Config option: levels reset on death

[ziat007 9]

Situation:On my server I have died 3 times out of which 3 were bugs. 

Solution:A config option of levels lost on death would be great.

 

Just to be clear, I am NOT talking about vanilla levels.The other option would be to bind it too keep inventory. (this would make much more sense)

Edited 30 May 2014 by ziat007

[Huruki 4]

This would also affect levels lost due to legitimate deaths, as the game has no way of telling if the death was bug related or not. And as well if your major complaint is that the server caused bugs were the cause of death rather than a legitimate reason then likely adding the config option would do nothing for you as the admins on the server would likely leave it set to the default.

[Omicron 62]

You can probably get your admins to spawn you some bottles of enchanting to restore your lost XP with, if they agree that it was a genuine bug that caused your death.

[ziat007 9]

It is a server I am hosting, and playing with a couple friends. I am not worried about regular levels, I was talking about Farming, cooking, and etc. Binding this to keep inventory would make a lot of sense, I have actually not tried weather it is in game.

[kaldskryke 27]

In my experience skills are saved on death. I wasn't sure if this was intentional, so I peeked at the code... It certainly looks intended. I can't see anywhere in the changelogs that ever indicated skill loss on death was supposed to be a thing. So if you're losing your skills on death... is this a bug? It would be nice to get some clarification on the issue.

 

If skill loss due to 'illegitimate' deaths are a real concern, it would be nice if there were cheat commands/items to restore levels. Something similar to bottles o' enchanting. If you're already using cheats, I guess it would be okay for the keepinventory gamerule to apply to skill levels. A config option would be better...

[ziat007 9]

Hmmm, Etho mentioned it in a video and I have the experience of losing levels twice, and a couple times I wasn't sure why they stayed. If this is a big I will report it, but I don't know weather it is :-/

[hoseja 23]

Etho is wrong 99% of time.

[ziat007 9]

I realised that, but it did happen to me, so I thought he was right

[AllenWL 186]

The other option would be to bind it too keep inventory. (this would make much more sense)

If you do /gamerule KeepInventory true

 

It already keeps your levels along with your inventory.

this is a thing in vanilla minecraft

 

Oh, you mean skill levels, not level levels.

It was somewhat misleading.

 

But...

 

I suppose you can ask for a ton of stuff to train your level back.....

[Terex 108]

I've kept my TFC skills after dying a few times. Would not want to start making terrible meals from scratch again... I did lose MC experience of course.

[Dano6655 7]

From my experience you seem to lose your levels when you die but you get them back after a bit of time. I'm not sure exactly how it works, it may be when you get back to your items or it just happens. It's likely that it's just a bug that you lose them or you get them back. We'll have to wait for them to tell us.

[Soli Deo Gloria 0]

My theory is this:

 

When you die your levels all reset back to zero; however, your experience does not.

 

My reasoning is your levels all stay zero until you do something related to the skill in question, and when you do your level in that skill returns to its previous value.

 

So it isn't too debilitating, but seems like an easy bug fix.