Keep But Penalty

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:

/gamerule keepInventory false

Minecraft 26.x uses the renamed rule key:

/gamerule minecraft:keep_inventory false

Downloads

• Modrinth
• GitHub Releases