Death (no ontology)

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Not to be confused with one of the Four Horsemen of the same name.

Death is the complete termination of one's vital functions. In Mazeworld, depending on who or what is dead, this can either mean good news, or the worst possible news.

In the game

Preferably, contestants will want to save their own lives, and eliminate those who threaten their own. Killing enemy encounters is the usual way to deal with them and what most contestants go for, and in some situations it is the only choice.

Contestant death is what you, as a player, will want to avoid. Given Mazeworld's nature as a dangerous place full of things and traps that want you dead, it is evidently the #1 priority of things to avoid.
Most of the time, contestant deaths happen during combat, although a wide variety of other causes do exist. It is also very possible that death was due to physical ailments (dying of blood loss or poisoning illustrate best the example), intentional (in which case, the cause of death will be listed as a suicide), accidental, due to a trap, a double 1 with a dangerous weapon, and so on.
Given the sheer amount of ways to die in MzW, they will not be all listed here, as you probably already can guess from the rest of this wiki's contents!

See also

• Leaderboards to check which contestants are dead
• Failed, which are revived dead contestants