How to Get Nen in Beyond Nen

The official Trello Nen Progression card gives three routes. Roll your affinity and ability first. Then either clear seven Node Masters or pass the Hunter Exam. A third route, the Nen Cave with Shin, can skip ahead and can also curse you. The same official card explains Meditation Mats for earning Meditation Points; a separate wiki describes a different Rohan quest sequence, labeled below.

Before you start

In Customize, roll an Affinity and an Ability (a Hatsu). Affinity decides which abilities you can roll. The card’s example is Jajanken, which only appears for Enhancer. Spins pay for those rolls. What the rarities mean is on the tier list. If you still need Spins, the code list is the public source.

Method 1 — seven Node Masters

Node Masters stand in random spots on the map and move every 45 minutes. Each one opens one Nen node. After all seven, the official card says to find Rohan. Raf_Dev’s 8 Nov 2026 video plots spawn points; I treat the video as a location aid, not as a second copy of the Trello rules. The exact tile is not written on the card, so this page leaves coordinates blank.

Method 2 — Hunter Exam

Passing the Hunter Exam skips the seven Node Masters and moves Nen forward. The exam card on Trello is the official pointer. The official Hunter Exams card requires level 10, runs every 60 minutes, and admits 6–24 players. Its four stages are running, maze, badge-stealing, and 1v1. Completion awards a Hunter License through the Hunter Exams milestone, unlocks the aura nodes, and allows Nen use if you had not already unlocked it through Rohan. That differs from the wiki sequence below. The exam is also the gate in the first-hour guide, which only tells you when to start it.

Method 3 — Nen Cave and Shin

Bring a player who already has Nen into the Nen Cave and talk to Shin. The official card gives two outcomes: 97% Negative Nen, which lowers Nen reserves and damage, and 3% The Way of Nen, which adds 20% Nen damage, 20% Nen regeneration, and 100% Nen reserves. The cooldown is 30 minutes. Negative Nen is cleared by finishing the seven Node Masters. I print both percents because they are on the card, and I do not round them.

Meditation Mats and Nen techniques

The official Nen Progression card directs you to the General Store in Port Town for a Meditation Mat. Meditating earns Meditation Points; clicking the spheres speeds it up, and the card lists a 25% speed increase in the Nen Cave. Additional Nen techniques use both Skill Points and Meditation Points in M → Skills → Nen Skills. Ten is granted automatically when Nen awakens. These are official-card details from one primary source, checked 14 Nov 2026.

Rohan: official route and one wiki’s account

beyondnengame.wiki (8 Nov 2026) is one source for a conversation sequence after the exam; it differs from the official exam card’s automatic unlock. It says: pass the exam, press P, follow Activate Nen to the Nen Cave, talk to Rohan until he tells you to meditate, buy a Meditation Mat from the starter-village merchant (P, then Buy; the mat is not on Rohan), meditate to 10/10, then return. The first Hatsu after that is a random roll. The same page says the prompt key is often T and is not fixed. The official progression card confirms the mat for Meditation Points, while the 10/10 unlock sequence and random first-Hatsu claim remain this wiki’s account. They are not presented as required after passing the exam.

Reroll talk belongs with Spins and the race table, not with this unlock. The launch build these steps assume is dated on the release page. Links to the Progression list are on Trello and Discord.

Abilities and Hatsu

These fifteen named abilities come from the public Trello collection checked for this guide. Affinity controls eligible rolls. Details supported only by the official board remain one-source card descriptions; blank effects are not estimated.

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