Soul Rekindling

When a player dies, the mod bans that player from the server until the soul is recovered and placed on a rekindled altar. The initial soul is placed after death using a whitelist of blocks it may replace, such as air, dirt and water, so it does not overwrite a chest or other valued block. The author suggests placing a chest where the soul is picked up, and the soul is checked against the whitelist again when it returns.

The mod is meant for dedicated servers, where a ban on dying has a real effect; it does not make sense in singleplayer, since a player there cannot be banned from their own world. The author describes it as an attempt to add consequences to dying without relying on hardcore play, which can deter other players, and as a way to encourage more social interaction, since other players can help recover a soul. The author recommends using it together with the keepInventory gamerule set to true, so that items are not lost to backtracking.

Soul Rekindling is a Fabric mod for 1.20.4 with Fabric API as a required dependency. It is released under All rights reserved and is not open source. Installation covers the server and each player's game.