Talk:Hard Mode/@comment-26808971-20160112152434/@comment-27804965-20160617024237

It depends on your player mode;

If one plays on Softcore Mode, they only drop 1/2 of their money (2/3 on Expert Mode worlds).

If one plays on Mediumcore Mode, they lose their items but can still retrieve them.

If one plays on HardCORE mode, they lose all their items and die for good.

Hard Mode is world-specific, while Hardcore Mode is player-specific. Hard Mode affects nothing of the player mode selected. One can have a Soctcore character in a Hard Mode world