What happens when you die
You wake up next to Adon with full health and stamina. Your skills and experience are untouched; death never costs levels.
On most worlds, everything in your inventory goes to Adon's death container, with a few exceptions:
- Equipped gear stays on you.
- Your coins are kept. They are not carried as an item, so death cannot take them.
- Your bank is never touched.
Small Ichor, 
Medium Ichor and 
Large Ichor stay in your pack. 
Powerful Ichor is not on that list, so it goes with everything else.- Quest items stay.
Every status effect is cleared when you die. If your curse meter was above 75%, it drops to 75%. See occultism and the curse.
Your first death also starts the quest Meeting With Death, in which Adon explains himself. His version of the arrangement:
Gone! Reduced to ashes. But do not worry, I have caught them before they became dust in the wind. With your help and a small contribution of coin I can return them to you as they were...
Getting your things back
Talk to Adon to open the death container.
- Free picks first. From your latest death you may take up to three items back for free. A stack counts as one pick, and you take the whole stack. You have to make your free picks before you can buy anything.
- Then buy the rest. Everything else costs half its value, rounded up, with quality counted in: a Rare item costs 2.2 times as much to recover as a Common one.
- Older deaths wait. The container never expires and survives logging out. Dying again does not wipe it, but only the newest death's items can be picked for free.
With a humanity of 100 or more you get a fourth free pick. Humanity is explained on occultism and the curse.
Adon is good-humoured about the fee: "Sorry about having to charge you, but business is business!"
| Coins to buy back one | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Epic | Legendary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Copper Sword | 10 | 15 | 22 | 35 | 60 |
 Iron Sword | 42 | 63 | 92 | 146 | 249 |
 Steel Platebody | 594 | 891 | 1,307 | 2,079 | 3,564 |
 Morion Platebody | 1,282 | 1,923 | 2,820 | 4,486 | 7,689 |
 Coal | 19 | ||||
 Gold Ore | 40 |
Carry less into danger. Bank what you do not need, and keep your best finds equipped rather than in your pack.
Worlds that keep your inventory
A world can be set to let you keep your inventory. There, dying moves nothing, and Adon says so:
Whenever you're ready. Your belongings made the trip back with you, so there's nothing for me to hold onto this time.
Quest fights
Unless a quest battle says otherwise, falling in one does not count as a real death. You are brought back on the spot with nothing lost, and the battle starts over.
Cheating death
At 300 humanity or more, a killing blow has a 35% chance to leave you on 1 health instead, unkillable for one second (
Death Defy). It can only happen once every five minutes.
The 
Second Chance effect works the same way for a while: "For 30 seconds, a fatal hit leaves you at 10% health instead of killing you."