and unlike DSP you have the very real chance of dying.

Last week’s update introduced a godmode where you cannot die any more. The big update before it already introduced a mode where animals wouldn’t attack you any more, reducing the ways to die to radiation and gas (both easily avoidable) and fall damage.

Besides that, dying barely has consequences. It used to be that all your inventory items were placed in a chest where you died, so you’d likely wanted to go there to pick it up again, and that’s about it. Now you keep your equipment and only lose materials by default, and iirc you can change that, too.

All this doesn’t change the fact that you can die, but it really isn’t much of an issue, and if it is for you, you can completely disable it.