The penalties for Death in this game are so tepid, I can't even believe people think they're "Harsh"

Have we truly regressed so far?

There's an argument to be made about the death penalty in context of certain things like falling off your roof, or other oddities but these threads are never actually contextualized like that.

Originally posted by Xendran:

Originally posted by Nerevar:

its supposed to be punishing. death is something you should want to avoid as much as possible. and valheim does provide the options in gameplay to actually avoid 95% of deaths. it simply punishes reckless play or not beeing probaly prepared.

but with the next update you can set the game to casual difficulty in the world settings that are comeing. this will disable the death penalty entirely. no gear drop on death and no skill los anymore either.

I dont mind the gear drop its just the skill loss that is annoying it feels like its just a huge waste of time

That's entirely the point. You're not supposed to die, you're supposed to be punished for dying, so you learn from it. Valheim is a very hard game to actually die in, once you have a working knowledge of the mechanics, and it's almost impossible to die in once you ahve the feather cape.