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# Island Lifecycle

Resetting your island, inactivity expiry, recovery, and what happens when you die

## Resetting your island - `/cw reset`

`/cw reset` abandons your island so you can start fresh somewhere new.

* **Requires confirmation** - run the command twice within 30 seconds. Chonky's Reset Island button handles this through its own confirmation menu.
* **What happens** - your chunk ownership is released, island protection is removed, your home and respawn point are cleared, and you're teleported to spawn. Your Chonky is removed. The terrain itself stays in the world.
* After a short cooldown (about 20 seconds), run `/cw create` for a brand-new island in a new location.

{% hint style="warning" %}
Resets are limited: a 5-minute cooldown between resets, and a lifetime maximum of 3 resets per player.
{% endhint %}

## Inactivity expiry

Islands whose owners stop logging in eventually expire. The timer scales with island size:

| Island size | Expires after         |
| ----------- | --------------------- |
| 1 chunk     | 14 days of inactivity |
| 2-15 chunks | 40 days of inactivity |
| 16+ chunks  | 60 days of inactivity |

When an island expires:

* Protection is removed - the island becomes lootable and explorable by anyone, like wilderness.
* The location stays reserved - no new island can be placed there, and the terrain isn't deleted.
* Your Chonky is removed.

## Recovering an expired island - `/cw recover`

If your island expired, come back any time and run `/cw recover` to get everything back: ownership of all your chunks, full protection, your home point, and your Chonky. Whatever was looted while it was expired is gone, but the island itself is fully restored to you.

## Death rules

When you respawn, you'll appear at your bed or respawn anchor if you've set one, otherwise at your island home, otherwise at your island's spawn point - you're never stranded at server spawn while you own an island.

{% hint style="info" %}
Keep-inventory is enabled from Settler through Master - dying at those ranks keeps your items. From Freeman onward, including all plus ranks, keep-inventory is permanently off and dying drops your items, as a deliberate part of the endgame difficulty.
{% endhint %}


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