(Fake) Hardcore

Instead of banning a player who dies, the mod places them in Spectator Mode at the place of death. Once a player is marked dead, that player loses the ability to fly off, act on the world, or change to a different game mode, and that state survives a disconnect, a rejoin, or a full server restart. Authorized users can revive the player, who then returns to Survival Mode at the Overworld spawn. Death does not occur when the player holds a Totem of Undying, which keeps working normally, and the death sound and vanilla death message still reach the whole server.

The mod is server-side only, so players join without installing anything, and it requires Fabric API. It respects the keepInventory and showDeathMessages game rules: with keepInventory disabled, the inventory and experience are dropped, and with it enabled the player keeps both. Permission to use the revive command is verified via the Fabric Permissions API, which lets a manager mod like LuckPerms decide which accounts may run it; when no such manager is present, operators and the server console are allowed to run it by default. The files target Minecraft 1.21.10 – 26.3 on Fabric only, and the code is not open source, as the mod is released under All rights reserved.