No Crying Over Spilled Milk
by WeAreJacket
No Crying Over Spilled Milk is a Fabric server mod that lets server owners choose which items a player keeps after death, instead of the all-or-nothing keepInventory rule.
What it does
Vanilla keepInventory either saves everything or nothing. This mod replaces that choice with a percentage chance per item type, set in a simple config file, so a player may keep some gear and lose the rest when they die. Items are grouped into categories such as food, common, uncommon, rare and epic, and each category carries its own keep chance.
When an item falls under several groupings, the grouping with the largest keep percentage wins. A value of 100% makes an item type always stay in the inventory, which covers the case where certain items should never be at risk. Keep percentages can be set to any value between those extremes, so the outcome of each death stays partly random.
The mod runs on the server alone, so players join without installing anything. No required dependency is listed for Fabric. The code is not open source, and the mod is licensed as All rights reserved.
Key features
Configurable keep chance
Each item type is assigned a percentage that represents its chance of being kept after death.
Per-category settings
Food and item rarity tiers from common to epic each have their own keep percentage, adjustable in one config file.
Fixed-keep items
Setting an item to 100% keeps it every time, so server owners can protect specific items completely.
Priority for overlapping categories
An item that appears in several categories uses the category with the highest keep percentage.
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 who want a middle ground between the full keepInventory rule and losing everything on death.
How it compares
Configured Keep Inventory is server-side only, for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1, and released under All rights reserved, so it covers the same versions with a similar environment. Partial-Keep-Inventory is also server-side only, under the MIT License, but targets 1.21.11 – 26.1.2, so it does not overlap with this mod's versions. Ticket of Eternal Keep is server-side only and open source under the MIT License, with a range of 1.20.1 – 26.3.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Crying Over Spilled Milk | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2025-11-22 |
| Configured Keep Inventory | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-06-18 |
| Partial-Keep-Inventory | Fabric | 1.21.11 – 26.1.2 | Server-side only | 2026-04-24 |
| Ticket of Eternal Keep | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-15 |
Questions
Does No Crying Over Spilled Milk need Fabric API?
Do players need to install the mod?
Which game versions have files?
Can a single item always be kept?
In the catalog
No Crying Over Spilled Milk is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 25,772 Utility mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
If not you, then probably someone you know. One wrong move, one unlucky skill check, and all your gear is gone… instantly. Many players turn to the keepInventory game rule to avoid this, but let’s be honest, it removes much of the risk and reward that makes Minecraft exciting.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/no-crying-over-spilled-milk
- Owner
- WeAreJacket
- Published
- 2025-11-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-22
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15