What do you lose when you die?

[Stormy Kami]

I'm very curious about this game as are my friends, but we're not really big fans of how Valheim handled death (dropping all your gear and losing skill levels). I'm very curious to know what is lost upon death. EXP towards next level? Equipped items? Backpack items only?

[tmaddox]

I am not 100% sure but mainly it just seems to be crafting loot. You don't seem to lose what is equipped or even weapons in the backpack. I don't think there is any XP penalty

[Venatacia]

I keep loosing my lock picks and metal isn't coming in fast which is used to remake them every time I die. Just died 3 times in the shroud of hell be accident and then I just found a respawn point and died at it - the spawn point is in the shroud of hell so I can't respawn...Grrr!. Had to shut the hole game down and pray I start back at home base.

[Toast]

You will not lose your main items (gear, equipment, etc), but you will drop crafting materials and resources on the ground where you died :)

So not quite as harsh as valheim where you also drop your gear and stuff.

[Echsrick]

the tutorial text said that things that are on your quickbar are save

[Marzoval]

So you didn't want to punish people who explored too far and got one-shotted by a high level grunt and then spend the next 3 hours trying to figure out how to get the stuff back, huh

[Ankido]

If you die somewhere you cannot access your items, the spawn will placed where you can have access. This I liked.

[Wimpie]

What if your backpack is out of reach? Literally impassible terrain lol

[Dark]

Originally posted by Toast:

You will not lose your main items (gear, equipment, etc), but you will drop crafting materials and resources on the ground where you died :)

So not quite as harsh as valheim where you also drop your gear and stuff.

Can we for those of us that Host our own Dedicated server have an option in the config file to turn this off? Plus many other options in the game too please.

[Stormy Kami]

Originally posted by Toast:

You will not lose your main items (gear, equipment, etc), but you will drop crafting materials and resources on the ground where you died :)

So not quite as harsh as valheim where you also drop your gear and stuff.

Perfect!

[J]

What about spell charges?

[Shimizu]

On the fence about this game but if this can't be disabled, its a no from me. Not going to waste my time corpse running esp. since it appears from other threads there are loads of issues with irretrievable items. Hard pass.

[Ankido]

Originally posted by Wimpie:

What if your backpack is out of reach? Literally impassible terrain lol

Impossible. The game mechanics places the death spot in a place you can always reach.

Originally posted by Shimizu:

On the fence about this game but if this can't be disabled, its a no from me. Not going to waste my time corpse running esp. since it appears from other threads there are loads of issues with irretrievable items. Hard pass.

The game isn't as bad as you might think. If you're into its graphics and gameplay, it's definitely worth giving it a try. I've messed up and died a bunch of times, but I've always been able to get my stuff back. Also, if I remember right, you don't lose much from your inventory when you die. In my opinion, Enshrouded should either get rid of item dropping when you die or just make you drop everything. It would make more sense that way.

[********]

Also worth mentioning is that resources are plentiful and easy to get (unlike Valheim's iron ore runs, for example). So, even if you end up dying in a hostile area, retrieval might not be worth the effort... unless your bag is really full :)

[Nex]

Loot drops last place you were on the ground before you died, so if you were flying or fell off a ledge, it will be before you fell or jumped. In theory, if you got there once, you can do it again by whatever means you got there the last time. And yeah, I 100% agree it can be a pain in the ass.

Losing crafting materials sucks early on, but once you get the hang of things, you will find you have too much. You will learn what drops stuff you need and it becomes second nature.

Lockpicks and coins dropped off my hotbar before when I tested it. I don't think hotbar keeps it safe.

Getting loot back has never been an issue. The big issue is friends being able to grab yours in situations where you both died. I always remember where I died. I have an amazing photographic memory, but not everyone has the same memory as me. It isn't the end of the world, but QOL helps my stress. I dislike it being a debate when my memory proves right over and over again.

[Rhonen]

Originally posted by Ankido:

Originally posted by Wimpie:

What if your backpack is out of reach? Literally impassible terrain lol

Impossible. The game mechanics places the death spot in a place you can always reach.


This is entirely possible. I died once where the respawn items were on top of a tree branch where you could not reach it without building up to that point and even then the respawn items were above the point where I could build. Cutting down the tree had no effect since it just levitated in place where it initially rested. I also died once and the respawn items were placed on the side of a sheer cliff face and below it was the Deadly Shroud so there was no way to get to that at all.