Grave Keeper
by Quantumlyy
Grave Keeper gives each player a grave on death that holds the inventory, so items are not lost on respawn and can be recovered later.
What it does
When a player dies, the inventory is saved to a grave block placed at the death location. Loot goes back into its original slot when the grave is opened, and a grave can only be broken by its owner or by an admin, which keeps creative players from collecting its contents with a right click. Graves can expire after a set time, and that behavior is configurable.
Server owners can adjust many settings, including bypassing the keepInventory rule. The author describes balance and integration with other mods as a priority, and lists support for several other mods, among them Aether Legacy, Baubles and GalactiCraft.
Grave Keeper runs on Forge for 1.12.2 only. It is a client and server mod, so both the server and every player need it. It is published under All rights reserved and is not open source, though the source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Grave on death
The inventory is stored in a grave at the place of death instead of being dropped.
Slot restore
Items taken from the grave return to the inventory slots they came from.
Grave details and expiry
Sneaking and right-clicking a grave shows its details, and graves can be set to expire after a limited time.
In-game history
The gklist command lists previous graves, and gkrestore restores the player's saved inventory or teleports to an earlier grave.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Survival servers
Server owners can keep player items safe after death without changing the core game rules.
Modpacks with many item sources
Native support for several listed mods helps keep their items intact in a grave.
Who it’s for: Server owners and modpack authors running Forge 1.12.2 who want deaths to leave items in a recoverable grave rather than on the ground.
Questions
Does Grave Keeper need to be installed on the server?
Can the mod run alongside keepInventory?
Which game versions does Grave Keeper support?
In the catalog
Grave Keeper is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 9,216 Equipment mods for Forge. 2,920 mods support Minecraft 1.12.2.
Similar mods
What the author says
Thanks to QuantumlyTangled who started the original remake on 1.12.2.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/grave-keeper
- Owner
- Quantumlyy
- Published
- 2021-01-24
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2021-10-22
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15