I have been loving playing Hardcore since it makes me slow down and enjoy the journey a lot more than before. But lets be honest after investing 100 hours into a character and dying its though to start again.
That's why I came up with an alternative. With Rustcore you cannot repair items and you lose an optional amount of equipped items when you die. Default is 1 item lost, but you can crank that all the way up to every equipped items gets deleted when you die. (If you only want the losing items on death you can turn off the no repairs as well)
When you die the set amount of items gets randomly chosen by a spinning "wheel" ending up on the item you have to delete. You get a button that deletes one item in one press and automatically selects the next item if there are more queued up.
Hopefully there are others out there that can find some joy in having a hardcore lite experience.