Death & Deadman

The short version

Your items and your bank

Whose kill is it? If a player has damaged you since your Hitpoints were last full, and they're still online, your death is their kill. That holds even if a monster lands the last hit, and whether or not you're skulled. With several attackers it goes to whoever did the most damage. If you're skulled, a player who attacked you in the last 2 minutes takes the kill even without landing a hit.

How you died	What you carried and wore	Your bank
A player's kill	Drops where you died. Only that player sees it for the first 6 minutes, then everyone. Gone after about 30 minutes.	Straight into their bank. They get a message saying they've claimed it.
No player involved	Drops where you died. Everyone sees it straight away. Gone after about 100 minutes.	Drops where you died as noted piles, for everyone, for about 100 minutes. A very large bank won't all fit: past about 130 piles in one spot, the oldest vanish.

• Everything drops noted wherever a note exists.
• Untradeable items are destroyed, not dropped. That includes any Player's Souls you're carrying. Blood Souls you're carrying are moved into your bank instead: the player who killed you gets them, and they're destroyed if no player was involved (see Souls).
• Protect Item saves nothing. There's no item you get to keep.

Your next life

You wake up on Tutorial Island and wait 30 seconds before the guide will send you on. Then you pick a starting town: Lumbridge, Varrock, Falador, Draynor, Edgeville or Rimmington.

Lifetime

Your lifetime is how long you've been alive since your last death. Only time logged in counts. Check it with ::lifetime, or at the top of the XP tracker.

Overlevels

Overlevels are permanent bonus levels. They never reset, and they stack up life after life.

How you earn them

When you die after being alive for 6 hours or more, every skill you'd raised high enough earns overlevels:

60–79that skill's level when you die: +5 overlevels

80+that skill's level when you die: +10 overlevels

Each of the 19 skills is checked separately, and what you earn adds to what you already have. Only the level you trained this life counts toward 60 and 80: overlevels you already hold don't. Example: you die after a 7-hour life with 82 Attack and 64 Strength. You earn +10 Attack and +5 Strength.

What they do

• They're added on top of your normal level in every life. With +10 Attack, a fresh character with 1 Attack fights at 11.
• They count toward wield requirements, your combat level and your spot on the leaderboards.
• The XP tracker shows them in blue next to each skill.

Overlevel gear

Each time you start a new life, skills with +5 or more overlevels put a head start in your bank. The gear, food and supply stacks are marked (u): they have no level requirement, can't be traded or put in the deposit box, and don't pass to your killer. The tools (rod, lobster pot, harpoon, knife, chef's hat, pestle and mortar, talismans, hammer, needle, thread, chisel, lockpick) are ordinary items.

Skill (+5 or more)	You get
Attack	Mithril scimitar
Strength	Khazard helmet
Defence	Black full helm, platebody, platelegs and kiteshield
Hitpoints	25 tuna
Ranged	Yew shortbow
Magic	Zamorak robe top and bottom, black wizard hat
Agility	Boots of lightness
Mining	Mithril pickaxe
Woodcutting	Mithril axe
Fishing	Fly fishing rod, 100 feathers, lobster pot and harpoon
Cooking	100 raw shrimps and a chef's hat
Firemaking	50 logs
Fletching	Knife and 50 logs
Herblore	100 vials of water and a pestle and mortar
Crafting	Needle, 50 thread, 50 leather and a chisel
Smithing	Hammer, 50 copper ore and 50 tin ore
Runecraft	Air, water, earth, fire and mind talismans
Thieving	Lockpick

What survives death