one life options

[Gorrgren Shaw]

here is an idea, what if you had the option to tie the amount of lives you have to the spectral gears. i.e. {you enter the world with no respawns, get lucky with a drifter drop, acquiring a spectral gear and now if you use it to set your returning point you have a extra life.}

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! Luckily, someone had the same idea and turned it into a mod, so it's already possible to play this way if one wishes: https://mods.vintagestory.at/temporallife

Granted, the mod hasn't been updated for 1.21, so I'm not sure whether or not it's still functional. As for adding such a thing to the base game...there is already a hardcore option available, for players that wish to play hardcore. Given that option already exists, and that the mod in question isn't popular at all, I think this particular idea is best left as a mod rather than a vanilla addition.

As for the player respawning...I will note that is actual canon lore. The player is functionally immortal and will always return to a specific point should they suffer fatal damage; temporal gears simply allow the player to change that point's location.