HC Autopsy

HC Autopsy is a lightweight Fabric server mod that turns Hardcore wipes into
durable run history, lifetime totals, and in-game postmortem tools.

Minecraft normally treats a Hardcore death as the end of the story. Servers get
reset, stat files move around, chat scrolls away, and the details of the run can
disappear. HC Autopsy keeps a separate server-side record in a fixed Tempest
Studios app-data folder, so each wipe leaves behind the death context, vanilla
stat snapshots, run totals, cached player names, and lifetime player and server
history.

It works server-side on dedicated Fabric servers. Players do not need to install
the mod. When the first player dies in a run, HC Autopsy records the wipe,
snapshots every player’s vanilla stat JSON, aggregates the run, updates lifetime
totals, broadcasts an in-game wipe summary, and can optionally send a Discord
webhook summary. It now also posts readable, category-colored run leaderboards
after the wipe summary, including playtime, blocks broken, damage taken,
damage dealt, and diamond ore mined.

Features

• Persistent Hardcore wipe history across server resets
• First-death wipe detection for active runs
• Death message, damage source, attacker, player, and world metadata
• Raw vanilla player stat snapshots for complete stat fidelity
• Stores per-run metadata, per-player snapshots, aggregated run totals, and cached player names
• Maintains lifetime player and server totals across wiped runs
• In-game wipe summary and post-wipe stat leaderboard after stat capture completes
• /hcautopsy commands for status, run history, cached players, player totals, server totals, and lifetime leaderboards
• Operator/console-safe tools for continuing a wiped run, recalculating lifetime totals, reloading config, broadcasting full post-wipe leaderboards, and testing Discord webhooks
• Optional Discord webhook notifications for wipe summaries and category-colored post-wipe leaderboards
• Automatic post-wipe awards for playtime, blocks broken, damage taken, damage dealt, and diamonds mined
• Launcher-agnostic app-data storage with first-launch migration from the old config/hc-autopsy/ folder
• Defensive config/data loading and atomic writes for persisted HC Autopsy data
• Server-only install; no client mod required

Good for

• Hardcore Fabric servers
• Challenge and limited-life runs
• Community worlds with seasonal resets
• Post-wipe stat review
• Comparing lifetime playtime, deaths, distance walked, and jumps
• Calling out the run’s biggest post-wipe stat winners
• Rebroadcasting full post-wipe rankings to game chat and Discord
• Long-term server history
• Discord communities that want automatic wipe summaries
• Players who want the receipts after a run goes wrong

Install note

Install Fabric Loader, Fabric API, and the HC Autopsy jar that matches your
Minecraft version.

HC Autopsy is designed for server-side use. Install it in the dedicated Fabric
server mods folder. It does not need to be installed on players’ clients.

Choose the compatibility-group jar that matches your server:

• 1.20-1.21.11
• 26.1-26.3-snapshot-1

HC Autopsy stores config and run history outside launcher-local .minecraft
folders:

• Windows: %APPDATA%\TempestStudios\HC-Autopsy\
• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/TempestStudios/HC-Autopsy/
• Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/tempest-studios/hc-autopsy/ or ~/.local/share/tempest-studios/hc-autopsy/

On first launch, existing config/hc-autopsy/ data is copied to the new
app-data folder when the new folder is empty. Old files stay in place as a
backup.