Deathlink

Deathlink - Configureable Death & Difficulty

Deathlink provides the ability to completely configure role specific difficulty, bonuses, penalties and death experience.

In addition to extensive configuration, death penalties and bonuses can be scaled by progression.

Bringing together players from many different experience levels often means that some players struggle while others are bored.

Deathlink provides a way to challenge and reward players based on their appetite for risk.

Example Deathlink Choices

| Vanilla | Minimal | Hardcore |

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Configuration

Deathlink has extensive yaml based configuration options. However it can be used with the default configuration.

A visual configuration UI is also available (to admins), allowing complete editing of death choices.

Each of these configuration sections below can be applied to any number of profiles which users can select.

Deathlink selection is one per character and is stored on the server the character is on,a character can have

different selections in singleplayer or multiplayer.

DeathChoices.yaml is written with a full explanation of every setting at the top of the file, so you can

configure it without coming back here. Edits are picked up while the game is running and are pushed to

connected clients automatically.

Settings are matched without regard to case, so files written by older versions keep working untouched.

A mistake costs you one setting rather than the whole file: an unknown setting or a misspelled value is

reported in the log with its line number and skipped, and if the file cannot be parsed at all, the levels

that last loaded cleanly stay in use and your file is left exactly as you wrote it.

Example Configuration

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Rougelike3:

DisplayName: Berserker

DeathStyle:

FoodLossOnDeath: true

FoodLossUsesDeathlink: true

MaxEquipmentKept: 3

SkillLossOnDeath: true

MaxSkillLossPercentage: 0.2

MinSkillLossPercentage: 0.05

ItemLossStyle: DeathlinkBased

NonSkillCheckedItemAction: Tombstone

DeathSkillRate: 1

ResourceModifiers:

Wood:

Prefabs:

• Wood
• FineWood
• RoundLog
• YggdrasilWood
• Blackwood

BonusModifier: 1.5

BonusActions:

• Harvesting

Ore:

Prefabs:

• CopperOre
• TinOre
• IronScrap
• SilverOre
• BlackMetalScrap
• CopperScrap
• FlametalOreNew

BonusModifier: 1.5

BonusActions:

• Harvesting

SkillModifiers:

All:

Skill: All

BonusModifier: 1.2

DeathLootModifiers:

AmberPearl:

Prefab: AmberPearl

Chance: 0.05

Amount: 1

BonusActions:

• Kills

Deathstyle Configuration

Deathstyle configuration governs what happens when you die.

DeathStyle:

FoodLossOnDeath: true # Player will loose food on death or not

FoodLossUsesDeathlink: true # Food loss is based on skill level from loosing all foods, to none

MaxEquipmentKept: 3 # The maximum number of equiped items to keep on death

SkillLossOnDeath: true # Whether or not skill loss occurs on death

MaxSkillLossPercentage: 0.2 # The maximum percentage of skill lost on death (you start here, example is 20%)

MinSkillLossPercentage: 0.05 # The minimum skill loss, at max skill level (example is 5%)

ItemLossStyle: DeathlinkBased # Item loss style, can be None, DestroyNonWeaponArmor, DeathlinkBased, DestroyAll, ChooseEquipment

NonSkillCheckedItemAction: Tombstone # If items are set to avoid skillcheck, what happens to them, can be Destroy, Tombstone, Save

ItemSavedStyle: Tombstone # Items that are saved can be: OnCharacter, Tombstone

EquipmentSavedStyle: OnCharacter # Where saved equipment goes: SameAsItems (default, follows ItemSavedStyle), OnCharacter, Tombstone

DeathSkillRate: 1 # Rate at which Deathlink skill increases, higher is faster

Fallback: true # Marks the level players are moved to when the one they had

selected is renamed or removed. Set it on exactly one level.

Choosing gear from the tombstone

ItemLossStyle: ChooseEquipment destroys nothing. Everything goes to your tombstone, and after respawning you

open your inventory and choose som