death chest
When a player dies, death chest places a chest holding their items at the death location, and the chest is recovered with a single left-click.
What it does
On death, the mod spawns a chest that contains the player's items. The chest is a single or double chest depending on how many items were carried, so the inventory stays together in one place. Left-clicking the chest returns the items to their original slots at once, and each death is recorded in logs/deathchest.log.
Placement uses a three-phase search, so the chest appears even when the area is crowded. The first phase checks the same column up to 50 blocks above and below the death point. The second scans a 100 by 100 area, 20 blocks in Y around that point. If both fail, an obsidian platform is built as a fallback, so a chest always spawns. Liquids in the chosen spot are replaced, and water and lava do not block placement.
The mod is a server-side only install, so players join without installing anything, and only the server needs death chest. It is published for Fabric alone, for game version 26.2, and the latest file is 1.0.0 for 26.2, dated 2026-07-28. The code is released under CC0 1.0 Universal, a public domain dedication, so the mod is not open source in the licensing sense, but anyone may use it freely.
Key features
Item chest on death
A chest holding the player's items appears where the player died, ready to collect.
Single or double chest
The chest size follows the item count, switching to a double chest when the inventory is large.
Instant recovery
A left-click on the chest puts every item back into its original slot.
Three-phase placement
A column search, an area search and an obsidian platform fallback make placement reliable.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners running Fabric 26.2 who want a lightweight death chest. Only the server needs the mod, so it suits private servers where players should not have to install anything.
How it compares
Dynamic Chests is a Fabric mod for 26.2 that is client and server, released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and open source. Death Item Chest runs client and server on Fabric and NeoForge for 26.1.2, under the MIT License and not open source. Linked Vanilla Chests is client and server on Fabric for 26.1.2 – 26.2, also under the MIT License, and is not open source. Death chest differs in being server-side only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| death chest | Fabric | 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-07-28 |
| Dynamic Chests | Fabric | 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-10-08 |
| Death Item Chest | Fabric and NeoForge | 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-14 |
| Linked Vanilla Chests | Fabric | 26.1.2 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-13 |
Questions
Does this mod need to be installed on clients?
Which loader and game version does this mod support?
Where are the death events recorded?
In the catalog
death chest is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,474 Storage mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Note: This mod was mainly vibe-coded. I coded this mod because I couldn't find a suitable death chest mod for my own private server. I wanted to share it with anyone else looking for such a mod. Sorry if you don't like ai content A lightweight, server-side death chest mod for Minecraft 26.2 (Fabric). When you die…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/my-death-chest
- Owner
- hauche_duktil_0w
- Published
- 2026-06-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15