death penalty setting is absolutely useless

[TakeMyLunch]

Why is there no proper keep inventory setting? Seriously. You add a setting to make the death penalty less and stop half way. Not even half way cause you only keep the items you have in your hands at the time.
Maybe just add one more setting that keeps my hotbar items? Or just a normal keep inventory setting instead. I do not get why you would make a setting and stop less than half way to what people would actually want from said setting.

[Keldash_]

Don't die :)

[knighttemplar1960]

Its to teach you not to die. Not dying means that you don't have to recover your inventory. Dying and keeping you equipped gear makes it easy to recover your tombstone. Especially if you respawn in a place that has a high comfort value and you have leveled your sneak skill.

[Mharr]

Would be nice. It's like the grass setting, it's just weird giving us a control that doesn't go all the way to zero.

That said keeping your armor and weapon is very far from being useless.

[LakiL]

there's also no mega easy mode, that just gives you the best gear when you land at the standing stones!

[beefspace]

Just use god mode to get your body back if you care that much

[Tharkkun]

Don't use god mode unless your gear is going to decay. Trust me. Once you try it, it's hard not to rely on it when ♥♥♥♥ goes south. Kind of ruined the game for me.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by LakiL:

there's also no mega easy mode, that just gives you the best gear when you land at the standing stones!

Actually there is. You can just set enemies to passive. then the only way you can die is drowning. falling, or chopping a tree down on yourself.

[Mharr]

Hell if you use commands you can set enemies to do zero damage and have one hp and none of your actions cost stamina. All grind and difficulty is extremely optional.

[ArtDeath66]

welcome to valheim online

[MasteR]

You can exploit exit option, before you die from any reason : poison, damage, drowning.
Exit main world ->join another-> regenerate->go back to the main world

[electricdawn]

Valheim is far from being easy, especially if you're a newbie. But once you learn the ropes, you laugh about corpse runs, because you're then prepared. You know to put portals where you need them, and you know when to build them.

Portals actually make the game supereasy. You die? No problem, pop through the portal that you wisely created beforehand, pick up your stuff and vanish again through the portal.

Fairly easy once you get the hang of it.

[Foxglovez]

There should be consequences to dying, particularly if you choose to do it more often than necessary by doing the same dumb stuff repeatedly. Everyone wants to pull up their boat in the swamp and swagger around looking cool, greet the gigglers and cute glowy bugs... with no plan and no particular thought to consequences. Lots of ways to fail but it should be a learning process. Part of your thinking should always be "What happens if I die here?" "What's my plan B?".

[OtterCannon]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

There should be consequences to dying, particularly if you choose to do it more often than necessary by doing the same dumb stuff repeatedly. Everyone wants to pull up their boat in the swamp and swagger around looking cool, greet the gigglers and cute glowy bugs... with no plan and no particular thought to consequences. Lots of ways to fail but it should be a learning process. Part of your thinking should always be "What happens if I die here?" "What's my plan B?".

Or, you know, let people play they want to play. I dropped this game because dying over and over to try and get your stuff just got annoying as hell. I liked the game for the exploration and building, not for some fake souls-like experience.

[Megatron]

Now I agree that the death penalty settings are not complete. They are missing two more settings :
- one for super easy casual gameplay, where you loose absolutely nothing on death, not even 1% of your skills, nothing
- and on the other side, we need TRUE HARDCORE, where you not only loose your skills, items, etc.... but your whole world is deleted. What's the meaning of hardcore where you still have your mega base intact on death ? You died in Valheim. You failed Odin. Now go to viking hell

[Faceplant]

If casual mode is not enough, there's always devcommands, which gives you the ability to fly and create whatever you lost. Granted, it's not quite the same as zero loss, but pretty close.

As for true hardcore, I used to play that quite a bit, but I actually like the current hardcode death better TBH. I imagine that anyone that really wants to play "delete everything" hardcore would be able to self-impose that, but it would be difficult to self-impose a replication of the current hardcode.