What is the best mod for not losing your world when your die?

[wiidad]

I tried the no delete on death mod but it doesnt work atm. is there another that you can recomend that i can download tonight. im tired of losing such cool worlds that i havent fully explored yet...

[Mudhorn]

the reason its not working is because of the latest update, the mod makers need to update the mod or klei needs to fix it, but klei is busy with the new dlc coming out so right now theres no mods that work

[Gregisgood]

The mod that lets you come back to life. Maybe not the solution you wanted.

[Woudo]

Dragon Rider has it. It's also going to affect more mods than just that one too.

I wrote a guide as of about an hour ago on how to do it the manual way. I know it's not the same as the mod but it'll tide you over for the week or so until the mod maker eventually gets around to patching it up.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=233273754

[† ♥ ⸸ Andrew † ♥ ⸸]

Well if your fancy mods end up not working, you can always just go into the files on the computer go into the saves file and copy the file to your desktop.

[J20Hawkz]

I always thought the best thing to stop yourself from dying and losing your world was 'skill'. Shame we can't download that.

*hands out burn cream*

[wiidad]

Originally posted by J20Hawkz:

I always thought the best thing to stop yourself from dying and losing your world was 'skill'. Shame we can't download that.

*hands out burn cream*

You can keep your cream, I'm failry certain you will be needing it yourself...

I've been playing since beta when the world was round circles connected by long empty bridges and the only reason I dont play there anymore is because a patch ate it. I'm just interested in trying out some things I've not tried yet.

There are alot of new things and I would like to experience some of them where I can learn them without the restarting!

How many times in a row can you die and restart and pick your first resources all over again before it gets tiresome. Especially when you want to try and practice cultivating a spider web factory or mess with any number of the new uglies walking around. It would save time to run such a mod during a game where you are just trying to learn the new stuff.

[Woudo]

Use the method I wrote about above;

Steam folder
Userdata
(numbers)
Find folder "219740". It's your saves folder for Don't Starve.
Duplicate it into another folder somewhere.
When you need to reload, copy the duplication back into the steam folder.

I've used this a few times while i'm experimenting on things. Honestly, I don't see how killing the Ancient Guardian with melee is supposed to be feasible. I tried so many times but his bunt and charge (which at melee range is completely unavoidable but still does full damage) just do so much damage, it's hard to persevere.

I'm sure Klei will patch the Ice Staff + Gunpowder cheese for boss monsters eventually.

[wiidad]

Originally posted by Woudo:

Use the method I wrote about above;

Steam folder
Userdata
(numbers)
Find folder "219740". It's your saves folder for Don't Starve.
Duplicate it into another folder somewhere.
When you need to reload, copy the duplication back into the steam folder.

I've used this a few times while i'm experimenting on things. Honestly, I don't see how killing the Ancient Guardian with melee is supposed to be feasible. I tried so many times but his bunt and charge (which at melee range is completely unavoidable but still does full damage) just do so much damage, it's hard to persevere.

I'm sure Klei will patch the Ice Staff + Gunpowder cheese for boss monsters eventually.

I have been using that method you posted earlier. Thank you very much ^^
maybe we can find a better way to take that beast down ^^

[Octavia]

Originally posted by wiidad:

I have been using that method you posted earlier. Thank you very much ^^
maybe we can find a better way to take that beast down ^^

There's a mod called "Compromising Survival", that allows you to instantly resurrect yourself, re-spawn at your last save point or die. There's also "Camfire Res", which as it implies allows you to come back at your Campfire. Your world remains intact, but these mods were recently broke by a match by Klei; I'm not sure if they work now, but it might be worth trying them on a 'dummy world' to check. Both are nice for mucking about and trying out new things with little risk and without having to go through hours of preparation.

[Oykenshui]

The whole point of the game is to experience new things, and learn on the go. Downloading mods is just ruining the experience for you. And before you pull that "i've been playing longer than you" card, you haven't. Mods are for the weak

[Octavia]

Originally posted by Lonestarr01:

The whole point of the game is to experience new things, and learn on the go. Downloading mods is just ruining the experience for you. And before you pull that "i've been playing longer than you" card, you haven't. Mods are for the weak

Play time is irrelevant, using it in your argument is silly. The experience of starting new isn't really that fun, unless it's Adventure Mode(Due to the difficulty and lesser penalty of failure), if only because the new experiences(Set pieces, biomes, resources, etc) all become familiar in the early game. There is absolutely nothing 'fun' and I see no 'point' in going through a new world and being able to do the exact same thing I did in the last one and live; sure, I could go into the Caves or Ruins, but by that point I'd have Meat Effigies(Or be able to get them), so it's more or less to cut down on needless grinding.

