Yes, it's supposed to work regardless of the number of deaths.

My best guess is some other mod is interfering. I've now logged over 100 hours of playing with this mod (and only this mod) active without it ever failing to protect me from permadeath. I've died (and respawned) to cursed rock, acid, lava, tons of different enemy attacks, "winning", drowning, fire...

My second guess would be a language issue; I don't think any of this mod's code depends on language-specific spellings of things that could vary, but it doesn't seem impossible. I'm also not even 100% sure this game is localized.

I tried to design this mod to be fairly compatible (and avoid breaking due to game updates), but if other mods cause player death differently than how you can die in vanilla, bummer, that other mod needs to kill you normally. If it is a flaw in this mod, I'd want to fix it, but the burden of proof is on the bug submitter: I'm not going to chase issues that I haven't encountered.

Hey qm~ First of all, this MOD is fantastic, love it! Thanks for sharing~ ^_^ By the way, I've tested that, this MOD won't take effect while players die the second time, WHEN YOU ARE USING The other mod called "HealthBar" simultaneously (which is also very popular on workshop), FYI. Pls double check if you can fix the problem. Well, for me, it's totally Ok, because if I wouldn't die forever, the healthbar of enemies is no longer that urgent to be seen~

it really is a mistake in the life bar mod, I disabled the life bar and now it works perfectly, sorry for any mistake or a misunderstanding for not being very good in English.

Thank you all so much