Originally posted by vandalism:

dying in the swamp and losing your gear and karve really sucks. Only way to combat this is dev console cheat or mods. Game is ball bustingly unforgiving artificially difficult.

Just had to post this somewhere.

I think i got a really difficult spawn. All of my swamps are surronded by plains. So i think i have died about 15 times trying to get to the swamp in the swamp and out from the swamp. This game is hard but i love it.