Dying

Dying costs some of the tickets you're carrying, never your gear. The Wilderness is the exception.

On this page: What you keep · The bill, by map · The Wilderness · Tips

You keep everything you're wearing and carrying. There's no gravestone to run back to and nothing to lose for good.
What it costs is a share of the tickets on you, capped by where you died. The deeper the zone, the more a death stings, but it's never everything. It's called the hospital bill.

Other players can attack you there, and nothing waives the bill. A death there takes 10% of the tickets you carry (up to 10,000 tickets; in the Deep Wild 15%, up to 250,000 tickets), and if a player killed you, they get it.
Stay too long and the House sends a Collector after you. A heat bar under your buffs shows how close it is, and killing one pays its pouch and a bounty.
25% of the time you also drop one piece of what you're wearing on the ground, and whoever killed you gets first claim on it for a minute.
In return, a kill there pays more: 25% more combat xp and tickets in the Wilderness, 50% more in the Deep Wild.

The bank won't hold tickets, so spend them before a long trip out and a death costs you almost nothing: the percentage is of what you're carrying.
A Witch's brew (in the Long Night) or the Ferryman's Coin makes a death free.
Eat before you need to. Cooked and smoked fish are most of the healing in the game, and the cauldron's salves heal at once: Salt salve 140, Field salve 260, Royal salve 440.
Out of a fight your health creeps back, 10 points every twenty seconds. In a fight, nothing comes back on its own, and the fight doesn't pause while you look for something.