Keep My Sword

!A broken diamond sword remains visible in hand and in the hotbar

Broken gear stays. Repair it later.

Keep My Sword prevents zero-durability tools and equipment from disappearing. When an item breaks, it remains in your inventory as a model-only item, so you can keep the sentimental sword, repair it later, or display it without losing it to one unlucky hit.

What it does

• Keeps damageable items at zero durability instead of deleting the stack.
• Makes broken items behave like model-only keepsakes.
• Disables broken-item interactions such as using, mining, attacking, and attribute bonuses.
• Marks broken items visually where supported by the active Minecraft/loader line.
• Supports many Minecraft versions through dedicated release branches.

!Zero-durability tools stay in the inventory instead of disappearing

Screenshots above are captured in a Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge development client.

Why install it?

Vanilla item breakage is final. That is clean mechanically, but it can feel bad when a named sword, old pickaxe, or modded tool disappears forever.

Keep My Sword changes that contract: breaking means disabled, not deleted.

You still need to repair or replace the item before using it again. The mod does not make equipment immortal; it simply keeps the physical stack around.

Loader and version support

The project uses one Git branch per incompatible Minecraft line. Each release file is built for its matching Minecraft version and loader.

Current target families:

• Forge: legacy and 1.20.1 where supported.
• NeoForge: 1.20.1, 1.21.1, and 26.1.x lines where tooling is available.
• Fabric: 1.16.5 and most modern 1.20.1+ lines where mappings/tooling are available.

Some versions are intentionally skipped when public mappings or loader tooling are not usable yet. Skips are recorded in the repository docs instead of blocking the whole release train.

Dependency

Keep My Sword requires RinLib on matching version/loader lines.

Source and issues

• Source: https://github.com/rinchanai/keep-my-sword
• Issues: https://github.com/rinchanai/keep-my-sword/issues