Saving packed scenes by resource many times results in large file size

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Here’s an article from Godot on Saving Games. You can also check out the lengthy write-up I did in this thread on how to implement the exact thing you’re looking for:

Preventing queue_free()'d node from reappearing on scene change

So your problem is persistence. Nodes only retain changes while they are in memory unless you save those changes to a disk. So if you close the scene, you lose all the scene data. If you close the game, you lose all the global data. What I do is give each pickup in a game a bool value like @lastbender suggested, but then I save that value on disk. So let’s walk through it with my game Eternal Echoes which I made for a gam jam. In-Game View [Screenshot 2025-11-28 011522] So in the game (above)…