Keep Some Modded Inventory
Keep only your equipment after you die. Compatible with most mods.
- Loaders
- NeoForge
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- Updated
- August 23, 2026Aug 23
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- in 2025
At a glance
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Inspired by PuckiSilver's Keep Some Inventory datapack.
Keep Some Modded Inventory is an alternative to Minecraft's keepInventory: you can keep your equipment (swords, pickaxes, etc.), but your other items (food, torches, etc.) will drop on death. This means it is much easier to get back to your stuff, but dying still has a penalty. Additionally, it has some small QoL features to make dying less of a chore.
Features
By default...
- Vanilla and modded equipment will stay in your inventory when you die.
- Your resources will drop exactly where you died, with no splattering.
- Your items will never despawn.
- 100% of your experience will drop
Additonally...
- This mod uses dynamic predicates to decide whether an item should be dropped or not, meaning that it is automatically compatable with most modded tools and weapons.
- Compatabile with most gravestone mods.
- Compatabile with Accessories.
- Compatabile with YYZ's Backpack and Sophisticated Backpacks (backpacks will drop on death to prevent circumventing KSMI)
- Fully configurable!
Configuring
Configuration properties
| Property | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Mod enabled | Whether the mod is enabled. | true |
| Keep enchantable items | When true, enchantable items not in the always_drop tag will be kept in inventory. | true |
| Keep damageable items | When true, items with the max_damage component not in the always_drop tag will be kept in inventory. | true |
| Keep equippable items | When true, items that can be equipped as armor or as an accessory not in the always_drop tag will be kept in inventory. | true |
| Item velocity multiplier | How much items should be flung when you die. 1 is vanilla's default. | 0.1 |
| Experience dropped | Percent of experience should be dropped when you die. Set to 0 to use Minecraft's calculations. | 1.0 |
| Despawn time | Time in minutes that items dropped on death should last. Set to 0 to make them never despawn. | 0 |
Datapack configuration
Datapacks can be used to have full control over what items drop on death. KSMI provides two item tags: #keepsomemoddedinventory:never_drop and #keepsomemoddedinventory:always_drop. These tags take precidence over the predicates in the config. By default, tool items like the spyglass or compass are in the #never_drop tag and container items like the shulker box are in the #always_drop tag.
FAQ
How to install Keep Some Modded Inventory?
Install NeoForge for your Minecraft version, download Keep Some Modded Inventory for the same version and loader, put the file into the mods folder and launch the game with the loader profile.
Which Minecraft versions does Keep Some Modded Inventory support?
Keep Some Modded Inventory has builds for Minecraft 1.21–1.21.11.
