🌙 Dreambound

A balanced KeepInventory alternative where beds act as true checkpoints - respawn with your saved gear intact, dropping only the new loot you gathered on your run.

Are you tired of the zero-stakes gameplay of keepInventory, but frustrated by the punishing setbacks of vanilla death drops? Dreambound bridges the gap by turning Minecraft into a soft extraction survival experience.

Note: Dreambound is 100% Server-Side. Your players do not need to install this mod on their clients to play! Works with singleplayer as well.

How It Works

Dreambound changes how players approach exploration and risk:

The Checkpoint: When you successfully sleep in a bed (or set your spawn with a fully-charged Respawn Anchor in the Nether), Dreambound takes a hidden "snapshot" of your exact inventory and experience level.
The Adventure: Go explore, mine, and fight knowing your core loadout is safe.
The Nightmare: If you die, your world state rolls back to the snapshot. You will wake up in your bed holding the exact gear you had when you went to sleep.
The Leftovers: Any new loot, blocks, or items you picked up after your snapshot will be dropped at your death coordinate for you to go retrieve.

Balanced & Exploit-Free

Dreambound isn't a blind rollback, it uses strict state-intersection math to ensure players cannot duplicate items or get free repairs.

No Item Duplication: If you sleep holding a Diamond Block, place it in the world, and then die, you will wake up with 0 Diamond Blocks. You only keep what you didn't consume.
No Free Repairs: Wear and tear is permanent. If you sleep with a brand-new sword and heavily damage it during your adventure before dying, you will wake up with that same damaged sword.
XP Rollbacks: You will respawn with the exact XP you had when you slept. Any extra XP you gained during the run is dropped at your death location.

Universal Graves Compatibility

Dreambound features native, seamless compatibility with Universal Graves (unaffiliated). If both mods are installed, they work together perfectly: the gear from your dream snapshot stays safely in your inventory, while all of your newly gathered loot is neatly packed into a grave at your death location.

Trinkets Updated Compatibility

Dreambound also supports Trinkets Updated (unaffiliated) when installed. Trinket slots are included in your dream snapshot just like your main inventory — forfeited trinkets drop at your death location, and your snapshot trinkets are restored to their correct slots on respawn.

Commands

Dreambound includes built-in commands to easily manage snapshots and server configurations:

/dreambound status — Shows you your current dream snapshot status (how many item slots and XP are saved).
/dreambound status <player> — (Requires OP) Checks the snapshot status of a specific player.
/dreambound reload — (Requires OP) Reloads the configuration file without requiring a server restart.

Configurable

dreambound.properties lets you tweak:

Enable/Disable bed or respawn anchor snapshots individually.
Toggle XP restoration, or set an "Experience Loss Percentage" (e.g., lose 10% of your saved XP on death as a penalty).
Toggle player chat notifications so players know exactly when their dream state is saved or restored.
Enable/Disable the Universal Graves integration.
Enable/Disable snapshot deletion when a bed or respawn anchor is destroyed.

Installation & Dependencies

Drop the .jar into your server's mods folder.

Required Dependencies:

Optional Dependencies:

Universal Graves — grave integration
Trinkets Updated — trinket slot protection

Dreambound is licensed under the MIT License.