New World Death Penalty: What Happens When You Die?

This is a guide on the death penalty for New World on PC. Read on to know what happens when you die in-game in either PvE or PvP.

What Happens When You Die?

You Can Still be Revived

When you die in battle, you fall to the ground and remain incapacitated for around 2 minutes. During this time, a player can still revive you.

Note that if an enemy does further damage to you while you're incapacitated, you will die and not be able to revive at the same spot, forcing you to respawn at your last respawn point.

Return to Your Last Respawn Point

Once you're incapacitated, you can choose to press E to Give Up and return to an Inn or the camp you last rested at.

There is a 1 minute cooldown between respawns at the same respawn point.

Possible Respawn Points

• Last camp rested at
• Nearest settlement
• Registered inn

Items and XP are Not Lost

Items and experience points are not lost upon death. You keep everything in your inventory upon respawning. However, it is important to note that your equipment's durability will decrease.

Equipment Durability Goes Down

All equipment in your inventory, both equipped and unequipped (excluding harvesting tools), will suffer a fraction of durability loss upon death. You lose around a tenth of the item's durability in PvE. The durability lost in PvP is around half of that.

This is essentially the biggest drawback as dying, as you will be unable to sell equipment at a trading post unless it has full durability. In order to sell equipment after dying, you will first need to repair it.

How to Repair

New World Related Guides

Tips and Tricks: Beginner's Guide to New World

Tier Lists
Best Weapon Combos	Best Starter Weapons
Game Mechanics
How to Set Up and Upgrade Camps	Factions Guide
Fast Travel Guide	Repair Guide
How to Play with Friends	Gem Sockets Guide
How to Cleanse Portals	Azoth Staff Guide
Crafting Guide	How to Gain Territory Standing
Respec Guide	Stats Guide
Leveling Rewards	AFK Timer Guide
How to Sell Items	How to Enable PvP
How to Create and Join a Faction Company	New World Keybinds
How to Split Item Stacks	Housing System
List of Damage Types and Effects	Outpost Rush Guide
Guides
Character Creation Guide	Leveling Guide
Controller Support	How to Get Azoth
How to Track Resources	List of Marauder Gear and Resources
List of Syndicate Gear and Resources	List of Covenant Gear and Resources
Trading Post Guide	How to Farm Faction Tokens
Money Making Guide	List of Legendary Weapons
Timeless Shards Guide	Gypsum Guide
Trade Skill Aptitude System
FAQs
What Happens When You Die?	What to Do With Old Gear
How to Use Voice Chat