Revive By Death
by HyIsNoob
Revive By Death replaces sudden death with a cinematic rewind that returns a player to their latest safe checkpoint, and the mod is published for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
What it does
When a player takes fatal damage and meets the mod's requirements, a custom cutscene plays, with overlays on the screen and ambient sound muted, and the player is teleported back to the latest safe checkpoint. The server tracks each player's safe checkpoint in the background. Players can set a checkpoint by right-clicking a bed, which registers an immediate safe point, and the mod also checks the player's position for safe locations on its own.
Death rewind can be granted by an armor enchantment that works in survival, and it can be set to trigger always, on a totem, or in both modes. Each rewind costs XP levels, and the cost rises with every repeated rewind, so frequent use gets expensive. The mod is designed for survival, multiplayer servers and hardcore modpacks, and it runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. Files are published for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1. Revive By Death is released under the MIT License and is open source.
Key features
Death rewind sequence
A fatal hit opens a dramatic rewind sequence instead of the death screen, then places the player at the last safe checkpoint.
Manual bed checkpoints
Right-clicking a bed registers an immediate safe checkpoint for the player.
Death rewind armor enchantment
An armor enchantment enables rewinds in survival, with activation set to always, totem or both.
Scaling XP level costs
Each repeated rewind raises the XP level cost, and the cost resets after sleeping or dying normally.
Player shadow
The death point spawns a zombie wearing the player's armor and holding their weapons, which drops nothing, so items cannot be duplicated.
Dimensional rift
Cosmetic cracks appear on the ground at the returning point, grow with repeated deaths and revert automatically over time.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Death Rewind is open source under the MIT License, works on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, and covers 1.20 – 26.2. Re:zer0 is NeoForge only for 1.21.1, also under the MIT License. Rewind is NeoForge only for 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 and is not open source, since its license is All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revive By Death | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-06 |
| Death Rewind | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.20 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-08-20 |
| Re:zer0 | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-26 |
| Rewind | NeoForge | 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 | Client and server | 2025-04-19 |
Questions
Does Revive By Death need to be installed on the server?
Which loaders does Revive By Death support?
How does the rewind XP cost change?
In the catalog
Revive By Death is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,630 Magic mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
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What the author says
ReviveByDeath is a Minecraft 1.21.1 mod (available now for Fabric, Forge and Neoforge) that replaces the normal, sudden death screen with a dramatic, cinematic rewind sequence. When a player suffers fatal damage and meets the requirements, rewinds, a custom cutscene plays, and the player is safely teleported back to…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/revive-by-death
- Owner
- HyIsNoob
- Published
- 2026-06-16
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-10-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15