In the dark and difficult Player vs Player vs Environment game Dark and Darker, players will become very familiar with the concept of needing to revive their teammates when the dangers of the dungeon prove to be too much to handle.
Dark and Darker has many different ways that it can kill the player's avatar, from its many dangerous monsters, its plethora of traps, and of course, the many other players roaming around the dungeon who will try to take a player's hard-fought loot for themselves. There is, however, a way to recover from such a defeat, if luck, knowledge of the dungeon, and skill are on the player’s side.
Looting Teammates
The first step players will have to take when a team member dies in Dark and Darker is, appropriately, to loot their body. The only way for a player to revive their friends is to get at the heart that is stored on the body. This heart can only be found by removing the chest piece of a downed player, which will have their glowing blue heart hidden behind it. Players should also take any gear that their teammate will need, as their body will have none of their equipment on it when they revive.
Finding a Revive Shrine
Once players have their teammate's gear and heart, players will need to go into their inventory screen and make sure that the heart of their teammate is equipped to an item slot. Once this is done, players will need to continue to explore the dungeon, looking for a large stone slab with a pale glowing light that rises off of it. These slabs will spawn in the dungeon seemingly at random, so players will need to be vigilant in their search for one. Once players have found a room with the shrine while exploring the dungeon, players should destroy any monsters nearby and attempt to be sure that other rival players are not in the area, as the revival process takes some time to complete.
Reviving Teammates
Once a shrine has been located, players will need to approach the shrine and place the glowing heart of their deceased teammate on top of it. As soon as this is accomplished, players will need to begin a lengthy ritual of prayer at the shrine. Players should only begin this ritual when they are relatively safe to do so, as the ritual to revive fallen teammates takes quite a long time to complete, leaving the player and their team vulnerable to ambush by monsters or other players.
Once players finish channeling the ritual, the heart will be consumed, reviving the teammate who the heart belongs to. Players can then give their teammate their gear back that was looted previously, as the revived team member will have no equipment at all when they come back, and they can continue to try to acquire more spoils throughout the dungeon.