[What's the point of spending 1/2mill on a gravestone...]

Gravestones aren't that hard to understand.

 

 

Basically when you die, gravestones keep your "corpse" fresh along with your items, pardon my poor choice of words.

 

In other words, your items are saved for the duration of the certain gravestone you have.

 

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I read the last part of your topic. If you click on the helmet tab on your interface, and then you click on the skull and tresure chest, you can see what items you will keep upon death and what will be lost.

 

Guess I'll start another rant about patronising people who don't even take the trouble to read a post before posting their patronising replies. I got back to my gravestone in plenty of time, thanks. I have read the guides, you see. I know what the guide says about gravestones. And yes, I know how to see what items I'll keep on death. I kept them. The problem is that the gravestone didn't save some items, and there doesn't appear to be anything in the guide that tells you this. Even given the fact that it doesn't seem to save items you can get back from an NPC doesn't explain why it wouldn't save the goggles. And that annoys me. So I let off steam.

[What's the point of spending 1/2mill on a gravestone...]

Have I missed something with gravestones? Just died for the first time since they were introduced, and a whole bunch of stuff didn't get saved. Some of it is replaceable for free (explorer's ring, bomber jacket...), some of it costs to have an NPC replace it (lunar staff)...and one item (gnome goggles) can't be replaced except by buying it for 275,000 (in the unlikely event someone's selling) or randomly regaining it after making another 100+ *&%$ing gnome deliveries. Is there some logic to this? Is there at least some RS help page I haven't found that tells you what won't get saved? And, as if I wasn't mad enough, I've just remembered I also lost my ectophail, so now I have to trudge out to Port Phasmatys to get a new one.