Keep Items On Death

Keep 100% of your inventory when you die. No corpse run, no gravestone to hike back to.

Adds a Keep Items On Death toggle to Settings → Gameplay, so you can turn it on and off without touching files.

• Version: 1.0.0
• Game build: RuneScape: Dragonwilds CL-230700 (UE 5.6.1)
• Requires: UE4SS (v3.0.1 or newer)

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How it works

Dragonwilds already knows how to let you keep your inventory when you die — it exists as one of the game's own difficulty settings. The catch is that the game decides which of those settings are offered in the menus, and on a Normal or Hard world this one is simply never shown to you.

This mod turns that existing setting on. It does not add a new death system, patch game files, or replace any assets — which is why it is small, and why it should survive minor patches.

When it is on you simply keep everything, and no gravestone is created at all.

As a safety net, the mod also empties any gravestone that already belongs to you back into your inventory — useful for a grave you left behind before installing the mod. If your inventory is full, whatever does not fit stays in the grave rather than being destroyed.

Installation

1. Install UE4SS into the game if you have not already. Its files go in:

   <Steam>\steamapps\common\RSDragonwilds\RSDragonwilds\Binaries\Win64\
   

2. Extract this archive into the UE4SS Mods folder, so you end up with:

   ...\RSDragonwilds\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\KeepItemsOnDeath\
       enabled.txt
       mod.json
       README.md
       Scripts\main.lua
   

3. Launch the game.

If the mod does not load, your UE4SS build may use the mod list instead of enabled.txt. Open ...\ue4ss\Mods\mods.txt and add this line above the final ; end marker:

KeepItemsOnDeath : 1

Using it

The mod is on by default. Your choice is remembered between sessions.

How	What it does
Settings → Gameplay → Keep Items On Death	Tick / untick. The row is at the bottom of the page.
dw_keepitems	Force a recovery from your gravestone now
dw_keepitems on / off	Turn the mod on or off
dw_keepitems status	Report the current state
Ctrl+Shift+F6	Toggle on / off

Console commands go in the game's dev console, opened with Tilde (~) or F10.

Uninstalling

Delete the KeepItemsOnDeath folder from ...\ue4ss\Mods\. If you added the mods.txt line, remove it too.

Nothing is written to your save. The mod changes settings in memory each session, so removing it restores the game's stock death behaviour immediately.

Notes and limitations

• Single-player / host tested. Keeping items is a world-level difficulty setting, so in co-op expect the host's setting to govern the session. The gravestone recovery only ever touches graves matching your own character, never another player's.
• Turning it off mid-session restores the values the game shipped with, which the mod records before changing anything.
• Built and verified against CL-230700. It looks the setting up from the game itself rather than assuming anything about it, so a patch that reorganises things internally is more likely to make the mod quietly do nothing than to make it misbehave — but after any large patch, check that it still works before trusting it with a long run.
• Logs to ...\ue4ss\UE4SS.log, prefixed [KeepItemsOnDeath], if you need to see what it did.

Credits

Built against the shipping game build rather than guesswork — everything the mod touches was checked against the client it runs on.