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DeathInventoryKeeper
DeathInventoryKeeper
ASEUtility

DeathInventoryKeeper

Death Inventory Keeper is an ARK: Survival Evolved mod that returns your items and inventory folders to you when you respawn after dying.

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Items3Buffs8

About DeathInventoryKeeper

Death Inventory Keeper is a stackable ASE mod that lets players keep their gear through death. When you respawn, your items and inventory folders come back automatically, while default survivor items stay in the death bag to avoid duplicates. It works as soon as it is added, with no load order or setup needed.

  • Admins get an archive of recent deaths and can restore items from any of them
  • Optional extras, off by default, include a PvP mode, XP loss on death, level or engram resets, death injuries, item-stealing thieves and grave recovery
  • Safe to add at any time; before removing it, make sure no one is still dead with items to recover

This mod is for ASE only; the author states that an ASA mod with the same name is unrelated.

Steam Workshop Description

Keep your items when you die: Automatically recover your items and folders when you respawn after death.

Survivor default items are not kept, they are left in the death bag (to avoid cluttering your inventory with duplicates of them).

Fully stackable, no load order requirements.

No setup necessary, add the mod and it works.

You can safely add/remove the mod at any time. However, there is a special case that can happen when removing, see Adding/removing the mod below for more information.

Admin accessible archive of deaths, restore items from any recent death. All items are saved to the archive (and restorable) regardless of item keeping settings.

Other features not enabled by default: PVP mode, XP loss upon death, XP loss recovery item, player reset (level/stat/engram) upon death, death injury, reduced health when respawning after death, hair loss upon death, thieves stealing items and setting up campsites, teleporting, grave recovery.

Known issues


In single player game, the items are not shown in the folders when you respawn. If you quit to main menu and go back to your single player game, the items are then shown in the folders.

Technical information:

Mod-ID = 1837445660
Type = Stackable Mod
License = Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons License

Configuration

For details about the configuration options, see the Discord server below.

Current configuration is written to the server log upon server start.

Default GameUserSettings.ini settings are in short:
Keep all items and item folders. No death penalties or any other fancy stuff.

Adding/removing the mod

It is always safe to add this mod.

When removing this mod, make sure nobody is dead with items they want to keep, ie. they have respawned if they have died. This is because the items that are kept for the currently-dead-and-not-respawned players are only accessible by this mod (they are saved in DeathInventoryKeeper.sav -file).

If the mod is removed while someone is dead with items they want to keep, then the items can be recovered with either re-adding this mod and then restoring from the archive, or the following old-skool procedure:


  • 1. Make sure the players whose items need recovering are dead.
  • 2. Re-add the mod.
  • 3. Now, when the players then respawn with the mod active, they get their kept items.

Documentation and help

!!! This mod does NOT EXIST in ASA !!!!

Some shady f stole the name of my mod to gain attraction in the ASA modding.

I do not know the person, nor do I have anything to do with that mod, the ASA mod has nothing to do with this mod.

If you're truly about this mod on ASE, then remove the incorrect three letter acronym from the discord link below.

Discord: https://discord.gg/aASAQ6eAAKQbh

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Mod Details

Game
ASE
Category
Utility
Steam ID
1837445660
Author
joyrjoyr

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What DeathInventoryKeeper adds

DeathInventoryKeeper adds 3 items, 8 buffs to ARK: Survival Evolved. Every entry below is read from the mod's own files, so the stats, recipes and spawn codes on these pages are the ones the mod ships with.

DeathInventoryKeeper — Detailed Guide

Death Inventory Keeper is a stackable ASE mod that lets players keep their gear through death. When you respawn, your items and inventory folders come back automatically, while default survivor items stay in the death bag to avoid duplicates. It works as soon as it is added, with no load order or setup needed.

  • Admins get an archive of recent deaths and can restore items from any of them
  • Optional extras, off by default, include a PvP mode, XP loss on death, level or engram resets, death injuries, item-stealing thieves and grave recovery
  • Safe to add at any time; before removing it, make sure no one is still dead with items to recover

This mod is for ASE only; the author states that an ASA mod with the same name is unrelated.

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