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Simple Death Improvements

by pajic

Simple Death Improvements changes what happens to items and experience when a player dies, keeping drops in place and reducing losses.

FabricNeoForgeServer-side onlyMIT LicenseOpen source1.21 – 26.3

What it does

Dropped items never despawn and stay where they fell, so a player can return and recover them without a timer running out. Items from a death drop condensed together on the exact spot instead of scattering, and explosions no longer destroy dropped items. Death drops land on the nearest safe ground rather than above lava or into the void, which removes a common route to losing stuff.

Experience loss on death is lower than the vanilla default of 20%. The mod can also keep armor, hotbar items or equipped accessories through death, and these choices are set in its configuration. Those settings are ignored when the keep inventory gamerule is on. The mod is server-side only and built for Fabric and NeoForge. Files are released under the MIT License, which makes it open source. It requires Fabric API and Fzzy Config.

Key features

  1. Items that never despawn

    Dropped items stay in place indefinitely, so a player can plan the recovery rather than rush back.

  2. Condensed drop piles

    Items and experience from one death land together on the same spot instead of splattering across the area.

  3. Safe drop placement

    Items fall to the nearest safe spot instead of flying off nearby lava or dropping into the void.

  4. Configurable kept inventory

    Armor, hotbar items and equipped accessories can each be kept through death, chosen in the mod configuration.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
26.31.6.0+26.3Not available
26.21.6.0+26.21.6.1+26.2
26.1.21.6.0+26.1.21.6.1+26.1.2
26.1.11.6.0+26.1.21.6.1+26.1.2
26.11.6.0+26.1.21.6.1+26.1.2
1.21.x9 of 9 versions with builds
1.21.111.5.0+1.21.11-fabric1.5.0+1.21.11-neoforge
1.21.101.4.2+1.21.10-fabric1.4.2+1.21.10-neoforge
1.21.81.4.0+1.21.81.4.0+1.21.8
1.21.71.3.2+1.21.71.3.2+1.21.7
1.21.41.3.2+1.21.41.3.2+1.21.4
1.21.31.1.0+1.21.31.1.0+1.21.3
1.21.21.1.0+1.21.31.1.0+1.21.3
1.21.11.6.0+1.21.11.6.1+1.21.1
1.211.6.0+1.21.11.6.1+1.21.1
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 2

Fabric APILightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
Required
Fzzy ConfigConfig API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Required

Use cases

Who it’s for: Survival players who want less punishing deaths, and server owners who want a gentler death system without changing the rest of vanilla behavior. Players who prefer a more demanding death mechanic may use a different approach.

How it compares

Full comparison

Stay A While is server-side only, open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and published for Fabric and NeoForge 1.19.2 – 26.3, so it covers older releases than this mod. [NMID] No More Item Despawn is not open source under the MIT License, runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and needs the server to run it while clients may skip it. Death Back is a Fabric-only server mod released under CC0 1.0 Universal and open source, for 1.20 – 26.2.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
Simple Death ImprovementsFabric and NeoForge1.21 – 26.3Server-side only2026-09-20
Stay A WhileFabric and NeoForge1.19.2 – 26.3Server-side only2026-10-07
[NMID] No More Item DespawnFabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt1.21 – 26.3Server required, client optional2025-09-28
Death BackFabric1.20 – 26.2Server-side only2026-07-21

Questions

Does Simple Death Improvements need Fabric API?

Yes. Fabric API and Fzzy Config are both required dependencies, and the mod is also published for NeoForge.

Does a client need to install this mod?

No. Only the server needs it, and players join without installing anything.

Does the mod work with the keep inventory gamerule?

Keep inventory overrides the mod's kept-item settings when it is toggled on, so those options have no effect in that case.

Which game versions are supported?

Files cover 14 release versions, with 1.6.0+26.3 as the latest Fabric file and 1.6.1+26.2 as the latest NeoForge file.

In the catalog

Simple Death Improvements is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.

Game mechanics mods29,952Fabric modsMods for 26.38,071

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What the author says

Dying in Minecraft can be quite annoying, and progress loss caused by unlucky circumstances is nothing short of frustrating. This mod aims to remedy most (if not all) of these problems by introducing non-intrusive, vanilla friendly tweaks to player death. The mod is made almost exclusively to provide an alternative…
pajic, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
pajic
Published
2024-12-22
Updated on Modrinth
2026-09-20
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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