Confirm, then reopen the robot panel and verify the new cap and that your robots are still there.

Rebirth now, or keep working the current robot?

Use the cap, not the size of the button.

  • Robot not at the cap: you still have a cheap way to get stronger. Levelling is usually the shorter path to the next floor.
  • Robot at the cap and the next rebirth raises the cap: Scrap no longer converts into strength. That is when rebirth buys you progress rather than resetting it.
  • Still failing floors before the cap: the blocker is the build, not the prestige. Compare parts inside the slot you are weakest in before you reset anything.

Paid shortcuts, and what they are for

Item Robux (25 Oct 2026) What the shop says it does
Get Back 1 49 Returns the Cash and Scrap you had before rebirth 1
Get Back 3 149 Same, for rebirth 3
Get Back 10 1,599 Same, for rebirth 10
Rebirth Skip 1 99 Rebirths immediately, keeping Cash, Scrap and progress
Rebirth Skip 5 1,499 Same, at rebirth 5
Rebirth Skip 10 12,999 Same, at rebirth 10

Two different products do two different jobs. Get Back is an undo for a wallet you already lost; Rebirth Skip avoids the wait entirely. Neither one makes the robot stronger, and neither replaces reading your own panel. Prices are a snapshot from 25 October 2026 and the developer has changed prices before.

If you pressed rebirth and regret it

Check the robots first: if they and their levels are still there, the only thing to inspect is your Cash and Scrap balance. If the balance dropped and you want it back, Get Back for that rebirth number is the only route the shop offers, and it is paid. There is no free undo, so the decision to press is the decision that matters.

What we could not verify

  • Whether a normal rebirth wipes Cash and Scrap on every port, or only on some. The panel and the shop descriptions point in different directions.
  • The bonus values above rebirth 2. We only captured one transition, so we do not publish a full curve or a formula.
  • Whether the level cap keeps rising by the same step on later ports.

If you are deciding between pressing now and pressing later, the cap line on your own panel outranks anything in this guide.