3 Lives System on the Dream SMP

The Three Lives System is a canon death system introduced following the end of the Manberg-Pogtopian War, and established by Wilbur Soot, the previous head writer for the Dream SMP, after seeing a Reddit post on r/dreamsmp by u/usedforwholesomeness. This was revealed to be fully canon on one of Tubbo's streams by Wilbur himself.

Canon death
The Dream SMP was originally conceptualized as a vanilla, easy-mode survival server, and was treated as such until the beginning of the Disc Saga, and the War for L'Manbergian Independence, when it began to shift into becoming more roleplay based, before becoming a loosely scripted series beginning officially with the Manberg Rebellion Arc. Though the Dream SMP server itself is in regular survival and players can easily respawn after death, the three lives system was put into place because of the storytelling being done and a need to legitimize death on the server.

A "canon death" refers to a death that specifically changes or bears weight on the plot, is purposefully scripted, or is directly mentioned by one of the writers of the current arc. Examples of past canons deaths are Tubbo's death by Technoblade during the Manberg Festival, Wilbur's final death to Ph1LzA, or Tommy's death fighting Dream in the final duel during the L'Manberg War for Independence.

However, not all canon deaths are confirmed, the only confirmation as to current lives we have, are what has been stated to be true during the time period following the Manberg-Pogtopian War, and what was given by Wilbur himself in a reddit post laying out how many lives each character had left.

'''Note: Some characters, although they have not had an on-screen canon death, may have had previous deaths that are also considered canon. Thus, we cannot confirm for sure how many lives each character has.'''

Non-canon death
A non-canon death is a death that does not change the player's amount of remaining lives, does not bear weight on the plot, or is directly confirmed by the writers or players not to be canon.

A non-canon death can be a death from fall damage, accidental, during a parkour or other type of challenge, a joke death, or by being revived by a Totem of Undying. Examples of these non-canon deaths include fatalities such as when Awesamdude was killed during a mock battle between him and Dream, when Quackity died to lava getting netherite, or when Tubbo continued to die of fall damage while working on the ocean monument.

Resurrection
Resurrection, the process in which a character is brought back to life after losing their final canon life, was a concept that was first introduced by Quackity shortly after Jschlatt's funeral. Quackity robbed Jschlatt's grave and stole his bones, claiming to want to resurrect him. This was never actually done, however, and the concept of resurrection did not come into play again until the Disc Confrontation on January 20, 2021. As Tommy was about to take his third canon life, Dream explained that the book Schlatt had given him shortly before the Manberg vs Pogtopia War in order to convince him to help Manberg was a book that could resurrect the dead. This was the reason Tommy didn't kill Dream again, and Dream was locked inside Pandora's Vault instead.

The book was once again discussed on March 1, 2021, when Tommy and Dream got into a fight over the existence of the book while Tommy was trapped inside the prison. Dream killed Tommy, taking his third and final canon life, but then later used the knowledge inside the book to resurrect him on March 9, 2021. On March 16, Dream told Quackity, who wanted to resurrect Schlatt after losing a bet with his ghost, that he had burned the book, stating that he had the knowledge memorized and was therefore the only one to know how to resurrect people.

Jack Manifold also returned to three canon lives after visiting hell on January 6, 2021, but this was unrelated to the book, and he instead returned out of spite.

Suggest a change
To ensure factual accuracy, life counts and deaths are managed by wiki admins.

To suggest a change, leave a message in canon death suggestions channel on the Dream Team Wiki Discord server. Specify what needs to be changed and leave evidence (in the form of a clip, tweet, etc.) to prove the factual accuracy. Please be sure that a character isn't joking, and that the stream appears to bear on the plot. In addition, please read through the Wiki Admin decisions section and the sources cited before doing so.