RLCraft Death Overhaul

Death drops now despawn after 15 minutes instead of never

NO_DROP_DESPAWN is replaced by DROP_DESPAWN_MINUTES, default 15.

Never despawning was the wrong default. Five minutes is too short to fight your way back in a pack this size, but forever means every death pile nobody collects stays loaded, which adds up on a server.

If you had NO_DROP_DESPAWN off, you are moved to 0 automatically and drops are still left alone. Everyone else gets the new 15 minute default.

New: pay in items when you run out of hearts

DROP_EVERYTHING_AT_MIN_HEALTH, off by default.

Once you are at the MIN_HEARTS minimum, a death currently costs nothing at all — there is no health left to take and your gear is kept anyway. Turn this on and the trade runs both ways: hearts while you have them, your whole inventory once you don't. Heart containers become the thing that buys your gear protection back.

Check MIN_HEARTS first. It defaults to 10, the same as Scaling Health's starting health, so a new player is standing on the minimum from their first spawn and would drop everything on every death until their first heart container. Set MIN_HEARTS below starting health if you want a buffer to spend first.

A death that costs no hearts costs no items either, so exempt deaths and the free ones inside a DEATHS_PER_PENALTY grace period leave your inventory alone.

Also

Settings the mod no longer uses are now cleared out of your config file instead of sitting there looking editable.

Install

Download RLCraftDeathOverhaul-1.1.0.jar below and drop it in your mods folder. Delete the older jar first — two versions in the same folder will fail to load.

Existing configs and worlds carry over.