Death in Bloodborne Bloodborne Guide

Losing your life in Bloodborne is something natural and does not mean that you will lose the game. Death causes some annoying consequences although they are not cumbersome enough to significantly hinder your game.

The place where you turn on a lamp allows you to both respawn here and to use the fast travel option.

You will die every time when you will lose your Hit Points (the red bar in the upper left corner) irrespective if it will be caused by the damage dealt by your enemies or if you will fall from a high altitude. You may restore your Hit Points by fighting with the enemies ("Regaining") or by using the Blood Vials. If you will die you will reborn in the last place in which you have turn on the lamp. Lamps are in many places in the areas where you will visit. You can fast travel from them and to them from the Hunter's Dream area. While visiting a place remember to always turn on a lamp to unlock the fast travel option.

You will find the Blood Echoes in a blood stains on the ground in a place where someone died earlier on.

Your death will also affect your collected Blood Echoes which are the in-game currency (thanks to it you may receive new items and increase your character's level). Echoes reflect your progress in developing your character however if you will die you will lose all the Echoes you have gathered. It doesn't mean (yet) that you can't get them back. In a place where you have died you may find a stain of blood. Interact with it to receive all the Echoes which have belonged to you. If you will succeed you may consider your death unimportant since you will not suffer any special penalty from it.

This process may get a little bit more complicated since some of the blood stains may not appear in a place where you have died. It will happen when the enemy responsible for your death will take the stain over. To receive your Blood Echoes you have to take revenge and kill the enemy which eyes have a specific purple light (compare to the screenshot above). Sometimes it will be quite difficult especially if you will have to find him in an area located far away from your respawn point since every enemy (beside bosses and hunters) will face you again. If you will die again without collecting your Blood Echoes you will lose the previous amount for ever. That's why it is beneficial to return sometimes to the Hunter's Dream area and use your extra currency to buy some items or to level up.

Death is not that scary.

In conclusion the death will result in:

• respawning your enemies in target area (beside bosses and hunters),
• respawning your character next to the last lamp which you have light,
• losing the Blood Echoes until the player will get them back or (if the character will die again) losing them forever.