Slot Steal
Slot Steal is a lifesteal-style Fabric mod in which inventory slots, not hearts, act as lives that players gain and lose in player-versus-player fights.
What it does
Each player starts with 18 usable inventory slots, and the remaining 18 are locked with barriers. Dying in a fight costs one more slot, and a player who loses 36 slots is banned from the server. Killing another player opens slots for the killer and transfers Slot Voids, a reward item that can be spent to restore a banned player.
The mod is built for servers that want a permanent stake in every fight, where the loss of inventory space carries across sessions. It runs on the server, and players join without installing anything, so the client side is optional. The code is under the MIT License and is open source, and files are published for Fabric only, for 1.21.11.
Installation needs Fabric on the server; no Fabric API or other library is listed as a requirement in the catalog entry. The latest Fabric file is 1.0.0 for 1.21.11, dated 2025-12-28, and the project was first published on 2025-12-26.
Key features
Slot-based health
Inventory slots replace hearts as the measure of a player's remaining strength, so every death is visible in the inventory.
Locked starting inventory
Only 18 slots are open at the start, while the other 18 are blocked with barriers until a player earns them.
Death penalty
Each death locks one more slot, and losing 36 slots bans the player from the server.
Slot Void revival
Slot Void items open one slot when used with a right-click, and 9 of them revive a banned player.
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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
Competitive survival servers
Server owners who run PvP-focused survival worlds can use the slot economy to make each fight matter beyond the usual loss of items.
Who it’s for: Server owners running player-versus-player survival worlds who want lives tied to inventory space. Players on such servers need no installation, because only the server runs the mod.
Questions
Does Slot Steal need to be installed on the client?
How do banned players come back?
Which Minecraft versions does Slot Steal support?
In the catalog
Slot Steal is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/slotsteal
- Owner
- crzybananaman
- Published
- 2025-12-26
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-12-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15