Deathlink - Rougelike Control

Progression and Choice based death control.

Bringing together players from many different experiance levels often means that some players struggle while others are bored. Deathlink provides a way to challenge and reward players based on their appetite for risk.

Additionally, death is one of the few things that does not progress through the game. Deathlink changes that by providing a skill that levels up faster the longer you stay alive, and scales your death changes based on that skill.

Example Deathlink Choices

Vanilla	Minimal	Hardcore

Configuration

Deathlink has extensive yaml based configuration options. However it can be used with the default configuration.

Each of these configuration sections below can be applied to any number of profiles which users can select. Deathlink selection is one per character and is stored on the server the character is on,a character can have different selections in singleplayer or multiplayer.

Example Configuration

Rougelike3:
  displayName: Berserker
  deathStyle:
    foodLossOnDeath: true
    foodLossUsesDeathlink: true
    maxEquipmentKept: 3
    skillLossOnDeath: true
    maxSkillLossPercentage: 0.2
    minSkillLossPercentage: 0.05
    itemLossStyle: DeathlinkBased
    nonSkillCheckedItemAction: Tombstone
  deathSkillRate: 1
  resourceModifiers:
    Wood:
      skillInfluence: true
      prefabs:
      - Wood
      - FineWood
      - RoundLog
      - YggdrasilWood
      - Blackwood
      bonusModifer: 1.5
      bonusActions:
      - Harvesting
    Ore:
      skillInfluence: true
      prefabs:
      - CopperOre
      - TinOre
      - IronScrap
      - SilverOre
      - BlackMetalScrap
      - CopperScrap
      - FlametalOreNew
      bonusModifer: 1.5
      bonusActions:
      - Harvesting
  skillModifiers:
    All:
      skillInfluence: true
      skill: All
      bonusModifer: 1.2
  deathLootModifiers:
    AmberPearl:
      prefab: AmberPearl
      chance: 0.05
      amount: 1
      bonusActions:
      - Kills

Deathstyle Configuration

Deathstyle configuration governs what happens when you die.

  deathStyle:
    foodLossOnDeath: true                  # Player will loose food on death or not
    foodLossUsesDeathlink: true            # Food loss is based on skill level from loosing all foods, to none
    maxEquipmentKept: 3                    # The maximum number of equiped items to keep on death
    skillLossOnDeath: true                 # Whether or not skill loss occurs on death
    maxSkillLossPercentage: 0.2            # The maximum percentage of skill lost on death (you start here, example is 20%)
    minSkillLossPercentage: 0.05           # The minimum skill loss, at max skill level (example is 5%)
    itemLossStyle: DeathlinkBased          # Item loss style, can be None, DestroyNonWeaponArmor, DeathlinkBased, DestroyAll
    nonSkillCheckedItemAction: Tombstone   # If items are set to avoid skillcheck, what happens to them, can be Destroy, Tombstone, Save
    itemSavedStyle: Tombstone              # Items that are saved can be: OnCharacter, Tombstone
  deathSkillRate: 1                        # Rate at which Deathlink skill increases, higher is faster

Resource Configuration

Resource configuration provides a way to get additional resources from kills or harvesting

resourceModifiers:
    Wood:                     # Name of the entry, can be anything
      skillInfluence: true    # Whether or not Deathlink skill will influence this bonus
      prefabs:                # List of prefabs that this bonus applies to
      - Wood
      - FineWood
      - RoundLog
      - YggdrasilWood
      - Blackwood
      bonusModifer: 1.5       # The bonus modifier, larger is more, 1.5 is 50% more
      bonusActions:           # List of actions that will trigger this bonus can be Kills or Harvesting
      - Harvesting
    Ore:
      skillInfluence: true
      prefabs:
      - CopperOre
      - TinOre
      - IronScrap
      - SilverOre
      - BlackMetalScrap
      - CopperScrap
      - FlametalOreNew
      bonusModifer: 1.5
      bonusActions:
      - Harvesting

Skill Configuration

Skill configuration proviedes a way to grant additional XP or reduced XP for any or all skills

  skillModifiers:
    All:                      # Name of the entry, can be anything
      skillInfluence: true    # Whether or not Deathlink skill will influence this bonus
      skill: All              # The skill that this bonus applies to, can be All or any specific skill name
      bonusModifer: 1.2       # The bonus modifier, larger is more, 1.2 is 20% more

Death Loot Configuration

Death loot configuration provides a way to gain additional items on kills, specific to player Death choice

  deathLootModifiers:
    AmberPearl:               # Name of the entry, can be anything
      prefab: AmberPearl      # The prefab name of the item to drop
      chance: 0.05            # The base chance of the item dropping, 0.05 is 5%
      amount: 1               # The amount of the item to drop
      bonusActions:           # List of actions that will trigger this bonus can be Kills or Harvesting
      - Kills

Localization

External localization can be configured at BepInEx\config\Deathlink\localizations. This folder and the default localization will be generated and added the first time this mod runs. New localization keys will be added to localization files as they are added to the mod. Existing localization keys will not be changed, so your localization customizations are safe.

Questions, Bug reports and feedback

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