Salem

So i attempted a little experiment with one of my characters, the experiment is still ongoing. What it is- What does it take to die as in permanent death in this game. So far the results have been sort of disappointing.

From what i found
Combat (npc animals)- KOed honestly didn't expect much from this since i only experimented with rabbits, beavers, and crickets
Draining all humours- Nothing, everything just caps at 1 or a little under but no KO
Attempt Aggro Death- KOed, Snakes.... they don't kill me, not even the poison does me in
Drown- KOed, went into deep water til my phegm ran out, then i just sorta pulled a jesus from outta nowhere and layed on the water surface til i spawned at homestead

So from my findings i can conclude that.... either Death doesn't exist, It's not implemented in this beta, or in order to die you need to fulfill specific procedure
If anyone has actually died in this game I'd love to know how- just need some help in this death experiment

The only way to die in this game is at the hand of another player who has the "The Story of Cain & Abel" skill.

http://salemwiki.info/index.php/The_Story_of_Cain_%26_Abel

edit to add after staxjax's comment: I did a quick search in the forums and drowning in darkness was reported in several threads. Thanks staxjax for mentioning that again.

Learning Cain and Abel will give you a new combat action called murder. You have to use murder on a KO'd body to permanently kill them.

Also, there are rumours that drowning in the darkness will result in permadeath. I've heard of this happening multiple timse before, but have yet to test it myself.

Did I hear something about drowning death being a bug or am I thinking of something else?

Doubt it was a bug, KOing any other way in the darkness doesn't kill you. Seems to be working as intended to me...need to see for myself one of these days.

Anyone thought about swimming while agroed? ;p
or its only Darwoth thingy huh?

Chiprel wrote:Anyone thought about swimming while agroed? ;p
or its only Darwoth thingy huh?

I don't think anyone has done anything to test swimming lol

Did not know that you had to go KO -> Murder... good to know.

have you tried drowning in the darkness?

Droj wrote:have you tried drowning in the darkness?

well it takes a long while to actually get to the darkness, more like an hour or more of straight walking from my homestead. I will test it out one day, just don't have the time the near future. I am trying all sorts of things such as eating the poisenous flower while swimming, it does the same thing as attempting to drown so no death there.