Keep Inventory Updated

On death the mod keeps everything in the hotbar, the offhand and the armor slots, and only the rest of the inventory drops. Experience is handled as a separate question, and the player's kept items follow the vanilla keepInventory rules as far as the mod leaves them alone. Items enchanted with the curse of vanishing are removed instead of dropping, which is how the vanilla rule works, so they are gone for good.

The server needs the mod, and players can join without installing it. Because the behavior depends on the game's keepInventory gamerule, a datapack is provided to make sure the gamerule stays enabled and the order of operations works as intended. The mod works with the ImmediateRespawn gamerule. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, across six release versions, 1.21.11 – 26.3, and the code is released under the MIT License, which is not open source.