Death Modes

Death Modes

What happens when you die inside a gate depends on the gate's death mode. It is fixed when the gate is created and announced in the waiting room, before you start.

Mode	Your items	Afterwards
🟢 Rescue	You keep everything.	You continue at the head of the valley with half health.
🟠 Drop	Everything (including armor) drops where you died.	You continue at the head of the valley – go and get your things back.
🔴 Hardcore	Everything drops where you died.	You are out of this run. You are sent home and cannot return. Only a teammate can carry your items out.

In every mode the killing blow is caught before you actually die, so there is no death screen. You get a few seconds of Resistance so you are not killed again immediately; burning, poison and wither are removed and an empty food bar is refilled a little.

Warning

Hardcore alone means: gone is gone. If you play alone and fall in a Hardcore gate, nobody can recover your items and the run fails.

Which mode does a gate get?

By default (dungeonDeathMode = "rescue") every gate uses Rescue. Server owners can choose a fixed mode or "random", which depends on the rank:

Rank	Rescue	Drop	Hardcore
E, D	100%	–	–
C, B	60%	40%	–
A and above	45%	35%	20%

Details

• Dropped items never despawn (dungeonDeathDropsNeverDespawn).
• With Drop and Hardcore you also lose your experience (dungeonDeathLosesExperience).
• The gamerule keepInventory always wins: with it, nothing drops. In Hardcore you are still out of the run.
• If all players of a run are out (Hardcore), the run fails.
• dungeonDeathRescue = false turns the whole system off: then dying in a gate is a normal vanilla death.

All options: Configuration.