Death Recap

See exactly how you died. A clean, modern client-side mod that records the last seconds before every death and shows you who hit you, how hard, what broke and what you lost, plus a waypoint that leads you straight back to your items.

Available for Fabric.

📥 Downloads

• Fabric (1.21.10 / 1.21.11 / 26.3) - this page

✨ Features

Death Recap Menu (K):

• Timeline of every hit in the last seconds: attacker, weapon, damage type and damage dealt
• Click a hit to expand it: health before and after, weapon and damage in hearts
• Health graph you can hover: exact HP at every moment, absorption and every hit marked on the line
• Damage by source with percentages, click a source to filter the timeline
• Armor at the time of death with durability, and which piece broke in the fight
• Totems used and active effects with remaining time
• Inventory tab - everything you were carrying, grouped and sorted, with counts, enchantments and durability on hover
• Death history - flip through your last 10 deaths with ‹ ›
• Pressing K before your first death opens an example recap, so you can set everything up right away

Death Screen Info Box:

• Sleek glass panel right on the death screen
• Killer and damage type
• Coordinates, dimension and biome
• Level with XP progress
• Time alive, damage taken and deaths this session
• Distance to your previous death
• [Copy coords] and [Design] buttons
• Clickable coordinates in chat after every death (click to copy)

Death Waypoint:

• Small HUD bar with distance, height hint (↑ / ↓) and a navigation arrow pointing to where you died
• The arrow turns green when you are facing the right way
• Compass strip with cardinal directions and a skull marker on your death point, ‹ / › tells you which way to turn
• Despawn timer - your items vanish about 5 minutes after death, the timer shows how much time is left (orange under 2 min, red under 1 min)
• Hides itself once you reach your death point, shows the dimension if you are somewhere else

Layout Editor (J):

• Drag the waypoint bar and the death screen info box anywhere on screen
• Scroll to resize, snaps to the center and the screen edges
• R resets the selected element
• Shows the vanilla death screen buttons as a guide, so nothing overlaps

Design Studio:

• 7 built-in designs and your own saved designs (share them with friends)
• Every color, damage category color, corner radius, border, opacity, glow and sheen
• Smooth Montserrat font or the vanilla pixel font, text size
• Animations and speed, background blur, soft UI sounds and volume
• Toggle every row of the info box and every section of the recap on or off
• Live preview while you edit
• Keybind page with conflict warnings - click to rebind, right-click to reset

Commands:

• /deathrecap - Opens your last death recap
• /deathrecap design - Opens the Design Studio
• /deathrecap hud - Opens the layout editor
• /deathrecap reload - Reloads the config

⌨️ Keybinds

All keys can be changed in the Design Studio or in Minecraft's controls.

⚠️ Important Notes

Client-Side Only: Death Recap only needs to be installed on the client. It works on every server (vanilla, Paper, Fabric, ...), singleplayer and Realms. The server does not need it.

Damage values: Death Recap only uses what the server already sends to your client. If several hits land in the same tick, the damage is split between them.

Despawn timer: The timer counts real time. Items in unloaded chunks can last longer than shown.

🎨 Designs

The mod comes with 7 designs, every color can be changed afterwards:

• Chrome - Default, dark glass with silver accents
• Midnight - Deep blue
• Crimson - Dark red
• Neon - Purple glow with cyan accents
• Emerald - Green
• Frost - Light glass
• Sharp - No rounding, no glow, minimal

📋 Requirements

• Fabric API (required) on all versions

Data folder:

• config/deathrecap/config.json - settings
• config/deathrecap/designs/ - your own designs

Languages: English, German

📝 License

Copyright (c) 2026 by Mave - All Rights Reserved

The bundled Montserrat font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.