Originally posted by loewenjenf:

Dark Souls is quite different. The fact the you need to recover your corpse in Valheim without your usual equipment makes it more punishing to die. You can not just ignore it, because it not just replaceable "souls", it's your hard farmed equipment. You are forced to play carefully and probably have a second or third gear for recovery tasks.
Don't get me wrong Dark Souls is certainly a lot more difficult, bit it doesn't punish death so hard. Not even mentioning the skill loss.

If you keep your previous armor/weapons in a chest, and you certainly would have a set by now, if you are fooling around in the mountains. Then you wont have to craft everything from scratch.