Wanna do a god run or just mess around without fear of loosing everything but don’t want to download third party apps? This guide is just for you!
Press Win+R and type %appdata%
From there go back one folder(from roaming to appdata)
Next click on LocalLow, then on Nolla_Games_Noita
Bam! you made it. Now just make a copy of save00 folder somewhere on your pc. If you die just delete the new folder in there and put your saved one in its place
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Nolla_Games_Noita
^alternatively put your pc username and paste it into the path bar
For example, you can just paste player.xml on the new world save to get to play on the fresh world as an old character and possibly farm a lot of perks (WARNING: your coordinates will be the same as in the old world and you may get stuck).
player.xml and world_state.xml like to go together as world state keeps the orbs and some other stuff and player keeps most of the player stuff. However, if you just paste world_state some of the perks will remain. They will not show, but if you had infinite spells perk, the wands will have infinite spells. The same with no shuffle perk.
Overall better to keep everything bundled, though sometimes changing the world folder is helpful as it gets heavy fast.
Thanks to Борис Небритый for his great guide, all credit to his effort. you can also read the original guide from Steam Community. enjoy the game.