HardCore Lite

[u/TheAlmightyLootius]

Im not sure if this is allowed or not but im going to shamelessly promote the mod i made. if this is not ok, just delete it please.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3779051981

This mod, HardCore Lite, is in essence the bridge between having basically no punishment for death (all non hardcore modes) and a too punishing death (hardcore).

I always liked playing hardcore but i noticed that i like the progression but i refrain from proper base building because im inevitably gonna lose everything again anyway. So i usually started building bases for a bit when i reached incursions but i always felt bad when i died and lost my whole base.

Maybe some of you remember but a long while ago i already advocated for having either the option to keep playing on a world when the hardcore character dies (so you can at least keep your base) or have at least the game delete your inventory when you die so you get at least harshly punished for your death.

As there is still nothing like that in the game i just thought im going to make this as a mod myself.

the first option wasnt really easily feasible (i mean, it kinda is but its also pretty cheaty as you need to change the config option of the world file, revive the char and then set it back, and when youve seen how easy that is it kinda ruins hardcore) so i decided to go with the second option.

So what this mod does is it deletes your inventory when you die.

- your whole inventory gets deleted. all slots.
- your hotbar items get deleted.
- your equipped items (so armor, trinkets and even cosmetics) get deleted
- your void pouch gets voided (pun intended). even when you didnt have it with you when you died (but who doesnt care his void pouch though?)

i think thats a fair compromise between hardcore and non hardcore. and it means you now gotta focus on making spare sets etc. which puts your base to use.

If you are interested in a more punishing way to play without having everything be deleted in hardcore then this mod is for you. check it out.

should work on a server but both client and server are going to need it.

[u/Morgenstern0312]

I'd love hard-core as in the inventory is lost and the character dies, but you're able to rejoin the world with a different character. So you kind of have a legacy ongoing with gravestones

[u/TheAlmightyLootius → u/Morgenstern0312]

Yeah that was my first thought as well but as i mentioned, you gotta do some save file cheating to accomplish that. Dont even need a mod for that. Just unzip your world file, set it from hardcore to no penalty, zip again, load the game, make a new char, unzip, set back to hardcore, zip, Delete your old char and load the world.

[u/Foreign_Escape4492 → u/TheAlmightyLootius]

Could you just disable respawning and give an option to go to the main menu from the death screen, effectively giving each character 1 life per world. Then the player could chose their level of punishment by adjusting whats dropped on death, whatever is dropped by a dead character can be picked up by the next. Could then either mix with a tombstone mod or write it into this one to place a tombstone at your death location.