Mods aren't for the weak, they're for those who dislike the laborious early game mechanics that serve no purpose other than a grind, particularly when many of the characters have abilities that don't stand out(As in, provide a radically different game experience).

If it took ten Grass to make a Torch, it wouldn't make the game harder in any area but artificial difficulty, which is bad. Needlessly making players grind out what they've already done and is easy to them is an artificial difficulty, it doesn't make the game harder, just longer, for no reasonable reason. You can still learn on the go with these mods, you just don't need to spend time getting back to that point and thus learn quicker.

I really don't get how anyone defends perma-death mechanics when the game doesn't provide a new experience every time(Dungeons of Dredmor, for example, has an insane amount of skill combinations, so the experience IS new and refreshing due to said combinations). Don't Starve is good, don't get me wrong, but something as simple as "Your character is dead, the world is intact" would honestly be amazing; you get a harsh penalty, but your whole progress isn't gone and you still have the challenge of getting back to your base since the map would be wiped. Deleting your progress and forcing you to do the same thing to get back to where you were is just bad, and I don't see how "experiencing new things" happens in a grind, and how "learning on the go" involves making someone repeat tasks they've already done and know how to do.

[wiidad]

Originally posted by Octavia:

Originally posted by Lonestarr01:

The whole point of the game is to experience new things, and learn on the go. Downloading mods is just ruining the experience for you. And before you pull that "i've been playing longer than you" card, you haven't. Mods are for the weak

Play time is irrelevant, using it in your argument is silly. The experience of starting new isn't really that fun, unless it's Adventure Mode(Due to the difficulty and lesser penalty of failure), if only because the new experiences(Set pieces, biomes, resources, etc) all become familiar in the early game. There is absolutely nothing 'fun' and I see no 'point' in going through a new world and being able to do the exact same thing I did in the last one and live; sure, I could go into the Caves or Ruins, but by that point I'd have Meat Effigies(Or be able to get them), so it's more or less to cut down on needless grinding.

Mods aren't for the weak, they're for those who dislike the laborious early game mechanics that serve no purpose other than a grind, particularly when many of the characters have abilities that don't stand out(As in, provide a radically different game experience).

If it took ten Grass to make a Torch, it wouldn't make the game harder in any area but artificial difficulty, which is bad. Needlessly making players grind out what they've already done and is easy to them is an artificial difficulty, it doesn't make the game harder, just longer, for no reasonable reason. You can still learn on the go with these mods, you just don't need to spend time getting back to that point and thus learn quicker.

I really don't get how anyone defends perma-death mechanics when the game doesn't provide a new experience every time(Dungeons of Dredmor, for example, has an insane amount of skill combinations, so the experience IS new and refreshing due to said combinations). Don't Starve is good, don't get me wrong, but something as simple as "Your character is dead, the world is intact" would honestly be amazing; you get a harsh penalty, but your whole progress isn't gone and you still have the challenge of getting back to your base since the map would be wiped. Deleting your progress and forcing you to do the same thing to get back to where you were is just bad, and I don't see how "experiencing new things" happens in a grind, and how "learning on the go" involves making someone repeat tasks they've already done and know how to do.

well said :) i would like them to put in a choice when you start playing a new game in dont starve. adventure mode or learning mode, and the learning mode only doesnt wipe your world when you die. thats the ONLY diffference. when the patch killed my world beta world i was something like 433 days in. then it simply didnt load because the patch was too different. This was of course long before they added adventure mode and allowed you to jump to new worlds. losing that world was crushing since i never died it just became out of date. but i was running out of resources anyway. there was plenty of wood to chop but no more flint for tools to make axes. so it was grass fed firepits. it was not fun anymore due to having nothing else to accomplish and running out of some reasorces after scouring the entire planet. but to have it stop running simply because of the patch... still I love dont starve, just not going to grind endlessly anymore.