The Cartographer's Grief

The world remembers player deaths. A Grief Skull block is placed at the exact location where a player died, glows so it can be found again, and can be read with a right click to see how the death happened. Obelisks grow taller and brighter after 7 in-game days, which is 168,000 ticks, and become a permanent monument; breaking a Grief Skull yields Memory Shards, which serve as the mod's currency and are dropped by Grief Skulls and Obelisks.

Crafted items cover exploration and recall. A Memory Orb, made from a Memory Shard and an Ender Pearl, stores the current position on one right click, and a second right click shows exact coordinates and distance back. It works across dimensions with a warning. A Wanderer's Compass is crafted from a compass and a handful of shards, and it steers toward the closest unexplored site such as villages, ruins, outposts and shipwrecks, printing the heading and range in chat. Memory Shards are also gained by exploring: a slim bar at the top of the screen fills as new chunks are discovered, up to 500 unique chunks, and pulses with a soft glow when full.

Custom blocks and saved world data mean the mod is a shared install. Data is persisted per world on the server. It is published for Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21.1, under the MIT License, and the mod is not open source.