Return by Death

When a player dies, the player does not respawn at a bed. Instead, time turns back and the world is restored to the last checkpoint, which appears at random while the character is in good physical condition on safe ground. Players cannot choose where a save is made, so the only hope of a good checkpoint depends on luck, as the author puts it when describing the Witch's favor.

The mechanic is inspired by the death handling in the Re:Zero series. The rewind also applies across a server: one person's death affects everyone, the inventory is synchronized to prevent paradoxes, and time resets for the entire server. The Witch's scent grows stronger over time, and a relentless entity starts to approach. It does not want to kill the player, but it wants to hunt them.

The mod is published for NeoForge 1.21.1 only, with 1.1 as the latest file released on 2025-12-24. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. The code is not open source, and the mod is released under All rights reserved. The author's stated focus is NeoForge 1.21.1, with a standard Forge backport considered once the core features are stable, and updates are released when they are polished rather than on a fixed schedule.