Removing the Death Penalty on Your Hytale Server

By default, players drop some of their items and lose durability when they die.
You can change or remove this per-world. On FSH there's a built-in setting for it,
so you don't need to edit any files.

The death penalty is a per-world setting — if you have more than one world,
repeat this for each.

Easiest Method — Game Settings (Recommended)

Stop the server.

Open the Game Settings tab and go to the Worlds section, then open your
world's properties.

Find Inventory Penalty on Death and set Penalty on Death to one of:

None — players keep everything on death (this removes the penalty)

Drop All — players drop all items

Partial Drop — players lose a configurable percentage

If you want a penalty but a small one, choose Partial Drop and set
Resources Loss % and Durability Loss % to the values you want (set both
to 0 for effectively no loss).

Save, then start the server.

That's it — choosing None fully removes the death penalty.

Advanced — Editing the World Config Directly

You can also set this in the world's config file. Note the Game Settings UI writes
to this same file, so prefer the UI above; a manual edit can be overwritten if you
later use the Worlds settings.

With the server stopped, open the File Manager and go to:

universe/worlds/<your-world>/config.json

(The default world is usually named default.)

Find the Death block. To keep everything on death, set ItemsLossMode to
None:

"Death": {
  "RespawnController": { "Type": "HomeOrSpawnPoint" },
  "ItemsLossMode": "None",
  "ItemsAmountLossPercentage": 0,
  "ItemsDurabilityLossPercentage": 0
}

ItemsLossMode values: None (lose nothing), All (drop everything),
Configured (use the percentages below).

Percentages are whole numbers from 0 to 100.

Save the file, then start the server.

Keep the JSON valid — don't drop a comma or brace, or the world may fail to
load. If the Death block doesn't exist yet, opening the world in the Game
Settings tab once will create it with defaults.

Troubleshooting

Players still lose items: Confirm you edited the correct world (each world
is separate), that the server was stopped when you changed it, and that
Penalty on Death is set to None (or both percentages are 0 under
Partial Drop).

World won't load after a manual edit: The JSON is malformed — restore the
brace/comma you removed, or just use the Game Settings UI instead.

Removing the Death Penalty on Your Hytale Server

Easiest Method — Game Settings (Recommended)#

Advanced — Editing the World Config Directly#

Troubleshooting#

Easiest Method — Game Settings (Recommended)

Advanced — Editing the World Config Directly

Troubleshooting