I am not sure what do you mean about "carry over artifacts". If you mean to pass artifacts between steps, you do not need to do anything, as all steps in a single job will run on a single node and share the same job workspace. If you mean to pass artifacts between different jobs, you will need to make the downstream job depending on the job publishing artifacts via dependencies & services section

Yes moving artifacts between different jobs. I add the first job to the section for a dependency then ** to the artifacts and they don't move over.

Please check build result of the first job to see if the artifacts really got published. Also I set up a simple case and it works. Below is my build spec. You may copy it to a test project to check:

version: 9
jobs:
- name: job1
  steps:
  - !CommandStep
    name: generate files
    image: alpine
    commands:
    - echo "hello" > somefile
    useTTY: false
    condition: ALL_PREVIOUS_STEPS_WERE_SUCCESSFUL
  - !PublishArtifactStep
    name: publish files
    artifacts: '**'
    condition: ALL_PREVIOUS_STEPS_WERE_SUCCESSFUL
  retryCondition: never
  maxRetries: 3
  retryDelay: 30
  cpuRequirement: 250m
  memoryRequirement: 128m
  timeout: 3600
- name: job2
  steps:
  - !CommandStep
    name: list all files
    image: alpine
    commands:
    - ls
    useTTY: false
    condition: ALL_PREVIOUS_STEPS_WERE_SUCCESSFUL
  jobDependencies:
  - jobName: job1
    requireSuccessful: true
    artifacts: '**'
  retryCondition: never
  maxRetries: 3
  retryDelay: 30
  cpuRequirement: 250m
  memoryRequirement: 128m
  timeout: 3600

OK, so this only moves files over that were done with a script? I'm trying to have a job for cloning then a job after that for building. Do the clone jobs pull any data over or is it only the data that is made via a script copied over? I apologize I'm not sure of the best way to ask.

This is just for an example. You can of course transfer cloned files between jobs. Please post your build spec here as well as your example git repository, and I will check what might be wrong.

HERE is an example that doesn't work.

The checkout job needs to add an artifact publish step after checkout step to publish desired files as artifacts, the subsequent dependent job can then retrieve those published artifacts

Awesome. Thanks. That worked.