Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Press "V" to turn auto gather off while you are walking to your corpse location. That way you don't pick up extras that interfere with grabbing every thing when you reach your gravestone.

That doesn't help if you were using Megingjord and/or if you equped some armor/weapons before you returned.

IMO, I think just selecting your grave marker should grab at least what is possible (without having to even "take all"), and should prioritize armor, weapons, food, etc. I don't currently need a stack of rock or greydwarf eyes, thank you! :-)

All depends on your play style. I don't rush into where I'm getting swarmed and can't recover things. I'll get the attention of one or 2 baddies and then fight in retrograde away from them and what ever other nasty surprises may lurk there. If I get killed in that situation I respawn where I have my bed set (always the main base) where there is lots of food and the highest rest number available and I can grab a single stamina potion just in case. If I was silly and was playing through the night I'll sleep so the spawn rate goes back to normal. I'll eat, make sure that my rested buff is maxed, and portal to the closest portal that I have set up (which I keep close to the area I'm exploring for just this reason).

I'll walk through relatively safer areas and then go into sneak mode when it gets dangerous. If I can sneak up to my corpse mission accomplished. Since I turned auto gather off all I have to do is eat the stamina potion and I can recover my entire corpse. The first thing I equip is the Megingjord, the 2nd thing is my shield, the third thing is my melee weapon. Then I sneak away while equipping the rest of my gear.

If the mobs are guarding my corpse and I can't sneak up on it. I'll put the stamina potion in my hot bar, get their attention, and sprint at a 90 degree angle to my path to the corpse and the corpse location. When I run out of stamina, if they are still on my tail, I drink the stamina potion and keep sprinting. If they kill me at this point no big deal. My inventory is empty so it won't leave a grave marker behind and its not going to cost me any more skill points to die again at this time.

If I out ran the guards then I circle around in sneak mode and can get to my grave marker. If I died I get to rest and eat at home again and the guards are far from my marker so I can recover myself easily.

The only time I ever had to grab old equip was when I had to go through any amount of plains and all I grabbed was my old bow and a stack of arrows. You can't out run deathsquitos and if you dodge when they attack they immediately attack again so I had to sneak and snipe the deathsquitos and when I got to my corpse I just chose 2 stacks of stuff I didn't need that had been previously auto gathered and left it behind.

Selecting your grave marker does autogather everything on your corpse if you have enough open inventory slots to hold it all and you aren't overweight without equipping the Megingjord.

All slots - not just hotbars - seem to corrospond 1:1. So carry backup armour where your loot would be on your corpse and you should be good.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

All slots - not just hotbars - seem to corrospond 1:1. So carry backup armour where your loot would be on your corpse and you should be good.

That doesn't work. For example if you have a partial stack of cloud berries on your corpse and you picked a few on the way to your corpse and you grab your corpse the cloud berry stacks don't auto merge. You wind up with 2 partial stacks of cloud berries in your inventory. This applies to any duplicate items when you pick up your marker.

Last time I had such an issue was when I died to a 2* draugr in one of the body pile circles in the swamp, with the body pile inaccessible under a branch.

Luckily there was a crypt nearby that I had opened, so I was able to run up to my gravestone, grab a couple of things randomly, run to the crypt, equip, and repeat until I actually got what I needed.

I still think that a better prioritization of item selection would be a huge improvement for such situations.

FWIW, I play no-portal, which makes such situations much more difficult, depending on where it was that I died. In this case I had an outpost nearby that I think I was able to grab some things from, but that's not always the case.

That, of course, is self imposed, so not entirely relevent, but, even when I played with portals I got myself into some pretty bad situation. :-)

Originally posted by FissionChips:

All slots - not just hotbars - seem to corrospond 1:1. So carry backup armour where your loot would be on your corpse and you should be good.

That also doesn't work if you're overy 300 units of weight, which is pretty much all the time for me.

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Originally posted by FissionChips:

All slots - not just hotbars - seem to corrospond 1:1. So carry backup armour where your loot would be on your corpse and you should be good.

That doesn't work. For example if you have a partial stack of cloud berries on your corpse and you picked a few on the way to your corpse and you grab your corpse the cloud berry stacks don't auto merge. You wind up with 2 partial stacks of cloud berries in your inventory. This applies to any duplicate items when you pick up your marker.

That's a separate issue to prioritising loot over gear. No container auto merges stacks properly, gravestone is just a container - I consider this to be a bug, and one wider than just gravestones. Prioritising gear over loot is a game change, a suggestion - one I don't like, as it implies rearranging slots for you. I prefer it as is - I can prioritise ahead of time what corpse slots to pick up, and everything stays where it should.

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Originally posted by FissionChips:

All slots - not just hotbars - seem to corrospond 1:1. So carry backup armour where your loot would be on your corpse and you should be good.

That also doesn't work if you're overy 300 units of weight, which is pretty much all the time for me.

If your emergency armour is masking your heavy loot you won't go overweight from just picking up gear, and you'll have time to equip mejinglord(sp?) along with the rest of your gear. Loot can then be recovered at leisure after dealing with the emergency.

Originally posted by FissionChips:

If your emergency armour is masking your heavy loot you won't go overweight from just picking up gear, and you'll have time to equip mejinglord(sp?) along with the rest of your gear. Loot can then be recovered at leisure after dealing with the emergency.

I can have nothing in my inventory, but if I click on a grave that has more than 300 weight in in, nothing happens. If it has less than 300 weight, all items are recovered and I can go on my happy way. That's my problem.

I cannot give a complete, definitive answer because I am usually too busy diring corpse runs to study the mechanic. I will attempt to make a point or two.

The best case is to make a naked corpse tun in which the newly re-spawned viking has nothing in his or her personal inventory. In such a case, everything will be collected by clicking on "Take All." Items which were in the hot bar of the viking at the time of death will be slotted in the hot bar of the re-spawned viking in the same slots in which they were originally located. Items in the lower three rows of the corpse inventory will all be picked up but not necessarily in the same slots.

At times, a re-spawned viking simply must take a shield and a weapon and perhaps other items, to have a hope of making it to the corpse alive. If those items are placed in the re-spawned hot bar, the items in the corpse's hot bar at the time of death will not be placed in the re-spawned viking's hot bar. Corpse hot bar items which cannot be placed in the re-spawned hot bar may or may not be picked up depending, I think, on whether there is room in the lower three rows to hold all the remaining corpse items.

In regard to corpse items not in the corpse's hot bar, I simply have no idea of the priority the "Take All" mechanic gives them. It also seems to me that a half stack of say stone in the corpse inventory will not always be combined in one slot with a half stack of stone in the re-spawned inventory.

I hope to pay more attention on future expeditions to retrieve items from corpses.

Press "V" to turn auto gather off while you are walking to your corpse location. That way you don't pick up extras that interfere with grabbing every thing when you reach your gravestone.

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Press "V" to turn auto gather off while you are walking to your corpse location. That way you don't pick up extras that interfere with grabbing every thing when you reach your gravestone.

That doesn't help if you were using Megingjord and/or if you equped some armor/weapons before you returned.

IMO, I think just selecting your grave marker should grab at least what is possible (without having to even "take all"), and should prioritize armor, weapons, food, etc. I don't currently need a stack of rock or greydwarf eyes, thank you! :-)