Keep But Penalty

Keep your inventory. Choose the cost of death.

Keep But Penalty is a lightweight server-side NeoForge mod for packs and servers that want vanilla-owned inventory retention without grave recovery loops or persistent world-rule changes.

Default behavior

• Keeps player inventory through a death-scoped projection of vanilla keepInventory behavior.
• Does not modify or save the world's real keepInventory gamerule.
• Does not copy inventories or own item drops/player clones.
• Applies no experience, durability, or respawn-effect penalty by default.

Optional penalties

The common config can enable:

• A retained fraction of total vanilla experience.
• Direct durability loss for armor, hands, Curios, and Accessories equipment.
• Any configured respawn debuffs using effect_id,duration_seconds,level entries.

Example:

[death]
keepInventory = true
enableExperiencePenalty = true
experienceKeepRatio = 0.333333333
respawnDebuffs = [
  "minecraft:weakness,60,1",
  "minecraft:mining_fatigue,60,1"
]

[durability] enableDurabilityPenalty = false durabilityLoss = 80

Curios and Accessories are optional. Their equipped slots participate only when the corresponding mod is installed and durability penalties are enabled.

## Supported versions

The maintained release matrix follows modpack anchor versions rather than every Minecraft point release. One Keep But Penalty source line supports:

- Minecraft 1.21.1
- Minecraft 26.1.2
- Minecraft 26.2

RinLib 0.3.1 or newer is required.

## Upgrading from 0.1.6

Version 0.1.6 wrote `keepInventory=true` into existing worlds. Stable releases never mutate that rule and cannot infer the administrator's original intent. Reset legacy worlds once if the vanilla baseline should be restored:

```mcfunction
/gamerule keepInventory false

Minecraft 26.x uses the renamed rule key:

/gamerule minecraft:keep_inventory false

Downloads

• Modrinth
• GitHub Releases