Current inventory, equipped items, and skill levels are kept on the character. Entering a server with that character brings those things.

Originally posted by Narque:

so if i had my own save i played when solo and when friends came on and i went onto one of there games does what my character has on and in inventory also go with him? or is it a new character per game room? just wanted to check before we all made the purchase. Thank you

I definitely recommend this game.

A note on servers and character inventory. My friends and I did our first go round on a seed with a poor distribution of a particular biome in a wide area around spawn. There was realistically not a way to get enough of the specific resource from that biome for everyone to get even partially equipped with gear. We wound up forced to create extra worlds where we could harvest said resource to gear up.

Bottom line, we could have done it together, however it would have been very time consuming. I chalk that up to the EA state and that a few things still need balance. Just food for thought to help alleviate any massive road blocks to progress.