How to Get the Preservation Talisman (Preservation Jar) in Phantom Blade Zero

Crimson Forest in Phantom Blade Zero wears you down with Butcher miasma and poison, and the Preservation Jar accessory is the direct counter to that. You don’t buy it or craft it. You assemble it from two halves of a broken talisman, and both halves are close to the Outlaw Trap bell.

Quick answer: A table at the Butcher’s camp holds Fragment I; the camp is west of the Outlaw Trap bell. Find Fragment II in the second Butcher’s yard in Crimson Forest. Collecting both combines them into the Preservation Jar, lowering poison damage taken by 50%.

What the Preservation Jar does

The Preservation Jar is a Defensive accessory. It halves the poison damage you take, which matters most in Crimson Forest, where the Butchers keep poison and miasma ticking on you. Here is how its item card reads in game:

Category: “Defensive”
Name: “PRESERVATION JAR”
Effect: “Reduces poison damage taken by 50%.”
“Food stored within this jar remains fresh, making it a favorite among butchers.”
“If placed amid heaps of rot and filth, it might produce a curious effect.”

Preservation Jar accessory card reducing poison damage taken by 50% in Phantom Blade Zero

For the Butchers themselves and how their poison works, the Butcher fight guide covers both encounters you pass through on the way to the fragments.

Preservation Talisman Fragment I location

The Crimson Forest Tunnel Crank is at the same camp, so you can pick up both in a single visit.

Start at the Outlaw Trap bell and head west to the Butcher’s camp. You’ll know it by the chopping tables, cages and red candles. The full route is in the Crimson Forest Tunnel Crank guide.

Clear the camp. A Butcher and two Sick Dogs are waiting there.

Once the fight is over, pick up the Crimson Forest Tunnel Crank beside the chopping table, then go to the second table in the camp. Look for the glint on it and press E to take the fragment.

Glint and E prompt on the second table at the Butcher's crank camp in Phantom Blade Zero

Check the item card to confirm the pickup. It’s filed under “Accessory Fragments” as “PRESERVATION TALISMAN FRAGMENT I”, and the text reads “The upper half of a talisman cleanly severed by a sharp blade. Grease and blood still stain the cut edge.” followed by “Its former owner appears to have been a greedy merchant, always using cheap tricks to deceive his customers. The butcher merely gave him what he deserved.”

Preservation Talisman Fragment I item card in Phantom Blade Zero

Preservation Talisman Fragment II location

Fragment II is the talisman’s lower piece, found in the second Butcher’s yard at the far end of the plank walkway spanning the hound pit.

Get to the second Butcher’s yard. There are two ways in. You can go through the bandit camp gate, take the stairs down and cross the plank walkway over the hound pit. Or, if you’ve already fitted the Crimson Forest Tunnel Crank on the lift post north of the Outlaw Trap bell, take the tunnel below that post to the ladder that drops into the yard.

Defeat the second Butcher and the Sick Dogs around his yard. It’s a blood-soaked clearing ringed by a stone wall, with a wooden walkway and a ladder tower along its edge.

The second Butcher's yard with its stone wall, walkway and ladder tower in Phantom Blade Zero

In the yard’s west corner, search near the stacked-stone wall, hanging brazier and body pile. When you spot the glint, press E.

Glint and E prompt by the stacked-stone wall in the second Butcher's yard in Phantom Blade Zero

The card lists the category as “Accessory Fragments” and the name as “PRESERVATION TALISMAN FRAGMENT II”. Its description reads “The lower half of the talisman. Its clean break bears witness to the swift, decisive stroke that severed it.” followed by “When reunited with its upper half, it reduces poison damage.”

Next to that card, the pickup list shows “PRESERVATION TALISMAN FRAGMENT II -1” and “PRESERVATION TALISMAN FRAGMENT I -1”. That’s the game consuming both halves at the same moment to build the jar.

Preservation Talisman Fragment II item card with both fragments used in Phantom Blade Zero

How to equip the Preservation Jar

There’s no crafting menu involved. Picking up Fragment II with Fragment I already in your bag combines them on the spot, and the PRESERVATION JAR card asks “Equip the new Accessory now?”

Choose yes to bring up the slot picker, which shows three accessory slots and the prompt “Equip accessory to empty slot.” Select a slot to equip the jar.

Accessory slot picker for the Preservation Jar in Phantom Blade Zero

You can also equip it later through the accessory slots in the Character menu. It is listed with the rest in the full accessories list.