Originally posted by pipo.p:

I just died 3 times in a row, the last two after a hot-blooded attempt to do my corpse run almost naked. I'm fine with loosing stats (they mean that the game is still beating me at times), and I'm not competent to estimate how a different amount of loss would be fairer (it would be more forgetting, of course). Perhaps on day, someone will take the experience formula on the wiki and come out with a summary informing us that one death at around all stats 20 means X more in game days of exploration, harvesting and hunting.
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Just for reference, when you died three times in a row like that, you only lost skill points once. After the first death you get a buff that prevents skill loss. The buff lasts 20 minutes if I recall correctly.