What a player loses on death, and what others can take, is set in the Config Editor, under Server settings, in the group Players. None of these is one of the six settings Funcom marks as needing a restart. While the server runs, the panel sends a saved change to the game and the file is written at once; whether the game re-reads each one live is not confirmed one by one. In ConanSandbox/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/ServerSettings.ini, under [ServerSettings], the keys are DropEquipmentOnDeath, EverybodyCanLootCorpse and LogoutCharactersRemainInTheWorld.
Find the settings
- Open Config Editor and choose the source Server settings.
- Open the group Players, or search for
Corpse. - Change the values.
- Choose Save. The panel says “Saved and in use now.”
What is dropped on death
Drop Equipment on Death “determines how much of the player inventory is dropped on death.” The game’s default is DropEverything. The other values of this setting were not read from any source and were not checked on Enhanced, server build 25792439 as of 13 November 2026, so this guide cannot list them. Leave it at DropEverything unless you know the value you want.
Who can loot a corpse
Everybody Can Loot Corpse is On by default. The game says: “If flagged, anybody can loot the corpse of a dead player. If not flagged, only the player can recover items from their corpse.”
Turn it Off on a server where you do not want others to take a player’s things.
How many corpses, and for how long
Three numbers control corpses. The game gives no unit for the life times, so change them in small steps and watch what happens.
- Corpses Per Player: the panel shows no help text for it. Going by its name it caps how many corpses of one player stay in the world; that was not checked. The game’s default is
10. - Player Corpse Life Time: how long a player’s corpse stays. The game’s default is
1800. - NPC Corpse Life Time: how long the corpse of an NPC stays. The game’s default is
600.
The panel has no Funcom label for these three, so it names them from the setting’s own key. Search for Corpse to find them.
Logged out characters
Logged Out Characters Remain In World is On by default. The game says: “If flagged, player bodies remain in the world in an unconscious state. If unflagged, player bodies are gone from the world when offline.”
- On: a player who logs out leaves their body in the world, and it can be found there.
- Off: the body is gone while the player is offline.
If it does not work
- The change seems to do nothing. Check you saved. The page counts Unsaved changes until you choose Save.
- You cannot find a corpse setting. Search for
Corpse. The panel names three of them from their keys. - Save is refused with “the server is not answering yet”. The game has not finished starting. Wait, then save again, or stop the server and save.
More about the game: Conan Exiles servers.