Better Death 2.0.0

This update turns Better Death into much more than a redesigned death screen. Version 2.0.0 adds persistent death history, modded equipment support, improved death tracking, recovery tools, and a much stronger foundation for future mod integrations.

Added

• Added optional Curios compatibility

  • Equipped Curios are now captured and displayed on death
  • Cosmetic Curios slots are also supported
  • Curios remains completely optional and is not required to use Better Death

• Added a new Death History system

  • Press H while in-game to view previous deaths
  • Stores up to 20 recent deaths
  • Death history persists between game sessions
  • Deaths are stored separately for each world/server

• Added detailed historical death information

  • Death message
  • Coordinates
  • Dimension
  • XP level
  • Armor and equipment
  • Offhand items
  • Curios/accessories
  • Hotbar and inventory contents
  • Death timeline

• Added Copy Coordinates button

• Added Copy /tp Command button

• Added item tooltips when viewing items from death history

• Added grouped inventory display

  • Armor
  • Offhand
  • Accessories
  • Hotbar
  • Main inventory

Death Timeline Improvements

• Restored and expanded the death timeline system
• Tracks recent incoming damage before death
• Displays damage amount
• Displays remaining health after hits
• Tracks fire events
• Tracks significant falls
• Records the final death event
• Added relative timestamps to timeline events
• Increased the number of stored timeline events
• Reduced duplicate event spam

Improved

• Reworked the internal death data system into reusable death records
• Modded equipment is no longer treated as part of one generic inventory list
• Improved pre-death inventory caching
• Improved compatibility with mods that move or remove items during death
• Preserves custom item components, enchantments, names, durability, and other modded item data in death history
• Improved resilience when loading old death history after mods or items have been removed from a modpack
• Improved responsive death screen layout
• Improved client-only multiplayer compatibility

Fixed / Cleanup

• Removed leftover example mod translations
• Updated project metadata and description
• Corrected the project Maven group
• Added proper project documentation and changelog information