Keep Your Gear

When you die, your equipment stays in your inventory. Everything else (materials, food, potions, trophies, coins) goes to the tombstone as usual.

Client-side only. Each player who wants it installs it; the server does not need it.

What counts as equipment

Weapons, bows, shields, armour, capes, utility items (belts, wishbone), trinkets, tools, torches, and ammo - whether or not they are equipped when you die.

Change the list in BepInEx/config/com.burks.keepyourgear.cfg:

• KeepItemTypes - item types that stay with you. Remove Ammo to drop arrows and bolts.
• AlwaysKeep - item prefab names that always stay (example: Coins).
• AlwaysDrop - item prefab names that always drop.
• StayEquipped - gear you had on when you died is still equipped when you respawn (default true).
• Enabled - turn the mod off without uninstalling.

Works with Equipment and Quick Slots

Checked against Equipment and Quick Slots 3.1.3: the two do not conflict. That mod's own "Dont drop equipment on death" / "Dont drop quickslot items on death" settings can stay as they are. Food or potions in quick slots still drop unless you turn on its quickslot setting.

Notes

• If nothing is left to drop, the empty tombstone removes itself.
• On worlds whose death penalty deletes items (Hard / Hardcore), the game deletes unequipped items before this mod sees them.
• Built for Valheim 1.0 / BepInEx 5.4.