should death go back to level 1

[cornernote]

<OldCoder> go all the way back? Is this consistent with video games?
<cornernote> interesting point
<OldCoder> Sleep on it
<OldCoder> Decide later, but decide

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<DoYouSketch2> there's only 4 lvls, so it's not a biggie
<DoYouSketch2> I kinda like it as-is
<DoYouSketch2> I know there's a craft-guide in there, but a lotta people don't get how to craft a sapling
<kahrl> well, it's consistent with video games: people play much longer and harder games with permadeath
<kahrl> but that doesn't necessarily mean it should be done in skyblock
<kahrl> perhaps add it as an optional "hardcore" challenge
<DoYouSketch2> I think I'd be happy if gravity weren't so sudden
<DoYouSketch2> so block-lag didn't kill you so quickly while building bridges

[cornernote]

<Sokomine> ah. i don't like that going back much
<Sokomine> server glitches kill players on stromchasers server
<Sokomine> the levels are a lot easier than those in your old skyblock game..so it's less work for a player who did all at least once. but still..that having to restart again is a bit annoying. especially to players who take it seriously

[thatgraemeguy]

Personally I don't mind. It isn't THAT hard to level up again, and once you've finished leveling up you just keep at least 1 of every ore then you don't really need to bother completing the levels again, since you can still craft everything you need.

[sfan5]

<sfan5> finally finishing level 3, getting fly & fast then accidentally dying and needing to do the whole shit again for the beginning is not particulary rewarding

[VanessaE]

My suggestion is to take the user back to the "beginning" of the current level, leave some bones near the [?] block, with just enough stuff to restart the current level (i.e. some of the rewards they would have received for the final objectives of the previous level).

As for their inventory, on stormchaser's server the entire inventory gets cleared on death. I say only clear the hotbar and maybe a few random slots in the rest of the inventory, but not the whole thing.

[cornernote]

There is now an option skyblock.levels.restart_on_die which can be set in minetest.conf.

true to restart from level1, false to restart from current level

default is false (restart from current level).

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need to update docs